We've been working for several days on a blog which must have:

1. visitors sign-in on a form
2. type their message and submit via button
3. page then redirects to a page where the newly submitted message is
featured.This page must have comments available too.
4. Calendar and archives must be enabled to show past message posting.

Am just a part of the technical team and we've been tossing ideas back and forth tweaking the wordpress template chosen.

Any thoughts anyone? Is this possible? By the way, have you ever heard of enabling (in a blog template format) posting without going through the dashboard?

by message what exactly do you mean ??? isn't comments enough?

If I am understanding correctly, you want this new message to appear on a new post automatically that features ONLY that new message but still allows others to comment on that new Post?

Therefore my suggestion off the top of my head would be:

1. Allow the user to create message through a custom page template which holds the form.

2. Direct this user message(all input) through some server-side validation process.

3. After the script validates the user's input, it can create a post programmatically using this method.
Obviously, inserting validated user message for:

'post_content' => 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...', // this would be the user msg

This article might be of some help as well.

Make sense?

By the way, have you ever heard of enabling (in a blog template format) posting without going through the dashboard?

You can post via email. http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_to_y...og_using_email
I never have done this.

Hi,

All blogs stores details in database. Hence, you can generate the form and on submit add the provided details by visitor to that database and redirect visitors to your specific page.

On that page you can fetch the details from the database and display it.

But, this wil increase the spamming on your blog or page. Hence, I recommend you to only allow the registered users to make the post.