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Are the blogs using 1 WordPress installation and then multisite for the different blogs or are you using different WordPress installations for each blog?

Perhaps using a multisite setup with 1 WordPress installation will keep a user logged into all blogs on which they are a user.

It depends how your theme displays the menu. You could try adding a number to the page order box on the write page screen starting at ‘0’ for the first page and then the higher the number the further down your list the page will move.

You should find a colour button for the text in the Write Page/Post screen. Make sure that you are looking at the ‘Visual’ tab rather than the ‘HTML’ tab in the write post screen.

Even though the post is pending it will still have its ID and the wp_insert_post function return the post ID.

Therefore you can store the returned ID in a variable and then use this in your add_post_meta call like this:

$thisPostID = wp_insert_post($insertpoststuff);
add_post_meta($thisPostID, 'customfieldkey', 'customfieldvalue', true);

Hope this helps.

I use Gravity Forms in order to submit content on the front end and it works well. Not sure about file uploads though.

http://gravityforms.com

You need to put your titles inside the loop on the template. Therefore you need to replace:

<h2 class="post-title"><span><?php the_title(); ?></span></h2>

with whatever you want to use as your title – I guess something like this:

<div class="pagename"><h1 class="entry-title"><span><?php the_title(); ?></span></h1></div>

Check your wp-config.php as autosave can be disabled in there.

When you manually ‘SAve as Draft’ or publish does the permalink box appear?