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?

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

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!
  • The Community Pool comments section can get quite big — and starting duplicate threads doesn’t help. Thanks for not posting the same question more than once, as well as for not starting numerous threads in a single Pool.
  • 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!
  • To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
  • No running on the deck.

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  2. QUESTION: Anyone using WordPress app for Android? I have a draft in the wordpress app. I updated the post on my laptop and published it. Whenever I view the post on my mobile, it’s still written LOCAL DRAFT. My question is, if I delete the one on the mobile app, will it delete the published post as well? Thank you for the reply.

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  12. Hi! I’m a high school student who started this blog as an outlet. It is full of ramblings, and I’d like some help with figuring out which direction to take it in and a good title for it. Thanks!

    kvmalhotra.wordpress.com

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    2. Hello, I enjoyed reading about your Braai, it’s a wonderful tradition. I wasn’t sure if this is intentional, so if it is then please excuse my ignorance, but I noticed that you don’t use ‘read more’ tags, so you might find that your stats wont really show you which of your posts are the most popular because it’s possible to read them in full from your home page. It also means that if (like me) someone reads the whole thing straight from the home page, then the ‘like’ button isn’t immediately visible, because you have to be in the article to see that, so you might find that you don’t get as many likes as you would, because people mostly won’t bother to go looking for it – which is a shame, because your posts are definitely ‘like-worthy’ 🙂 Anyway, it’s only a small thing, but it might make a difference to your stats and help you to know what’s popular with your audience. I hope you find some success in the blogging community this time around. Good luck!

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      1. Thank you very much for your comment. I definitely didn’t know about the read more tag. Apparently there is a lot to learn about blogging. I will definitely look it up and use it. Thank you again for your encouraging words and I am glad that you enjoyed reading my blog 🙂

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      3. No problem at all! When you write a new post (or edit an existing one) it’s one of the icon’s at the top of the page. It’s on the far right of the edit tools, there’s an @ symbol, which is for adding a contact form, and the symbol to the left of that is two bold lines with a perforated line in between, which is your ‘read more’ tool. If you click the point of your text where you want to end the preview, then click this button, it will add in a line to your post which will mark the end of the preview, so people will have to click the ‘read more’ button to take them to the full post. Always good to use it at a point of interest or suspense! … This is all assuming that all WordPress editor pages look vaguely similar, I’ve never really thought about it!

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    3. Keep going and be inspired. My suggestion is for you to think of a particular niche which you most love or is your passion of doing to your blog. Lets say travel, photography, lifestyle, poem, fashion, general, politics or anything. Strip it down to specific niche so you can focus more and can write more. It is only my suggestion, I hope it helps. Happy blogging!

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  14. Greetings everyone

    My name is Lele and I’ve been running an online ministry called ‘She is predestined’ for a year. I’m the founder and editor, have a team of ladies I’m writing with. I would really appreciate some feedback regarding it, what we need to do, change and the likes.

    http://www.sheispredestined.com

    Thank you

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  15. Hi All, I’ve just come to the end of a series of posts leading up to my departure from NZ to the next destination on my agenda, this final post is a mixture of travel and the more emotional side of the journey, so if you’re interested in reading you can find that here: https://thetroublesometraveller.com/2016/11/20/1-week-the-final-chapter-maybe/
    Alternatively, if travel and emotion isn’t really your thing, I’ve been a bit greedy this week and also added a post to my other fiction series “Observations of an Inanimate Object” here: https://thetroublesometraveller.com/2016/11/22/irresistible-me/

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  17. Hi all, I could REALLY use some views about my blog tillshesings.com. I am after some comments/ feedback on my writing if any good at all and worth pursuing success with it..and if you think I have developed a strong enough voice/style – or should I rethink the whole thing? Really appreciate anyone kind enough to have a read through!
    Cheers, Emma

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  25. Hi fellow bloggers! I just started my first film review blog and I would love to get some honest feedback. If you need great movie suggestions, my blog is for you. If you have any sort of tasteful appreciation for film, please please please read a couple of my reviews and tell me what you think. My goal is to inspire you to be inspired!

    Reel Talk.

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  27. Hi! I’m starting my very new blog about photo, traveling, baking and craft, I’m not a very nice blogger but I’ll try my best! I’m so glad if you could please take a look for my blog Honey Lemon and please leave some comment in my blog if you like it! I’m trying to make a good blog for everyone and wish it could succeed! Thanks for your time!
    https://myhoneylemonblog.wordpress.com

    Time travel

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  30. Hello, it might not be the right subject here but I don’t know whom to ask.
    My question is How can I set up to show Summary of my post on Reeder Feed. I have chosen “Summary” for “For each article in a feed show” in the setting but it does not seem working??? Thanks for your help in advance.

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    1. Hello,
      Posts in the WordPress.com Reader are shown in full (and have for several weeks now). More than a simple rss feed (which is what this setting was built to address), the Reader is a community hub and a place where other bloggers can discover your posts, and we wanted to make the reading experience better. I should note that each time someone reads your post there (by clicking on it and viewing the full post in the Reader), your site still gets a view. And your site is still a click away for anyone who’d like to explore more there.

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