I’m looking for a forum/answers script that does something very simple. All I want is the ability to have a post form with sign up information on the same page and two category choices, e.g. category and tag list dropdown. This way a visitor can post immediately and identify a category and special tag without requiring them to first obtain a confirmation and then post. Ideally I’d like them to confirm their email as a way to validate the post.
I’ve seen a wordpress theme do something like this and almost be a cross between wordpress and vanilla, with the category using the site’s category list and a separate tag field that I’d rather just display as a dropdown from a list of prepopulated tags. Has anyone done something like this? What have you used?
Some of the issues have been that it becomes very difficult to search through forums/categories for answers and there is no good “advanced search” for wordpress that allows you to easily sift through categories and tags and perform that drill-down simultaneously. Perhaps there is one.