Front-End Menu Profile for Members

Not exactly a plugin but a free theme which allows your users to post from the front-end. You could customize the theme to taste or check the code and apply to your own theme.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/p2

Thanks, but that allows even guests to post stuff, which would be bad for spam and such.

It has no front-end member area and if people register they still see the dashboard.

You could always use user role plugins like Role Scoper https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/role-scoper/ with P2 to control specific permissions for member groups and visitors to your site.

Based on your initial message I would probably suggest taking a look at Buddypress though https://buddypress.org/. This relies on installing WordPress Multi User, and it will give the majority of the functionality you are after, with user profiles etc.