Look in the Misc section on the right side of your page. If you're logged in, you'll see an Admin link in that list. Click on that and it jumps straight to the Write tab.

Hey thanks!

Now what about those users who aren't admin? Do they use the same link? How hard would it be to create a write link?

Anyone who has permission to write a new post will be shown the Admin link. All the permissions that you've set will still be in effect.

There's also a fancy (not often-used) tool that you might be interested in. Depending on which version you use, it's in a different location.

Dawn and earlier - I believe it's in the backoffice under the "tools" tab.

Phoenix and later - It's called "SideBar" and it's in the back office, under "Settings" and "plugins"

Basically, it gives you the Edit/Write window in an Internet Explorer sidebar (allowing you to surf the net to various sites in the main window, but still retain edit/write capabilities, in the sidebar). B)

I tried it once and it seemed to work (it's just a work-path I don't use, but you might like it). I remember now. I helped someone with it and I wasn't aware of its existence ... but the issue was that it seemed to take a moment or two for it to come up (they thought it wasn't working properly). I believe patience was the key.

Ahh ... here's the old thread: http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=6192

Cheers,

Hope this helps.

PS ... regarding your edit link, I do mine a bit different (for starters, I'm the only blogger and I keep a "hidden" admin link on our front page - only I know it's there ... no reason to give visitors a reason to think they can log in ;) ) ... anyway ... mine jumps to my blog of choice (#7 ... browse, instead of edit, but no reason it couldn't be edit). The link (in my skin's _main.php file) is simple ...

<div class="backOffice"><a href="../../admin/b2browse.php?blog=7">Secret Login</a></div>

If the sidebar thing doesn't do it for you, maybe you can have a secret login spot on your page, that your members know about and use, where each person can decide where they want to always go ... some maybe to edit, some to write ...etc.

Just some thoughts.

Bookmarklet is another way to create posts, similar to sidebar, but it lives its life as a bookmark instead. You can also find it in the Tools tab.