Our blog posts typically involve several repeated steps, including the insertion of widgets, links, etc. The format for the post is always the same, including styles. Currently, people making posts need to do a lot of mucking around with styles, HTML, switching between visual and html, etc.
What we'd like to do is replace the normal WordPress posting form with a special "dumbed down form" where the poster just fills in some boxes with text, and the correctly formatted post is produced. This would include things like automating the placement of link text entered by the user into hrefs, applying CSS styles to text entered by the user, placing user-entered text into widget parameters, etc.
I've looked and looked and can't find a plugin or solution that does this. Has anyone done this or known of a plugin or solution?