What makes wordpress a great CMS is its ability to be extended beyond one's wildest dreams via plugins. Janvier designs and WordPress Rooms recently published  a small plugin to allow website/blog owners to post a publishing post in the sidebar to  allow visitors to publish to the bnlog/website directly. There are many reasons why one would like to do that and the main one being that it gives the users a chance to participate in providing the content to the site.

Features

1. It can be called within the sitebar widget of any wordpress widget ready theme.
2. It can also be called anywhere else in the template files by calling the sidebar_post_wiget() php function anywhere.
3. It comes handy with a form validator javascript, hence preventing the form from being submitted without being completed.
4. Future versions will have a backend management menu that will allow users to set up redirect URL and many other features.

Installation

1. Download the  sidebar post plugin first. 
2. Upload the /sidebar-post/ directory in the /wp-content/plugins  of your wordpress installation
3. Activate the plugin in the admin area
4. Add the widget where you want
5. Enjoy