Oct 14, 2016 / First Friday

First Friday

New blogger? Welcome! Share a link to your first post, say hello to 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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  7. Hi guys. I’ve just started a new blog though I’m not necessarily NEW to the blogosphere. I’ve posted a total of 3 posts so far and I’d appreciate if you popped by for a read and like and maybe even follow if you enjoyed. I intend to post a lot more posts on my personal experiences as well as my late-night thoughts but those need careful crafting and I have a bunch of drafts in the works right now so yeah. Have a good day 😁

    http://joyoelay.wordpress.com

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  12. I mainly blog about myself (and even that only started about a month ago) and am searching for a way out of that rut. Here is my first blog post that isn’t about my weekend:

    Links of the Week

    Any other aspiring lifestyle bloggers have topic inspiration for me? A little about me: I love to travel but haven’t done much of it, I was a former makeup artist and am an aspiring photographer trapped in a corporate job.

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      2. To clarify: the WordPress.com Reader actually filters out posts that use more than 15 tags and categories (combined) as an anti-spam measure, so using this many tags actually makes it harder for folks to find your posts. Links in posts don’t have anything to do with this, and the magic “15” is your total number of tags and categories together.

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    1. Welcome! You might consider either a different theme, or removing the header image on your site — right now, the theme’s balloons are fighting with the photo you’re using a header.

      If you’d like to remove the header image, you can do that by going to My Site > Customize > Header.

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, on the left — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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    1. Hi there! Please make sure you’re publishing your writing on your own blog — this is just a place to share links and connect with other people. I’ve edited your comment; if you don’t have the text saved elsewhere, let me know and we’ll email it to you.

      You might also want to make sure your blog’s address is correct in your profile, so that your name links to your blog when you leave comments. You can edit that here: https://wordpress.com/me/public-profile/

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  30. Hey I’ve started my blog yesterday! I’d love if anyone would like to support me and I’d support you back? I love it here and it would be awesome to have people enjoy what I do 🙂

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