Aug 8, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and friendly blogging chatter.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

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Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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  8. I am stuck on one thing here. Daily Prompt submissions. I have doing them and for some reason don’t seem to be appearing here like the others do. I am sure I have done it correctly, posted it first on my blog, adding a pingback. What is it I am missing? Any help will be appreciated.

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    1. Hello,

      After some testing and poking around, I think I know what caused the pingback not to work: your post contains two links to the same prompt (though each one is a slightly different permalink). I believe that if you delete the second (and last) one, and keep just the one after “via” your pingback will appear correctly — let me know if that’s not the case and we can look into it further.

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    1. I’m glad I read your latest post. Your writing is good and I felt drawn into your story as if I was on a bike next to you. You don’t have to jump in the pool on Monday, though sometimes they close the pool as early as Friday, so a little earlier is best đŸ™‚ https://gracelead.co

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  14. Using my laptop, I joined Ancestry.com and connected with a part of my family I had never known. One cousin has become so dear to me and convinced me to try Facebook. We started trading pictures back and forth with Hugo, Man of a Thousand Faces, just for laughs. Well my part has grown to where I use toys as cartoons/comics. A young friend convinced me to set up a blog, so the contend would be orderly and easier for my family and friends to follow. My question is this: would it be better for me to post how I’m finding these things and what I go through to set up scenes? I get asked all the time about reactions when I’m “on location”. My sight is very simple, and wonder if other bloggers would advise.
    https://terrystoytoons.wordpress.com/

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  16. Hello All

    This is the most exciting blog I think I have posted in years. The feedback I would love is actually on my first book which has been published today this Friday (12th August 2016 – a date I won’t forget).

    I have written a blog about why I wrote the book which is about the book. Any feedback (yes there is a link to my book) on the blog is welcomed.

    It is an amazing feeling to see your own work for real.

    Anyone can do it, I did.

    http://drawnonwords.co.uk/zen-art-timetabling/

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  17. Hi everyone !

    Last year I started my Blog, mainly about running & marathons.

    One of the things I enjoy most, in this respect, is to write up the profile of a “special” runner, a runner with an inspiring “story”, who inspires other runners, or even non-runners. I enjoy writing the introduction & I refer to his or her Blog. I also enjoy adding a couple of questions (and answers), like a kind of interview.

    If this is of any interest to you, feel free to reach out? Or if you know someone who might be interested, feel free to forward this to him or to her?

    (Remark: my Blog is written in Dutch/Flemish.) You can find a couple of examples here: http://www.peterdegroof.com

    Kind regards,

    Peter

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  18. Hello everyone. I am enjoying being on WordPress and getting to know a few people.
    I do have a question if someone can help me figure out why my daily prompts, even though I have the pingback in my posts, they are not going through to the Daily Prompt site. They have no way of getting in touch with them to ask the question. I guess you figured out by now that I am new here.
    my blog site is here: (Mother Willow)
    https://helenevaillant.com/

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      1. The pingback to the Daily Prompt site I put it into the html. What else should I be doing, a pingback for my own blog too? I will try again with tomorrow’s Prompt. Disappointed it has not worked out so far.
        Thank you so much for responding as I am completely new to pingbacks.

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      2. I also put to html part and it had worked. I thought maybe you are not putting to proper place. Anyway I am sorry I could not help you in this problem and hope that this problem would be solved quite sooner.

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  20. Hello, ladies and gentlemn. I have recently created my blog. And of course my target is as in lots of you to make my blog better in order to answer to the demand of the readers and become a better blogger. Of course, i don’t want this blog to be a failure as happened to my radio station and Facebook pagesin which I tried to put my own style, Thus, if you look to my blog and give me recommendations, advise, I will be very happy. Certainly, if anyone needs my look, or advise, I am more than welcome. Thank you, beforehand,

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  22. Hello Pool! How’s the water today?
    I’m going to spend some time paddling through as many of your websites as I can shortly, but if anybody has the time, I would love a little more traffic my way too. A little background:
    Started my blog almost a year ago now, and it started really well (if I may say so) with some posts I’m really proud of, but somewhere along the way I lost site of it’s purpose and my writing style became, well, depressing. So I’m trying to go back to my purpose a little with a travel review of my recent holiday in Bali, here: https://thetroublesometraveller.com/2016/08/10/bali/
    I would really love to know people’s thoughts on a few other posts though, since I haven’t really fully found my feet with writing yet (and I’m not sure I’m keen on it being all about ‘reviews’) so please do stay a while, tread water there or lay your head back and float – and see if any of my other content keeps your attention.
    http://www.thetroublesometraveller.com

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