Are there "exquisite corpse" enabling plugins for WordPress?

March 27, 2022 6:58 AM

I want to connect more meaningfully with my overseas nephew (10) and my sister has suggested that he enjoys writing, and being online, so some sort of sentence-trade-off story writing idea seems cool. I have a personal blog on WordPress and also have the skills/hosting to set up standalone WP instances. Is there a plugin that would make this easy for a kid?

I know this doesn't have to be complicated; I could just make a page with a short URL for login and editing, and we can just do it that way. But I'm wondering if somebody is aware of a more fit to purpose plugin that might manage the complex back end of WP: present a simple "here's the last sentence now type your sentence" interface, or something.

I am open to other ideas to manage the process; I just happen to be comfortable with WordPress and find it easy to work with, generally speaking. But if there's another tool that could make it easy, I'm into it.

posted by Shepherd to Computers & Internet (1 answer total)

In the simplest approach, I'm not sure you need a plugin. You could do a series of posts that are independent writing prompts or starters. You can take turns commenting to continue the story. You'd just have to restrict comments to registered users, which WP lets you do. There is nothing more simple than "type in this box."
posted by DarlingBri at 7:46 AM on March 27, 2022 [2 favorites]