WordPress Daily Prompt
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I love the daily Prompt because even if you have no ideas, it will do its job, promoting you. I haven’t received it in my email for some time now. I just read other blogs to pick it up. I’ve followed the site many times but it just doesn’t come through in mail or the reader.
I don’t know why this has come about. But I agree with all the above, Don’t Go!
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OOOps … sorry about the previous links. I hadn’t realised this was the support forum.
Anyway recycling old prompts is a solution for those of you who miss the Daily Prompts. -
I realise this is a support forum but I just wanted to say that apart from the fact that this is a great cut to our collective creativity, the daily post prompts/challenges could have been somehow devolved in some way so that community members, volunteers here on wordpress, could run them. I’m sure a great many people would be willing to take up the job of keeping the community prompts and challenges alive for all of the wordpress users. Is there a reason why the prompts and photo challenges (and I remember a while ago there was weekly challenge for writing too-forgot the name) couldn’t be done by volunteers? We’re not talking about the whole running of the daily post, but why couldn’t a bunch of volunteer bloggers run this?
The problem with the idea of finding a fellow wordpresser’s blog for prompts of using tags is that it just isn’t that effective. I’ve found many new sites to follow and have had much new interest in my blog purely from the link appearing on the daily prompt page. This kind of connection with unknown individuals (no matter how many tags I put in) will never ben the same without the daily post. Pingbacks on wordpress sites just don’t have that same visual appeal and without a central hub for everyone to be a collective and supportive community, it kills the very essence of what blogging is all about.
I know my voice is one lost among many which, whoever is in charge of pulling the plug on this, seems to not care about at all, but these opinions do matter and affect the wordpress and wider world. I wonder how many more things will change in the future of wordpress if such a thing as this is allowed to be terminated…it does not leave me with a good outlook on the future…
ps. a brief sad response to the news I wrote a couple of days ago, my post managed to alert others to the fact that the daily post has ended. So many of us didn’t even realise it was ending :( :( :(
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Just noting we’re reading these comments and do care. As mentioned in the article, the decision to end this was difficult, but our editorial team is putting energy into other projects to help you all get connected.
In the meantime, the suggestions they’ve compiled in the goodbye post can help. I’ll note as well, if you look in the comment section of the announcement, you’ll find several volunteers running their own versions of the Daily Post. Other users in this thread have had ideas as well. And I’ll echo Ben’s suggestion to follow topics that matter to you, so you can develop stronger connections with bloggers who care about the same things.
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Oh! This is disheartening. I just started 2 days back and I was thrilled to see the prompt. It made writing and interpreting easier. For beginners like me it was an immensely powerful aid. Don’t abolish it please.
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@themommacafe Try the other suggestions listed here:
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I feel as if I’m losing lots of friends! With no daily prompt, there will no longer be the grid, a wonderful way to connect with other bloggers. I am truly sad to see it go. There are dozens of other sites with which to find a writing prompt, but that connection from the grid will be gone. Please reconsider! When I first started blogging four years ago, I depended on the prompt to get me going. I still do.
I don’t understand why it’s being dropped. I only know it will mean the loss of contact with people I’ve come to count not just as cyber friends, but truly as supportive, encouraging friends on my writing journey.
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@granonine Would you consider following the sites of the people you’ve connected with? There are many ways you can interact.
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May I add my voice to the many who feel it’s a pity that the Daily Prompt feature is no more? I love its random nature, prompting ideas that would not otherwise have arisen.
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Look at prompts on this page for ideas: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpress-daily-prompt/page/3/#post-3119409
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I do understand that we can find other bloggers to do this, but the only way I’ve ever seen prompts work on other sites has been through pingbacks which isn’t the same as the large boxes with a teaser image behind and the blog post and blog name above like there is in the prompt/photo challenges. Pingbacks are easy to miss and aren’t so appealing to check out. Plus, unless wordpress puts these prompting websites as a link on the daily post (not a link in the comments of its goodbye post) then how will new bloggers know how and where to find them?
Plus, it still baffles me…if the Daily Post page will still be up (supposedly as long as wordpress exists) then why not allow some volunteers to run the two prompts? Surely something can be worked so that they don’t have access to the whole site (if that’s what is feared) and prompts can just be added every day/week? If that was done you’d not only have little need to run the site at all, if at all, as the volunteers would take care of new prompts, and the wordpress blogging community who rely on the prompts would see the company as actually caring about its users, many of whom pay money to wordpress to upgrade their sites….Just don’t understand why it cant be done.
Anyway I’ve said my piece…
@alangracewebsite You just linked to the third page of this discussion?? -
Correct @mypeacockbooks I have linked to the third (this) page of this discussion. I have been told (/told off in this forum?) apparently there’s some rule that I’m not allowed to include outsider links in this support forum (I don’t understand why not). I am recycling old ‘Daily Prompt’ prompts from exactly two years ago (yes the usual large images etc are there). If you look back (on this page) you will find the link. Works of course exactly as usual with the more recent Daily Prompts (until new one’s stopped).
Hopefully you will consider contributing.
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then why not allow some volunteers to run the two prompts?
It actually takes a fair bit of moderation, so it would need several volunteers, all who would need vetting, etc. Also folks will develop closer connections on smaller sites. Give it a try, and if you have feature requests (like the ability to display pingbacks as a grid) let us know.
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I can see what you mean by needing to vet people and I understand the closer connections, but those closer connections make it harder for new people to find each other. Or for new people to enter a close community. It can backfire as well as be a positive. Anyway…
if you have feature requests (like the ability to display pingbacks as a grid) let us know.
I’d love to know how to do that actually. That way anyone can set up their own version and it will look and feel more like the original daily post. I was even considering doing that in the future, if I knew how to grid display I’ll be all the more happy! How do we request featured content, I didn’t know we could.?
I will check out your posts @alangracewebsite :)
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Yes @supernovia , I would like to know how to set up a grid pattern too .
Great @mypeacockbooks. Here is the link to this month’s (recycled) prompts: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/05/26/daily-prompts-stopped-prompts-for-june-2018/ -
Wordpress canceling the Weekly Photo Challenge is similar to a relationship ending with a text message. When I began blogging 1 1/2 years ago, the WPC provided a comforting structure. Every week I knew I could contribute something and connect with others. What fun it has been peeking into other bloggers lives with their photo interpretations of the prompt. I gained followers and I have followed others through the WPC.
Now without warning, tangible reasons, or input, WordPress is eliminating this forum as well as the Daily Prompt. They say the community is still there but it’s akin to closing down the coffee shop where everybody meets. It’s the soul of WordPress. I feel betrayed…
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Sadly, I agree with the people who’re skeptical about WP caring.
Nonetheless, perhaps they’ll bring back this wonderful service. It’s a lot like when Coke brought in “New Coke.” Quite a fiasco.
The only reply from WP was to someone’s similar comment on their Daily Prompt page. I was disappointed that the writer just repeated the sentiment in their Weekly Photo Challenge announcement and linked to that age.
They don’t respect us enough to provide a detailed reason.
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I agree. Now I cannot add new posts to the existing prompts. See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/06/05/test-prompt-purpose/
Not even any reply yet from my email to Ben.
It will be interesting to see how many users leave when WP 5.0 eventually comes.
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