BBS functionality

[romway]

Hello,

I have my WordPress blog self hosted.
I would like to add a bit of BBS behavior to the blog so that:
– Anyone can post posts or comments freely, without the need to register.
– The posts publish immediately and automatically, without waiting for approval.

I know you may worry about spam, but don’t worry about that.

So I would like to know how I can modify the code so that I get this functionality- basically to have the POST and COMMENT buttons on all front-end pages, not only after registration.
The default role of any user should be “Author”, and except administrator users should not be able to change that status.

Thanx.

[kmessinger]

Have you checked this plugin? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-access-manager/

[romway]

Thanks for the tip.

This plug in seems to be close to what I need, but not perfectly matching.

It also offers a lot of other options that I don’t really need for the moment.

So I would like to know if there is any way I could modify the code by myself, to obtain only the results that I need.