This program is for Strapi enthusiasts who want to contribute to our list of developer tutorials, and deep-dives with code covering use-cases, solutions and projects built with Strapi that include (not limited to) Vue, Open Source, JavaScript, GraphQL, Jamstack, React. We're looking for writers who are developers first.
📋 Join the Write for the Community Program by filling the form at the bottom of this page.
🔗 Join our Discord channel. We have a dedicated space for the "Write for the community" for news & updates and introduce yourself
💭 Propose a topic and an outline. Pitch your article/tutorial idea to us or select an existing issue in our community content GitHub repository.
How to Get Started
1- Have your own topic or tutorial? Create a new issue and include an outline of what you have in mind. Submit your own article proposal
2- You can also browse and select any existing topic labeled with "looking for an author". Add a comment to show your interest and include a short summary and a detailed outline. Write about topics / tutorials requested by our community
✅ Once you submit you proposal, our team will review, approve your request and assign you the article in Github.
✍️ 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.
🚀 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 in this page.
🤝 Provide Support. Once your blog post is published. Please click on discussion at the end of your post, register here: https://forum.strapi.io and click on "watching" to receive automatically a notification once a new comment is made. We rely on you to monitor the comments and support the community.
Yes, you must follow these article guidelines. Articles that do not follow our guidelines will not be published on Strapi.
Please note that due to a problem with our payment provider Wise, we are unable to pay writers with Nigerian bank accounts, as a result we won't be accepting submissions from writers in Nigeria until we find an alternative.
After the approval of your submitted topic and outline. You can start writing your draft. We use Dropbox Paper to submit and review drafts. Please duplicate and use this article template.
Once your article is ready, please share the dropbox link to your article in a comment in your GitHub issue.
Include a link to the code repository, two blog post images add the word count at the bottom of your article (all content excluding code) - Make sure sharing permissions provides view & edit access to anyone who has the dropbox article link in order to avoid any delays as multiple members of our team will be checking the article.
You get paid for articles published to the Strapi Blog and the article will be published under your name along with a profile pic, and a link to your Twitter profile.
We follow this criteria to compensate our writers Articles (< 1000 words —> $100) Articles (> 1000 words —> $150 ) Tutorials (< 1300 words —> $120) Tutorials ( > 1300 words —> $200)
Please note that due to a problem with our payment provider Wise, we are unable to pay writers with Nigerian bank accounts, as a result we won't be accepting submissions from writers in Nigeria until we find an alternative.
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.
You can submit your own content ideas or select an issue raised by our community to write about. You can submit either technical or non technical content, covering the following topics: Headless CMS, Jamstack, Javascript, Open Source, and Strapi tutorials, guides, and How-tos.
There is no limit, but not every submitted article will be published.
Strapi claims the blog post piece as our own after it is published and you have been compensated. You can however after a month, publish this as long as you have 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
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.