I’m building a small community of writers, where the main feed will have a variety of content to prompt discussion. One of the features we want to have is for a writer to reply to someone else’s post with their own post instead of adding a comment/reply to that original post. Sometimes someone will post merely a prompt to get the other writers replying with their own posts/images/videos. Think something along the lines of Tumblr, but a group feed.
I’m aware of the Reblog feature, but this site is self-hosted. The “Press This” plugin is not ideal because we’d like a button to appear on the post itself. The “ShareThis” tool could work if we just limit the platforms to the WordPress icon, but I can’t tell if you can limit the reblogging/sharing solely to our specific site.
Has anyone seen any others out there, or recommend how to go about this?
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Sounds like maybe you want Tumblr instead of a WordPress site? That’s kind of how Tumblr reblogs work.
You could try: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/edit-flow/])
Otherwise, maybe a multi-author plugin so you can duplicate a post and add the authors to keep them ‘connected’.
If you have some building/code chops PODS plugin could probably enable you to build this and have relationships between posts.
Or you could hack together a forms plugin with buttons on posts that triggered the form to open a front-end posting form, with the original post URL and/or some identifier added automatically to the post (e.g. in a meta-field)