The new look for the daily prompt
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I have really tried. I am open to change, improvements cannot be made without change, but the new daily prompt look is not working. I have no problem with colours or template, this is secondary. I have been in wordpress for many years, have almost 3,000 followers, but the only comments I see are praise, and I know so many in WordPress that are having trouble with finding their way in this new look. I have made my comments, but two were just ignored and one was answered telling me that you are working on the pingback problem. this was last week and still nothing has happened, Pingbacks can only be made if you know a little html or computer systems now, they are difficult. The new grid showing the contributions changes the order of new submissions all the time and so you no longer realise what you have read and what not. The daily e-mail informing the new prompt no longer exists and we are all having problems to find the actual new prompt. I like WordPress, one of the best if not the best blogging platforms, but slowly I am becoming very disappointed. I really do not want to be one of those that moans and groans, new steps are always combined with problems, but please, please, iron these problems out. All I see are happy satisfied comments from people that I have never ever seen submit a daily prompt blog. I know a return to the old, easy to follow system does not come into the question, but here it might be better. You have mended something that was not even broken. Change the colours by all means, no problem, but do not change the functions. Thank you for your attention.
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Like you I’m a long time user and have thousands more subscribers than you do. I have been here for 8 years and that’s longer than almost all support staff have even been on staff and years longer than thedailypost has existed.
The site in now a very confusing hard to navigate site. I have no idea where the notion that pingbacks deserve featuring in the boxes that smack of the Tumblr style archive layout. I nearly went crazy looking for the prompts and posts yesterday so the site got all kinds of undeserved page views from me and probably from many others too.
Pingbacks can only be made if you know a little html or computer systems now, they are difficult.
That’s not correct. The software does the pinging for us by default. there noting we have to do other than to link to any post or page on any external site and the software does it for us. http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/comments/pingbacks/#how-do-i-send-out-update-pingsI’ll tag this thread for a Staff follow-up. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
P.S. Does this link work for you?
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Thanks for your comment. Re Pingbacks – in the old system I had a list of contributions from others with the web address. I did a copy paste and added it to my contribution and those that had allowed pingbacks got my pingback on their site. This system is no longer available and I visited all the contributions and did a copy of their web address and added this to my blog. this was a long process and I realised I was probably doing something wrong as the system had now been altered. I downloaded the e-book 365 on my computer as a pdf, but last year I regularly did every daily prompt, so it was nothing new for me. I know new organisation on a computer programme always has its hiccups at the beginning. I have done two web sites myself and it is hard work – at least it was for me. I will now wait and see what happens.
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If you post a link on your blog to another post on a blog on WordPress.com (including the Daily Post), it will automatically generate a pingback. The author of post you’ve linked to has the option to allow (or not allow) those pingbacks to appear in the comments on the post.
If you are using the Daily Prompts and linking back to the post with the prompt, your post should show up on the Daily Prompt page.
Due to the new design, we are highlighting those posts in a more visually appealing way that we hope will encourage more people to visit them. I’m sorry if finding out the site URLs is more cumbersome for you now. We’re not likely to return to a simple list of site addresses, but if you want to find the addresses more quickly than visiting each site, you can view the page source for all of the information.
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@angloswiss
This is me timethief logged in under my other username account. What I say to Jackie is something you are probably not aware of but trust me when I say that she and all staff know exactly what I’m on about below. In a nutshell I want the spread of an ignorant blog crippling and stupid practice come to a halt.@jackiedana
During the zero to hero challenge I noticed to my horror that bloggers were doing as angloswiss described above. They were publishing a post on the daily prompt topic and into it they indiscriminately copied and pasted the whole whack of pingbacks thedailypost prompt had already received and had been approved. I GROANED out loud wehenI read what was being indiscriminately backlinked to and almost lost it and posted a rant on the subject.Copying and pasting a whack of pingbacks appearing on another post without reading each one to be sure it’s not a low quality and/or no quality post at the end of one’s own post is NOT the way to go at all.
Backlinking is all about recommending only the highest quality related resources to your readers by linking to them in your related posts. Backlinking is all about the flow of pagerank between posts and sites and I’d like to see Staff tackle the issue of teaching bloggers about being selective about the posts they backlink to.
Before they consider backlinking, one selectively researches their topic using bsearch engines. They need to read each post so they can determine whether or not it provides value to them and their readers. If the posts they read are just related content of dubious value or of no value, then intelligent bloggers will not backlink to them and pass pagerank along to junk posts.
Reciprocal linking between dozens or more sites by copying and pasting an whack of pingbacks found on another blog is among the worst SEO practices I have ever seen. (1) The backlinks are unlikely to provide reader value, and (2) unlikely to do anything at all to enhance the bloggers authority in a niche or (3) unlikely to help their blog earn a decent pagerank.
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Well please accept my deepest apologies for doing what everyone else was doing, although perhaps with a difference, because I actually checked on what people were writing, often gave a like and a comment and did not just copy and paste a wack of pingbacks, without considering their contents. I did not include the Russian spammers which have been hovering around for at least a year passing comments and blogs that have absolutely nothing to do with the subject. I was very satisfied with the constructive help that jackiedana gave in her explanation, and all that I needed was assistance and an explanation and not more. For me this theme has now been satisfactorily dealt with, I know what to do and in future will be very careful not to do things wrong to hurt any sensitive feelings. I hope I can now blog on with no problems. And I still find WordPress the best blogging platform on Internet – nobody is perfect, not even me, but WordPress are one of the best.
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@timethief, I agree with you. I don’t really see the benefit of linking to other bloggers en masse as that doesn’t help anyone.
However, I could see the benefit of writing your own post on the topic from the Daily Prompt and within that post, talk about others who have also written about the topic.
For example, let’s say the prompt was about your favorite ice cream. Maybe you would write a post about all of the great ice cream parlors in the US, drawing on the content others posted about. In that case, it might make sense to want to grab a bunch of URLs.
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I am back. After reading so many remarks from my friends (yes I have quite a few thanks to pingbacks) I have noticed that I am no alone in my stupid request for a return of the pingbacks. Many of us miss them, it was a key to contact with others and not just a lazy way to collect likes. We are all astonished that our request for pingbacks has been completely ignored. A remark was made that it would be easy to add a list on the grid, but it is not intended. Shame that the opinions of us bloggers are just ignored for a new look.
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I really didn’t like the pingbacks, and much prefer to get comments.
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We’re now displaying an image linking back to your sites rather than a less elegant list of links.
Could you help me understand how this has a negative affect on your own blog? What functionality (other than a list that can be easily copied and pasted) is missing from the new design and how were you able to use it?
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With a list i could copy paste and add to my blog in a few minutes. The new method means i spend at leadt 20 minutes visiting each grid photo, copying the link, adding to a list which i have prepared in word and afterwards pasting the list on my blog. If you have a better solution, then ok. I read the instructions about pingbacks but did not find anything helpful. Perhaps i completely misunderstood it all. I never regarded pingbacks as a boost to visitors to my site, just a friendly visit to other blogs. Perhaps i should forget the whole thing with pingbacks and just concentrate on my own blog
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