Oct 28, 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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  2. Hi! I’m not new to blogging as I had many blogs before. I decided to start a new one and dedicate myself to it. My grandma used to tell me to always finish what I started; usually she ended her conversation with a quotation that goes “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” Here is the link to my first post. I’m sorry if I have grammar flaws as English is not my first language. By next year, I’m eager to upgrade my WordPress blog to personal.

    https://jerroldsolon.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/finding-earphones/

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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!

      Also, if you include the http:// bit of your blog’s address, and you’ll get a clickable link when you publish the comment. Voila:

      http://buddy562.wordpress.com

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  5. Hello to the blogging world. I am very new to this world of readers nd writers. Have put up my first post, which actually is just an introduction kind of write-up. Would be posting my first content really soon. Almost done working on that. Still learning basics. Would love it if you can just check out whats my blog is all about and give a little feedback as well, so that I can take up your suggestions and pretty much work on them. Looking forward to hear from you all. Thank you. Here’s the link to my post.
    https://wordpress.com/post/curatorofthecreativemind.wordpress.com/4

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    1. Hi Tina,
      Day 1 and getting on with life. Yes, anxiety attacks and other mental health concerns are rubbish. The way your blog lays them out and then offers a first aid plan is genius

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    2. Hey Tina,

      while I don’t suffer from severe panic attacks, I do have a way to calm myself whenever i feel anxious. I tend to just think of the most extreme possible outcome and then ask myself “So what?”. It may sound really simple, but it works wonders for me. 😀

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    1. Hey man, I’m sorry you had to go through such tough times. Didn’t realize that teachers have it rough too. I hope that you can overcome your emotional state and become a better person and teacher overall. I’m glad you started writing as a way of treatment. Good luck!

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    1. Shauna,
      that’s a really powerful post. I found your writing engaging and insightful. I like the way that your story just snuck in, rather than being the focus of the post, which was clever.

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    2. 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 post: https://trackingthethread.wordpress.com/2016/11/02/are-you-a-new-visitor/

      Also, I noticed that your blog’s home page has lots of placeholder text on it. You can find your theme’s details here: https://wordpress.com/themes/shoreditch — it’ll help you learn to customize and configure all the parts of your home page.

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  15. Hello bloggers. Finally came up with my first blog. It’s about festivities and particularly about decorating the house during the Diwali festival, which we celebrate in our part of the land, India. Have a read at it and let me know what you guys have to say about it.

    Our Kind Of Diwali!

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  16. Hello everyone! I just finished my first post. Please let me know what you think. I don’t really have a theme. I guess I’ll just post about life, inspiration, things I care about or find interesting. Thanks
    showofhandz.wordpress.com

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  18. Hi there
    I am steph i am new to this and trying to get used to word press. I have been advised via the tutorial to try my first blog on ;’First Friday’ so here goes. A post of my first blog;-

    First blog post

    Second attempt now. Thanks Michelle W for pointing me in the right direction. Hopefully!!!

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