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Welcome to the “weekly round-up” post from our ever-growing community of bloggers, vloggers, podcasters, and other content creators. Every week we hand-pick five top posts from a pool of the highest voted user-submitted/created posts in the community and include them in this weekly “listicle” blog post, along with the newsletter for all of our blog subscribers.

Here are this week’s most valuable posts from the /t/BES content creators community:

1. Pro Tip: Breaking down the toughest obstacle to blogging success (BES Original)
“We’ve all experienced it… Actually, many of us are struggling with it right now. It’s the appropriately phrased “chicken and egg” problem of what came first — the chicken or the egg. This enigmatic conundrum is as as old as blogging itself, a dilemma between content…”

2. The Anatomy of Popular Types of Blog Posts – and Why They Convert
“There isn’t actually a “right” or “wrong” type of blog post. It’s a blessing and a curse, really, because you’re not going to find one exact formula that will consistently produce oh-my-god-this-is-amazing results….”

3. Stop Avoiding Your Creative Destiny… Get Started Now
“Creativity emerges the moment your imagination awakens and you feel joy doing something you love. Perhaps it began with your first sand castle, finger painting, or reciting a poem. For most, it’s somewhere between the ages of 3 and 6, around the time…”

4. WordPress.com now offers thousands of plug-ins, themes to paying business members.
“For over a decade, WordPress.com has been the easiest way to get a blog online in mere minutes, but with a massive and unavoidable tradeoff; no support for any third party plugins, themes or widgets as offered by the .org version…”

5. Publishers Are Moving Back to WordPress After Short Experiments with Medium
“The Awl, ThinkProgress, Film School Rejects, and several other publishers have moved back to WordPress after short experiments on Medium. In early 2016, Medium convinced a collection of small, independent publications to move to its platform…”

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