Looking for writing inspiration? Trying to make blogging a more regular habit? The Daily Post is here to help. Daily prompts and photo challenges can get you through patches of bloggers’ block.
Daily Prompts
To participate in Daily Prompts, simply publish a post on your own blog that responds to the prompt.
Comments are always closed on prompts, but pingbacks are enabled. If you link to the prompt in your post, your post will appear in the list of responses on The Daily Post.
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If you’re not sure how to build a post around a writing prompt, take a look at our tips for making prompts personal.
Weekly Photo Challenge
Whether you’re a beginner or a professional, you’re invited to get involved in our Weekly Photo Challenge to help you meet your blogging goals. Everyone is welcome to participate, even if your blog isn’t about photography.
Each Wednesday, we’ll provide a theme for creative inspiration. You take photographs based on your interpretation of the theme, and post them on your blog anytime before the following Wednesday. If you link to the challenge in your post, your post will appear in the list of responses on The Daily Post. Participants use different tags for their challenge entries, like dpchallenge, WPC, photo challenge, weekly photo challenge, photography, and postaday, which we explain more about below. Feel free to use any tags you’d like.
Discover Challenge
Discover Challenges draw upon the stories and ideas that have inspired us — from interviews with prominent bloggers to personal essays and breathtaking illustration and photography — all published on Discover, our showcase for the best content on WordPress.
To participate, check out any challenge and publish a post on your own blog inspired by it. Since the sources of inspiration are going to be eclectic, your responses can be in any genre, medium, or format you feel like. A poem or a photo, a webcomic or a longform essay, a video clip or an original song — we welcome your contributions in whatever shape or form they take.
Postaday
Those of you who have personal goals like posting every day or every week are invited to take part in our ongoing Postaday project to stay motivated and focused.
To participate in the challenge, tag your post with postaday or postaweek and follow The Daily Post so all our great resources go straight to your inbox. Don’t forget to snag a badge for your blog so everyone knows you’re a Post A Day blogger, and be sure to follow the postaday topic in the Reader to see what all your fellow bloggers are up to!
Here are official (retina-ready) Post a Day and Post a Week badges to show off on your blog. Copy the code for the badge of your choice into a text widget on your blog.
<a href="https://wordpress.com/dailypost"><img alt="I'm part of Post A Day 2018" src="https://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/pod-2018-lg.png" width="274" height="62" /></a>
<a href="https://wordpress.com/dailypost"><img alt="I'm part of Post A Day 2018" src="https://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/pod-2018-md.png" width="194" height="60" /></a>
<a href="https://wordpress.com/dailypost"><img alt="I'm part of Post A Day 2018" src="https://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/pod-2018-sm.png" width="154" height="30" /></a>;
<a href="https://wordpress.com/dailypost"><img alt="I'm part of Post A Week 2018" src="https://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/pow-2018-lg.png" width="274" height="62" /></a>
<a href="https://wordpress.com/dailypost"><img alt="I'm part of Post A Week 2018" src="https://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/pow-2018-md.png" width="194" height="60" /></a>
<a href="https://wordpress.com/dailypost"><img alt="I'm part of Post A Week 2018" src="https://dailypost.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/pow-2018-sm.png" width="154" height="30" /></a>
I’m so excited for the 2014 badge! 😉
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Also really looking forward to the new postaday (and postaweek) badges. I posted every day during 2013 on one blog and almost every week on my others.
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Will there be a 2014 badge? I hope so! 🙂
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Yes! Coming soon 🙂
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Following; I was just looking for the 2014 badge… Looking forward to another year of posting weekly. 🙂
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Hi everyone, I just learned about this challenge and I would love to be a part : )
Here my post for the day:
http://thesimplegift.wordpress.com/2014/01/10/an-eastern-labyrinth-the-forbidden-city/
Feel free to share your thoughts!
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oops. Just realized this is 2013. 😛
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Despite reading all the info carefully on this site I STILL can’t work out how to link my blog to the Post A Day or Post a Week challenge. I just can’t work out how to get the badge on to my blog. Can anyone help?
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Where can a find a Post a Week 2014? Thank you.
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Much moore bigger was not possible 🙂 ?
Just kiddin’ Thanks!
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Feel free to adjust the size to whatever you need 🙂
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this is great but I don’t know how or where to include the url. Thanks.
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Figured it out, but the URL vanishes in my template.
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Not just pledged to blog every week, but promised to record a song and upload it every week for 2014. Eeek! 3 down, 49 to go! http://domenicarose1.wordpress.com/
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That’s really great and will greatly improve your craft. It gives you enough time to workshop the arrangement and still create thoughtful content. Ryan Adams, a professional alt-country singer/songwriter, I read tries writing two a week. So writing one, by the end of the year will leave you with a great portfolio.
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How about Post Twice A Week then? 🙂
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I’ll be trying to add a post a week in Afrikaasn for 2014
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I’m up for the challenge of daily posting, but won’t be responding to the daily prompts that much. Can I still use the badge?
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Just added the smaller “Post a Day 2014 Blogger” badge. I think my blog is looking really cute with that orange badge over the white background!
http://zttrr.wordpress.com/
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Hi – This is my first time trying to add a badge and I cannot get it to work.The URL keeps disappearing after I click save in the Widget. Then when I check my blog, it tells me to configure the Image widget – which I’m trying to do… Help!?
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So excited to have the 2013 and new 2014 badges on my blog! Thanks WordPress! 🙂
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Where can I find the Weekly Photo Challenge 2014 badge? Thanks.
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Love the new badge!
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Post a week is also a bit challenging for busy person like me. This is my 2nd badge after the Zero to Hero Badge. So glad to have this badge.
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Why does the badge Post a week implies that you write, and the Post a day implies you post photos, and not the other way around?
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I have more posts in me than I manage to get out of me. Maybe I should try this challenge…
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Good post. I learn something totally new and challenging on blogs I stumbleupon on a daily basis. It will always be useful to read through content from other authors and use something from other websites.
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Amen to that! There is so much to learn and read…it’s staggering and great!!!
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I am new to blogging and WordPress! Thought I would give it a try!
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i made into my blog http://winnyradc.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/canoing-in-ujung-kulon-banten-indonesia/
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i made it into my post http://winnyradc.wordpress.com/2014/01/23/canoing-in-ujung-kulon-banten-indonesia/
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Ikutan ah … 🙂
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I am in!
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