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TOP 3 ALTERNATIVES — RANKED
Three you should evaluate first.
Filtered from 4 candidates by feature similarity, audit score, and review velocity. The hero treatment is editorial — these earned more space because the data did.
Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit
frontend post#1TOP PICK
5.0022 reviews
Not auditedAudit score
Pick if you're surveying the marketplace
Widely used on this marketplace — not a like-for-like swap. AppRanks found no app sharing User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End's category, so this is not a replacement for it — it is a widely-used frontend post option shown for market context. Compare it against your own requirements rather than as a swap.
Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite – Frontend Posting WordPress Plugin
frontend post#2RUNNER-UP
4.5021 reviews
Not auditedAudit score
Pick if you're cost-sensitive
Adjacent tool, different job. Different use case from User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End. Listed because it is among the most-adopted frontend post apps on this marketplace, not because it covers the same job.
Easy Post Submission – Frontend Posting, Guest Publishing & Submit Content for WordPress
frontend post#3VALUE PICK
4.506 reviews
Not auditedAudit score
Pick if you're mapping adjacent tooling
Popular alternative to evaluate on its own merits. Solves a different problem than User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End. Useful market context; verify the capability overlap yourself before treating it as an option.
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The next 1, denser.
Lower-ranked but legitimate. Click any row for the full profile — or compare side-by-side with User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End.
1 more WordPress alternatives to User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
#4
User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Post Submission, User Directory, User Profile, Membership & User Registrationfrontend post
4.10533 reviewsNot auditedCompareHow these alternatives are ranked
Scored daily. Three signals, weighted and blended. No vendor money changes anything.
45%Feature similarity
N-gram match against User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End's feature signature, weighted by category overlap.
35%Audit + rating
Listing quality (0–100) blended with rolling 90-day rating average. Penalizes thin listings.
20%Review velocity
Reviews added in trailing 30 days, normalized by category baseline. Surfaces rising challengers.
Every WordPress alternative on this page is scraped, normalized, and re-scored every 24 hours. We don't accept paid placement, vendor-funded "best of" content, or sponsored ranking — and we publish the rules so you can audit them yourself. If a vendor disagrees with their position, that's between them and the data.
WHEN DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO SWITCH FROM USER SUBMITTED POSTS – ENABLE USERS TO SUBMIT POSTS FROM THE FRONT END?
Four reasons people leave.
Decision triggers, not marketing. If two or more apply, your shortlist starts with the apps named below each card.
Pricing has outgrown your usage
If your usage of User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End has crossed a pricing-tier breakpoint, per-unit cost is usually where alternatives diverge most clearly. Some apps in the list above carry a free tier; others are paid from day one. Compare the published plans on each alternative's page against your current bill — the gap is the only number worth acting on, and it is specific to your usage.
Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite – Frontend Posting WordPress Plugin · Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User SubmitYou need a feature outside the focus
Each WordPress category has a feature spectrum. The "Similar feature set" badge above marks alternatives whose feature signature most overlaps with User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End. The "Category leader" badge marks apps that may approach the same category from a different feature angle — useful if you want to widen rather than narrow your toolset.
Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User SubmitFREQUENTLY ASKED
Answers built from the data.
Built from the same scores the ranking uses — so they won't contradict the table.
For most accounts under typical category usage, the answer depends on tier. Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit is in the unknown band (—), while User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End is unknown (—). At parity scale, the cheaper option can save 30–60% — but feature-for-feature swaps usually narrow the gap above the second tier.
VERDICT · UPDATED TODAY
If you're moving from User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End, the most common landing spots are Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit (unknown feature match, audit null/100) and Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite – Frontend Posting WordPress Plugin (pricing leverage + breadth). Skip User Frontend: AI Powered Frontend Post Submission, User Directory, User Profile, Membership & User Registration unless your use case is unusual.
If feature parity matters most
→ Guest posting / Frontend Posting / Front Editor – WP Front User Submit
Unknown feature parity. Audit null, 5.00★.
If pricing matters most
→ Frontend Post Submission Manager Lite – Frontend Posting WordPress Plugin
Best for cost-sensitive teams. 4.50★ across 21 reviews.
If you're scaling enterprise
→ Easy Post Submission – Frontend Posting, Guest Publishing & Submit Content for WordPress
Strongest scale fit when category usage exceeds typical thresholds. Vendor-evaluate before committing.
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