Submit WordPress Posts From The Frontend

/**
 *
 * New Post Form for Custom Post Types for the Frontend of Your Site
 * By Jared Williams - http://new2wp.com
 *
 * Last Updated: 8/30/2010
 */
 
// Check if the form was submitted
if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] && !empty( $_POST['action'] )) {
 
 // Do some minor form validation to make sure there is content
 if (isset ($_POST['title'])) { 
  $title =  $_POST['title']; 
 } else { 
  echo 'Please enter a title';
 }
 if (isset ($_POST['description'])) { 
  $description = $_POST['description']; 
 } else { 
  echo 'Please enter the content'; 
 }
 $tags = $_POST['post_tags'];

 // Add the content of the form to $post as an array
 $post = array(
  'post_title' => $title,
  'post_content' => $description,
  'post_category' => $_POST['cat'],  // Usable for custom taxonomies too
  'tags_input' => $tags, 
  'post_status' => 'publish',   // Choose: publish, preview, future, etc.
  'post_type'  => $_POST['post_type']  // Use a custom post type if you want to
 );
 wp_insert_post($post);  // Pass  the value of $post to WordPress the insert function
       // http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post
 wp_redirect( home_url() ); // redirect to home page after submit

} // end IF
// Do the wp_insert_post action to insert it
do_action('wp_insert_post', 'wp_insert_post'); 
?>

<!-- New Post Form -->  
  <div id="postbox"> 
   <form id="new_post" name="new_post" method="post" action="">  
  <p><label for="title">Title</label><br /> 
   <input type="text" id="title" value="" tabindex="1" size="20" name="title" />
    </p> 
   <p><label for="description">Description</label><br /> 
   <textarea id="description" tabindex="3" name="description" cols="50" rows="6"></textarea> 
   </p> 
   <p><?php wp_dropdown_categories( 'show_option_none=Category&tab_index=4&taxonomy=category' ); ?></p> 
   <p><label for="post_tags">Tags</label> 
   <input type="text" value="" tabindex="5" size="16" name="post_tags" id="post_tags" /></p> 
   <p align="right"><input type="submit" value="Publish" tabindex="6" id="submit" name="submit" /></p> 
   <input type="hidden" name="post_type" id="post_type" value="post" /> 
   <input type="hidden" name="action" value="post" /> 
   <?php wp_nonce_field( 'new-post' ); ?> 
   </form>
    </div> 
   <!--// New Post Form -->

global $user_ID;

$new_post = array(

'post_title' => 'My New Post',

'post_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...',

'post_status' => 'publish',

'post_date' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'),

'post_author' => $user_ID,

'post_type' => 'post',

'post_category' => array(0)

);

$post_id = wp_insert_post($new_post);