Jan 12, 2015 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for advice, feedback, and friendly blogging chatter.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Did you recently start your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

To help us make the Community Pool a productive space for discussion, here are some tips you might find useful:

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  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
  • The Community Pool comments section can get quite big — and starting duplicate threads doesn’t help. Thanks for not posting the same question more than once!
  • If you’re looking for quality feedback, be as specific as you can. Questions about a particular post tend to draw more comments than ones about entire blogs. Questions about specific design elements are more likely to be answered than ones asking for general layout advice.
  • We discourage leaving links without a more substantive message or question. These are often overlooked by other bloggers, and we frequently remove them to make the comment reading experience smoother.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.

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  2. Hello everyone,
    I’ve recently started a new blog and am looking for some help or feedback on it! As I’m quite new to wordpress im also struggling with making my blog exactly the way I want it, and am wondering how I could customise it more?

    Im also looking for some blog buddies!!

    I would be so grateful if anyone could have a look at my blog and give me some feedback about their thoughts! If you do I will be sure to do the same for you 🙂

    Graciellen xx

    graciellen.wordpress.com

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  6. Hi everyone. I haven’t really spent much time here but I just published a new post and was wondering if someone could give me some feedback on it. Hopefully check out some of my other posts as well? I’m really not getting much traffic so I was wondering if anyone has any advice for that. Please tell me any thoughts you have on my content, blog design, blog name and anything you have to say!!!

    https://thejustkeepswimmingblog.wordpress.com/

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  7. Greetings! I have been writing this piece on human trafficking very passionately during this past week. This is an issue very close to my heart and one that deserves the attention of all people. Please take a look at my recent post “A Modern Day Slavery: Human Trafficking & Its Horrifying Reality.” Here is the link http://www.samszpor.wordpress.com/blog

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  9. Hola. I started my blog this month, and I’ve got a question about the importance of sidebars.

    My blog is crafts focused, so images are important. I love the aesthetic of my current theme a (Boardwalk, but I’m also considering Cubic, which is similar.) The tradeoff of is users have to click the menu to see the sidebar. QUESTION: Do your blogs have sidebars visible on every page? How important are they in encouraging interaction?

    Thanks for your feedback, and let me know if you want feedback from me.

    https://bluecarpaintedgreen.wordpress.com/

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  10. I noticed that the “Follow” button is really subtle on my blog megankohli.wordpress.com. Is it because I use the Fictive Theme or can I move this around in the design features? Thanks for comments!

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