Guest posting!

Shahg9

Is there anyway that i can add a guest posting feature you know so that users could post content without having to sign up?

gwillem

Shahg9 Perhaps you would like to chip in for its development? I would contribute $250. See also https://discuss.flarum.org/d/7512-contribute-to-guest-post-feature

LinuxLefty

I don't think this is currently supported, but there is a support ticket open for this issue.

jordanjay29

gwillem If you like, open a new discussion in the Resources tag with your willingness to pay. That will get more attention than this will.

QaziSalmanAhmad

This feature will require customization/modification in the Flarum's Core files.
Am I right guys? @Toby @clarkwinkelmann @gwillem @jordanjay29 @luceos

IMHO as @gwillem said, the feature should be built-in to allow newly starting blogs to keep open the guest posting feature as described by him.

But as the stable release of Flarum is still expected to be released, hopefully in the near future, this feature should be built in, in my opinion with a site owners' sole discretion to turn it on/off at his/her will.

Eldenroot

QaziSalmanAhmad But as the stable release of Flarum is still expected to be released, hopefully in the near future, this feature should be built in, in my opinion with a site owners' sole discretion to turn it on/off at his/her will.

It should be available as extension, not built-in in core. Moreover this needs the core rewrite. Flarum is not software for blogs - you can use Wordpress and bridge it with Flarum.

QaziSalmanAhmad

Eldenroot It should be available as extension, not built-in in core. Moreover this needs the core rewrite. Flarum is not software for blogs - you can use Wordpress and bridge it with Flarum.

Yeah @Eldenroot, I'm sorry I forgot about it that it will be an extension not a core feature. You're absolutely right! It should be an extension.
But even though it will require Flarum Core rewrite to provision such an extension to work & extension developers to be able to leverage such provision through extensions API to develop such extensions, am I right?

And yes I obviously know that Flarum is a forum software not a blogging one like WP. ?

As Flarum is getting towards maturity day by day now. I personally like the software. It's front-end's look and feel, functionality, Php-standards-recommendations (PSR) compliance and being based on Laravel's features like Eloquent and JavaScript Transpiling features and stuff are the reasons I love Flarum for and the features make it a totally smart and modern web application.

clarkwinkelmann

I don't think any change in core is absolutely required to support that. Everything needed can be added through an extension. If somebody wants this developed for beta7 (or 8) this should totally be possible.

Eldenroot

clarkwinkelmann - in my opinion - it will require a lot of time and it could become a large complex extension. Why not to use dedicated software for blogs with all features built-in and with ongoing development? Of course, there are small communities which need only a simple blog system with discussion board, for these it would be useful (maybe).

Anyway I think there are other "wanted" extensions - for example polls .)

jordanjay29

Eldenroot let's keep this mostly on the subject of Guest Posting. There's great discussions to be had about the broader topics, but let's start a new discussion for them.

unknown

Any update on this?

Ainas

Up, i need this!

SerkanGl

Up, i need this!
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danielunited

SerkanGl There's a discussion to make it here. If you'd like to see it happen, contact me on Discord: Daniel (danielunited)#9335