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For this week's "Daily Post" photo challenge, it’s all about landscape photography! In a new post on your blog, share your best establishing shot, out in nature or in an urban setting.

Read the post for details and a few resources to get started.

April is National Poetry Month! We encourage you to participate, whether you’re a master of the sonnet or have never written a haiku in your life. To get started, explore our poetry picks and resources.

"If we were having coffee . . . "

Get personal and make deep connections with other bloggers with the ‪#‎weekendcoffeeshare‬ community.

If you're a small business owner, blogging is a great way to communicate with your customers and reach new ones -- here are tips to consider, from optimizing your content to customizing your site.

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"Sketching is a matter of drawing a line, then another, and another, until one creates shapes and compositions that recall to the seeing eye the scene set before us. And what we omit from a drawing is just as important as what we include." —Francis D.K. Ching

Browse the sketchbook pages of artists on WordPress.

The Weekly Photo Challenge is here! For this week's theme, "Half-Light," share a photo inspired by a favorite poem, story, song lyric, or verse.

"Vary it up a little and don’t just display pictures of food. Your environment, your house, your plates and cutlery, the nature or city that surround you — all of these things also nourish your site (in the strong sense of the word). Let readers into your living and cooking space and go beyond hovering over your plate."

A great foodblogging tip from Infinite Belly. Read on for more bits of blogging wisdom, mined from recent WordPress Discover interviews.

"For instance, I have no interest in being a traveler or a mother, but I love reading things that are about human exploration on a singular level. Enthusiasm for life and the ways we live it trump topic tags, every time. Some of my most beloved bloggers are travel and parent bloggers — who would have guessed it? I guess my point is: keep an open mind."

In this great interview, Ra at Rarasaur offers advice on navigating the internet as a reader and member of a larger community — and finding the stories that truly matter to us.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is proud to be a sponsor of CMS Africa Summit in Kampala, Uganda next week! If you're in the neighborhood, come say hello.

Ready for a challenge this week? Get inspired by Andrea Jarrell’s post “A Roar for the Ages,” and tell a broad story using a series of short, focused scenes.

Looking for advice on your blog's layout? Seeking feedback on your latest post? Come over to the Community Pool, where like-minded bloggers chat about their craft.

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/20…/…/21/community-pool-158/

In your WordPress.com Reader, you can discover writers and artists, follow blogs, and explore tags. But did you know you can also create lists to keep track of your favorite sites in one place or curate a feed around a topic or group of people?

Get inspired by some staff lists, then create your own!

There's rhythm and motion all around us -- for this week's Photo Challenge, "Dance," let's capture some of the unexpected choreography we encounter in our daily lives.

We are proud to be announced as an official sponsor of the Open Rights Group.

Art isn't anecdote: "It’s the deeper, more human themes that make a story stick with us."

"Cooking and eating, maybe especially here in France, are very social activities. People often cook and eat together and of course, this naturally leads to having conversations, discussions, debates — which often end up being about food itself! Maybe this wasn’t very conscious, but our posts tend to render this kind of atmosphere, and recipes almost become a pretext for telling some story, a memory, an anecdote, an idea."

—André and Adélaïde Zollinger at Infinite Belly on their own blend of food blogging, visual storytelling, and simple yet sophisticated style.

Clicking the "Publish" button on a new post makes many of us nervous, but clicking "Post Comment" can be even harder. Putting yourself out there on your own blog is one thing; putting yourself out there in someone else's space is another entirely.

Join us for the next Commenting Bootcamp, which starts Monday.

"I didn’t start writing until I was 40, but I know that it can sometimes take a very long time to get published. My advice would be to try and write something every day. Writing is like a muscle; it needs exercise and practice to keep it in the best condition possible."

Claire Fuller Writer, author of Our Endless Numbered Days, chats with us about writing, her new novel, and how communities on WordPress.com have inspired and encouraged her.

Looking for advice on your blog's layout? Seeking feedback on your latest post? Come over to the Community Pool, where like-minded bloggers chat about their craft.