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Sad decision Reputation built Now quicksand and silt How users betrayed ‘D’ fail grade displayed Guilty to the hilt Alan Grace 25 May 2018 Daily prompt: Guilty One year ago today, WordPress announced it was giving one week’s notice that the Daily Post was closing down- that there would be no new daily prompts etc…
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Gutenberg iceberg II. Do you find it easy to switch back to the WordPress Classic editor?
Originally posted on Share Your Best Posts:
Gutenberg iceberg II Editor men may frighten Changeback may site blurb brighten Stray Titanic iceberg [c]hill Overnight Gutenberg spill WordPress men pray enlighten Alan Grace 26 April 2019 What do you think of WordPress 5 and Gutenberg? The implementation reminds me of key communication (below): Is it harder…
Are Pingbacks working for you?
Originally posted on Share Your Best Posts:
Bring back my Pingbacks My Pingbacks lie over the ocean My Pingbacks lie over the sea My Pingbacks lie over the ocean Oh, bring back my Pingbacks to me… Bring back, bring back Oh, bring back my Pingbacks to me, to me Bring back, bring back Oh, bring…
WordPress 5.0 target release date 19 November; Twenty nineteen theme
Originally posted on Share Your Best Posts:
WordPress 5.0 will be the major release of 2018, including the new block editor, and the Twenty Nineteen theme. Release Schedule November 15, 2017 Trunk is open for business. (Post-4.9) October 3, 2018 5.0 Kickoff meeting. October 19, 2018 Beta 1 and feature merge deadline. From this point…
Believe in yourself; Daily prompts update automatically each day
Originally posted on Share Your Best Posts:
Believe in yourself Woe what a wicked web we weave When we addicted self-deceive Oh just how prejudicial So must now be official Trust in ourselves we must believe Alan Grace 8 October 2018 Daily Prompt: Believe My online spreadsheet is now set up to automatically generate a…
Do you have any interest in Daily prompts? An Acrostic
On May 24, WordPress announced that new Daily Prompts would cease at the end of the month 😦 See: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/to-the-daily-post-community-thank-you/ Almost 500 comments were received expressing concern/ disappointment before comments were closed 😦 You may like to read the comments on the right of the post: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/to-the-daily-post-community-thank-you/?_=1538511459262#comments You may like to look at my (recycled)…
The Courage to continue
Mais oui … continue Now how may we continue To inspire Tao within you Blessed you try Best do I Daily vows recontinue Alan Grace 17 September 2018 Previous version (which version do you prefer?): Mais oui … continue Now how may we continue To inspire posts within you Blessed you try Best do I…
Shades of Grey
Shades of Grey Shades of grey may only be fifty Yet [this] [dis]array may be quite thrifty Huge display I guess Grey shades of WordPress Fifty grades way pulling a shifty Alan Grace 6 September 2018 Fifty Poetry https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/ I share my posts on the new Thumbnailed Group. https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/wordpress/
Is Postaday next to die II?
Is Postaday next to die II? Will I always wonder why Daily prompts stopped from up high Please come join us On Google+ Is Postaday next to die? Alan Grace 23 August 2018 Try the new Thumbnailed Google+ group. No prompt required. I share my posts on the new Thumbnailed Group. See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/is-postaday-next-to-die/ Is Postaday…
A [night]mere ghost post?
A [night]mere ghost post? Will I thy host be mere ghost Till WordPress 5’s here almost Please be my guest Posts liked there best Toast live share your foremost post Alan Grace 18 August 2018 Ghost Poetry I share my posts on the new Thumbnailed Group. You can also share your favourite posts on my…
Bye for now. 600th post- Don’t sit on the fence II
Don’t sit on the fence II No laws prompt flaws in my defence Because mostly it’s common sense Lord say that I should Pause posts not for good Sorry, pray not to cause offense Alan Grace 31 July 2018 Apology Poetry This is my 600th post (including reblogs) since I started blogging last June….
Time to retire
Time to retire I’m mired in crossfire Past time to retire Last loss prime planned rhyme And reason sublime Grand stand please admire Alan Grace 31 July 2018 Admire Poetry I will probably be stopping my blogging from tomorrow until WordPress 5.0 arrives. My reasons are: My theme may not work with WordPress 5.0…
When will WordPress 5.0 arrive?
Strive to survive I will still strive to survive I’ll chill stay alive to thrive It now seems alright To wind up this site Till WordPress 5 will arrive Alan Grace 27 July 2018 Wind Poetry Would you like to share your favourite posts? Your post does not need to have a prompt. See:…
Recycle old prompts
Recycle old prompts New prompts demise deemed unstoppable Daily prompts easily droppable I’ll try to convince you to recycle anew Since old prompts feasibly swapabble Alan Grace 27 July 2018 Unstoppable Poetry Would you like to share your favourite posts? Your post does not need to have a prompt. See: https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/ [The above line shares…
Thoughts about prompts
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…
Is Postaday next to die? Share your best posts here
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…
U-AARDVARK2 Daily Prompt Community: The journey continues
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…
Please contribute your best posts for the week to my New Community for Sharing Daily Prompt posts
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…
Gimme a drink
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: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/new-community-for-sharing-daily-prompt-posts/…
New Community for Sharing Daily Prompt posts
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….
The guest
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?”…
Daily Prompt Reblogs now only on Hump days (Wednesdays)
Deserted Last June we felt very hurted Left promptly in cold deserted Bereft of prompts new Theft of [gold] [goal] posts too Fast old Daily Prompts converted Alan Grace 10 July 2018 Alternate version: (which version do you prefer?) Deserted Last June we felt very hurt Left promptly in cold desert Bereft of prompts new…
WordPress journey (2 acrostics)
WordPress journey False darkness dramatic depth crisis Admire autonomy burn guest cowardice Carefree desert island journey drive east Elusive frail glass clock forbidden feast Unpredictable punishment unstoppable wind storm Pleasure sanctuary slowly nightmare layers form Alan Grace 2 July 2018 I recycle 2016 Daily Word Prompts It is now over a month since WordPress stopped…
The WordPress tourist
The WordPress tourist Maybe a new WordPress tourist They insist may never be missed May we please see free A prompt post daily Place the new tourist on the list Alan Grace 30 June 2018 Daily prompt: Jun 29 Tourist I recycle 2016 Daily Word Prompts Maybe replace “tourist” with “purist” if you like? See:…
Jun 29 Prompt: Tourist. Why is the city tourist angry? (an Acrostic)
Please write your own post with this prompt Jun 29 Tourist (usual way) so that your followers (and us) can share posts 🙂 It is almost a month since WordPress stopped new Daily Prompts. Please see: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/open-letter-to-ben-huberman-wordpress-demise-of-daily-prompts/ Challenge (limit: about 100 words): Write your own short story or poem containing as many June prompts as you…
Quench my thirst; don’t stab me in the back
Quench my thirst Daily prompts help me stay alive Like water for a thirsty man WordPress why do you strife contrive Why slaughter me when thrive I can With life breath and knife death deprive Alan Grace 27 June 2018 Jun 28 Water Jun 27 Deprive I recycle 2016 Daily Word Prompts
Bye to Daily Prompt announcements. 500 posts- Don’t sit on the fence
Don’t sit on the fence No laws make flaws in my defence Because justly it’s common sense Lord say that I should Pause prompts not for good Trust I pray not to cause offense Alan Grace 25 June 2018 This is my 500th post since I started blogging last June. I have decided to post…
Puppy Love
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
Puppy love Do you know the powers due to true love Bestowed by Zeus in Olympus above Prayers to fond Gods hours dwell there Not e’er in dispute well I swear This true bond of my cute new puppy love Alan…
Is it aimless to reinvent Daily Prompts?
After the demise of new WordPress Daily Prompts I decided to set up a prototype blog to see now a blog could be set up for Daily Prompts. A number of people set up blogs creating daily prompts containing links to other users posts. I wanted to retain a similar look and feel to the…
Daily Prompts: Guile; Obtuse. What’s the use of being obtuse
What’s the use of being obtuse I like the be spoken to without guile No Daily Prompt token cut out a w[h]ile What’s mainly the use Of being obtuse WordPress has the smile of a crocodile Alan Grace 18 June 2018 Daily prompts from: http://www.wordthink.com/ For other Daily Prompt blogs see: https://flakback.wordpress.com/tag/dailypromptblog/ For more Daily…
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…
Daily prompt Smooth. New Daily Prompt demise
New Daily Prompt demise Is mad prompt demise smooth or rough Do you think love’s tender or tough We see ghost posts sadly We all need site badly Foremost it’s just not right enough Alan Grace 5 June 2018 Note: this prompt does not appear to be working this morning :(- I have emailed Ben…
Daily Prompt: Childhood. Misunderstood likelihood
Misunderstood likelihood Childhood to old Adulthood You’ll be told always do good Will one day Postaday Like new Prompts go away Misunderstood likelihood Alan Grace 4 June 2018 Daily prompt: Jun 4 Childhood We never thought new daily Prompts would end (with only one week’s notice). What are the chances of Postaday going away too? Sadly,…
Daily prompt: Sky. Is Postaday next to die?
Is Postaday next to die? As I pray to the sky I always wonder why WordPress team stomped New Daily Prompt Is Postaday next to die? Alan Grace 3 June 2018 Daily prompt: Jun 3 Sky Please join me in recycling these prompts. Just use these in the normal way for previous Daily Prompts. Use these…
Don’t be angry or sad: Recycle old prompts
Don’t be angry or sad: Recycle old prompts Recycle old prompts with me Daily Prompts have stopped sadly What was the purpose? Not to usurp us? You’re all welcome to join me Alan Grace 2 June 2018 Daily prompts: Jun 2 Purpose Jun 1 Angry Please join me in recycling these prompts. Just use these…
Alienation
Originally posted on Poesy plus Polemics:
“The Lonely Painting” by Jude Griebel ? how to live in a world no longer your own where your values are trashed and your ethics are gnashed in the merciless jaws of effete intellectual solipsists aiming for ignorant progress deluded new dogmas commissioned intolerance framing ad hominem scathing indictments…
Jun 1 Prompt: Angry. Why is the city tourist angry? (an Acrostic)
Please write your own post with this prompt Jun 1 Angry (usual way) so that your followers (and us) can share posts 🙂 It’s now 1 June in New Zealand so I will try to get each daily prompt out by Middday (NZ time). Please see: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/05/31/open-letter-to-ben-huberman-wordpress-demise-of-daily-prompts/ Why is the city tourist angry? (an Acrostic) Angry…
Open letter to Ben Huberman (WordPress): Demise of Daily Prompts Aimless?
Open letter to Ben Huberman (WordPress): Demise of Daily Prompts We are sad that the Daily Prompts are finishing. Can you please send an email to all followers of this service suggesting reusing prompts from June two years ago? This will mean that we can all literally start on the same page in the future….
‘New’ June daily prompts: Juxtapose 2016 and 2018
Juxtapose 2016 and 2018 prompts Try my proposed prompts for you too More composed posts score you’ll accrue Dry your sore weepy eyes For Daily Prompt demise Juxtaposed ’16 ’18 to Alan Grace 20 May 2018 Daily prompt: Juxtapose WordPress is stopping new Daily Prompts at the end of this month. My [recycled 2016] proposed…
100 Followers
100 Followers For the followers we accrue Followers important like You Or for more weepy eyes For Daily Prompt demise Will we get ceremony too Alan Grace May 2018 Daily prompt: Ceremony WordPress is stopping new Daily Prompts at the end of this month. My prompts for June are all set up, ready to go….
Daily Prompts dead as a Dodo
Daily Prompts dead as a Dodo We see WP Daily Prompts are famous Sadly WordPress badly overcame us Don’t take it away We want it to stay Only an ignoramus would blame us Alan Grace 28 May 2018 Daily prompt: Famous WordPress is stopping new Daily Prompts at the end of this month. My prompts…
July Daily Post list
July Daily Post list The list that I will miss the most Is the swell WordPress Daily post Cross my heart hope to die My top list for July Doppelganger Daily Post [g]host Alan Grace 27 May 2018 Daily prompt: Doppelgänger For list of Daily prompts for June [July’s list will come out at the…
Daily prompts stopped. Prompts for June 2018
WordPress has now stopped creating new Daily Prompts. Sadly WordPress also now refuses intermittently to allow pingbacks on the Daily Prompt site 😦 My daily prompt blog is now at https://guestdailyposts.wordpress.com/guest-pingbacks/ WordPress will stop new daily prompts at the end of May 2018. Note: I cannot add a new post to the Daily Prompt site…
If in doubt, prove Pythagoras
If in doubt, prove Pythagoras WordPress service prosaic Perplex success archaic Daily prompt Stalely chomped No trick algebraic mosaic Alan Grace 26 May 2018 Daily prompt: Archaic WordPress is discontinuing the daily prompts at the end of this month 😦 See: https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/to-the-daily-post-community-thank-you/ Maybe we should recycle prompts from two years ago from June 1? Anyone…
To the Daily Post Community: Thank You!
Originally posted on The Daily Post:
Almost seven and a half years ago The Daily Post opened its virtual doors to the WordPress.com blogging community. It’s been an incredible ride, and incredible rides, too, sometimes come to an end. As of the end of this month (and 2,000 Daily Prompts, 380 Photo Challenges, 260 Community…
Ode to Post 3 6 5
Ode to Post 3 6 5 Oh no: post number 3 6 5 Last chance WordPress to best test drive So Followers great Lo Lucky 8 8 Me Chinese detox may revive Alan Grace 3 May 2018 A notable (perhaps astonishing?) 365 posts in less than a year. Now it’s time for another social media…
Dream theme
Dream theme My dream theme would have twinkly stars Tag clouds up to the size of Mars Indexed blog posts rolling With infinite scrolling ALL CAPS canned for life behind bars Alan Grace 1 May 2018 What’s on your wish list for a WordPress theme? A few notable changes would improve the theme [Dyad 2]…
Vote out ALL CAPS
Vote out ALL CAPS Improving the themes is quotable Changing it seems should be votable Which will come first This one the worst SHED HEADINGS ALL CAPS screams notable Alan Grace 28 April 2018 Daily prompt: Notable
ALL CAPS is a dog
ALL CAPS is a dog All CAPS is a broken cog A shipwreck rock in the fog Everyone prefers Not to have the cur’s Tail wagging the surly dog Alan Grace 27 April 2018 Daily prompt: Cur
Don’t go over to the dark side
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
Don’t go over to the dark side Please don’t look at me with derision Please don’t tease me with tunnel vision Listen up chaps I hate ALL CAPS Please funnel time for caps revision Alan Grace 8 January 2018 Daily prompt:…
Unbox social media detox
Unbox social media detox Before you take an emergency break A social media detox partake Trip to China Is much finer Than tension headache from devil’s food cake Alan Grace 23 April 2018 Daily prompt: Partake
ALL CAPS bad taste
ALL CAPS bad taste Decisions made by secret ballot Can be very hard on the palate ALL CAPS a waste Leaves a bad taste Hit it on the head with a mallet Alan Grace 22 April 2018 Daily prompt: Mallet See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/?s=+all+caps
No ALL CAPS
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
No ALL CAPS I had a bad premonition About the sad imposition Of ALL CAPS in menus The saga continues WordPress please be a magician Alan Grace 28 February 2018 Daily prompt: Premonition Imagination
Social media detox
_________________________________________________ Reminder: My detox starts on Saturday 7 April …….. I’ll be back! _________________________________________________ Social media detox No more a prisoner of war Freed from the social candy store I need a detox I’m on WordPress rocks Time to south pacific explore Alan Grace 4 April 2018 Daily prompt: Explore Goin’ on a cruise this…
Warning- No April fool (except maybe Trump): Is this the charade of the decade
Warning: No April fool (except maybe Trump) Is this the charade of the decade Is this charade of decade For Facebook no accolade Access not a good look To data on Facebook Users dismayed feel betrayed Chorus: Are they charades of decade The greatest made here displayed Which one may come first The best or…
Twenty Eighteen
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
Twenty Eighteen My heart is torn my hopes forlorn Could I have sworn at year’s dawn morn Should the year’s theme be seen Or will Twenty Eighteen Depart stillborn or still be born Alan Grace 9 January 2018 Daily prompt: Forlorn…
Fix ALL CAPS
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
Fix ALL CAPS Some say your forecast is dim Come weigh more chances as slim CAPS they say do not transgress Seize the day I pray WordPress Please go way out on a limb Alan Grace 1 March 2018 Daily prompt:…
Thank you 100+ faithful followers
Thank you faithful followers Most faithful followers confessed faceless Post likers neither placeless nor traceless When welcome for blog stop Then some more on-board hop Host trait gratefulness best guessed non-baseless Alan Grace 25 March 2018 Daily prompt: Faceless
Tarnished Gem
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
Tarnished Gem WordPress was an orb precious and trusted Dusted with old gems and jewels encrusted Word webs of solid gold Now users young and old Disgusted with Reblog maladjusted Alan Grace 22 February 2018 Daily prompt: Encrusted See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/ Golden orb…
Have the heart to not jumpstart
Have the heart to not jumpstart I’m not an awesome smart bleeding heart Or some black art upstart counterpart ALL CAPS in menus To like I refuse Restart please ALL CAPS never jumpstart Alan Grace 2 March 2018 Daily prompt: Restart See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/?s=+all+caps
Fix ALL CAPS
Fix ALL CAPS Some say your forecast is dim Come weigh more chances as slim CAPS they say do not transgress Seize the day I pray WordPress Please go way out on a limb Alan Grace 1 March 2018 Daily prompt: Dim See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/?s=+all+caps PS This elephant’s out of the room 🙂
No ALL CAPS
No ALL CAPS I had a bad premonition About the sad imposition Of ALL CAPS in menus The saga continues WordPress please be a magician Alan Grace 28 February 2018 Daily prompt: Premonition Imagination
ALL CAP is crap
ALL CAP is crap ALL CAPs is source of vexation And of eternal damnation All Themes of WordPress Dreams no CAPS I guess Please show some imagination Alan Grace 27 February 2018 Daily prompt: Imagination See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/theme/
Where’s the Reblog button? (an Acrostic)
Originally posted on COVID Odyssey by Alan Grace: My vir[tu]al COVID-19 journey:
Daily prompt: Compromise See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/ Another email sent today to WordPress Support about the disappearance of the Reblog button. No reply from the ‘Happiness Engineers’ to my first email 😦
Tarnished Gem
Tarnished Gem WordPress was an orb precious and trusted Dusted with old gems and jewels encrusted Word webs of solid gold Now users young and old Disgusted with Reblog maladjusted Alan Grace 22 February 2018 Daily prompt: Encrusted See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/ Golden orb spider:
ReBlog lost II
ReBlog lost II If you think Reblog loss is not strange Target yourself on the firing range It is not even a close call If you don’t want Reblog at all Recall the only constant is change Alan Grace 21 February 2018 Daily prompt: Constant See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/ Finally a reply from a ‘Happiness Engineer’ (it only…
Where’s the Reblog button? (an Acrostic)
Daily prompt: Compromise See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/ Another email sent today to WordPress Support about the disappearance of the Reblog button. No reply from the ‘Happiness Engineers’ to my first email 😦
ReBlog still goneburgers
ReBlog still goneburgers O what a short shrift event Like no slack regift present Geraldine swore it Seen back, she saw it No, gone, foment discontent Alan Grace 19 February 2018 Daily prompt: Present See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/tag/reblog/ Also see: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2017/12/23/the-present/ Original version, earlier today: ReBlog still goneburgers O what a blessed event Like a great ReBlog present Geraldine…
ReBlog lost
I have had to “manually” Reblog the great poem below. It is sad that the ReBlog button has disappeared. Please have the courage to comment about this. Please WordPress, permit the return of the Reblog button. Permission denied February 5, 2018 ~ Megha’s World Frozen and numb to the core sitting and gazing at the…
The magic ReBlog button
The magic ReBlog button O WordPress we are not proud Please conjure up in the Cloud The ReBlog button If we may cut in Are engineers’ heads bowed cowed Alan Grace 17 February 2018 Daily prompt: Conjure See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/what-has-happened-to-the-reblog-button/
An unmeshed cog
An unmeshed cog Do you think I’m a rube Eyes-crossed fixed to YouTube An ill-fitting cog No need to ReBlog Circle square or sphere cube Alan Grace 17 February 2018 Daily prompt: Rube See: https://aaamazingphoenix.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/what-has-happened-to-the-reblog-button/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_circle
What has happened to the ReBlog button?
Reblogging When you love a post on a blog To copy the rule don’t leapfrog Just a fool it’s true Would copy anew The right rule to do is reblog Alan Grace 28 October 2017 Daily prompt: Costume It appears the ReBlog button has disappeared or is wearing a costume as good as the Emperor’s new…
