Hi tomperator,

Welcome to the forums.
We're thinking embedding such a feature in the forthcoming 3.x series of B2evolution. Especially developer ¥åßßå has some bright ideas on this matter.
Now you're stuck with 2.x. Note that a Blogger (not the Admin) has access to only a subset of the Dashboard. That looks much cleaner. Also less experienced users like the TinyMCE WYSIWYG plugin.

Good luck.

Heh, I actually have a plugin for this :p

Unfortunately it also highlighted a few flaws in the cores triggers :-S

If you want to play with it then go login to my blog and hit the ugly "testing" button ... you'll soon find the flaws ;)

¥

After a bit of research on b2evo-plugins i finally decided to make a widget myself.

It actually proved to be quite easy. I simply made a form that posts it's data to the admin.php. I don't know if that is a safe way to do it, but it works fine. I also added an image uploader based on swfuploader that automatically adds all the necessary html to include the image in the post. The only thing I'm still missing is a way to get the media directory of the current blog so that the image can be save to the correct location.

	/**
	 * Get the blog's media directory (and create it if necessary).
	 *
	 * If we're {@link is_admin_page() on an admin page}, it adds status messages.
	 * @todo These status messages should rather go to a "syslog" and not be displayed to a normal user
	 *
	 * @param boolean Create the directory, if it does not exist yet?
	 * @return string path string on success, false if the dir could not be created
	 */
	function get_media_dir( $create = true )
	{

¥

*edit*
Remind me to send you a copy of my plugin to play with, I've approached this from a totally different angle which may help you

i am looking forward to that thing as well.. hope it will be available soon.. another way to keep users from admin area and let them easily write posts is using external software like BlogJet etc.. you might want to consider that option too

It's easy enough to do, but there's a couple of misplaced core hooks that kinda screw the whole experience :-S

¥

@ ¥åßßå:
that was rather obvious :), i should have thought of that myself.
but thanks for the help anyway. my plugin is doing everything i want now, but i'm still interested in other approaches to the problem.