We’re thrilled to announce a new space for inspiration and creativity here at The Daily Post.
It’s been exciting to follow some of the great conversations around the features and Editors’ Picks at Discover since we launched our showcase last November. So we thought, why not extend them over here at The Daily Post, where thousands of engaged, creative bloggers are already sharing great work (and a great sense of community)?
Enter our new, shiny Discover Challenge. Starting tomorrow (3/8), we’ll run weekly challenges connected to the stories and ideas that have recently inspired us — from interviews with prominent bloggers to personal essays and breathtaking illustration and photography.
We know that some bloggers encounter issues with pingbacks, especially if your site is self-hosted. If you can’t create a pingback, please drop a link to your post in the challenge’s comments section.
Since the sources of inspiration are going to be eclectic, your responses can be in any genre, medium, or format you feel like. Just like with our popular Photo Challenge (and, previously, Writing Challenge — for those veterans who’ve missed it), you’ll be invited to publish a post on your own blog, and share a link to it here via a pingback. A poem or a photo, a web comic or a longform essay, a video clip or an original song — we welcome your contributions in whatever shape or form they take.
See you tomorrow for our very first challenge — we can’t wait!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing back a weekly writing challenge. I have missed the inspiration!
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Great! I can blog about this instead of the stupid stuff I was planning (not really. I’m still gonna post the stupid stuff). 😉
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oh GOOD! We all love your stupid stuff! lol
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Look forward to it.
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Excellent.
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Neat!
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wow! I am looking forward to it, thank you for the opportunity!
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Yes! I’ve missed the daily post’s weekly challenges! Looking forward to this!
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Great! This must be interesting!! 🙂
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excellent . love it
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That sounds like fun. I only just started following this blog in the past year, but have been wanting to get more involved in my own blogging and find ways of doing it more. Been doing so far so good on my own so I look forward to this. Thank you for all the hard work you do! 🙂
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Ready and waiting for this competition…
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We hope you enjoy it! Just to clarify, though, this event isn’t competitive — it’s a challenge in the sense that we hope it pushes everyone to publish new and exciting posts, not in the sense that there are winners, rankings, or prizes, etc.
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Looking forward too it
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This will be fun
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we should welcome new challenges in life! Cool!
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this is exciting! 😀 😀 😀 Hmmm..
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Well, this is going to be fun! Maybe…There is so much talent around that it’s hard to compete. All of you are great! Keep up the diligence.
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This sounds great!
Does it matter when I respond to the challenge and publish a post? Usually, I don’t have time to write during the week — my blog writing takes place on the weekend.
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You can respond at your own pace — there are no cutoff dates (though, judging by our other challenges, you might get fewer people to engage with your post the later you post it).
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Looking forward to this as it will help when it is difficult tokeep upwith the daily writing challenge.
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Exactly! 🙂
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Thank you Laurara for stopping by and look forward to sharing together in the Discover challenge.
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That’s great… Surely it’ll help more bloggers to get involved and connected!
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Interesting. I wonder where we can find the challenge, in Daily Post Homepage self?
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It will be here at The Daily Post like all our other posts, prompts, and challenges — and depending on your settings, you’ll also be able to get in the Reader and/or via email.
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Thanks for explaining Ben.
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interesting that this announcement arrived via email but the challenge didn’t. that’s a little nonintuiitive.
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I like the flexibility you’ve built into this challenge: to be able to post in any format and to have the freedom of one week to post (although, as you say, engagement from other bloggers does seem to diminish as the week goes by, judging by my experience of the photo challenge). I’ve discovered really interesting blogs and gained new readers by my participation in these kind of challenges. I also enjoy the freedom to be able to dip in and out of them and mix them up with my own posts. So, thanks for this! Looking forward to the first challenge.
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This sounds cool!!
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Sounds great to me! Lookin’ forward to it!!!
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Sounds exciting.
I am new to this. I hope I can learn the ropes fast.
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Hello, when will the first challenge start? thank you
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It just posted a few minutes ago — you can find it at the top of our homepage, or here:
https://wordpress.com/dailypost/discover-challenges/blogging-the-senses/
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Thank you! It did not show in my news feed that is why I asked 😀 thank you!
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Is there a “help” page on this site? I am having trouble with widgets and need some help. Is there a community help page?
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For community-led support, we have our Support Forums:
https://wordpress.com/forums/
For our support documentation on widgets, you can head here:
https://wordpress.com/support/widgets/
And we’ve also featured many posts on the topic of widgets here at The Daily Post, which you can find in this roundup:
https://wordpress.com/dailypost/2015/01/13/widgets-resource-list/
I hope this helps you find the information you need!
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I have spent hours on the widget site with no success. It is just all greek to me. Is there a video that I can watch? Also, how do I get to my blogs without having to type in the browser all the time? I wish this was a little more user friendly.
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You can reach the list of your blogs simply by clicking on “My Sites” at the top-left corner of your screen.
As for the widgets, we don’t have a video, but you might find this step-by-step tutorial helpful:
https://learn.wordpress.com/get-flashy/
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Thanks so much Ben.
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I like the sound of this! 🙂
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This is a fantastic idea! Thank you.
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Looking forward to trying this! Thank you for the opportunity.
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i think I’ll give it a shot :))
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