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Write a blog post

Every Prompt Dock member can publish blog posts, written in markdown and listed on the public blog alongside the prompts they explain.

In this guide

Blogging is open to every member. Share a walkthrough, a prompt-engineering idea or a product update, and build an audience for your prompts.

The My Blogs page listing your posts by status

Writing a post

  1. Open My Blogs in the sidebar, under Creator, and hit Write a post.
  2. Give the post a title and a body. Those two are the only required fields. The short description is optional, and it is what readers see on the card, in search results and on the share image.
  3. Pick an audience (Creators, Explorer, Product or News) and a type (Playbook, Guide, Case study, Product or Opinion). The audience drives the rail on the in-app Blogs page; the type becomes the category chip on the public blog.
  4. Write the body in markdown. Headings, lists, tables, code blocks, quotes, callouts and images all render. The Preview tab shows exactly what a reader will see.
  5. Add up to 5 images if you want them. The first one is the featured image: it leads the post, and Feature promotes any other image to the front.
The blog composer with a title and markdown body filled inThe composer's Preview tab showing the rendered markdown

Linking what the post is about

The composer has three optional pickers, Link a prompt, Link a skill and Link a challenge, one for each kind of thing an article can be written about. So a post links at most one of each. The link shows up twice: as a card on your article saying what it is about, and as a write-up on that thing's own page.

You can only link something you have a genuine claim to:

  • A prompt or a skill you own. Any status — pre-linking a draft is fine, and the card on your article stays hidden until you publish it.
  • A challenge you posted, or one you submitted a solution to and have not withdrawn. It also has to still be live: a cancelled challenge cannot be linked by anyone, including the person who posted it.

Two things about links are worth knowing before you write:

  • The link is permanent, the card is not. Once made, a link stays — losing standing later never unlinks it and never stops you editing the post. But the card only renders while the thing it points at is publicly visible, so an unpublished skill shows nothing yet.
  • Being able to link is not the same as being featured. On a challenge's public page, only the poster's and the selected solver's write-ups appear. If you submitted a solution and it was not selected, your article still links the challenge and still shows up for signed-in members looking at it — it just does not get a slot on the public page.

To change a link, pick a different one from the same picker. To remove it, choose — None —.

Publishing

Blog posts are author-controlled. There is no review queue, so the status you pick takes effect immediately:

  • Draft — only you can see it. Nothing is published.
  • Published — live and listed in Blogs for everyone.
  • Unlisted — live, but only reachable by direct link and never listed. Useful for sharing a post before you announce it.

You can move a post between the three at any time, and editing a published post never takes it offline.

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