Aug 12, 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.

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. Welcome! 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. Here’s your site: http://example20223.wordpress.com/

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  7. Hi Everyone! This is such a great way to meet wonderful bloggers. I’d been crippled with writer’s block for years but I woke up one day and decided to write anyway. I started my blog a couple of days ago and dedicated my first poem to my grandmother

    To Ajji, with love

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  8. I have been interested in interviewing other bloggers!! Anyone interested can let me know. It is just a few questions. Love meeting new bloggers so let me know. Especially anyone new on why blogging? Why now?

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  18. Hello everyone! I am kind of new to all of this and I am a new Christian blogger. I hope to get some feedback on my blog and increase my views and more importantly my comments!!! Check it out redeemedroyalty.wordpress.com

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    1. Welcome! 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. Here’s yours:
      http://coffeecakediabetes.wordpress.com/

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      If you feel like you could use a little more help with the ins and outs of WordPress.com, there’s a really useful “getting started” tutorial here: http://learn.wordpress.com.

      It looks like you’ve been publishing the text of your posts in the title field of the post, which is why everything is appearing in such a large font — you’ll want to edit the post to paste the text into the main text area, then update. That will be a good first step! If you need a step-by-step explanation of the post editor, you can find that here: https://learn.wordpress.com/get-published/

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