Daily Prompt 08.05.2014
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First of all I have been doing the daily prompt for more than a year regularly and belong to WordPress for at least six years. Pingbacks are not the most important item of my posts. In the old system you supplied a list, we could copy paste and we had the pingback. We have a new system and this does not work, so with my knowledge of html (I did complete a web assistant course and had two of my own web sites) I began to make pingbacks so I do not need your so-called anchor system. This is definitely not my problem. Since the new system I have been able to post my daily prompt entries with absolutely no problem. The pingback is just a sideline, either you do it or not for your friends, but my pingback has always worked on the grid and I have had no difficulty. The problem is that your link for the daily prompt is not working today for the third time and this has only happened since your new system. I would like to be able to put my daily prompt on the link (with my own pingback) with no problem. Even your man in the staff admitted they have a problem. I cannot solve this problem, and I actually personally have none with pingbacks. I just have a problem to see others on the grid and my own. 0 Responses is not the ideal on the Daily Post Daily Prompt page. Please fix it.
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How could the lack of pingbacks and comment approval effect any righteous blogger by preventing them from pursuing their passion by publishing in response to any prompt? When Staff choose to approve their comments and pingbacks has no relevance when it comes to using any prompt to inspire a publishing and promoting a post, and having traffic flow to it via normal channels ie. through the SERPs and through subscriber response, and via social networks to what you publish. Healthy blogs draw at least 30% of their organic traffic from search engines. IMNHO that creating a parasitic reliance on using pingbacks and comments approved on the Staff memes blog posts is not the way to go if one wants to learn how to blog effectively. To my way of thinking that’s just SEO gameplaying and I call them as I see them.
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I do not really mind what you call them and your theory on this whole thing. I only know that since I discovered how to do a pingback from my colleagues (with html knowledge) and of course visiting my colleagues and showing them I was there and read their contributions, which is part of the collegial atmosphere on a blogging site, I even got a notice from WordPress about the great increase of traffic on my site. I was not doing it for this, but since you mention the topic, this is a fact. All be it, I(we) would are just simply asking if you can repair the glitch which has slipped into this new grid system preventing my colleagues and I posting our daily contributions. This has nothing to do with knowing how the < a href > works, it is just a matter of the basic problem being solved by WordPress. I will now go and check with a ctrl R (refresh) if it might now be working. thankyou for your attention.
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You really should stop talking now. You’ve moved from providing information that everyone already knows — obviously assuming we are all newbies without a real audience — and moved on to actually insulting us. There’s no excuse for that. No one insulted you, although your ignorance of the bloggers about whom you are making incorrect assumptions is deep and wide. Perhaps depending on WordPress is the REAL mistake. Right now, it feels like a mistake.
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rootjosh has assured that Staff are aware of the technical issue and working on it. This is a free speech environment. I addressed the topic and shared my opinions without becoming personal. I have not insulted anyone. If you choose to think I have then take responsibility for making that choice please because from where I sit it’s not me who has become personal at all.
I don’t believe effective and successful bloggers such as you two are will not let a little thing like the delayed approval of pingbacks and comments on a Staff meme post prevent you from publishing in response to the prompt and promoting your published posts through social networks.
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@marthakennedy
Please don’t let the temporary lack of pingback approval and comment approval on the Staff prompt posts prevent you from publishing your own post in response to the meme and promoting it in social networks. As rootjosh said above Staff are working on the technical glitch and this is a just a temporary thing. -
@marthakennedy
To link your username to your blog at http://marthakennedy.wordpress.com is easily done. Dashboard -> Users -> Personal Settings -> then scroll down to Primary Blog. Where it says ‘Primary Blog‘ select the URL for your primary wordpress.com blog and then save changes. The change is not retroactive. After the change every time you leave a comment on a blog your username can be clicked and your blog can be instantly located. -
I have posted mine under http://angloswiss-chronicles.com/2014/05/18/daily-prompt-a-form-of-flattery-the-swiss-voting-day-and-wheres-the-grid/, but I cannot see it on the grid or other postings. Some have even posted pingbacks, although they seem to be out of date.
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Call me a cock-eyed optimist — even old-fashioned — but I think WordPress has an implied obligation to make the technology they promote work as advertised. I spent a lifetime in high tech. Our customers got downright irritable when products failed to perform as advertised.
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Call me a cock-eyed optimist — even old-fashioned — but I think WordPress has an implied obligation to make the technology they promote work as advertised. I spent a lifetime in high tech. Our customers got downright irritable when products failed to perform as advertised.
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Sorry about the double submission. An accident of finger pressure on an over-sensitive keboard.
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Today again I tried to read the daily prompt submissions and found a message saying there were 0 responses, which is impossible. I’ve seen there has been a long discussion about it in this forum. I only would ask the WordPress technical staff to solve this glitch as soon as possible, because we are getting tired of it. The whole idea of the daily prompt is too share our posts, to be part of a community of bloggers writing about the same topic. When the meeting point is closed with the missing grid and the 0 responses message in the daily prompt page, that is impossible to achieve. Please, fix the problem.
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The whole idea of the daily prompt is too share our posts, to be part of a community of bloggers writing about the same topic.
Go to http://en.wordpress.com/tags/
Change the URL to:
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Hello everyone.
As I said on Friday, we’re working on it. I understand that it is frustrating for bloggers. And I promise you, it is frustrating for us as well.
For whatever reason, the pingbacks aren’t working. We’re looking into it, I promise you. It was the weekend, so I don’t have any updates for you at the moment.
However, one thing I would do is to encourage you to make sure that pingbacks are still enabled on your site. We have seen some instances where, for some reason, pingbacks have become disabled.
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Thanks for the links, but this has complicated matters too much. I do not have the time to go through this page and sort things, a simple list of links would be sufficient or naturally a functioning grid which has not been working for many hours. Please repair http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/forms-of-flattery/ or return to the very good system that was being used before the grid was organised. I enjoy blogging, but do not spend the whole day blogging. A nice neat system is all that I require where I can visit my colleagues blogs in an efficient way. I know the reader, which really has its uses, but not in this case.
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staff-ozmodiar. I am really not sure if pingbacks are enabled since the good old functioning system had disappeared. When I got the grid I found that I had to do-it-myself as the only pingback that was working was mine, which got my blog onto the grid. I usually go into the text on my blog, copy the url from my colleagues entries and make a list in word with active url. I take away the http//: at the beginning and then do a copy paste on my blog. You know like in the good old days when everything was working. At the same time I of course visit my colleagues entries, it is not just a copy paste for me, but an active participation which no longer seems to be encouraged or exists. Shame really, I always found WordPress to be one of the best, if not the best, in the blogging world. They looked after their bloggers. Now it seems to have become one of the “lets repair it even if it is not broken”. It is clear that to keep up with progress and the competition existing in the blogging sphere, alterations have to be made and so-called “improvements”, but sometimes I ask myself if they are really improvements. I would add I pay for my .com address. I do not have to and am now thinking about it, although I like it – one of the plus things in WordPress which I am/was proud of.
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This is today’s URL for the Daily Prompt: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/unexpected-guests/
and guess what, it is still not working at all. Please make a list of all URLcontributions to this prompt so that I can visit my colleagues and read them. This is now two days that it does not work. I do not mean the reader, but something concise and simple. Thankyou
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