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.
Photo by t_a_i_s.
Currently blogless? You’re a click away from sharing your story.
Create your blog at WordPress.com
I would love some feedback or discussion on one of my recent posts http://brandonsmommyforever.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/my-thoughts-on-modern-culture/
LikeLike
Hello Pool,
Can anyone tell me whether video or slide shows can be inserted into blogs? I would like to consider this for the future
My blog is http://boruachelohim.wordpress.com/
LikeLike
Yes,they can definitely be inserted into the blogs. I’m posting some links which will be helpful –
https://wordpress.com/support/presentations/ (for presentations)
https://wordpress.com/support/videos/ (for videos)
LikeLike
For Vimeo videos –
https://wordpress.com/support/videos/vimeo/
LikeLike
For you tube videos –
https://wordpress.com/support/videos/youtube/
LikeLike
Yes,they can definitely be inserted into the blogs. I’m posting some links which will be helpful –
https://wordpress.com/support/presentations/ (for presentations)
LikeLike
That’s really kind Gaurab. Thank you – I will have a look at the links
Linda
LikeLike
@lindasgalvin
For future reference note that all support documentation is at this link http://support.wordpress.com and that link appears on the bottom of your Admin page as well as in many other locations on the site.
LikeLike
Thank you for your reminder Timethief – I think what I was actually trying to find out was whether people had done so and how successful it was. Do you have any examples on your blog?
Best wishes Linda
LikeLike
It’s uncanny. This can’t be a coincidence.It has happened in two separate weeks 😉
LikeLike
oops! sorry posted in the wrong thread. 🙂
LikeLike
http://ashleynicole20.wordpress.com/
Feedback regarding content and writing style would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for reading!
LikeLike
I’m liking your blog – the writing style is, at least for me personally, very clear and engaging. I look forward to reading into it!
LikeLike
Thank you for your kind words – they mean so much!
LikeLike
I liked the little girl… 😉
LikeLike
Why, thank you – I’m glad it resonated with you. 🙂
LikeLike
Read couple of entries. Nice! Quite emotional for me, but it’s ok 🙂
Will keep reading 😉
LikeLike
Thank you for reading & commenting. 🙂
LikeLike
Just went thru the stuff, nice work you are doing there. Keep it great
LikeLike
Thank you! That means so much.
LikeLike
I would like reader/ writers/lovers and everyone who see this comment must come to my blog and review my latest post— in pieces
http://rosesandcoffee.wordpress.com/2013/10/27/in-pieces/
suggestions are welcome like festival. I would love to listen.
I’m a good reader too so anyone can drop a comment and I’ll be there for reading
LikeLike
any help with design would be great
LikeLike
Can’t pretend to be a design expert, but I do have a postgraduate degree in editing.
Your title must be “lose”, not “loose”.
LikeLike
keeping your pic instead of a generalized would be adding value. Also the need of changing the previous comment.
LikeLike
I’m an artist, so I’d recommend making your blog more visually interesting. A nice header image and a nice profile/gravatar image would really help the look of your blog. Both should be interesting and relevant to the theme of your blog. They should also coordinate with each other and the color scheme of your blog. Eye-catchy is okay, just keep it professional looking. Ask/hire someone artistic for specific ideas if you are not sure what to use.
Some blog themes allow you to change the background color into an image – you don’t necessarily need to do that since the blue symbolizes water, but if you do keep it simple and don’t let it distract from the text.
LikeLike
Hey guys, What do I need to improve in my blog as a whole? Any suggestions about my writing or topics or layout?
http://lifeconfusions.wordpress.com/
LikeLike
Layout is good, visually attractive (I love your theme and colour scheme! 😀 ) I’m really enjoying reading it, I think it’s a really appealing blog 😀 Sorry about the lack of suggestions haha
LikeLike
Haha…Thank you so much. Its only a lack of suggestion but a bundle of compliments. Thank you for taking time to go through my blog 🙂
Now I’m off to check out your blog ! 😀
P.S sorry for replying this late, I’ve been really busy with my studies.
LikeLike
Nice posts , keep blogging
LikeLike
Hello everyone! I would love input on my blog design (user friendly, attractive design, relevancy to blog posts, etc.). Any feedback on my blog posts would be greatly appreciated as well! I am very new to WordPress and the blogging community. I hoping blogging will help open up some career options.
Blog – http://www.thebrokesavvyblonde.com
Thank you!
LikeLike
I am*
LikeLike
Hi everyone!
Would love some feedback on my recent post; http://laugraeva.wordpress.com/
I’ll do yours if you do mine! Thanks!
LikeLike
You have given a clear view and really likes the pleasant background. BTW nICE CATCH : I’ll do yours if you do mine!
LikeLike
Haha thanks! It certainly works!
LikeLike
How do you guys remain consistent? I’m struggling to keep it up for no good reason really.
I’d appreciate any feedback on my last couple of posts:
http://improvingslowly.wordpress.com/2013/09/22/my-first-month-of-meditation/
http://improvingslowly.wordpress.com/2013/09/18/allowed-to-have-problems/
thanks
LikeLike
I am just starting out with my blog. For privacy the privacy of my husband mostly (as a lot of stories involve him) I have chosen to use fake names or no names in my posts. This is also why, as of right now, I have chosen not to share my blog on my facebook because family and friends would then know who the stories are about. My question is what are some other ways to get my blog noticed, and for people to start following?
LikeLike
Hi. You should make a Twitter account and a Google+ page with the name of your blog. This gets a good amount of traffic in. I would also love to have you feedback about our blog at http://radicalistic.wordpress.com/
Thanks
Happy Blogging
LikeLike
Ok thanks, and will do!
LikeLike
Hello everybody. I would really love to have some feedback for our blog and posts. Please feel free to hit with any kind of comment whether appreciative or criticising. Thanks
http://radicalistic.wordpress.com/
LikeLike
I am the epitome of the blogger “newbie”. I have been doing intense reading about becoming a self published author and everything says you have to create your own blog…so here I am! I have so many wonderful visions about publishing my books, but man, what a process. I am really excited about it but can certainly use all the help I can get. I take constructive criticism very well, so, please, bring it on!
LikeLike
May I suggest you read Catherine Ryan Howard’s wonderful book ‘The Sane Person’s Guide to Self-publishing’? She also blogs as ‘Catherine, Caffeinated’.
all the best
Carol
LikeLike
Yes, definitely. Thank you so much. I need all the help I can get. Thanks for your comment.
Cindy
LikeLike
Um.. Cindy, Need a link, says your blog doesn’t exist….??
LikeLike
Oops. Where do I put it? In my comment for people to find it? I told you I was a total newbie! It is cindydahl2007.wordpress.com
Thanks, Cindy
LikeLike
Test
LikeLike
Hi, I would love some feedback on one of my recent humor posts!
Does the story make sense? Where are places that it is funny or places that it drags? Is the post tagged well? Just some ideas! Thanks!
LikeLike
Your post flowed very nicely and included great insight while presenting it in a humorous fashion. Well done!
LikeLike
hello
LikeLike
I love listen. I love to improve and get better. Here go and look! M waiting!
LikeLike
Hey guys I’m new to blogging so would really help me out if you could check out my blog! Much thanks x
http://Www.emilyalicegrace.wordpress.com
LikeLike
hi
If you like visiting India, contact me.
LikeLike
Hi Everyone: Please leave me feedback on my blog posts that feature the coolest and most relevant content in the world. Also, let me know any great content you’d like me to review for posts. Best, Ginger
LikeLike
Hey, would like to share this post, so far it’s been pretty popular. Tell me what you think. 🙂
LikeLike
I’m liking this too, but I can’t put my finger on why….apart from the fact that it’s nicely written, intriguing, lyrical. Sorry not to be more specific or more helpful.
LikeLike
I’d love feedback too. 🙂
http://randomlyabstract.wordpress.com/
LikeLike
Thanks to everyone for helping out with my mission last week. I also passed reached my 100th post 🙂
I’ve just published one of the most complicated posts I have done so far and would appreciate a little bit of feedback on it:
http://stevemcp2002.wordpress.com/2013/10/26/im-steve-and-i-am-an-itunes-a-holic-part-one/
Thanks as always,
Steve
LikeLike
I am new to blogging as well. My goal with my blog is to become a better writer, but also to get some awareness and information out there. I have not finished building my blog yet so I already know it has some work. However I did make my first post the other day called ‘180 Degrees’ just to get something down. I think it is a little bit rambly (yes, I made that word up) but I would like some feedback.
jq1317.wordpress.com
LikeLike
any kinda feedback would be great (writing style, what you got from the story, how do I come off to you?) thanks in advance!
LikeLike
Just a small blurb in your about page to start you off, you can revise and add to it later. 🙂
LikeLike
Every day photographers post their photos in photo groups but it is impossible to look at all of them.
My idea is that each blogger who is interested in photography periodically submits photos he selected in a post with numbers and a question “What is your favorite photo?”
It will motivate people and prevent good photos from being missed by WP community.
Today I made such a post and ask everybody to respond to it.
LikeLike
Excellent suggestion! I will use this in the near future. Thanks!
LikeLike
Thank you for supporting me. Would you be so kind to comment on my post “What is your favorite photo”? .
LikeLike
With pleasure. I just did. Could you do me the used favor and check my photo website http://www.outoffocusmoments.com and give me your opinion? Thanks!
LikeLike
Beautiful photos! I love them in addition to the poems!
LikeLike
Hi! Thank you very much for noticing and taking the time to look at it and comment! It’s actually the photography that made me start writing… 😉
Thanks for your positive feedback! (Of course now I’m curious about your favorite ;-))
LikeLike
Thanks for the venue Daily Post!
Like many who have commented before me I’m new to this blog thing and would love some feedback. I’m a photographer who wants to share their journey as well as photos!
I’m looking in keeping to a very neat, ‘fine quality’ look in all my endeavors and websites, if anybody know of anything I can do that I have missed please let me know!
http://siriusphotoart.wordpress.com/
LikeLike
To me I use wordpress as a writing blog. In regard to photography, I choose for more photography designed sites with more a site feel and add a blog there. This can be wordpress of course. It’s a design matter to me
LikeLike
Hi everyone, would love some feedback on my recent topics. I try to stick to bi-monthly topics but I am struggling to keep writing as I am quite busy at the moment. I try to make it interesting as possible but I’d love some feedback on writing style and/or content! Thanks!
http://www.halfdecentgigrider.wordpress.com
LikeLike
Hello WordPressers,
I wonder, where do you all get your inspirations from? 😀
LikeLike
Hi Jill, in my case it is partly filled by daily experience, but mostly ideas that pop up in my mind or heart. Small emotions and observations already give me so much input 😉 (hope this helps?)
LikeLike
Hi JIll
I agree, daily experience is the best inspiration. Do you jot small things down when you think of them, creating short paragraphs that could develop into blogposts? Even if they don’t, just gettin things down leads to more and better writing.
LikeLike
The best inspirations could be found in true stories you see everyday and interests you. What interests you will probably interest others, not necessarily a lot of people, but those who have things in common with you. At the end of the day all bloggers are looking for those who can feel what the hell they are talking about and why did they write their blog. You can simply find inspiration in people’s faces around you in your collage, work, street, bus, underground, etc…
Finally what’s most important is that your subject should say something. Don’t create a blog that’s like a narration of your daily life. These blogs are disgusting. Try to transfer your experiences to others. Let them benefit from what you have been through.
LikeLike
Things I see, things I hear – things that make me blow my top or want to share the pleasure…responses to blogs I enjoy – blogging is so much like a good conversation.
LikeLike
From people , where else????
LikeLike
Thank you for your responses. I agree that daily experiences and people are the best inspiration. Sometimes we have to find the balance betweens sharing and privacy.
LikeLike
Self hosted vs. wordpress.com. I am confused and know just enough to be dangerous. I am in love with my wordpress.com site. I love how easy it is. I love the dashboard and understand it, etc. But. I’m ready to make my blog do things that I don’t think it can do on wordpress.com. What are the advantages/disadvantages to moving my blog to my own site and self-hosting. I don’t want to leave wordpress…just host it on the site I own. Does that make sense? Does the dashboard stay with it? Help. Clearly I need some guidance here. Thanks for any help you can offer. My site is http://www.mommyverbs.com
Thanks!
Sharon
LikeLike
Why don’t you try both next to each other for a while? I use different blogs for different things and they can co-exist
LikeLike
What an awesome idea this is! I will definitely look through the comment list to see if I can contribute to someone. In the meantime for me I have just two favors to ask:
1) as a freshman in writing I would be delighted by any feedback on my blog. Especially in my aim as a non-native English writer to find out if I am able to communicate the sentiment to you guys but at the same leave enough space for selfinterpretation.
2) any advise on getting more exposure, communities, etc. is more than welcome.
Thanks!!
LikeLike
Just in case you couldn’t find: http://www.handpickedmyself.wordpress.com 😉
LikeLike
i would love some feedback on my blog! I will give anyone else feedback as well!
http://journeyalongsideme.wordpress.com/
LikeLike