WordPress handed me today’s prompt and I immediately checked to make sure I hadn’t accidentally logged into a blog website for 8th graders. Read on . If you must know, I prefer the beach. It’s warm, my back loosens up, and at my age the only mountains I’m climbing are called “two flights of stairs.”
There — question answered.
A+ for participation.
Now somebody give me my sticker so I can get on with my day.

But since I’ve completed my homework, let me vent.
Because these WordPress Daily Prompts? I have thoughts.

First off — and let me say this clearly —

The Daily Prompt is one of the best features on WordPress.

It puts our blogs in front of thousands of readers every single day.
For free.
No ads. No paying to “boost” posts. No trying to outsmart the algorithm.
Just instant visibility handed to us on a silver platter.

Which is why it absolutely blows my mind that such a powerful feature is being wasted on questions that sound like they were pulled directly from a middle-school icebreaker worksheet.

Every morning it’s something like:

“What’s your favorite color?”
“Beach or mountains?”
“What’s your favorite sandwich?”

Seriously?
We’re adults with entire lifetimes behind us — marriages, careers, tragedies, triumphs, mistakes, comebacks, experience — and WordPress thinks readers around the world are dying to know whether I prefer tuna salad or ham and cheese.

It’s like the prompt writer clocked in, glanced around the office, saw a bowl of fruit on the counter and said:

“If you were a banana, explain.”
Submit.
Done. Taco break.

Meanwhile, our blogs — real blogs, with substance — are seen globally. People read them in Canada, India, Spain, Australia, places we’ll never physically visit. And instead of encouraging richer human stories, we’re essentially being asked:

“Do you enjoy crayons?”

Listen, I’m not trying to be mean.
But these prompts are supposed to inspire the creative community on WordPress, not put us back in 8th grade homeroom.

Some bloggers pour their hearts into these answers, too:

“My favorite color is lavender because it symbolizes my mystical transformation into my true authentic interior self…”

No. Stop.
It’s a color.
You like it because it looks nice on throw pillows.

I get these prompts and think:
We have a golden opportunity here — a pipeline straight to thousands of new readers— and we’re wasting it on questions that nobody, anywhere, cares about.

Not one reader on Earth woke up today wondering,
“Gee, I hope someone explains why they prefer blue over green.”

We could be diving into life stories, pivotal moments, wisdom, mistakes, inspiration.
Instead we’re ranking ice cream flavors like we’re in summer camp.

So, fine — I answered “beach.”
But WordPress, you can do better. Much better.

And since you’re not doing it… I will.

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Beebop’s 10 REAL Blog Prompts That Would Actually Inspire Grown Humans

1. What decision changed your entire life — and what alternate history would exist if you chose differently?
2. What truth did life slap you in the face with that you never expected?
3. When was the exact moment you realized you were officially “getting older”?
4. What belief did you hold for decades that turned out to be completely wrong?
5. What skill changed your life that nobody ever taught you?
6. What would you tell your 20-year-old self if you had five minutes and no filter?
7. When did you finally stop caring what people think — or are you still working on it?
8. What goodbye changed you forever?
9. What’s something the whole world obsesses over that you think is totally overrated?
10. If you could relive one moment — unchanged — just to feel it again, what would it be?

Now those would get people writing.
Those would bring out real stories.
Those would spark conversation.

And they would actually make use of this incredible feature that gives us free exposure to thousands of potential readers.

Instead of…
“Tea or coffee?”

I mean, come on.

WordPress, this feature is pure gold — stop handing us bronze questions.

Beebop out.