Jun 23, 2013 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Community Pool

The Community Pool is for those of you looking for input, whether on post ideas, writing, blog design and layout, or anything else. If you have a post, page, or idea you want to bounce off someone, leave a comment. Your fellow bloggers can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

Read on for the ground rules and to leave a comment . . .

  • You’ll get the best feedback if you can be as specific as possible about what you’d like people to respond to or where you’re struggling.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. We’re here to help and support one another, not to beat anyone down.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.
  • No running on the deck.

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  4. Hi all,

    I want to be able to add book reviews to my blog, but ideally as the rest of my blog is quite triggering (sexual abuse content) I want there to be a way for people to only view the reviews if they choose?

    1. Do you think this is a good idea? And

    2. How can I make it work?! I’m envisioning a sort of drop down option that when you click it, takes you to an almost duplicate homepage just with only my book reviews visible.

    Yours computer-illiterately!

    http://www.understandingmeandher.wordpress.com

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      1. Hmm I didn’t really want to do that as my reviews will have a spin on them based on what I’ve experienced. Maybe it isn’t possible! Thanks.

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    2. There is a way to do this.

      First, pick a blog theme that minimizes the amount of text on the front page or reduce what’s already there. (This part is optional.)

      Then, go to your Blog Admin site, go to “Pages” on the menu on the left side, and click “Add new.” You can title this page “Reviews” and the page’s content can be nothing but the titles of your reviews with links to each one. Once you’ve published the new page (and you can revise it as you add new reviews), a link should automatically appear either on your blog header or footer (if your theme allows it). You can then choose to add a widget that will put a link to the page on your sidebar.

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  5. I started this blog to share my thoughts on yoga with everyone and also to shed light on different things related to yoga. My target audience is anyone who is interested in yoga, and also people who don’t know anything about yoga, but are curious. I would like to know how can I make this blog more attractive and useful to people in terms of content and aesthetics. Thanks!
    http://yogawithpragya.wordpress.com

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  8. Hi, I would like your opinion about my blog ” The diaries of the Happy Loner” specially the writing style since English is not my native language, if anyone could take it a quick look I would deeply appreciate it, thanks in advance!

    http://carlisdm1.wordpress.com/

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  13. Two thoughts:

    1- Where you customize your blog theme, go to where you added your custom background image. Try changing one of the settings from fixed to scroll and see if that helps.

    2- I have no problem with the diverse writing voices you use. If you’re not happy with the more academically oriented style, try writing it as though you were preparing a lecture for college freshmen.

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    1. amazing post. my father was very poor in maths and now i see the connection that why is he always over stepping the budgets or why the bank has to give us those subtle reminders about our housing loan.

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  18. Hi folks, this is a new blog I set up and starting writing articles for just a fortnight ago, main topics are news and current affairs from an Irish perspective. Just looking for advice on how to promote the blog outside of my predominantly Irish social media network and to make an international audience aware of the blog. Many Thanks, John. http://irishonlineradio.wordpress.com/

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