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User Submitted Posts – Enable Users to Submit Posts from the Front End
Simple guest posting for sites that do not need bells and whistles.
HealthyGrowing
87/100
It reliably handles basic guest posts despite some missing features and many brief reviews.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.8★
910 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+24%
Growing
103 → 128 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +24% in the last year
103/day a year ago→128/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayUser Submitted Posts is praised for being easy to set up, user-friendly, and working as advertised, but users note several missing features and limitations.
What people like
- +Works as described and does what it says×2
- +Easy to set up and easy for front-end users to post
- +User-friendly; streamlines posting and removes need for logins
Common complaints
- −Cannot save changes in the form settings
- −No front-end editing or deleting functionality
- −Lacks limits on image upload size, title length, and text length
- −Limited customization of submitted post appearance in the free version
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.88★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 24%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 910 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-23★★★★★It does Work!anliajewellery
- 2026-03-28★★★★★Super!andreywesta1-shot
- 2026-03-26★★★★★Old User 72ymonkeybralf1-shot
- 2026-03-20★★★★★Great pluginnmak
- 2026-03-04★★★★★Just what I neededscomor741-shot
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Fabulous – It worksrickjohns
- 2025-12-18★★★★★FantasticPutra Matahari
- 2025-12-12★★★★★Good, but cannot safe any changes …tomlandon
- 2025-11-14★★★★★Great worksarwat parvez
- 2025-10-24★★★★★It really works!wellpraxis
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
109
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
126
Prior 7-day baseline
94
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
429
Mean release-day peak (30d)
112
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-13.5%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
10%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.22
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
94%
5★ share in analyzed sample
24%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+60%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.91 → 4.88★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered