Welcome Back, Bloganuary!
With 2023 just around the corner, so too comes Bloganuary!
As 2022 comes to a close, we at WordPress.com are preparing to ring in the new year. As we get ready to say goodbye to 2022, we’re thinking about how quickly time has flown by this past year.
Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics in February, the James Webb Space Telescope started transmitting jaw-droppingly beautiful photos back to us on Earth, and the incredibly powerful Site Editor launched for WordPress sites!
With 2023 just around the corner, so too comes Bloganuary! Bloganuary is a writing challenge for everyone, whether you’re new to blogging, rediscovering your love of blogging, or blogging is your livelihood — we want all of you to join us.
Bloganuary is a month-long blogging challenge in January, where you’ll receive a daily writing prompt to inspire you to publish a post on your blog. You can respond to the prompts in any way you like: a story, a picture, a poem, a drawing, a recipe, or even a song. Anything goes!
By being a part of Bloganuary, you’ll join a global network of bloggers creating and/or strengthening solid writing habits. You’ll get to know fellow participants on the Bloganuary community site, where you can share tips, learn from each other, find a new audience for your blog, and make new blogging friends.
To show others what you’ll be up to in January and encourage them to join in the Bloganuary fun, here’s a badge you can add to your blog (right-click and save/download to your computer):
Join the Bloganuary challenge, stay motivated, and start the new year off on the write track!
If you’d prefer to journal privately instead of blog publicly, check out the Day One app.
Whenever I click “Sign me up” it says “Almost There” and nothing happens? Am I doing something wrong?
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Hi there, it should normally be sending you an email to welcome you to Bloganuary; are you able to check your inbox (and possibly spam folder) for the email?
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Thanks Sophie, I tried a bit later and it worked.
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I never got a email
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I haven’t received any emails sadly, not in my junk either. Can you please help?
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Hey there! Have they appeared in the spam or trash inbox? If not, are you using the email address connected to this WordPress.com account?
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All good. I’m receiving the emails thanks. The prompt seems to have changed for yesterday, not sure what that’s about 🤷🏼♂️
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Ah yes, we’re aware of that and have deployed a fix so that everything marries up. Best to follow https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/ for this years prompts.
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I am already thanks 😊
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Can’t you stop send my email thank you
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Hi, you can unsubscribe from the WordPress.com blog using the link at the bottom of the email you received.
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Hi Mindy,
Happy Christmas aunt happy new year to you,
I’m so glad Bloganuary is going to happen again. I took part last year and loved it. I’m already linked to the Bloganuary blog as a blogger so how do I sign up and do I have to sign up again to take part or is signing up a one time thing? I want to be sure I can take part easily and without problems.
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Hi! If you’re already linked to https://bloganuary.wordpress.com then you should be good to go – the prompts will appear there (and in your Reader) and as long as you’re writing the posts on your own blog and tagging them with bloganuary then you are participating. I hope that helps!
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Good job.
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YAAASSSSSS!!! SO EXCITED!!! I bloody LOVE Bloganuary!
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This is great! (Though as a person who takes time to process and tries to plan my posts ahead of time, getting the prompts beforehand would be helpful)
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Please I’m unable to save the badge because I’m using smartphone. When I tab on the image, the only feedback I get is ” image cannot be viewed”. Please what can I do to get the image saved?
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Hi, are you able to press-and-hold on the image? Your phone should usually bring up an option to save it.
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It doesn’t provide any options Sophie.
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Thanks for Sharing
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Unable to sign up
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Hi, what happening when you try to sign up? Any context you can share may be helpful, or if you’d like, you can reach out to support here:
https://wordpress.com/help/contact
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Thank you for this, earlier i was having issues but now now I’ve signed in.
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Ooo really
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Hi, gone through the process until it says ‘check your e-mail, which I have, including spam. Haven’t received anything – yet! Help appreciated please
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Can you check with your mail provider? It sounds like they rejected the email.
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Same here 😦 did you get the email eventually?
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Hey there, has anything arrived in spam or any promotional tabs in the inbox?
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No 😦 I’ve got Gmail. And I don’t know what to do.
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Have you tried checking your spam/bulk/trash folder in case it got filtered? In gmail for example, you could search like this:
in:anywhere "Welcome to Bloganuary"
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Hi. Yes, I did check all the folders. However, I’ve got searched for these words, and the email came up! I really don’t know how it happened!
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Oh good, I’m glad you’ve got it.
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Thanks a lot for your tip!
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I hope it comes in handy for many cases!
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No!
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Thanks Mindy. that really helps. Looking forward to it
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I just found out that bloganuary’s blog doesn’t appear as one of the sites I post on anymore (in the “My Sites” part of my WP dashboard). I used the signup link in your blog post and have the welcome email, so do I just use that as the link to be able to find the post prompts?
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Hi! We’ll email the prompts, and they’ll also appear at https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/ so you’ll be set either way. If you’ve joined the site but can’t see it in your dashboard, let us know and we’ll get you pointed in the right direction for help.
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Am new here
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Welcome! Did you get signed up?
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Not yet
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Sounds Interesting. Happy Holidays!!!
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Looking forward to sharpening my writing skills and for inspiration from my fellow bloggers! Thank you, Mindy!
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Keep on trying. I just created mine some minutes ago
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Supernovia, that’s the exact problem I have, the Bloganuary site does not appear in my dashboard
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Hello, My name is Hattie Elane Lewis. I am interest in signing up again and reconnecting but I do not remember my User Name.I thought my user name was recovery&transformation. I remember that my name on the Word Press Blog was Ambassador. the only other email I had years ago was possibly gardenchoices.com or gardenofchoices.com or garden.choice.com Please help me with this issue. Thank you
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Hey there! Please do reach out to us via this link: https://wordpress.com/help/contact – we’ll do our best to retrace some steps and find the blog.
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Yes, Nao Lin, I’m asking myself, I have to clear the bill, I don’t know how to do that, so I’m asking myself how to pay.
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Hey there, this charge should be visible in the account seen here: https://wordpress.com/me/purchases/billing, and active purchases can be found here: https://wordpress.com/me/purchases. If you require assistance, we’ll happily help via https://wordpress.com/help/contact/
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I missed this last year, since I was new to blogging, and I was still getting my feet wet.
But this year, I’m ready for the challenge. Bring. It. Oooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
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Email link not working have done multiple times but will be posting my blogs for the challenge. Happy to write and read other bloggers works. Enjoyed working last year and meeting new bloggers from the blogging world. So this is my second year.
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Hey there! Has anything arrived in spam or any promotional tabs in the inbox?
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No it did not.
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Try searching for this subject line in your email: “Welcome to Bloganuary”
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No it didn’t
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Wow amazing
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I’m so excited to participate!
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Excited for this!
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May I ask you if you will give us topics to write about or we could write anything we’d like to?
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Hey there, we’ll be sending out writing prompts to help inspire, but you can write about anything. 🙂
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I can’t wait to experience bloganuary especially as am a new blogger.
It’s Kevin obumbi
Thanks
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Sounds like fun! I love journaling. My blog has a specific theme and message, so maybe I’ll create a new personal fun one for this challenge. Introspective reflective writing is so fulfilling for some reason!
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I just signed up, btw. Here we go!
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Looking forward to the prompts and hoping they’re a bit different than last year. Definitely a fun event when it comes to connecting with other bloggers.
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Happy holidays!!
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Interesting
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I would like to participate. where are the writing prompts?
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That’s great – these can be found here: https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/
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Thank you!
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Is this only for wordpress bloggers?
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Hey there, nope not just bloggers, you can create a whole range of sites with WordPress.com. What are you looking to build?
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Well, I’m not looking to start another blog. I’ve had one for years over on blogger and haven’t wanted to mess with switching over and I don’t have the time to start a completely new blog. I thought if I just had an account without an actual blog it would still allow me to participate.
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By all means, https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/ is available to view by all, and it’s possible to comment on the prompts daily. 🙂
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I did not sign up to do the January challenge thinking I had missed the deadline of joining in. However I have been doing the challenge un officially by reading other people’s posts I I do hope that is alright. Mabel.
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