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Thoughts about prompts

agrace

Thoughts about prompts

For me conclusive thoughts are elusive
Or each two mutually exclusive
Sure WordPress stole
Your heart your soul
More abusive views wholly intrusive

Alan Grace
25 July 2018

Elusive

Other poems with this prompt
(make sure you look at the member poems):

Poetry

It is now over two months since WordPress announced (giving one week’s notice) that new Daily Prompts would be discontinued on 1 June.

We will probably never know the reason why new prompts were stopped.

What surprises me is the relatively small number of users interested in continuing daily prompts.

What are your thoughts?

 

==================== Newsflash ====================

You are welcome to submit your best posts to this site:
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/

You do not need to have a prompt.

To share your own post, just put the following line anywhere in your post:

https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/

(Click on the same link to view posts)

Even your posts weeks old will go to the top of the list (until someone else posts).

You are also welcome to use this list of prompts if you wish.

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Test prompt. Daily Prompt: Purpose.

Just checking that prompts are still working (5 June). Nope 🙁

Maybe WordPress has stopped old prompts working too?

What is the purpose of this?

Jun 2 Purpose

Daily prompt: Purpose

https://flakback.wordpress.com/tag/purpose/

Daily Prompts may or may not be working now on the original site.

Try it and see.

Jun 2 Purpose

Nope- this does not seem to be working this morning 🙁

 

Latest reply from Ben:

Hi Alan,

After discussing this with my team, we decided to keep pingbacks switched off on The Daily Post. My apologies for replying too quickly; there are several factors that make keeping pingbacks switched on a solution that can’t work for us. I very much hope you and others in the community find alternative methods to connect and synch your writing themes.

Best regards,

Ben

Previous reply from Ben yesterday (to my email below):

Hi Alan,

 I’ve re-activated pingbacks on the site to give bloggers’ effort to use the same prompt a chance at success. We’d decided to turn pingbacks off once no new prompts were going to be published, but I see no compelling reason not to reverse it given that some community members would still like to rely on it. 

 Thanks for reaching out,

 Ben

Below is my email to Ben this morning:

Hi Ben

You promised that when new daily prompts stopped, existing site/prompts would remain

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/to-the-daily-post-community-thank-you/

 However today I find that pingbacks (working up to today) are no longer working this morning.

 Has WordPress stopped allowing pingbacks to the Daily Post site (posts to old prompts)?

 See:

https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/06/05/daily-prompt-smooth-new-daily-prompt-demise/

 https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/05/26/daily-prompts-stopped-prompts-for-june-2018/

 Regards

 Alan Grace

Ben Huberman commented on Open letter to Ben Huberman (WordPress): Demise of Daily Prompts

Open letter to Ben Huberman (WordPress): Demise of Daily Prompts We are sad that the Daily Prompts are finishing. Can you …

Thank you for sharing your thoughts — one of my colleagues saw this post, and since it’s addressed to me I didn’t want to leave it unanswered. Asking people to “start over” from a specific prompt is an interesting idea, and if people decide to do so among their own blogging peers, that’s fantastic. But there are several reasons for which making this a more “official” solution won’t be practical, so I don’t foresee announcing this on our site.

I want once again to thank you and everyone else from the Daily Post community for the outpouring of comments and feedback in the wake of our announcement last week. Our decision isn’t changing, but our team has been listening to the whole range of reactions we’ve seen — from the positive to the very negative — and they will definitely inform our work going forward

purpose

Test prompt. Daily Prompt: Purpose.

==================== Newsflash ====================
You are welcome to submit your best posts to this site:
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/
You do not need to have a prompt.
To share your own post, just put the following line anywhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)
(Click on the same link to view posts)
Even your posts weeks old will go to the top of the list (until someone else posts).
You are also welcome to use this list of prompts if you wish.
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heartbreak

Is Postaday next to die? Share your best posts here

agrace

Is Postaday next to die?

As I pray to the sky
I always wonder why
WordPress team stole
Our heart our soul
Is Postaday next to die?

Alan Grace
25 July 2018

Daily prompt: Jun 3 Sky

It is sad new WordPress Daily Post Prompts had to die 🙁

 

==================== Newsflash ====================

You are welcome to submit your best posts to this site:
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/

You do not need to have a prompt.

To share your own post, just put the following line anywhere in your post:

https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/

(Click on the same link to view posts)

Even your posts weeks old will go to  the top of the list (until someone else posts).

You are also welcome to use this list of prompts if you wish.

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praytosky
sky
heartbreak

 

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U-AARDVARK2 Daily Prompt Community: The journey continues

agrace

True or False: Do U need a clue?

In U-AARDVARK2
The U needs a clue
Umbrella or
United for
Maybe we see it’s true
The U is for U
Maybe we will learn
The U is for U-turn?
Please track other posts too
In the pingback menu
May my good turn
Help you discern
The pointlessness
And lack of success
Of making no return
So may you learn
The loving knack
Of giving back
And appreciate
Our posts to date
In Alan’s Ark 2
A fresh start anew
And may you yearn
To post in return
U-AARDVARK2 Daily
Prompt Community
Journey will continue
Hopefully with U too

Alan Grace
22 July 2018

True or False?

Poetry

 

U-AARDVARK2 Daily Prompt Community: The journey continues

See:
Share your best posts: The journey continues
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/

This site is a community to share your posts from all Daily Prompt sites (in one place).

You are welcome add your posts (for anyone’s prompts).

Daily Prompt sites are also welcome to promote their prompts here (daily if you wish).

This blog is a way of ‘paying it forward’ to those bloggers who have followed my blog https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/ and liked my posts. It is also for everyone who misses the WordPress Daily Prompt site.

Thanks for joining me! This https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/ site allows you to promote your posts and blog.

You are also welcome to use this list of prompts you can recycle from the WordPress Daily Prompt site. You can use the prompt for today’s date from 2016.

The daily prompt blog is now at: https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/.
You may also like to look at my blog: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/

============ Below is what you need to know ==============

To see a list of other people’s posts, please see:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

To add your post to the list, please put the same link somewhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

Once you have published your post, Click on the same link again to view posts (the most recent post will appear first) at the bottom of the page:
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/

Your post should now be at the top of the list 🙂

This all happens like magic 🙂
Maybe wave your magic wand and say Abracadabra 😉

Perhaps add some text to your link so that it looks better.
Use some text to the link in your post that will make sense to your readers.
Alan’s magic
would not be a good idea (even although it will work).

Remember:

  • This daily prompt blog is at https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/.
  • To share one of your posts, all you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your post:
    https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/
  • This will create a link back (pingback) to your own site at the bottom of the above page.
  • Click on the same link to view posts (the most recent post will appear first) at the bottom of the page:
    https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/

========== The above is meant for you with my love ===========

Carefree prompt

We used to see new prompts daily
You used to be happy carefree
Before you forget how
Try sharing more posts now
To my community promptly

Alan Grace
22 July 2018

Carefree

Poetry

The Carefree link will show other prompts on the WordPress site for this prompt and may add this post to the WordPress Daily Prompt site.

Here is a list of prompts you can recycle from the WordPress Daily Prompt site. You can use the prompt for today’s date from 2016.

The Poetry link will link to other poems on Poetry Soup with the same prompt.
Remember to look at the member poems.

Try sharing one of your great posts now before you forget how. Any one will do 🙂

To share one of your posts, all you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

This will create a link back (pingback) to your own site at the bottom of the above page.

Click on the same link (to this Guest Pingbacks page) to view posts (the most recent post will appear first):
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

Here is a list of prompts you can recycle from the WordPress Daily Prompt site. You can use the prompt for today’s date from 2016.

You are welcome add your posts (for anyone’s prompts).

You can also add your posts as comments/links to your blog posts in the Guest Comments page. The page has a two-column format for comments.
Pingbacks please to the Guest Pingbacks page:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)
(note that pingbacks and comments are on different pages).

If you do not have a recent daily prompt post, you are welcome to try this out with any good post of yours you may like to share 🙂

You are also welcome to make up your own prompt- just include it in your post for the prompt. Others may like to make up a post for your prompt.

Note: Comments allow you to add text (an excerpt from your post).

You may also like to contribute one of your best posts for the week to this site (using the same link). If you do not include a prompt in your post, it will be assumed that your post is in this category.

To share one of your posts, all you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

This will create a link back (pingback) to your own site at the bottom of the above page.

Click on the same link to view posts (the most recent post will appear first) at the bottom of the page:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

To create a pingback copy and paste one of these four options into your post:

For more prompt options see:
Alan’s Ark: Help; Guidelines; More Daily Prompts

For other daily prompt sites see:
Other Daily Prompt blogs

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton

You are welcome to be my guest on our blogging journey 🙂

Jul 12 Guest

Jul 13 Journey

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U-Aardvark2a

Also see:
New Community for Sharing Daily Prompt posts
https://mimispassion.com/a-thousand-steps/

journey1000

Wanna play?

sandpit1
Remember you can add your posts with text (for anyone’s prompts) as comments/links to your blog posts in the Guest Comments page. The page has a two-column format for comments.

All the best with your bogging

Alan

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Please contribute your best posts for the week to my New Community for Sharing Daily Prompt posts

agrace

Help grow this new site

I’d quite like you to know
Tho I might dreamlike show
All best posts now
Please take a bow
Lest this site slowly grow

Alan Grace
21 July 2018

Slowly

Poetry

A big thank you to everyone who has contributed to my new community 🙂

Are you missing the WordPress Daily Prompts?

https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/
is a new community for sharing daily prompt posts in one place.

The aim is to grow a community of people interested in daily prompts. This will hopefully attract more users to the individual daily prompt sites and in turn to your own blogs, provided you contribute.

If you are already contributing to a daily prompt site, why not also share your posts here?

 

To share one of your  posts, all you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

This will create a link back (pingback) to your own site at the bottom of the above page.

Click on the same link (to this Guest Pingbacks page) to view posts (the most recent post will appear first):
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

 

You may also like to contribute one of your best posts for the week to this site (using the same link). If you do not include a prompt in your post, it will be assumed that your post is in this category.

 

You are also welcome to use my recycled WordPress daily prompts with links to the Poetry Soup website.

 

If you do not have a recent daily prompt post, you are welcome to try this out with any good post of yours you may like to share 🙂

You are also welcome to make up your own prompt- just include it in your post for the prompt.

 

This community will help the daily prompt sites to gain more traction and allow users to view posts people wish to share in one place (as well as on individual sites).

I hope you will share your posts in this community.

Reminder: All you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your posts:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

You can also use a comment to add text with a link to your post.

All the best with your blogging

Alan

Feast your eyes on these sites:
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/
https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/
https://flakback.wordpress.com/

 Poetry

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dreamgrow

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare homepage | Midsummer Night’s Dream | Entire play

ACT I

SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS.

Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants

THESEUS

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,
Like to a step-dame or a dowager
Long withering out a young man revenue.

HIPPOLYTA

Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
Four nights will quickly dream away the time;
And then the moon, like to a silver bow
New-bent in heaven, shall behold the night
Of our solemnities.

dream

Gimme a drink

agrace

Gimme a drink

Out of my depth without a rudder
To a halt my WordPress prompts judder
Ill on the brink from blues
I’ll need to drink more booze
Think what we may lose next and shudder

Alan Grace
20 July 2018

Depth

Darkness

Poetry

You may like to contribute to my new community:
New Community for Sharing Daily Prompt posts

See:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

 

To share one of your  posts, all you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

This will create a link back (pingback) to your own site at the bottom of the above page.

Click on the same link (to this Guest Pingbacks page) to view posts (the most recent post will appear first):
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

 
And nothing stirr’d within their silent depths;
Ships sailorless lay rotting on the sea,
And their masts fell down piecemeal: as they dropp’d
They slept on the abyss without a surge—
The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
The moon, their mistress, had expir’d before;
The winds were wither’d in the stagnant air,
And the clouds perish’d; Darkness had no need
Of aid from them—She was the Universe.

Darkness by Lord Byron

catinthehatdrunk

drunk-drinking

ParadiseLost

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New Community for Sharing Daily Prompt posts

agrace

Are you missing the WordPress Daily Prompts?

https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/
is a new community for sharing daily prompt posts in one place.

The aim is to grow a community of people interested in daily prompts. This will hopefully attract more users to the individual daily prompt sites and in turn to your own blogs, provided you contribute.

If you are already contributing to a daily prompt site, why not also share your posts here?

 

To share one of your  posts, all you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your post:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

This will create a link back (pingback) to your own site at the bottom of the above page.

Click on the same link (to this Guest Pingbacks page) to view posts (the most recent post will appear first):
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

 

You are also welcome to use my recycled WordPress daily prompts with links to the Poetry Soup website.

 

If you do not have a recent daily prompt post, you are welcome to try this out with any good post of yours you may like to share 🙂

You are also welcome to make up your own prompt- just include it in your post for the prompt.

 

You may also like to contribute one of your best posts for the week to this site (using the same link). If you do not include a prompt in your post, it will be assumed that your post is in this category.

 

This community will help the daily prompt sites to gain more traction and allow users to view posts people wish to share in one place (as well as on individual sites).

I hope you will share your posts in this community.

Reminder: All you need to do it put the following line anywhere in your posts:
Shared Posts (Pingbacks)

You can also use a comment to add text with a link to your post.

All the best with your blogging

Alan

Feast your eyes on these sites:
https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/
https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/
https://flakback.wordpress.com/

 Poetry

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The guest

agrace

The guest

Unimpressed wild west guest
Depressed in WordPress nest
Confessed it’s true
Stressed more with new
Next best prompts dispossesed

Alan Grace
12 July 2018

P.S. I live in west Auckland, New Zealand.

Jul 12 Guest

I recycle 2016 Daily Word Prompts

 

The Spider and the Fly
“Will you walk into my parlour?” said the Spider to the Fly,
‘Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy;
The way into my parlour is up a winding stair,
And I’ve a many curious things to show when you are there.”“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “to ask me is in vain,
For who goes up your winding stair can never come down again.”
 “I’m sure you must be weary, dear, with soaring up so high;
Will you rest upon my little bed?” said the Spider to the Fly.
“There are pretty curtains drawn around; the sheets are fine and thin,
And if you like to rest awhile, I’ll snugly tuck you in!”

“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “for I’ve often heard it said,
They never, never wake again, who sleep upon your bed!”

Said the cunning Spider to the Fly, “Dear friend what can I do,
To prove the warm affection I’ve always felt for you?
I have within my pantry, good store of all that’s nice;
I’m sure you’re very welcome — will you please to take a slice?”

“Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “kind Sir, that cannot be,
I’ve heard what’s in your pantry, and I do not wish to see!”

“Sweet creature!” said the Spider, “you’re witty and you’re wise,
How handsome are your gauzy wings, how brilliant are your eyes!
I’ve a little looking-glass upon my parlour shelf,
If you’ll step in one moment, dear, you shall behold yourself.”

“I thank you, gentle sir,” she said, “for what you’re pleased to say,
And bidding you good morning now, I’ll call another day.”

The Spider turned him round about, and went into his den,
For well he knew the silly Fly would soon come back again:
So he wove a subtle web, in a little corner sly,
And set his table ready, to dine upon the Fly.

Then he came out to his door again, and merrily did sing,
“Come hither, hither, pretty Fly, with the pearl and silver wing;
Your robes are green and purple — there’s a crest upon your head;
Your eyes are like the diamond bright, but mine are dull as lead!”

Alas, alas! how very soon this silly little Fly,
Hearing his wily, flattering words, came slowly flitting by;
With buzzing wings she hung aloft, then near and nearer drew,
Thinking only of her brilliant eyes, and green and purple hue —
Thinking only of her crested head — poor foolish thing!
At last,
Up jumped the cunning Spider, and fiercely held her fast.
He dragged her up his winding stair, into his dismal den,
Within his little parlour — but she ne’er came out again!

And now dear little children, who may this story read,
To idle, silly flattering words, I pray you ne’er give heed:
Unto an evil counsellor, close heart and ear and eye,
And take a lesson from this tale, of the Spider and the Fly.

~By Mary Howitt, 1829

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spider_and_the_Fly_(poem)

 

Is WordPress trusted after what happened with the daily prompts?

 

Where’s the Reblog button? (an Acrostic)

See:
Where’s the Reblog button? (an Acrostic)

Priceless gem back

WordPress is an orb precious and trusted
Dusted with old gems and jewels encrusted
Wor[l]d [wide] webs of solid gold
Now [wise] users young and old
Assay value with Reblog adjusted

Alan Grace
23 February 2018

Daily prompt:
Encrusted
Assay

Reblog’s back 🙂
Also see: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/

OrbWeb

OrbRoman

Golden orb spider:

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