Description

Add and edit posts, pages, users, terms, ACF fields and more all from the frontend.

(Previously called ACF Frontend)

This awesome plugin allows you to easily display frontend admin forms on your site so your clients can easily edit content by themselves from the frontend. You can create awesome forms with our form builder to allow users to save custom meta data to pages, posts, users, and more. Then use our Gutenberg block or shortcode to easily display these forms for your users.

So, what can this plugin do for you?

FREE Features

No Coding Required
Give the end user the best content managment experience without having to know code. It’s all ready to go right here.
Display Post Data
Use [frontend_admin field=field_key] to display any field value effortlessly
Edit Posts
Let your users edit posts from the frontend of their site without having to access the WordPress dashboard.
Add Posts
Let your users publish new posts from the frontend using the “new post” form
Delete Posts
Let your users delete or trash posts from the frontend using the “trash button” form
Edit User Profile
Allow users to edit their user data easily from the frontend.
User Registration Form
Allow new users to register to your site with a built in user registration form! You can even hide the WordPress dashboard from these new users.
Hide Admin Area
Pick and chose which users have acess to the WordPress admin area.
Configure Permissions
Choose who sees your form based on user role or by specific users.
Modal Popup
Display the form in a modal window that opens when clicking a button so that it won’t take up any space on your pages.

PRO Features

Edit Global Options
If you have global data – like header and footer data – you can create an options page using ACF and let your users edit from the frontend.
Limit Submits
Prevent all or specific users from submitting the form more than a number of times.
Send Emails
Set emails to be sent and map the ACF form data to display in the email fields such as the email address, the from address, subject, and message.
Style Tab
Use Elementor to style the form and as well the buttons.
Multi Step Forms
Make your forms more engaging by adding multiple steps.
Stripe and Paypal
Accept payments through Stripe or Paypal upon form submission.
Woocommerce Intergration
Easily add Woocomerce products from the frontend.

Purchase your copy here at the official website: Frontend Admin website

Useful Links

Appreciate what we’re doing? Want to stay updated with new features? Give us a like and follow us on our facebook page:
Frontend Admin Facebook page

The Pro version has even more cool features. Check it out at the official website:
DynamiApps website

Check out our other plugin, which let’s you dynamically query your posts more easily:
Advanced Post Queries for Elementor

Tutorials

Paul from WP Tuts shows how to use Frontend Admin to create a frontend dashboard

Bjorn from WPLearningLab shows how to create a WordPress Client Portal

Enable Users To Add Content From The Front End Without Logging Into WordPress Using Frontend Admin

WordPress Frontend Edits and Updates Using Frontend Admin

Installating Frontend Admin

How to create a form for frontend data submission

Blocks

This plugin provides 20 blocks.

Datetime Field Displays a datetime field.
Frontend Form Displays a form that allows users to edit and add content from the frontend.
Select Field Displays a select field.
Password Field Displays a password field.
Color Field Displays a color field.
Email Field Displays a email field.
Text Field Displays a text field.
Time Field Displays a time field.
Date Field Displays a date field.
Number Field Displays a number field.
Range Field Displays a range field.
Textarea Displays a textarea.
Frontend Admin Submissions Display frontend submissions so that site admins can update content from the frontend.
Fields Select Displays ACF fields and field groups.
Frontend Admin Form Display a frontend admin form so that your users can update content from the frontend.
Form Step Groups content into steps.
URL Field Displays a url field.
Featured Image Field Displays a featured image field.
Checkbox Field Displays a checkbox field.
Post Title Field Displays a post title field.

Installation

Make sure both Advanced Custom Fields is installed and activated.
Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/acf-frontend-form-elements directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
Create a form under Frontend Admin > forms.
Choose the desired form type.
Configure the fields permisions, display, and other settings as you please.
Copy and paste the shortcode on any page. You can also use our Gutenberg block.
You should now see a form on the frontend for editing a post, adding a post, editing or adding a user, and more.

FAQ

Can I send emails through this form?

You can use a “action hook” to send emails when this form is registered: frontend_admin/save_post

If you purchase our pro version, you will be able to configure this from the form settings without any code. You will be able to send any number of emails upon form submission.

Can I let users set post categories through this form?

Yes. Simply add a taxonomy field and set the taxonomy type to Category

Reviews

dlpoub December 5, 2024 1 reply

This is a really serious and well made plugin to consider when you want your users to create content on your website. Front-end admin is a great addition to ACF for custom post types front-end forms. We use it on our web sites. Support is high level. Keep up the excellent work Shabti.

giampiero November 26, 2024

I like what I’ve seen up to now. I wish this could work with pods too!

Ravindra November 5, 2024 1 reply

A very powerful, feature rich and small footprint plugin with an easy to learn user interface that is meant primarily for creating frontend Create Post and Edit Post forms and makes these tasks very easy. Best of all, it is completely free, despite having features that are mostly to be found in paid plugins. It has very close integration with and works seamlessly with ACF, which enables the website developer full flexibility to customise the form to meet his or her specific requirements. Additionally, each field has its own shortcode, which allows it to be placed inline anywhere in the website – and not necessarily in the parent form.

basamaty October 31, 2024 1 reply

Сегодняшнее обновление очень порадовало. Стало значительно удобнее.

dieselvw82 October 17, 2024 1 reply

Easy to use, works very well. Constantly finding new ways to use this on different sites. Developer is very responsive to questions/suggestions.

starvision October 16, 2024 1 reply

As a beginner, I was able to build a WordPress frontend dashboard and understand the process in just 30 minutes using their 100% free tools.

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Contributors & Developers

“Frontend Admin by DynamiApps” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Shabti Kaplan

“Frontend Admin by DynamiApps” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Frontend Admin by DynamiApps” into your language.

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Changelog

3.25.1 – 06-12-2024

Fixed Delete Post widget for Elementor not rendering
Fixed role field issue
Fixed submission title bug
Fixed orderBy bug

3.25.0 – 03-12-2024

Changed permissions to show to all roles if none are selected.
Fixing permisions message showing after permissions are configured
Fixed Woocomerce variations and atributes fields

3.24.8 – 12-11-2024

Fixed product inventory fields not saving

3.24.7 – 5-11-2024

Fixed “From Email” setting not saving
Fixed multi step validation
Added dynamic value checks to custom url redirect setting

3.24.6 – 4-11-2024

Fixed multi step form not proceding to next step

3.24.5 – 3-11-2024

Fixed conflict with ACF update causing multi select fields to show no results
Added taxonomy field widget in Elementor

3.24.4 – 1-11-2024

Fixed ACF image fields adding suffix
Added “ACF Fields” button in form builder
Fixed “count error”
Added option to hide modal button if there is no post being edited

3.24.1 – 07-10-2024

Removed ACF dependancy. Still works seamlessly with ACF, but doesn’t require it to be activated

3.23.9 – 26-09-2024

Fixed passwrod field not allowing very weak passwords despite the setting
Fixed password preview showing even when password field is hidden
Fixed Submissions not loading post fields data

3.23.8 – 24-09-2024

Added form_element to form response

3.23.7 – 23-09-2024

Fixed gallery field layout

3.23.6 – 22-09-2024

Added encryption for extra security for inline edit fields
Added support for terms in loops

3.23.4 – 18-09-2024

Patched missing function

3.23.3 – 18-09-2024

Added Frontend Admin metabox to enable “visibilty” limitation based on user role
Added compatibility for Elementor’s element cache feature

3.23.2 – 17-09-2024

Improved ACF fields selections in the Elementor editor
Fixed delete button not showing up

3.23.1 – 10-09-2024

Fixed delete button not working within nested form
Fixed submissions table error

3.23.0 – 10-09-2024

Added Nested “New Taxonomy Form” and Nested “Edit Taxonomy Form
Added support for Elementor taxonomy loops
Fixed Image validation issue
Fixed delete button not redirecting

3.22.4 – 01-09-2024

Fixed edit permissions issue

3.22.3 – 15-08-2024

Fixed file upload error

3.22.2 – 14-08-2024

Fixed Google Map field not initializing
Added option to add password revealer

3.22.1 – 09-08-2024

Fixed field info not saving
Added option to add a preview via the ‘frontend_admin/form/submission_preview’ filter hook

3.22.0 – 12-07-2024

Added support for PHP 8.2
Added redirect options to submit buttons
Fixed edit term form
Fixed media library not working with latest WP version
Added proper filename sanitization

3.21.12 – 27-06-2024

Fixed select2 fields (taxonomy, post author, select) not fetching options
Fixed Elementor Manage Product widgets not showing fields
Fixed ‘special permissions’ reference error

3.21.10 – 25-06-2024

Fixed browser autofill triggering form input change
Fixed default required message

3.21.9 – 23-06-2024

Fixed Elementor widget permissions
Added limit submissions to permissions rule

3.21.8 – 18-06-2024

Fixed “New post terms” option not working
Added option Special Permissions to allow users to edit other posts and users if checked

3.21.7 – 13-06-2024

Fixed product delete button not working when together with “acf form” widget
Fixed acf nested fields not validating
Added ability to add shortcodes to emails and to the message field

3.21.6 – 09-06-2024

Fixed delete button not working

3.21.5 – 07-06-2024

Fixed success message always showing in “fixed” position
Fixed form validation not calling acf/validate_save_post hook
Fixed email verification feature to allow non logged in users to post content by verifying email address
Added fea_emails db table for handling verified emails

3.21.4 – 05-06-2024

Added option to add any string to the file input allowed attribute

3.21.3 – 03-06-2024

Fixed new posts not being creating upon submission approval
Fixed delete button missing dependencies when displayed alone
Fixed file field not accepting mp4

3.21.1 – 31-05-2024

Fixed submission approval not working
Added extra context to forms so that success messages will only show based on context if displayed in loop
Added option to click enter to go to the next field

3.21.0 – 28-05-2024

Added ajax submit feature to free version
Improved delete button html
Added logic to check if post exists before attempting to render edit post form and delete button
Added logic to check if user exists before attempting to render edit user form and delete button
Added option to customize redirect based on which submit button is triggered

3.20.16 – 24-05-2024

Added SQLlite support

3.20.15 – 23-05-2024

Fixed Post to Edit field loading form as modal within modal
Fixed Post to Edit field adding new posts to posts instead of CPT

3.20.14 – 22-05-2024

Optimized file uploads speed
Improved uploads progress bar
Added warnings when uploads exceed server upload limits
Added option to either add validation warning or client-side resize the images
Added “local avatar” option directly inside of image fields, simplifying the process of creating a local avatar field

3.20.12 – 17-05-2024

Fixed modal window in form builder
Fixed verifiy emails
Added email verified success message

3.20.11 – 15-05-2024

Fixed url query not working in Elementor built forms
Added duplicate post “copy title” option
Added duplicate post “copy date” option
Added “new post status” option for duplicate post

3.20.9 – 15-05-2024

Fixed approval forms not working
Fixed relationship field within repeater or group not using the correct form or field groups for inner forms
Fixed date picker fields display error

3.20.8 – 11-05-2024

Fixed WP library not working
Fixed post_to_edit showing form “post” on initial load

3.20.7 – 10-05-2024

Fixed delete button not working
Fixed File field not opening WP media library

3.20.5 – 08-05-2024

Fixed show in modal not working in Admin Forms
Fixed field shortcodes not updating data

3.20.4 – 07-05-2024

Fixed missing block editor field

3.20.3 – 07-05-2024

Fixed “Upload Images” field mobile display
Fixed ios upload file error
Added Elementor “Images Field” widget
Fixed Nested forms basic upload not working
Added inline edit to fields widgets
Fixed date field shortcodes so that they display based on the return format

3.20.1 – 03-05-2024

Fixed Paypal not working
Change “form” hidden field from serialzed json to a form id