Jul 13, 2015 / Community Pool

Community Pool

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

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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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  • 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!
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  1. Hello everyone!

    I just started my first beauty blog and I am having a horrible time formatting my posts. My main question is where do most of your new readers come from? My issue is that what my post looks like on my page formats completely different in reader. In reader it just looks horrible, and I was thinking of redoing my post because of it. But it looks amazing on my actual site.

    So my question is, should I focus my blog posts to look better in reader or on my actual site?

    Thank you so much!

    Blog: https://notalwaysknotty.wordpress.com/
    Last blog post in reader: https://wordpress.com/read/post/id/95624606/42

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    1. I personally like to scroll through the home page and being able to click on what I am interested in reading. Like on yours I had to scroll through the other blog posts cuz they show up as a whole on your home page. Otherwise great picture quality!! I love it 🙂

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  5. Hi guys, I wondered if any of you would take a look at my latest post on my photography blog: anotherlifeinlondon.wordpress.com
    I mainly post film photography and am looking for some feedback/creative criticism as I am relatively new to it. Thanks!

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  6. Hello there, I hope you’re all enjoying the beautiful summer now 🙂 I’ve just started blogging in February and am quite new to this all. I came across many people mentioning backups of their posts. I’ve researched for a long time but couldn’t find anything easy enough to work with wordpress.com, the online program. I can’t install the plugins. The other suggested back up programs are not free or don’t work 😦 Then I read about the blogs being backuped automatically. Is that so – would my blog posts all be backuped automatically while writing them? Is there a way to make print versions of them and keep them separatedly as well, like, in a book or so? I’d be happy about any advice I’d get! Thank you, sincerely ❤

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    1. Printing and making them into a book sounds cool, but that would probably take a lot of paper and ink since your posts are usually long (nice writing btw!). As far as backups, I’ve always felt secure using wordpress.com.

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      1. Thank you very much Arianna for your comment! Does it mean, you have no backup feature at all? Yes, I know. It would be so cool if you could somehow have them all printed into a book, like those photobooks but a blogbook or such 😉 Thank you for your compliment as well – it means a lot to me!!! ❤

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  7. I have just published two new Christian posts, including “The Sunday Sermon”, as well as two links from The Lutheran Hour, so please feel free to read them. Thank you.-JW

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