EntryKit – Starter Kits, Submissions & Auto-Display for Custom Content

Description

You shouldn’t need 4 plugins and a developer to add a business directory to your site.

Most WordPress users who want structured content like directories, job boards, or listing pages end up installing a custom fields plugin, a forms plugin, a display plugin, and then hiring someone to wire them all together. Even then, the moment you create your fields, nothing shows up on your site without editing templates.

EntryKit replaces that entire stack with one plugin.

Pick a starter kit. Toggle submissions on. It’s on your site. That’s it. No templates. No shortcode IDs. No custom field jargon. No CSS. Your content displays automatically in clean, responsive layouts the moment you create it.

Simple enough that your grandma could set up a business directory. Powerful enough that a developer wouldn’t need to.

What Can You Build?

EntryKit comes with 5 ready-made starter kits so you can launch in minutes, plus a custom builder to create anything you can think of:

🏢 Business Directory — Let visitors submit local businesses. Display them as cards with contact info, hours, and categories. Perfect for chambers of commerce, community sites, and niche directories.

💼 Job Board — Accept job postings with structured fields for company, location, salary, and type. Display as a searchable list or card grid.

👥 Staff / Team Directory — Showcase your team with photos, bios, titles, and contact details. One click to set up. No theme editing required.

📅 Event Listings — Collect community events with dates, times, locations, and ticket links. Calendar date picker built in.

🏷️ Coupon & Deal Site — Let visitors submit deals with codes, discounts, and expiration dates. Great for affiliate and deal sites.

🔧 Build Your Own — Need a recipe site? Pet adoption board? Tool lending library? Course directory? Build any content type from scratch with 13 field types. Name it, add fields, pick a layout, done.

How It Works

1. Pick a starter kit (or create a custom content type from scratch)
2. Toggle frontend submissions on if you want visitors to submit entries
3. Drop a Gutenberg block on any page — entries display automatically

No templates to edit. No shortcode IDs to copy. No CSS to write.

Features

Everything below is included in the free version.

Starter Kits & Custom Builder

• 5 ready-made kits: Business Listing, Job Board, Staff Profile, Events, Coupons
• Custom builder to create any content type from scratch
• Drag-and-drop field reordering
• Add, remove, rename fields anytime — existing entries adapt automatically

13 Smart Field Types

• Text, paragraph, number, date (with calendar picker), time (with time picker)
• Email (auto-validates, renders as mailto link)
• Phone (auto-formats, renders as click-to-call)
• URL (auto-validates, renders as clickable link)
• Dropdown, radio buttons, checkboxes
• Image upload
• Toggle / yes-no

Automatic Frontend Display

• 3 layout styles: Card Grid, List, Table
• Preview cards with clickable detail pages
• 3 visibility toggles per field: show on form, show in preview, show on detail page
• You control exactly what appears where — no code
• Auto-mapping: images go to image slots, contact fields go to contact rows, descriptions go to the body
• Column controls (1-4 columns), card styles (shadow, bordered, minimal)
• Mobile-responsive out of the box

Frontend Submissions & Moderation

• Let anyone submit, logged-in users only, or admins only
• Spam protection: honeypot + Cloudflare Turnstile + Google reCAPTCHA
• Moderation queue: approve, reject, edit
• Email notifications to admin and submitter (customizable templates with merge tags)
• Rate limiting on public submissions
• Registration link for logged-in-only forms

Gutenberg Blocks

• Entries Display block — drop on any page, pick content type, pick layout, done
• Submission Form block — drop on any page, pick content type, visitors can submit
• Full control panel: columns, card style, order, show/hide images, custom button text, redirect URL
• Shortcodes included for classic editor users

Everything Else

• Real WordPress categories (taxonomy) per content type
• Author box for tutorials, reviews, and contributor content
• Dashboard widget with pending submission counts
• CSV export for any content type
• Admin entry editing with all fields in the post editor
• Live preview panel in the builder — see your cards update as you add fields
• Onboarding wizard for first-time setup
• Developer hooks: 25+ actions and filters for full customization
• Custom CSS class support per content type
• Works with any WordPress theme
• Translation-ready

Who Is EntryKit For?

• Small business owners who want a directory on their site without hiring a developer
• Churches and nonprofits managing staff profiles, event submissions, or resource lists
• Community organizers collecting and displaying local business listings, volunteer opportunities, or events
• Bloggers who want structured content like recipe cards, product specs, or review boxes alongside their posts
• Coupon and deal sites accepting user-submitted deals with codes and expiration dates
• Freelancers and agencies building client sites that the client can actually manage themselves
• Anyone who wants structured content on their WordPress site without the complexity of a developer-oriented custom fields plugin

The Grandma Test

We designed EntryKit with one rule: if someone who only knows how to write a blog post and upload a photo can’t figure it out in 5 minutes, we failed.

No field groups. No meta keys. No template overrides. No “consult the documentation.” You pick what you’re building, the plugin handles the rest. The moment you create fields, they show up on your site. That’s the bar.

External services

This plugin optionally connects to the following third-party services for spam protection on frontend submission forms. No external service is used unless the site administrator explicitly enables it in the EntryKit settings and provides their own API keys.

Google reCAPTCHA

When enabled, the Google reCAPTCHA JavaScript library is loaded on pages that display an EntryKit submission form. When a visitor submits the form, a verification token is sent from the visitor’s browser to Google, and the plugin sends that token along with your secret key to Google’s siteverify API to confirm the submission is not spam.

• Service provider: Google LLC (reCAPTCHA is part of Google Cloud)
• Google Cloud Terms of Service
• Google Cloud Privacy Notice
• Google Privacy Policy

Cloudflare Turnstile

When enabled, the Cloudflare Turnstile JavaScript widget is loaded on pages that display an EntryKit submission form. When a visitor submits the form, a verification token is sent from the visitor’s browser to Cloudflare, and the plugin sends that token along with your secret key to Cloudflare’s siteverify API to confirm the submission is not spam.

• Service provider: Cloudflare, Inc.
• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy