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  • 🧠 How I Made Posting to My Own WordPress Site As Easy As Sending a Text (No Login Needed) with Forminator and Sample

    Subtitle: Because logging in every time you wanna post a thought? Feels like untangling holiday lights just to flip the switch.

    So listen…

    You know that little WordPress site I’ve got?
    Yeah, that one I use to jot down ideas, brain-dump weird thoughts, save copy angles, rant about plugin updates, and sometimes just write “ugh” in big bold letters when clients drive me up the wall?

    That’s my space. My hideout. My therapist without a co-pay.

    But for the longest time, it had one problem that made me hate it just enough to avoid using it:

    👉 I had to log in every time I wanted to post.

    Babe… I know this sounds minor. But hear me out.

    When you’re in the middle of an idea—when inspiration hits, when a weird metaphor pops into your head, or when you just need to vent because your Zapier automations broke again—
    …the last thing you want is to deal with:

    • Username
    • Password
    • Two-Factor auth (because I “care about security”)
    • Waiting for the Dashboard to load
    • Clicking “Posts” → “Add New”

    It kills the vibe. It’s like needing a ladder just to write on a sticky note.

    😡 The Problem (That Made Me Talk to Myself Like a Crazy Person)

    I found myself doing this ridiculous thing:

    I’d open my WordPress login page…
    Stare at it…
    Think “Do I really want to log in just to post that I had a new idea for an upsell funnel?”
    Then I’d close the tab.
    Then I’d forget the idea.

    I got so frustrated I started emailing myself notes instead.
    Then I got annoyed with the emails piling up.
    So I made a Notion board.
    Then I hated Notion for being too slow on mobile.
    So I went back to emailing myself.

    Rinse. Repeat.

    It felt like being in a toxic relationship… with my own blog.

    🧠 The “Genius” Realization (Yeah, I’m Gonna Brag a Bit)

    One night, lying in bed next to you—while you were half-asleep watching cooking TikToks—I had this idea:

    “Why not just create a frontend form that lets me post straight to the site… without logging in?”

    Boom.

    But not just any form. A private form.
    Protected with a secret PIN, like the digital version of hiding the spare key under the potted plant.

    So I can visit a page on my site, punch in my PIN, dump my thought into a field, hit submit—and boom. It’s published.

    No logins. No dashboards. No excuses.

    I solved my own problem and made it feel like I hacked the Matrix.

    🛠️ The Solution: My PIN-Protected Instant-Post WordPress Form

    Let me walk you (and yes, technically also you, my dear reader) through how I pulled it off.

    This isn’t a dev trick.

    No custom code.
    No functions.php nonsense.
    No API calls.
    Just a clever setup using Forminator—a free plugin I now worship slightly more than I should.

    🔹 Step 1: Install Forminator

    • Head over to Plugins > Add New
    • Search “Forminator”
    • Click Install then Activate

    Forminator is a beautiful, bloat-free plugin from WPMU DEV that lets you create forms, quizzes, polls, and even accept payments.

    But what we want is its Post Data feature.

    🔹 Step 2: Create a New Form

    • Go to Forminator > Forms > Create New
    • Choose “Blank Form”
    • Name it something clever like “Quick Post Form” or “Private Portal of Genius”

    Then add these fields:

    1. PIN Number (Text Field)
      • Label: “PIN Number”
      • Placeholder: “You know the drill…”
    2. Post Title (Text Field)
      • Label: “Title”
      • Required
    3. Post Content (Paragraph Field or Rich Text Editor)
      • Label: “Your Thought”
      • Required
    4. Submit Button
      • Name it something fun like “Drop the Mic” or “Publish This Thought”

    Now the trick:

    Go to the Submit Button settings > Visibility Rules

    → Add this condition:

    “Show this button only if PIN Number equals [your secret code]”

    💡 Use something only you know. And no, “1234” doesn’t count. You’re not a luggage lock.

    Now… the real magic.

    🔹 Step 3: Configure Post Settings

    This is where it all comes together.

    • Go to Settings > Post Data
    • Enable “Create Post”
    • Set Post Type to “Post”
    • Set Post Status to “Published” (or “Draft” if you want to review before it goes live)
    • Choose a Default Author (I created a user named “QuickPost” just for this)

    You can even map the form fields to WordPress fields:

    • Title → Post Title
    • Paragraph → Post Content

    Then hit Publish.

    🔹 Step 4: Embed the Form

    Drop the form shortcode on a private page.
    Something like yourdomain.com/quickpost.

    You can even hide that page from menus and search engines if you wanna get ninja about it.

    💾 The End Result (That Made Me Feel Like a Hacker)

    Now I can:

    • Open my “QuickPost” page
    • Enter my PIN
    • Write whatever’s on my mind
    • Hit Submit

    And that post is instantly published on my blog.
    No logins. No distractions. No lost thoughts.

    I basically turned my site into a personal Twitter feed—without Elon messing it up.

    Sample That You Can Try:

    🎯 Requirements Recap

    All you need is:

    ✅ WordPress (obviously)
    ✅ Forminator (free from WP.org)
    ✅ A default author account
    ✅ A half-decent memory for your PIN
    ✅ At least one cup of coffee and mild frustration with how clunky WordPress is

    That’s it.

    🙋‍♀️ Now… You might be asking…?

    “So… anyone can post to your site now?”

    “What if someone finds the page and guesses the PIN?”

    “Isn’t this insecure?”

    “Why are you telling strangers this like it’s a flex?”

    “Shouldn’t you be building something for money instead?”

    > Login or Subscribe(?) for the answer.

    🔥 Final Thoughts (Before I Get the Side-Eye)

    If you’ve got a personal WordPress site…
    And you wanna dump thoughts, status updates, rants, or random insights without logging in every time…

    Do this.

    It’ll change the game.
    You’ll post more.
    You’ll stop fighting your own site.
    And you’ll actually use the thing you built.

    Sometimes the best systems aren’t the most complex.

    They’re the ones that remove friction and make the work feel easy.
    Even fun.

    And that, my friend… is why I’m proud of this little trick.

    Now excuse me while I go post this rant on my blog—without logging in.

  • Clone Twitter With WordPress, Or Just The Content Display

    Thinking of to clone twitter or X using WordPress? I was that ambitious too. But, thinking about it again, what’s the point? Probably what we really want to achieve is just something simpler. Which is, to display our post or content the same way as how twitter do in the timeline.

    I did this and you can see on this site’s homepage.

    Plugin I used to achieve this:

    1- Ajax load more (to display the post). Also did some custom code here.

    2- Stackable (for the tabs, same like twitter profile page).

    How to achieve this:

    1- Install and activate plugins mentioned above.

    2- At Ajax load more plugin’s setting, generate the shortcode to display the post. You can choose your preferred content and which data you want to display here. At first, I prefer you to test first to get the idea how it looks like. Copy the generated shortcode.

    3- Paste the shortcode at the page you want to display the post and publish. See first, how it got displayed here.

    4- To change how it displays to be same as what I have in my site, go to Ajax load more plugin’s Templates > Repeater Templates. Copy and paste below code under Template Code.

    *the code generated by ChatGPT. Please use at your own risk.

    <li class="alm-item<?php if ( ! has_post_thumbnail() ) { echo ' no-img'; } ?>">
    <?php
        // Display the post thumbnail if available
        if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
            the_post_thumbnail( 'alm-thumbnail' );
        }
    ?>

    <!-- Display the author name and date/time on the same line -->
    <p class="entry-meta">
        <span class="author-name" style="font-weight: bold; color: #ed7070;"><?php the_author(); ?></span> |
        <span class="post-time"><?php echo human_time_diff( get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp') ) . ' ago'; ?></span>
    </p>

    <!-- Make the excerpt clickable and link to the post -->
    <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">
        <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
    </a>

    <!-- Add reply link with comment count -->
    <p class="reply-link">
        <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#respond">
            Reply (<?php echo get_comments_number(); ?>)
        </a>
    </p>
</li>

    5- Refresh the page to see whether the post display as per expected.

    6- Note that, I wanted to mimic the same user experience in twitter. Which, when user click on a tweet at the timeline, it will open the tweet itself. So, I made the code the same way. When user click on the post at the “timeline”, it will go to the single post page.

    7- Because of this, based on your theme setting, you might see the post got underlined. This was due to the post linked to the single post page. You can adjust this in your theme settings.

    8- Also note that, to be honest I’m not sure about the impact of this to your site’s SEO etc.

    9- Now you can use Stackable’s tab block to create the tabs same as what we have in the twitter’s profile page. This should be easy and straight forward.

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