# Video Pro – Documentation

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# Front-end Post Submision

Please follow these steps to create “Submit Video” button on your front page:

- Step 1: Make sure that you have installed Contact Form 7 plugin on your website.
- Step 2: From Dashboard, navigate to Contact > Add New > Create a contact form with fields having these IDs:
  - video-title
  - video-url (needed if Video Post Format is submitted).
  - video-description (needed if Standard Video Post Format is submitted)
  - video-url
  - video-file
  - video-code
  - tag
  - category (needed if users need to choose which category to submit the post to).
  - captcha (optional field)

Below is an example of a Video Submission Form:

`Your Email [email* your-email]`
`Video Title [text video-title]`
`Video Description [textarea video-description]`
`Video URL [text video-url]`
`Video File [file video-file filetypes:mp4|flv limit:100mb]`
`Video Embed Code [textarea video-code]`
`Tags [text tag]`
`Categories [category]`
`Enter security code [captchac captcha-752] [captchar captcha-752]`
`[submit "SUBMIT"]`

- Step 3: Copy the contact form shortcode, for example [contact-form-7 id=”2182″ title=”User Submit Posts”]. Go to Appearance > Widgets > Drag & drop a Text widget into User Submit Video Sidebar. Paste the contact form shortcode into widget content.
- Step 4: Go to Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission > Change Enable to Enable. In addition, there are many other options you can configure.
- Step 5: If you want to send an email (to users) to notify about the acceptance of submitted video, please enable option Notification on Video Extensions > Front-end Post Submission > Notification: Enable.

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