Zombify

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This plugin is frontend post submission tool which helps you to create personality and trivia quizzes, poll, meme, story, ranked list, open list, list, countdown, video, audio, image, and Gif post types immediately from the frontend.

You can see the full list of available post types here.

All posts created by contributors get pending status until the administrator or editor will not publish them.

When you install plugin, create a post button automatically linked to Zombify post types page, where you can choose what post to create.

If you don’t want to let users publish content with Zombify, but still want to have this option available for administrators (or anybody who has the direct link) you can disable “Compose button” for the entire website: WordPress Customizing ▸ Header ▸ Layout

Settings #

To manage the Zombify plugin settings, you’ll need to go Wp-admin ▸ Zombify

General

Under this tab, you can find:

Frontend page
This page created automatically after installing the Zombify plugin and used to show all available post types, from which users can choose.
Post create/update page
This page created automatically after installing the Zombify plugin.
Max. upload size
the max upload size per item for all image type files.
Disable video upload
will be disabled option to upload video files from Zombify front end uploader
Video max. upload file size
the max upload size per item for all video type files.
Disable audio upload
will be disabled option to upload audio files from Zombify front end uploader
Audio max. upload file size
the max upload size per item for all audio type files.
Max tags count
the max count of the tags, which can be added for each submission
Max categories count
the max count of the categories, which can be added for each submission
Allowed categories
the list of categories from which users can use in submission process
Daily contributor can submit
the limit of posts per user for one day
Disable meme templates
can hide meme templates
Automatically set media width equal to post width
can choose from the next values: All, Images only, GIFs only, none

Zombify Translations 

Zombify content could be transalted to other languages like any other plugin – you can read more about it here

If you need to have Frontend page and Post create/update page on different languages – you need to have WPML installed. Read more here Just Translate these pages via WPML

You don’t need to change Zombify language settings

Post Formats

Тhis section is divided into two parts: Global and Story

Global
Active formats
using this option you can choose what post types will be seen for users from front end.
Categories & Tags
this option give you opportunity to choose category and tag for each type by default. Default categories will not be shown for the chosen post type from front end.
Story
Active Components
using this option you can choose what components will be seen for story type to users from front end.

Branding

Primary color
can choose preferred color from the color picker
Color mode
available modes are: Light and Dark
Logo
can change the default logo to your own

API connect

 

Beside main CloudConvert converter settings, which you can manage in Customize section, we also added same functionality for Zombify plugin, they act separately and doesn’t synchronize. So if you even have already activated it from Customize, it won’t work for GIF files created from Zombify plugin, until you don’t activate the same settings in Zombify plugin.

Cloudconvert API Key
create account on Cloudconvert.com and from dashboard copy Your personal API key to the text field below.
Storage
choose where you want to save your convert files: in your local WP database or in Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
Amazon access key ID
insert your access key for Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
Amazon secret access key
insert your Secret Access Key for Amazon S3 Cloud Storage
Amazon bucket name
enter name of your created bucket on Amazon S3 Cloud Storage

For detailed information about how to get Amazon S3 Cloud Storage keys please visit this page.

For detailed information about what is Cloudconvert please read this article.

Facebook settings

Facebook application ID
Insert your application ID

Facebook application Secret
Insert your application Secret

Twitch settings

Twitch application ID
Insert your application ID

Twitch application Secret
Insert your application Secret

 

Posts scheduling #

Publish date option appear only for admin and editor roles, by this option they can change publish date.

Default meme templates #

By default, we provide our set of memes, but you can change or add your own set of memes via the child theme.

To add your own set of memes go to wp-content/themes/your active theme and create this path \zombify\assets\images\meme-templates, after that system will show default meme images only from that folder \meme-templates. If you want to save main memes set, just add images from this zip file to that folder.

Note: titles of the images must consist characters only from the following set:

  1. A–Z
  2. a–z
  3. 0–9
  4. _ (underscore)

  • # Who can create post?

    Only Contributors or higher roles can create posts. You should change your Subscribers role to contributors in “users” section of WordPress dashboard to allow theme post creation. Also set in WordPress dashboard ▸ Settings ▸ General ▸ New user default role to Contributor so newly registered user be able to create posts automatically after registration.

     

  • How to limit Zombify post types for specific user roles?

    You will need to add below code in boombox-child/functions.php

    add_filter( 'zf_activate_for_roles', 'my_activate_for_roles' );
function my_activate_for_roles( $active_for_roles ) {
 $active_for_roles['administrator'] = array( 'openlist', 'rankedlist' );
 $active_for_roles['editor'] = array( 'openlist', 'rankedlist' ); 
 return $active_for_roles;
}