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(Okay, we’ll stop now.)
We’re bloggers too, so we know that signing up for a blog, picking a theme, and getting your site set up just the way you want it is the easy part (no, really!). Figuring out what you want your blog to be, coming up with regular posts, and finding your niche in the ever-expanding blogosphere – that’s the toughie.
That’s why we started The Daily Post. Whether your blog is a platform for your career, a place for you to muse about your day, or any of the infinite number of other things a WordPress.com site can be, we’re here to support you and give you the tools you need to meet your blogging goals. Here at The Daily Post, you’ll find:
- inspiring questions to kick start posts on days when you need a push
- insightful interviews with rock-star bloggers to give you the inside scoop on building a great site
- creative writing and photo challenges to help you stretch your blogging muscles
- easy-to-use tips to help you make the most of WordPress.com
- analyses of posts we love and why we love ‘em, to spark ideas you can implement on your own blog
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Hi all… I am a blog virgin lol. I am loving it but also finding it quiet daunting as my subject is quiet personal and i suppose im scared to really share what i really want to share. But i am going to share it non the less and hope for the best.
I am a blog virgin too! Planning on loosing it veryvery soon now .Goodluck to you
Here’s my entry for the DP of 1/5/2013 – although comments have been closed for hours, I returned to find 20 more entries, so I’m hopping into the wash and spin cycle too! First Line: “Who is John Galt?”
http://chasingrabbitholes.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=197&action=edit
Always reading the daily post to get ideas and improvement tips, I haven’t had my blog for very long and am still making changes to it.
Please have a look, feel free to comment and interact. I have a mixture of stuff like reviews, general fun, cars and my art.
http://www.onlysi91.wordpress.com
I just wrote a post on your 8 Jan daily post but i cannot find my name in Trackback and pingback?? can you please guide me on how can i do it??
Love it!
Hi, so far this seems to be the only way to contact anyone at wordpress – I want to start a blog but your signup page just refreshes itself when I click on “sign up” after entering my details, it doesn’t actually create an acccount for me.
I’m wanting to try out your service in order before potentially running my professional blog here – so far the lack of contact options in case of a problem is not working in your favour.
Hi I have nominated you for The Very Inspiring Blogger Award
http://bookpolygamist.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/quick-write-something-inspiring/
Thank you for providing budding bloggers with a treasure trove of inspiring blog ideas
Hi I’m a new blogger, and I decided to wander around WordPress a little and meet the people behind the magic!
NIce blog I just found this blog while I am blogwalking
I’d like to suggest you read my response to Jan. 28th’s Daily Prompt: Ode to a Playground. Please check it out at http://jewelammons.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/my-playground/ .
Love your the Daily Prompts! I just need a little more time to get the entry in before it is closed. I posted one under the Burnt prompt today, but the comments closed before I published
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ireally like the way alot sounds and love to comment about a lot of things but need help my mind has really been a byt over loaded and need help remembering my pass word and log in info please email me back if you can help me it would be very much appreciated !
the blog is very encouraging and very up lifting keep up the good work!
Im glad I discovered this. Can’t wait to start on the challenge because I was starting to lose inspiration
hey anyone willing to check out my film, “Edie” I am doing? I am trying to raise funds… its been hard! Its on kickstarter! Please let me know if you can help, thanks! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andywarhol/edie-sedgwick-tribute-film
There may be a better place to say this, but by the time I get the email outlining the daily writing challenge, the comments are closed. Every time. Odd … and frustrating.
Umm … so … does that mean No Comments on the submissions … or the time for submitting a story has elapsed? That thought just occurred to me …
Dear Freshly Pressed,
I know I have something special to offer the world. So I wait for your attention, kind of like I waited at the humane society….eventually my people found me and took me to my forever home. I have faith that will happen with Freshly Pressed.
http://wileyschmidt.wordpress.com/
Yours,
Wiley
Happy and excited to be here… Thanks for the new beginning.
Hey, do you guys know that your Daily Writing Challenges are closing the comments the day you post the challenge? This is the third time I’ve come over here to post something in response to one of your daily writing challenges — within 24 hours of their posting — and find the comments closed so that there’s no way to post the link. it takes all the fun out of trying to get involved with your prompts.
deseo participar en el día de san valentin.
les envió como comentario y lo dejo en mi blog con otros.
ALGUIEN
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mi abierta
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les ofrezco en mi blog. Mirianaranza2011. poesia erótica
que ofertas hay comunicarme a mi correo
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Hey, you guys. I keep leaving comments every place I can find a place to let you know that your Daily Writing Prompts are closing the comments the very same day you post the prompt. We can’t post our links because your site won’t take them, but I can’t find any place to say this that people are paying attention to. I have personally had the problem 4 separate times, and, of course, all those who came after me have found the same problem.
I’ve just written today’s prompt, and like blogger SandraConner I can’t add to the day’s comments!! So here it is for anyone interested. http://thesememorieswhich.wordpress.com/2013/02/23/daily-prompt-winter-blues/
Cool
sounds great, I for one am a blogger that posts at least 3 times a day.
And I don’t post just random ramblings of the day, but usually stories and poetry.
Inspiration of any sort is greatly welcome, I look forward this blog then
-Happy
Five months, hard work. I’m blogging since 5 months in English although my native language is German. WordPress gave me a home for my ideas. To give my knowledge to the readers, to build up new contacts, to reflect what’s in my mind by writing it down and to improve my knowledge of the English language that’s like a moving power.
And it’s all without any commercial purpose.
To all the like-minded people: Keep on blogging even it’s as exhausting as professional writing.
Stuff like this is the reason I came back to WordPress.com from WordPress.org. At the later you feel like a ship out on the ocean, here you feel like your on a sail boat with friends!
Thanks for this site. Im a virgin to blogging but i see now im truly not alone so i won’t give up. I happen to be surfing thru and ran across this site and it is the best! Keep up the great work!
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Thanks Guys
Hello…im not sure this is the place to post my question but i dont really know where to do it… I have this problem about submitting my writings for daily prompts. Every time i read daily prompts and start working on them…i find that “comments are closed” and im not able to post anything. I admit i m new to blogging…is there anything i should do?
I’d appreciate any help!!!
Thanks!
Melina
http://www.melinarepetti.wordpress.com
that has happened to me too, melina!
Any solution? Did someone answer to that isssue?
no answer.
Shame! I so like the prompts and challenges….im from Argentina.
Hello! I am Melina and recently discovered this blog…well, to be honest…i recently discovered blogging!!
I enjoy working on daily prompts so much, but its dissapointing to find out that “coments are closed” when i try to post my writings.
Can someone help me with that? I would
Appreciate it
Thanks in advance.
Hello Melina… why do you have to comment. All you have to do is just click PRESS THIS option… automatically your blog will be posted in Comments.
Happy Blogging
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Hello,
Thanks for all your help in setting up my first blog http://qwertyscience.wordpress.com, you are amazingly helpful!
How can I be removed from your mailing list. I was interested in the story about the Bryan Texas Firemen burned in the K of C fire. I believe it was on WTAW radio show. I sometimes get 15 emails a day from them. I want to get rid of this but there’s not a place on this site to inscribe. Thanks over Informed
I can’t figure out how to submit my post (Silver Screen) or add the icon to my blog. Please advise. Thanks
Chris
http://vastlycurious.com/2013/03/13/post-a-day-2013-2/
It was my understanding that if one entered the Daily Prompt Challenge if you put DP Challenge in the title and in tags that …it was then identified as a submission but now it seems like it should be Daily Prompt and not DP…Is this correct? I just changed mine but I think it’s too late for today’s….Diane
It depends what you’re responding to — if you’re participating in postaday, then use that as the tag. If you’re responding to a challenge, use DPchallenge as the tag. (And if your post does double duty, use both tags.)
I’m DP Challenge.. I guess I’ll change it back…The reason I asked is when I went to the Daily Post page to look something up…I say pingbacks/trackbacks and none said DP Challenge and I thought all this time I’d goofed…Thanks for clarifying…Diane
Hi I have been writing my blog for just over a year, although I have plenty of page views I can’t seem to encourage people to comment and get no feedback. I would appreciate any feedback at the moment if anyone would care to look.
Hi, thanks for the blog tips and sharing other’s blogs. I haven’t done many blogs but a few. My main issue is no comments. I have not receive any comments and wonder what I can do differently. To me, comments will help me sharpen my writing and subject matter. I wait to see who agree or disagree with what I have presented.
I have been writing my blog for a while and would appreciate some feedback, perhaps this would be a good place to start. Please visit my blog at http://journeytoscotland.blogspot.co.uk
you could comment on the sight or leave a reply here.
An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a coworker who was conducting a little homework on this.
And he in fact ordered me lunch simply because I
stumbled upon it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this.
… Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending
some time to talk about this issue here on your site.
I want made for photo profile
When one takes part in the Daily Prompt does every post titles and tagged DP Challenge get read or are there only a certain number, for example the first 20 received. I noticed on the challenge page there are a certain number of trackbacks or pingbacks and then is says comments closed . What does that mean? Just trying to understand the process…Thanks Diane
Hi,
Looks like a popular prompt today. Here is my short -http://findingexpression.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/daily-prompt-trembling-in-her-due-diligence/
If its the case that you like bloggers so much why is it you are not giving people the chance to enter the daily post. By the time I have finished work got home wrote what I needed to write I find the comments for that day are closed. Hardly fair now is it. wel all cannot live on the same time zone now can we, so you will have to allow those who live other then the US time. I am not the only one now, I have noticed others complaining and being ignored. I did ask in the support forum that was a waste of time. So how about leaving the subject open for a full 24 hours, you may find that you even get an even better quality of writing as people won’t rush to get the deadline and more people will communicate with each other.
Hi! I’m new to this so not sure how to do the trackbacks… so I’m posting my story as a comment- http://koyeliasirkar.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/creative-writing-challenge-2am-photo/
thanks
Hi All – I am new to blogging as well and am hoping to get some feedback on my posts. Anything constructive would be an incentive to keep blogging
I find this quite helpful each time i want to post a blog… thank you guys!
I think you should tell us more, thank you it was great!
How do I share a blog post that I think deserves to be freshly pressed? I just read a post by Hanging Out and Hanging In which I would like to suggest. It’s about being a domestic violence survivor. http://hangingoutandin.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/dont-ask-me-to-do-that-again/
WordPress is a great organization. Really, lots of support, recognition to many people. Not to me, but lots of other people. And most of it is for free. From templates to tech support, I get more service from WordPress than I would get from most blogging services at any price. But I think this time, WordPress has made a serious mistake and they need to rethink this thing.
Followers. Imagine my astonishment to discover that from my previous day’s statistic that counts my number of followers — 280 — I am now showing the world that I have 1,605 followers. I know I had a good day Wednesday, but I don’t think I gained more than 1,300 followers between Wednesday and Thursday. If I have that many followers, where are the hits?
Even if a mere 10% of them dropped by, that would give me a base 160 hits per day, and while I do get more than that (usually, but not always), WordPress also kindly does a pretty thorough breakdown of where all my hits come from.
So how did they get this astonishing calculation of my followers? What happened?
WordPress is now counting my Facebook “friends” as followers through Publicize. All 1,313 of them.
Most of my connections on Facebook are people I don’t know, but with whom I play games, especially Metropolis, a game that requires a lot of connection. There’s virtually no interaction between players. We post jokes on each others’ walls and silly stuff like that, but we don’t hang out or share our lives, virtually or otherwise. We ignore each others’ posts because we aren’t really friends. So from this number, let us now subtract about 1000 — because that’s how many of my Facebook association are attributable to Metropolis. About another 100 or possibly more, are associated with me via some other game, and a few of them, several games. That’s okay. That’s one of the things that you can do with Facebook. Although some of these connections might occasionally take a look at something I’ve posted, they do not participate in my virtual or real world.
The remainder of my Facebook contacts are people with whom I have or had some kind of relationship. Maybe a few dozen are friends or family. The rest are people I’ve met, worked with, used to know from my traveling days, or had some other brief association based on some shared interest and with whom I may have intermittent contact.
Yesterday, I got 216 hits. Because of WordPress’ excellent statistical analysis, I know exactly how many of these hits originated on Facebook.
The answer? One. Just one. Sometimes I have gotten as many as half a dozen, but never more than that, so counting it as 1313 followers renders the statistics not merely meaningless, but embarrassing. A joke, not a statistic.
So the follower figures are not just a little pumped. They are ridiculous. WordPress, you need to rethink this statistic. It is misleading and unfair to actual followers who did sign on to follow me. And it’s unfair to me, too, because I have to subtract all those bogus followers to get a meaningful number. No one has anything to gain from this. To be counted as a follower, a person should be required to do perform an act of will, for example, say he or she wants to be your follower, not just a wholesale raking in of everyone on a list. That really would be like assuming that all the contacts in my email contact list are also followers, which I assure you, they are not.
I don’t mean to be ungrateful for all the services WordPress provides, but this needs to be undone as quickly as it was done. You just can’t call every Facebook “friend” a “follower” and have the term follower continue to mean anything at all.
Anyone else want to weigh in on this?
Just started here and learning tons. Will be visiting here more often!
http://joyandgravity.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/minimal-collage-no-3/
Hello:
I recently joined wordpress a couple of months ago and started a blog Spiritual Artwork: http://spiritualartwork.wordpress.com
As the name suggests, it includes spiritual and inspiring computer artwork/ drawings and occasionally hand-drawn art. You are all welcome to the spiritual artwork blog and I also welcome any valuable feedback you may have to improve the art. Thank you
i just started few weeks ago lets hope all goes well
http://interviewblogs.wordpress.com
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I love inspiring part . . . where we need sometime push to start . . . .
Congratulations, I have nominated you for “Best Moment Award”! Please visit the following link to accept it and see how it works. Keep up the good work! http://amblealong.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/best-moment-award/
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I would appreciate any feedback on the content or layout of our blog:
http://mollybandme.com/
Thank you for a very appropriate Prompt, it was a surprise, so how did you know I called Hmmmm perhaps you have taped my call
I will take some time to get to know you better and will look forward to receiving your input but I can’t promise I will always be able to respond but will when I have the inspiration.
Christian Love – Anne
Many of you have been over and read my life blog, about the pain I live with and stuff I get up to a http://www.mysoresoul.co.uk
But I have another blog which is dedicated to my photography you can find it at http://www.rainbow-photography.net
I would like you to take look especially read the front page on rainbow and lt me know what you think.
Thank you – enjoy. =)
hello m8 the information on this site is just incredible it keeps me coming back time and time again ,personally i met my wife using this site so i couldnt love it any more i have done my best to promote this site as i feel that others need to see this thang ,thankyou for all the time spent in making this fabulous site ! ok,nice one Billy
Just wanted to make a comment and so doing it here…The DP challenge April 26th is almost the same as the one Jan. 13th so it would be repetitive to do it again….Diane
Hello, I love to blog with wordpress and for money oriented. It is easy to learn. I decide to make a blog for my new business with wordpress but I get trouble. The problem is on the Search and manipulate control panel (adding new field). But overall, WordPress inspire me and google loves wordpress for search engine.
Regards
Yohanes
How can I entry the weekly photo challenge ?
I just signed up and am looking forward to figuring my way around here and learning how and what to write.
Nice Site! Thanks for all the useful informations which normal support site doesn’t hold
Nice blog right here! Also your site loads up very fast! What host are you the usage of? Can I get your associate link to your host? I wish my site loaded up as quickly as yours lol
I am just starting to get things together for blogging. I was curious if you have any suggestions concerning “mature content.” As much as my wish is to write for a wide range of people, there may be certain things that are “R” rated so to speak. Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.
Hi there
Has there been or if not could there be some hints and tips on tags.
I am finding tags a bit of a pain to use. Firstly the only widget I can find is a “tag cloud” which has nothing in the way of being able to customize.
Secondly, the tags area is messy, when I do a post in text view I can choose from the most used tags, this is an untidy list and it would be nice the be able to organise this a little better, If I go to visual view I can select from recommended tags, some are useful, some are not.
Ultimately though I find the tag system unwieldy and wondered if you had any tips for using them and keeping them tidy.