Manage Your Group Writing Project with WP-Submission

If you’ve ever run a Group Writing Project before, you probably know that they can generate a lot of traffic and a large number of inbound links if done properly.   They can also help you to introduce yourself to a large number of potential readers that you might not have otherwise met.   Running these projects, however, are often more work than you bargained for when you decided to host one.  It can often be a headache to manage your submissions and collect all the posts into one place for publishing.

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to do be this way if you are a WordPress user.  The WP-Submission WordPress plugin was created for situations like this, where you want to accept submissions for something.   This plugin will actually create a submission form that you can refer participants to.  As entries are submitted, a post draft is automatically created and continues to add additional submissions to the end of your post draft until your contest is completed.  You can then edit your post to say/look how you want, and then publish your list of participants.

If you don’t intend to run a group writing project, Jason Blanton has made a post over at Blogging Tips suggesting some alternative uses for this plugin.   It would also be a good fit for people hosting Blog Carnivals and Link Round Ups.