Aug 22, 2016 / 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? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

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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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To help us make the Community Pool a productive space for discussion, here are some tips and guidelines you might find useful:

  • 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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  • If you’re looking for quality feedback, be as specific as you can. Questions about a particular post tend to draw more comments than ones about entire blogs. Questions about specific design elements are more likely to be answered than ones asking for general layout advice.
  • We discourage leaving links without a more substantive message or question. These are often overlooked by other bloggers, and we frequently remove them to make the comment reading experience smoother. Also note that including multiple links in your comment might automatically put it in the moderation queue, which will delay its publication.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
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  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
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  1. Hey, guys. Are you into politics and history? Even just, like, kind of a little bit? Awesome! You’re my target audience and I need your help.

    I have a post on my blog asking for feedback. I want 1) to know what kind of content I would have to publish for my blog to be worth following in YOUR eyes and 2) to know a little about you as a person.

    So if you’ve got some time and woudn’t mind talking about yourself a little (we all love doing that, right?), head over to P&P and let me know what you think. Thanks!

    https://prejudicepolitics.com/2016/08/26/an-open-letter-to-history-nerds-and-politics-fans/

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    1. Hi there! I read through some of your content and honestly, I enjoyed reading it. As for the looks, If you make some of your pics featured pics, it will break up post after post after post on your page. Also (and this might just be me), I feel like I’ve seen your theme ALOT, maybe mix it up, try something a little more eye catching, with more color. That’s all I got! Let me know what you think, and check mine out if you can. 🙂 https://bexoxoblog.wordpress.com/

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      1. Thank you so much. I will have a go at playing around with my theme. To be honest, i was playing it safe. I have only just seen during my latest post, what featured pics are 🙈 i really appreciate your advice. Gonna pop over and check your blog out now 😊

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  6. Hi all, would really appreciate some feedback on my blog so far, I posted a few days ago and found that I had a lot of editing to do so I got on it and am interested in what people think. It’s definitely still in the baby steps stage but it’s got a lot more of my ‘touch’ about it now! Hope this works! eep!

    https://jemsgemssite.wordpress.com/

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    1. It’s beginning to come together. I like your posts so far. They are easy to read and the tone is conversational. You still have a few places with placeholder text that you might want to remove. For instance, go to WPAdmin > Posts and notice what is listed as your first post. This has placeholder text. You can simply delete that post so it doesn’t detract from your real posts. https://gracelead.co

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