Jan 26, 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).

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    1. I noticed that some of your posts were not categorised so I’d advise that making sure you categorise each one. You certainly have an interesting range of posts so far though I would have liked a little more detail in some of them. All in all you seem to have made a good start, just keep blogging.

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      2. Well it helps if you know what you want to write about, and you’ve clearly started with the categories you have. ‘My Life’ would be a good category perhaps if you’re interspersing personal posts with ones about music and life improvement.

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    2. Hi! Used to have the same template as yours. 🙂

      I like that the look of your entire blog is uncluttered. I must admit that I don’t get what your blog is about though. Maybe you can define what your main topics are. Are you blogging about your journey as an aspiring lawyer? 🙂

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  6. So, I commented on here a few days ago, but this is for a different post. I just posted this and incorporated a new idea that I might start using sometimes. This was just a trial post, and I managed to upload a couple of these in the wrong order, so it’s not as smooth as I’d liked it to be, but that’s something I would be more careful of next time. Please tell me what you think.

    A tribute to self expression

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  7. Hey everyone. Just started up my new site. Please check it out. I would appreciate any advice. Don’t forget to like my page on Facebook! Thanks.

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    1. Hi! Just checked your blog.

      It would be great if you could edit your “About” page so as to give your reader’s a bird’s-eye view of what your blog is all about.

      It seems that you mean to use your blog as a collection of personal reflections and life musings. Maybe you can add a photo or two per post though. Readers are drawn to visuals.

      Just a few tips. 🙂

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  11. Howdy partners. We are here to do more than give you words to read; I did not get very much response from this post:
    easily write a story

    Write a story and I will critique your draft; recommend a contest for it.

    Thank you for your time. Please, leave us feedback, let us review your stories for you. We are on a mission – to promote great fiction. 🙂

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  13. Hey people. I just wrote this post expressing my views and opinions about certain subjects that really bother me. It’s kind of personal in some ways and it’s the first time I’ve written about it, though it’s been on my mind a lot to write something like that. I’d love for people to go and check it out if you can and tell me what you think. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thanks for your time. I’m still trying to get more involved in the blogging community…and hopefully get more followers LOL. THANKS GUYS.
    https://thejustkeepswimmingblog.wordpress.com/2015/01/29/what-bothers-me/

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  15. Hi, Ben, This may not be the correct address to ask a specific question, but I don’t know where else to go. When I create a blog, I want to put my e-mail address in it for folks to contact me direct (I’m using the blog to market a children’s book I created). I cannot set up a direct link that they can click on to contact me. Isn’t there some way for that to be done? Thanks. Russell King, PE 8339 Raptor Tr. Lakewood, Illinois 60014 815-236-2904 russkingassoc@aol.com

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    1. If you’d like, one way to make it easier for readers to contact you is to add a Contact Info Widget, which would be visible throughout your site – here’s information on that one:
      https://wordpress.com/support/widgets/contact-info/

      You could also add a contact form to all your pages and posts — this has the distinct advantage of letting people email you without exposing your email address to the entire internet. Here are the instructions for doing that:
      https://wordpress.com/support/contact-form/

      I hope this helps!

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      1. Where is the “Classic Editor”? It is supposed to show a screen that has “Contact” on it, but I cannot find it.

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  16. I’ve just started this blog just weeks ago. Even though I’ve been writing on a different blogging website for a few years now, this is sort of new to me. That would be mainly because now I write about fictional characters compiled from real life personas, not about myself. At this point I’m just trying to get some critique on my writing, of any kind.
    Would appreciate it!

    https://sliceofsoul.wordpress.com/

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  18. I am always finding accessing ‘The Commons’ very difficult is it only me if there is something I need to know about leaving comments on this platform I would be grateful is someone helped me. Is the platform only for those doing the writing challenge?

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  20. I’m pretty frustrated with this whole Blogging U thing right now.

    1. I’ve created 5 different blogs over the past several weeks. Sure I’d like to get some feedback, and Ben says to “Tap into the wisdom of the Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments.” Where is “. . . here in the comments.”? is it this?

    2. What is a “Link”? If I want someone to contact me at my e-mail address, or Amazon.com, or some other e-mail address, through the blogs I create, is that a “Link”? If it is, can this Blog process be used so potential contacts can just click on the address? If so, how? I tried the Contact Widget, but that appears to contact through regular postal mail address. There was no mention of my e-mail address, and that is the contact I want used.

    3. OK, I “joined the conversation” and am posting these comments, I assume/hope someone will respond. How do you all locate the response for you out of these hundreds of posts? Do you really go through all 10 pages (or maybe more) to try to spot the post that addresses your original post? There’s got to be a simpler way, or I’m going to give up.

    Am I way out in left field?

    thanks.

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    1. 1. Yes, it’s here. Now visitors can run through your blogs and can leave you some feedback, here/ at your site.
      2. The comments/ likes to your post here will appear as a notification on the top right corner (an inbox icon). You can easily click and check.
      Also, you can trace and check for all the activities (like the comments you made/ blogs you liked & follow) by visiting the tab at left top corner.

      I hope this would have answered your 1st and 3rd questions. 🙂 However, I couldn’t understand your 2nd question. May be somebody else here, could help you on this.

      Also, a small yet easily skipped thing is the little check box option for Notifications on your new posts. Don’t forget to click check in order to receive notifications. 🙂
      Happy Blogging..!

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  26. Hi everyone, I am a relative newbie to blogging. A previous blog I decided to delete because I lost direction with it.
    So I would really appreciate any feedback on my new site. I am a teacher and really love writing/blogging so my posts are a combination of my knowledge as a teacher but also how they link to our lives. It’s still early days with it! Thanks in advance 🙂
    http://sarahbesty.com/

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  28. Hi,Im a new blogger and could really use some feedback on my blog mixedbagzurich.wordpress.com. its a memoir of my life in Zurich and intended give those intending to move here a glimpse of what to expect, or well just something whimsical to laugh about.

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