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• Build a Community Grid in 30 Minutes: From Form to Feed
  
• Cards, Queues, and Karma: Engineering Front-End Submissions That Scale
  
• No More Email Attachments: A Developer’s Guide to User-Posted Grids
  
  

Tag: WordPress
SEO meta description (≤150 chars): Launch a fast, moderated submission grid in WordPress—clean UX, spam control, and scalable cards with a minimal, developer-first setup.

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Why front-end submissions (dev lens, Juejin style)Email attachments and ad-hoc DMs don’t scale. You want a contributor flow that starts at a form and ends on a card—moderated, searchable, and cached. That’s the promise of Foot - Grid Front-End Submission Content Sharing: a predictable pipeline from user input → review → publish.

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Outcome first: what “good” looks like

• One form, one queue, one grid. Contributors post without seeing wp-admin.
  
• Deterministic moderation. Every submission lands in a pending board with owner, timestamp, and SLA.
  
• Mobile-first cards. Aspect-ratio set, CLS near zero, copy trimmed to two lines.
  
• Spam controls that aren’t vibes. Honeypot, rate limits, and server-side MIME checks.
  
  

Grab the visual scaffold here: Foot Theme. If you need sibling designs for other verticals, browse WordPress Themes. I keep downloads/docs centralized at gplpal.

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Minimal install plan (5 steps)

• Activate theme + child overrides. Keep logic in PHP, styles as tokens.
  
• Create “Submit” page with the built-in front-end form block (title, excerpt, image, tags).
  
• Route to a moderation queue. New posts go pending; editors get a concise email.
  
• Publish to a grid archive. Cards pull title, cover, and category badge; infinite scroll optional.
  
• Add a “My submissions” view. Contributors can track statuses without tickets.
  
  

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Code you’ll actually keep (tiny and safe)Force pending + stamp source
add_filter('wp_insert_post_data', function($data, $postarr){  if (!is_admin() && $data['post_type']==='post'){    $data['post_status'] = 'pending';  }  return $data;}, 10, 2);add_action('save_post', function($post_id, $post){  if (!is_admin() && $post->post_type==='post' && $post->post_status==='pending'){    update_post_meta($post_id, '_submitted_via', 'frontend-grid');  }}, 10, 2);Light rate limit (per IP, per hour)
add_action('init', function(){  if (isset($_POST['frontend_submit'])){    $ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] ?? '0.0.0.0';    $k  = 'sub_cnt_'.md5($ip.'_'.gmdate('Y-m-d-H'));    $n  = (int) get_transient($k);    if ($n >= 5) wp_die('Too many submissions. Try again later.');    set_transient($k, $n+1, HOUR_IN_SECONDS);  }});

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Grid UX that earns return visits

• Aspect ratio: lock covers (e.g., 3/4) to kill CLS.
  
• Two-line clamp: keep titles readable; show full text on detail pages.
  
• Soft karma: hearts or “useful” counts work better than raw upvotes in professional contexts.
  
• Filters: categories and a simple search; avoid 10-filter fatigue.
  
  

.card{display:grid;gap:.5rem}.card .cover{aspect-ratio:3/4;border-radius:14px;overflow:hidden}.card .title{font-weight:700;line-height:1.2;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-line-clamp:2;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;overflow:hidden}

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Moderation workflow (small and humane)

• SLA: decide 24h/48h and display it on the submit page.
  
• Triage fields: category, safety flag, and language tag at a glance.
  
• Auto-nudge: if a post sits pending >48h, email the queue owner.
  
• Edits: permit editors to fix titles/excerpts; keep a note in post meta for audit.
  
  

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Launch checklist (print this)

• Submit page saves to pending; meta _submitted_via=frontend-grid
  
• Honeypot + rate limit active; file types validated server-side
  
• Grid CLS < 0.1; LCP < 2.4s on mobile
  
• “My submissions” view lists status + last update
  
• Moderation SLA and contact note visible on submit page
  
  

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Final noteKeep the surface area small: one pipeline, one grid, one moderation habit. Do that and Foot - Grid Front-End Submission Content Sharing turns community posts from chaos into cadence—contributors stay happy, editors stay sane, and your feed stays fast.