Nov 21, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and blogging camaraderie.

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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  • 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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  2. Hi guys, I would love to receive some feedback on my blog http://www.jessyroseonline.wordpress.com 😊 last week a lot of people said to clean up the format, so any comments on individual posts or the actual website itself would be so appreciated! I’m excited to hear from some interesting people 😊

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      1. Thankyou so much for taking the time out to read it 😊 I really want to provide people with new and interesting content related to health besides the regular stuff 😊

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  4. I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and check out a creative piece of narrated flash fiction, “N.Y.C.” I wrote it after watching a documentary on William S. Burroughs over a year ago. I thought it would fit in nicely with yesterday’s poem and tomorrow review of Junky. I cleaned the piece up, and posted it again. If you like it, please click the like button on the post page, and follow along for my poetry. Comments and feedback are welcome, and please leave them on the post page as well. Thanks in advance for reading.
    Drew

    N.Y.C.

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  6. Hello Fellow Bloggers! I’ve been blogging for about two and a half months now and it has been quite the adventure to say the least. 🙂

    My blog’s main focus right now is photography along with a few self-help posts. I would absolutely love some feedback on the blog itself: https://hagardiab.wordpress.com/

    Thank you so much and good luck on your blogging adventure everyone!

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    1. your photos are interesting and go well with your poems. very calming feel on your page, and I like that you include all parts of a pic (fall part 1 , pt 2, pt 3, etc.).
      You’re very honest and open on your “about” page, but do you mean to use the saying “down in the dumps”? not down in the dumbs?

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    1. I looked at your High School post. I like the ideas you presented. You began the post with several phrases instead of sentences. You might want to use complete sentences. For instance, ” A wonderful place to be.” would read better as, “High School is a wonderful place to be.” https://gracelead.co

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  9. Hey friend! Mood for some poetry? If your saying hell yeah, then you are just one click away from reaching your destination 😉
    Also, my latest poem,Blue Love,is pretty short but bet you’ll be pleasantly surprised and will leave it with a smile on your face when you read the last lines!
    Thanks for your time and here’s hoping you have the most fun-filled day ever!!
    https://aksmithoo.wordpress.com/

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  13. Hi guys!

    I’ve been trying to take new genre of writing, still using my own style though (from what I heard from the guy in the last community pool, it’s a delight!) But I’m still kinda figuring out if that kinda writings work for me.

    So kindly visit me and tell me what do you think?

    Love, Asna.

    https://yfns.wordpress.com

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  16. Hi there! I run a pop culture website and I’ve been going through my favorite movies recently, doing a series I call Personal Favorites. My most recent post goes through the Empire Strikes Back and what makes it one of my favorite films. I worry that the post is a little long-winded. I’d appreciate some feedback: https://popculturalstudies.wordpress.com/2016/11/22/personal-favorites-the-empire-strikes-back/

    Thanks, folks!

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  19. Hello all!

    I published this poem a little while ago (almost two weeks ago), but would really love to get feedback. I’m especially interested in feedback for this one, because unlike other poems this one failed to get at least one view.
    I just started writing poetry for the first time in MANY years, so though I want to be true to myself (in terms of style), I’d like to get an idea of where my general flow is going wrong.

    Any feedback at all is welcome (and feel free to read through and critique any other poems I’ve posted).

    https://graceszenpoetryspace.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/beware-the-snake/

    Thank you and have a marvelous week. ☺

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    1. I read your Thanksgiving post and appreciate your good advice. It would be easier to read the post if you broke it into shorter paragraphs. Your Home page is a bit stark. You might try letting your blog feed your Home page. You could put your welcome/about information on an About page. https://gracelead.co

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  22. apolychromaticworld.wordpress.com that’s my blog… 6 posts as of now.. Poems plus stories.. Please give it a look..

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      1. Thank you. Perhaps I will give that a shot. The only reason why I put it after was because I wanted people to see the photos first. I appreciate the feedback!

        I took a look at your blog and I like it. It’s also well organized and I found your posts quite insightful. I had no idea that’s what parables meant haha. I also liked your About page. Your message and purpose is very clear. Great job!

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  28. Hello everyone! I recently started a blog to showcase some of my writing and photography. I plan on posting about many different topics, all which interest me and are a large part of my life. Please give it a read and let me know of anything you see that I may be able to do differently, that you like, that you don’t like, or just a random comment! I will read yours as well and share some feedback as well.

    https://mysticandthejester.com/2016/11/16/armor/

    Thanks!

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      1. Thank you. I’ve been providing sources, as I want people to look this stuff up themselves. I want people to see for themselves what’s going on. Believe it or not, our society in the midst of committing collective suicide, in the face of an enemy that’s made it their mission to wipe us out. This isn’t about individual Muslims, there are more than 1.6 billion of them, they can’t all have the same motivations. This is about Islam itself, and what it teaches. That’s why I provide sources and seek to answer counter arguments before they arise.

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  30. Hello all Techy-heads

    I’ve got a very specific question about moving from a wordpress.com site to a self hosted wordpress site. Can anyone help me? Its about the ‘reader’ – I can still access that, but through my now defunct wordpress.com site. Is there another way?
    Also, is it possible for people to ‘follow me’ through their reader or it is now only possible to have new subscribers through their email?
    I’m finding it very, very difficult to get answers to these sort of questions now (I have loads of others like this too!)
    My new website is http://www.wordsandleaves.com. My old site was http://www.penguinedition.wordpress.com

    Thank you if there’s anyone out there!

    L.

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