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WordPress: What are the best WordPress plugins to help with user-generated content?
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Dimitry Chamy, Designer · Developer · Educator answered:

As with most things WordPress there are several solution paths you can take with this and the best will depend on the particular type of site you are trying to build. Your question suggests you may be relatively new to the platform and more comfortable with available wysiwyg / plugin tools rather than raw coding it all so here are three suggestions:

(A) Types & Views + Cred Front-End Forms Builder
http://wp-types.com
this combo will allows you to define your CPTs; add as many metaboxes with custom fields as you need; build templates to display your content.

(B) Gravity Forms + Custom Post Types:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gravity-forms-custom-post-types/
This can be used with above solution or ACF or Pods etc...

(C) Formidable Forms:
https://formidablepro.com/demos/real-estate-listings/
An example that shows Formidable has a built-in ability not just to create front end forms but can display the results in a ajax parametrically searchable listing with accompanying single pages.

All of these will show submissions on both front and back end and can be set to appear as draft pending approval. Submitters can also be given permission to edit their own entries or pay for display of premium tiered content if your system requires that ability.

If you provide me with more specifics we may be able to narrow it down or discover an entirely different and perhaps simpler way. There may be free plugins that do most or all of this but these are the ones I have personal experience with.

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