Mar 7, 2016 / Inspiration

The Discover Challenge: Our New Weekly Event

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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    1. A pingback is a type of interaction between two blogs here at WordPress.com. It happens when you add a link from a post or page on your own blog to another WordPress.com post or page elsewhere.

      In the case of The Daily Post, when you create a pingback to one of our prompts or challenge posts, a link to your own post will be added to the grid on our page, allowing other readers to discover your post and visit your site.

      Creating a pingback only requires that you add the full URL (web address) of the specific post you’re referring to in your own post before you publish it.

      Let me know if you have any other questions!

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      2. That’s the full web address of the post or page you’re visiting, starting with a https://.

        You can accomplish that in the app, too — click on the share icon (the upwards arrow) in the top-right corner of your screen, and tap on “copy”; you can then paste that URL into your post.

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    1. Yes — as long as you’re following The Daily Post there. The challenge was published yesterday, however, so the reason you don’t see it might be because of all the other posts that have come into your Reader in the meantime.

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      1. I think I’m following. At the top right hand corner of this post it indicates that I am, but the challenge has not appeared in my Reader. There are only nine posts that have come in since this one including one of my own. I’ve been blogging for over eight years, but I haven’t participated in one of these challenges before. I thought it might provide me with some new ideas and inspiration.

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  15. Hey guys! I just started blogging back in January but I’ve been writing privately for years. The time finally came where I felt the need to share my years of experience with abuse, addiction, recovery, and the world around us with the rest of you 🙂 I recently wrote a post titled “I Am A Feminist” about what feminism is and isn’t to me and how I think all women who are feminists can help further the movement. Please check it out and give me any feedback (positive, negative, or otherwise) that you may have. https://misfitspirit.wordpress.com/2016/03/12/i-am-a-feminist/

    I’ll leave a link here to my entire blog also (or you can just click on my name). I write about abuse, addiction, feminism, body positivity, current events, society, and really, any other random shit that comes to mind. Nothing is off limits. I do interactive posts every Monday and Tuesday that are open all week (Ask Me Anything Monday and Tell Me Anything Tuesday). Come participate! Any advice or constructive criticism is always welcomed. Helps me grow 🙂 In turn, I will of course come check out your blogs too.
    Much Love!
    Ashley

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