It’s been a while since I’ve done a bounty challenge, so here’s another. Same basic rules: 1 answer per person, most creative/useful/helpful/entertaining answer wins. This time around, the award will be 50 reputation points via a Bounty.
This challenge is for my in-development plugin, Crossfire.
Plugin Purpose
Allows authors of multiple sites on a multisite network to cross-post their content from one site to another.
How it Works
Authors write a post as usual on the primary site. Then they select the sites to cross-post from a meta box. WordPress uses a custom post type to keep track of the cross-posted content on the sister sites.
Endgame
- Visitors to both the main site and the sister sites will see the new post at the top of the page.
- Comments on one site are automatically mirrored to all the others.
- Feed subscribers will only see the new post in the original site’s feed.
As I said, the plugin will be called Crossfire, but I need a creative name for the custom post type used on sister sites (where the post content is imported). Calling them “posts” isn’t accurate since they won’t show up in the site’s feed.
So, give me your best ideas and the best of the best will be awarded 50 reputation points!
Contest ends Friday, April 23 at 19:00 UTC (12:00 Pacific).
Ricochet
After all, this custom post type is kind of rebounding off one network site to another. Plus it’s a bit of a play on words based on your plugin’s name.
SPARKS
(I was thinking Flames….but that’s kinda negative in the interwebs world, no?)
Is there a way to not have to post 30 characters??
Crossposts.
Simple, easy, accurate. They are posts from another site, crossposted to this site. Also fits with the name of your plugin.
Generally speaking, it’s best to use descriptive names from other contexts. A lot of people understand the idea of “crossposting”, which is obviously why you picked the plugin name. For a post_type, “crossposts” makes sense here, and people will recognize it from other contexts they’ve used it in.
FirePost
network-wide-post
People not really into web will grasp this easier.
DUPLEX
What do you think? ๐
Reflection
…because the post is being mirrored.
I tend to veer more towards descriptive when picking things like this, so I’d suggest:
Network Post
Ultimately you’re creating networks with this plugin, and calling it as such will reduce cognitive dissonance for admin users trying to figure out where all these new posts came from…
(Cool plugin idea, btw!)
Snipes! Because someone’s shooting their content at you from a distance ๐
CFpost
admittedly not very creative
maybe CrossPoster … or WidePoster.
Multipost.
Because รขยยฆ it is posted on multiple sites. ๐
Bridge Post
since it bridges across multiple sites.
Riposte
A play on post and the attaaack..! theme that CrossFire conjures up for me.
CrossFlame
If CrossFire is the plural, then CrossFlame seems like the logical singular.
Something like:
Site 2 Post
or
Web 2 Post
XPost, XSPost, XSP
Idea from XSS. Cross Site Posting -> XSPost
cross-press
bit of a play on your plugin name and wordpress