Thank you for your interest in contributing to the Strapi Blog! We welcome everyone in the Strapi community to share their experiences, insights, and expertise with fellow developers worldwide. By writing for us, you can educate, inspire, and engage other Strapi users worldwide.
📋 Apply to the program by filling out the form at the bottom of this page.
🔗 Join our Discord channel. We have the WFC channel and Open Office hours where writers can come to ask questions and get good ideas for articles.
💭 Choose or submit a new topic. If you are a first-time writer for the Strapi blog, the Strapi team will provide you with potential topics. New topics will only be accepted from more experienced writers.
🔍 You must read the Article Submission Guidelines thoroughly to get started.
✅ Upload & publish your content following the guidelines.
We usually have a lot of requests, so please be patient with us. It may take 15-30 days for us to review your topic.
🚀 Get paid. Once your article is reviewed and published on our blog, you can submit your invoice to get paid. To issue and submit your invoice, please check the FAQ section on this page.
Every writer should fill out the vendor form once. Please submit this form before getting started on articles to ensure we can pay promptly.
🤝 Provide Support. Once your blog post is published. Please click on the discussion at the end of your post, register here: https://forum.strapi.io, and click on “watching” to receive a notification automatically once a new comment is made. We rely on you to monitor the comments and support the community.
Review the Article Submission Guidelines BEFORE working on your first draft. Then go over our FAQ section in this page to learn more about the submission process.
Yes, you must follow these article guidelines. Articles that do not follow our guidelines will not be published on Strapi.
Every writer should fill out the vendor form once. Please submit this form before getting started on articles to ensure we can pay promptly.
You get paid for articles published on the Strapi Blog, and the article will be published under your name, along with a profile picture and a link to your Twitter profile.
We follow these criteria to compensate our writers.
Note: we are currently not accepting new articles until January 1st, 2023, since we have enough articles in the cue. Please note the new pricing will go into effect starting January 2023.
Level | Words | Payment |
---|---|---|
Beginner Articles / Tutorials | < 1300 words | $100 |
Beginner Articles / Tutorials | > 1300 words | $150 |
Intermediate Articles / Tutorials | < 1300 words | $200 |
Intermediate Articles / Tutorials | > 1300 words | $250 |
Advanced articles / Tutorials | < 1300 words | $300 |
Advanced articles / Tutorials | > 1300 words | $350 |
For article or series of tutorials updates, check this page. You can also get paid with Open Collective gift cards or Amazon gift cards.
All WFC members must fill out this form before submitting a draft/outline to allow us to process payments.
Beginner: A beginner tutorial or article shares with users what are the fundamentals of Strapi, best practices of native features, the basics of Strapi combined with other technologies, general use cases, and guides explaining the basics of the ecosystem (e.g., “What is JavaScript?”). This type of blog post answers questions like “what is” and “how-to’s” that include one or two technologies diving into getting started with Strapi with other frameworks.
Intermediate: An intermediate tutorial or article that dives into Strapi’s customization capabilities, implementation best practices, and development using Strapi with other technologies. This type of blog post answers questions like “how-to’s” that include diving into a more complex development of Strapi back-end customization and deployment.
Advanced: An advanced tutorial or article that dives into more extensive expertise on Strapi’s customization, building blocks/primitives. This type of blog post introduces users to complex concepts and provides different solutions to uncommon scenarios.
Note: The Strapi team will assign a tag during the outline process and confirm on the article draft submission that it is still in line with the label given.
Once your blog post is published on our blog, please follow the below guidelines to submit your invoice:
Unfortunately, content published on our blog is currently in English only.
No, we only publish original content to our blog. Submitted content must pass a plagiarism checker.
Strapi claims the blog post piece as our own after it is published and you have been compensated. You can however publish it on your Dev.to & Hashnode account as part of Strapi organization using a canonical link pointing to the Strapi post.
If you'd like to ask a question that isn't covered here, please reach out on Discord (Paul) or send an email to paul.bratslavsky@strapi.io or dessire-ugarte.amaya@strapi.io.
Writing for Strapi has been a great way to learn about the headless CMS, and about other modern web development tools, and develop myself in the process.