New Players not allowed to speak?

Alright So ive had a Minecraft server for a few months now, Everything has been running smoothly and it has just been me and a few friends (who are admins) And I recently let a few others friends play and I do not want to make them OP's, And come to find out when they join my server they do not have 'permission' to use the chat? They can build/destroy, they just cannot speak in chat and its terribly annoying. Does anyone know what I can do to fix this? A speak permission node or something? Im using Permissons3 and HeroChat Atm, And It's working perfectly fine for me. i just want to know if theres something I need to mark 'True' somewhere or something.

 

my guess is that you've had permissions problems all along, but since you've all been Ops the problem was concealed. This is one reason that I advise to not Op ANYONE. It forces you to keep your permissions tidy.

The simple answer to your question is that yes, there is a permissions node for that. But...

... Permissions3 has been dead a long time. Maybe now is a good time to migrate to a supported permissions manager like bPermissions, PermissionsEX or PermissionsBukkit. I'd recommend them in that order.

 

I've tried to use them before but they mess up all of my other plugins that I have set for them, and I find it a pain to migrate, But I guess I have no choice but to sit down for awhile and redo it all ._.