Dec 7, 2015 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, 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?

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  2. Hello All, I’d really love some help with my social media widgets on http://www.thetroublesometraveller.com if possible? I have put in addresses that work for me as a URL but take me to a “woops” page when attached to the site icons. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong? (Go easy on me, I’m new!) If you do decide to have a look, the sidebar only appears on static pages for my theme, so you won’t see it on this homepage, but anywhere you go from there will have them (I hope…).
    Please Help! Thanks in advance!

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    1. Hello, I just visited your site and clicked on all the social icons, and they seem to work just fine — I’m guessing you managed to fix whatever was wrong in their URL? Let me know if there’s any other issue!

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  5. Hello all. I’m very new to the whole blogging thing. A little background, I’m just shy of my 39th birthday. I’m a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, a Constitutionalist and a Christian Conservative. I have a very live and let live attitude. I’ve often been described as laid back. I’m a ten year veteran of the National Guard, in some state/territory, and serve as a Combat Medic. Anyways, that’s likely all of the personal info y’all will get out of me. I posted my very first blog last night, and would welcome any feedback. Especially if you disagree with me. I’m adult enough to take it. (In case you’re wondering, I’m being intentionally vague on personal details, including my sex, because I’m still serving.

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  9. Hey you!
    I’ve just put up a new post. If anyone would check out my blog and give me some ideas – that would be great.
    Blog -http://literatureandstuff.wordpress.com/

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  11. hey, i’ve tried this a few times and keep running out of momentum but heres to my next try which i hope will keep going. i want to use the site as a kinda diary and get my thoughts down to read over later but hey give it a look and see what you think…

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  12. I cannot open my older document files; they have a Microsoft edge icon, blue ‘e’ with a yellow flash over it, and it offers ‘open’ or ‘save’. If I click on ‘open’ it just shudders, if I click on ‘save;’ it just makes a copy in the same place, and with the same options.

    This happened when I changed from 8 to Windows 10. It even does this when I plug in my passport and try to open those same saved files.

    I have looked at help files, but do not get the answer I want. What can I do?

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  13. Hey guys I’m a new blogger and I’ve just uploaded a new post. I’d be grateful if you could take a look, like and follow.

    Home

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