User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End for WordPress Plugin Directory
By Jeff Starr
User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End is a WordPress app, with a 4.8 average rating from 910 reviews, as of July 9, 2026.
User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Jeff Starr. With a rating of 4.8★ from 910 reviews.
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User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End is a category-leading WordPress app with a growing review traction. It is listed in the Frontend post category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 910 reviews show steady adoption but the app hasn't crossed the heavy-volume bar yet. Review accumulation at this stage tends to come from segment-specific use cases rather than universal adoption, so fit-to-stack matters more than category-leader brand recognition. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (4.8★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Jeff Starr — established developer track record
Cons
- −Sparse visual evidence (0 screenshots) — harder to evaluate the UX before installing
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How User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End works
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🏆 The #1 Plugin for user-generated content
User Submitted Posts (USP) provides a front-end form that enables visitors to submit posts and upload images. Just add the following shortcode to any Post, Page, or Widget:
[user-submitted-posts]
That’s all there is to it! Your site now can accept user generated content. Everything is super easy to customize via Plugin Settings page.
🚀 Enable visitors to submit posts from the front end of your site
✨ Form Fields The submission form may include any/all of the following fields:
Name
URL
Post Title
Post Tags
Post Category
Post Content
Custom Field 1
Custom Field 2
Custom Checkbox
Challenge Question
Google reCAPTCHA (v2 or v3 Invisible)
Cloudflare Turnstile (Invisible)
Post Images
Agree to Terms
🚀 The first and best plugin for user-submitted content
✨ Core Features
Simple to set up and display the form anywhere on your site
Display the form on multiple posts and pages, or even site-wide
Redirect users to any URL or stay on current page after submitting posts
Set post status as draft, pending, publish, or publish after x number of posts
Option to receive email notifications for submitted posts
Customize email notifications with various post data
Include email links to edit and delete posts
Display a basic login/register/password form
🚀 Enable your visitors to share their own posts and images
✨ Form Features
Display form anywhere via shortcode or template tag
Display only the fields that you want on the form
Set each displayed form field to be required or optional
Automatic client-side form validation provided by Parsley
Stops spam via input validation, your choice of captcha, and hidden field
Choose Google reCAPTCHA, Cloudflare Turnstile, or Challenge Question
Choose Google reCAPTCHA v2 (“I am not a bot”) or v3 (Invisible)
Optionally require users to be logged in to use the form
🚀 Dial in the perfect form for your visitors
✨ More Features
Lightweight, fast, and secure
Translated into 20+ languages
Option to submit posts as WP Posts or Pages
Provides option to enable a custom form and styles
Customize success, error, and file upload messages
Includes shortcode to display a list of submitted posts
Includes shortcodes to control access and restrict content
Includes template tags to display submitted post content
🚀 Simple to use, lightweight, and flexible
✨ Image Uploads
Enable visitors to upload any number of images
Specify minimum and maximum number of allowed images
Specify minimum and maximum width and height for images
Automatically set submitted images as Featured Images
Automatically display submitted images on the front end
Includes template tags to display submitted images
Includes shortcodes to display submitted images
Form displays thumbnail previews of images
🚀 The easiest way to enable user content
✨ Pro Version Pro version includes many powerful features, with unlimited custom forms, unlimited form fields, multimedia file uploads, and much more. Pro features include:
Unlimited forms
Unlimited form fields
Unlimited file uploads
All field types, including textarea, checkboxes, radio, select, file(s), plus input types like text, password, url, search, email, month, time, color, date, range, number, and more
Build post-submission forms, user-registration forms, and contact forms
Build COMBO forms (e.g., forms that submit posts AND register users)
Supports unlimited Custom Post Types
Supports custom Taxonomy fields
Supports Custom Post Status
Supports Post Formats
Custom error messages
Custom redirects
Advanced security features
Advanced shortcode to display submitted posts on the front end
Plus everything the free version can do and more!
🚀 Visit Plugin Planet to learn more and get USP Pro »
✨ Translations User Submitted Posts supports translation into any language. Current translations include the following languages:
Arabic - usp-ar Bengali - usp-bn_BD Chinese (Simplified) - usp-zh_CN Chinese (Traditional) - usp-zh_TW Czech - usp-cs_CZ Dutch - usp-nl_NL French (France) - usp-fr_FR German - usp-de_DE Greek - usp-el Hebrew - usp-he_IL Hindi - usp-hi_IN Irish - usp-ga Italian - usp-it_IT Japanese - usp-ja Korean - usp-ko_KR Norwegian - usp-no Panjabi - usp-pa_IN Persian - usp-fa_IR Polish - usp-pl_PL Portuguese (Brazil) - usp-pt_BR Portuguese (Portugal) - usp-pt_PT Romanian - usp-ro_RO Russian - usp-ru_RU Serbian - usp-sr_RS Slovenian - usp-sl_SI Spanish (Spain) - usp-es_ES Swedish - usp-sv_SE Turkish - usp-tr_TR Urdu - usp-ur
Note: Most of the default translations are made via Google Translate. So they are automated and may be a little rough. Feel free to make your own translation as desired. Need a translation into your language? Let me know!
✨ Privacy User Data: This plugin enables users to submit post content. It collects data only from users who voluntarily submit content via the USP form. The only involuntary data that is collected is the IP address of the person submitting the form. The plugin provides an option to disable IP collection completely.
Cookies: This plugin uses simple cookies to enable dynamic form functionality. No cookies are used for any other purpose.
Services: This plugin provides an option to enable Google reCaptcha, which is provided by Google as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for Google reCaptcha. This plugin also provides an option to enable Cloudflare Turnstile, which is provided by Cloudflare as a third-party service. For details on privacy and more, please refer to official documentation for Cloudflare Turnstile. No other outside services or locations are accessed/used by this plugin.
✨ Developer User Submitted Posts is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.
✨ Support Development I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:
The Tao of WordPress
Digging into WordPress
.htaccess made easy
WordPress Themes In Depth
Wizard’s SQL Recipes for WordPress
And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:
BBQ Pro – Blazing fast WordPress firewall
Blackhole Pro – Automatically block bad bots
Banhammer Pro – Monitor traffic and ban the bad guys
GA Google Analytics Pro – Connect WordPress to Google Analytics
Head Meta Pro – Ultimate Meta Tags for WordPress
REST Pro Tools – Awesome tools for managing the WP REST API
Simple Ajax Chat Pro – Unlimited chat rooms
USP Pro – Unlimited front-end forms
Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thanks! 🙂
Category rankings
As of Jul 9, 2026- Frontend post#0of 5Top 1%
- Guest post#0of 4Top 1%
- Public post#0of 3Top 1%
- Submit post#0of 1Top 1%
- Visitor post#0of 1Top 1%
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Keyword rankings
User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End ranks for 7 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 3:
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Competitors & alternatives
User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front Enddoesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked frontend post apps on WordPress:
Frequently asked questions
What is User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End?
User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 4.8-star rating from 910 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Frontend post category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Jeff Starr.
Who uses User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End?
Currently around 10,000 active stores have installed User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End. Its review base of 910 suggests adoption is concentrated in growth-stage and mid-market stores. It is part of the Frontend post category on WordPress.