Today I released version 0.7.7 of the Recipe Press plugin that adds security to the user submit form. This release adds the reCaptcha functions to the form as well as fields for name and email address of the submitter when the user is not logged in. In addition, an option to require users to register and log in before they can submit recipes was added. You may notice the version on Wordpress.org is 0.7.7b, this was due to a typo in one file that updated the recipes table with two new fields, and rather than advance the version I added a variant in case anybody downloaded the version with the incorrect file.
Required Form Fields
A new option in the plugin settings page is selecting which fields on the form are required, giving full control over how your users submit recipes. Any field name checked on this page will be required before the recipe is submitted. These fields will be indicated in red (customizable with CSS) on the form. In addition, if the user misses a field yet types in the correct reCaptcha code, the system will not prompt them for a new code. On the admin side the only field required is the Recipe Name at this point.
Removal of [recipe-submit] shortcode
In previous versions, a user would have to create a page for the submit form, then remember to add the shortcode to the form. This version eliminates the submit form shortcode and automatically places the form above or below the content of the selected page, or completely replaces any content. The location of the form is selectable on the settings page. I did leave in some code to clear out the shortcode so it is not necessary to remove it manually if you were using a previous version. And before you ask, the “thank you” page automatically replaces all the content on the page, so if you have anything you want to add to the thank you page you need to copy and edit the recipe-thanks.php template file.
The Future of Recipe Press
Version 0.8 is due out next week and will add in the long awaited “comments” and “tags” to the plugin. I have created the entire comments backend and over the next week, while I am on vacation from school, will add in the front end capabilities as well as the tag functions. Early versions will likely not include AJAX functionality which may be added in future versions if there is demand.
Version 0.9 due in January will add the ability to attach photos to the recipes. I have not yet decided how I will handle photos, either through the built in Media Library in Wordpress, or perhaps with a hook into the NextGen Gallery plugin. I welcome comments on this if you wish to share or give other ideas.
I plan to release version 1.0 once the bugs from adding comments, tags, and photos are complete. Version 1.0 will also include search capabilities and RSS feed functions. Then I can go on to complete other enhancements including recipe ranking, friending, following, etc. Any other ideas?
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I sugest to include a Favorites Recipes function to make this wordefull pluging much better
Thank you for the suggestion, a “favorites” option is in the works!
Another function very nice is a option to translate plugin public expresions (multilanguage)
I will be working with others on provided language translations for this plugin after version 1.0 is released. There are some areas where I need to work on so this can happen.
For Portuguese and Spanish translation i can help you