Well I’ll be honest this post is only a short one and I only decided to write about it just now after finding out something very frustrating regarding a guest post I had received from a certain Nick Medcalf on Twitter.

This guy contacted me the other day about a possible guest post he wanted to do for Design Woop which I happily replied accepting. We organized what the post would be about, which was WordPress 3.0 and custom posts, which sounded great, been that Design Woop itself runs on WordPress. Nick sent over a word document instantly and I thought nothing of it, if anything I was quite impressed he had the post prepared already, great for me and Design Woop readers!

I was just preparing the post to go live at which point a growl notification popped up on my screen and I noticed a tweet between Nick and a Twitter friend Jared Thompson talking about a recent post he’d just done for Jared regarding WordPress 3.0 that had just recently gone live! Hmm, I started scratching my head… could this perhaps be a similar post to the one he’d sent me? Well, not a similar post but the exact same post word for word!

What not to do when guest writing…. don’t send the same post to multiple sites that are trying to offer a similar kind of content.

Nick Medcalf = muppet.

ps. Please note Jared if you are reading this at all, I know you had nothing to do with this and you had clearly been sent the post at a similar time as I had so no worries there mate! :)