Jun 3, 2016 / First Friday

First Friday

New blogger? Welcome! Share a link to your first post, say hello to some other new faces, and find your first few readers.

For other help:
If you’re not new and are looking for support or feedback, the Community Pool is the place for you!

For technical questions, visit the WordPress.com Support Forums.

To learn more about blogging, take a Blogging U. course.

To find, copy, and paste your link:
Head to your blog’s home page — not your dashboard, your blog itself. Click on the title of your post to open the individual post.

Highlight and copy the URL you see in your browser’s address bar, and paste the entire URL into a comment here.

We know it’s Sunday, not Friday! There was a scheduling glitch; First Friday posts will typically go up at 9AM Eastern Time on Fridays. Sorry for this week’s delay — have at it!

Welcome to First Friday, a weekly open thread where any new blogger can share a link to his or her very first post with the larger WordPress.com community. To share your first post with us, copy and paste the link right into a comment here. If you’re not new, you can still be a part of First Fridays: visit a link or two, and leave the blogger a like or comment.

Please don’t use this as a space to share your first post…. that you published three years ago; ditto for simply sharing your latest post. Posts should have been published within the last month, and should be your first post. We’ll remove other posts to keep this space focused for new bloggers.

We ask that you help us keep this space focused by following a few additional guidelines:

  • We encourage anyone who shares a link to visit a few other bloggers. New readers for all!
  • When commenting, the third time is not the charm: don’t share the same link repeatedly, or in multiple First Friday threads. We’ll remove repeat posts.
  • Link directly to your new post, rather than to your blog generally — it makes it that much easier for folks to like the post or leave you comments.
  • Avoid repeated “Follow for a follow!” comments. (Tip: if you’re trying to build a readership, it’s much more effective to visit and comment on individual bloggers.)
  • To keep from losing your place while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on links to open them in a new tab or window.
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  1. Hello everyone. I am Ritwik Mitra, a teenager from India and I opened my WordPress account today. I don’t have any experience on blogging before but I do have some of my writings I would love to share. I just want some feedbacks on my first post that I uploaded just a few minutes ago. So I look forward for some views and feedbacks from ya all. Thank-you.. 🙂

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  16. Probably a bit late for this, but here is my first review on my blog…
    The Biology Yak aims to provide reviews of current research, in a way that is understandable to people who are not experts in that area. I also aim to put this research in the context of public health and medicine, and how it may impact everyday lives
    I’d love for people to have a look at this blog and give me any feedback, thank you! 🙂

    The extraordinary Monocercomonoides- how a Chinchilla introduced us to one of the world’s most unusual organisms

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    1. FYI: that link goes to your dashboard, which is private, so people won’t be able to see your site. The simplest way to get the public link is = to go to your blog’s main page and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that.

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  24. Hi! I finally did it. One of my dreams was to write my own book. Well… Blogging is not exactly book writing, but close to it. I am so very excited. Even if no one will read it, I can still say I finally did it! If you decide to read it, I know you will enjoy it. I believe it’s something different.

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  25. Hi there, I’m not new in blogging. I started a blog in 2001. But after a few years I dropped it. While I still have all the content from that time, I have not kept it online. I tried many times to start a new blog, but always ended up leaving it unattended.

    Now I am following the Everyday Inspiration course and feeling more confident that I will be able to sustain it. If you want to take a peak, look at my first post: https://lettermyself.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/letter-01-i-write-because/

    All feedback is highly appreciated.

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  29. I’m new to blogging and I’m trying to figure out this gig. Please give mine a read and offer any feedback you might want to offer. I’m writing about life, but mostly my experience after my 21 year old told me he was transgender.

    Here’s my first blog post. I’m on to my second and third. Trying to figure out tagging too so any advice would be appreciated.
    http://couragedoesnotalwaysroar.com/anvils-from-the-sky/

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  30. Hello veterans, I am new to blogging. Lots of figuring out to do. But I am sure I am gonna enjoy writing blogs. My first official blog is gonna be about my visit to Taiwan. Any suggestions are welcome. 🙂

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