The default post-publishing process in WordPress allows users with the necessary permissions to create posts from the admin dashboard. However, modern blogs allow guest postings, as well as letting members with minimal permissions create posts to be approved by administrators. The built-in process is not ideal for such scenarios, as guests or members with basic permissions do not have access to the backend Posts section. As a solution, frontend post publishing is used in many sites to let anyone submit content for the site through a custom form. Usually, posts created from the frontend need to be reviewed and approved by the authorized user before appearing on the site.

In this recipe, we are going to use a free plugin to create a frontend posting form and submit posts from the frontend.