WP Widget question - save submitted form data as an unpublished post...

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I need a wordpress contact form (or form) plugin/widget that does the same thing cavecanum.com does. I'm trying to find a simple form that allows the web user to enter data, then have it be saved as an unpublished post. I'll manually make it published. Similar site function to cavecanum.com.

Any ideas on how I can do this in wordpress quick and dirty?


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Another option would be to have the form contents emailed to you and then post them up manually. It would take about the same amount of time as reviewing and then posting would just have to be a copy and paste away. To do this just open a new text/html widget and paste this code into it with the form fields you would like to have emailed to you for posting. A little bit more work on your part, a lot more reliable.

Code: 
<form action="mailto:fred.flintstone@bedrock.net?subject=Dino"
      enctype="text/plain"
      method="post">
   ...... form fields
</form>
 
systomic26 said:
Another option would be to have the form contents emailed to you and then post them up manually. It would take about the same amount of time as reviewing and then posting would just have to be a copy and paste away. To do this just open a new text/html widget and paste this code into it with the form fields you would like to have emailed to you for posting. A little bit more work on your part, a lot more reliable.

Code: 
<form action="mailto:fred.flintstone@bedrock.net?subject=Dino"
      enctype="text/plain"
      method="post">
   ...... form fields
</form>
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So you came to this post riding the failboat? Or did you set sail after you posted and hit submit? Manually uploading the shit is more efficient than hitting "unpublished" and making it published? WTF?
 
systomic26 said:
Another option would be to have the form contents emailed to you and then post them up manually. It would take about the same amount of time as reviewing and then posting would just have to be a copy and paste away. To do this just open a new text/html widget and paste this code into it with the form fields you would like to have emailed to you for posting. A little bit more work on your part, a lot more reliable.

Code: 
<form action="mailto:fred.flintstone@bedrock.net?subject=Dino"
      enctype="text/plain"
      method="post">
   ...... form fields
</form>
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In the interest of turning that FAIL into semi-WIN, you could actually set it up to send to the email-posting address of WP and then go through and publish those posts. This would be helpful if for some reason you wanted forms from one website to post to a different WP install.

Since there's a plugin this post would've looked a lot better if it was at least 30 seconds ahead of the first response.
 
subigo said:
Let me know how it works out for you. I tried it about a year ago and it was a pain in the ass... the admin section of the plug-in was crap.
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Worked out really, really well actually. Did 100% of what I needed it to do!
 
OK, just giving you other options. I know the plug-in very well, and it does work, but it has a tendency to make the server hang up. I didn't say that it was the most efficient solution but I did say that it was more "reliable". Sometimes plug-ins are not always the best solution especially if your server is bogged down.
 
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