You could teach them to login first, but you can also just place the login link somewhere prominent before the proposed text area where they can post.

Good luck

For this one particular blog, we don't want to trouble users to register or log in. We want them to be able to submit posts anonymously, much as users can submit comments anonymously.

I found the plugin method LoginAttempt() , thought about giving that a try ... create a user "anonymous" and log in the end user in code then posting their blog post.

Is there a method for creating a post by code? Say I have a title and post, is there something like addPost($title, $post, $blogID) or so?

thx