Nov 21, 2016 / Community Pool

Community Pool

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  1. I laughed when I clicked your blog because my students just tried to convince me to let them watch the movie Sausage Party…they are older (17-20 year olds). Movie buffs would love your blog!!!

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    1. Your post was interesting from the perspective of seeing how someone thinks things through as they grow. I didn’t see any tags on the post. Having some tags could help people find your post. I noticed you have place holder text in your text widget. You could put a short description of yourself or a favorite quote there. https://gracelead.co

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    1. Your post was a good read. It is well-written, has a great tone, and flows well. Have you tried using the WordPress Reader to set up tags to find posts related to yours? By liking or leaving comments on some of those posts, you can increase visibility to your site. https://gracelead.co

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      3. Happy to.. I loved the simplicity of your home page, although it took me a few (attempted) clicks to realise that the lists could not be expanded on! The Canon camera pic is great. I read your 10 reasons to travel, and enjoyed it a lot. I work in the airline business and have flown a great deal – I do understand your apprehension, even after all the flights I’ve been on (and it must be hundreds), I still make sure I know where the exits are, and generally ensure I’m familiar with my environment; but all I can do is to encourage you not to let it stand in the way of the thrill of travel, it’s truly a wonderful thing. Maybe an 11th reason would be to have something new to blog about!

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  17. Sorry for a second comment in 24 hours, this is getting silly now, but I’ve just realised today is my 1 year blogging anniversary! I have no idea how to re-post an old article to celebrate it, so I would like to share it with you lovely lot instead https://thetroublesometraveller.com/2015/11/23/vipassana-can-you-really-un-think-yourself-happy/
    A true turning point in my life – thanks to all of you who have chosen to follow me over the past 12 months, I feel truly blessed to be able to speak to so many of you

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    1. Hey, you can just reblog (by pushing the reblog button bellow the post) or reschedule the post 😉 have fun in Fiji!

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      1. Hmm, must be called something different in my theme, I can’t see a reblog button, but rescheduling the post makes sense! Thank you very much, and thanks for the visit too 🙂

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    2. I have been to your little space on the web, amazing write up!!!keep writing and inspire us.. and happy blogging anniversary 🙂
      Please do visit my blog when time permits, thanks in advance and see you there!

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  22. Hello!
    I love my blog so far, it’s really going wonderfully. But I am just not sure what I should do for the Thanksgiving holiday, besides the Thanksgiving header. I really am trying hard to make my first main holiday on this blog really really special.

    I hope you have a good day!

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    1. Your post about the readling aloud handbook was interesting and informative. I suspect your fitness posts will appeal to many. You might want to assign each post to a category (fitness, family, teaching, Christ…) and display the categories in your Menu. That will make it easier for visitors to find posts of most interest to them. https://gracelead.co

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    1. I enjoyed Scotch Lick Kind of a Day. I had never heard that expression and your post clearly illustrated the meaning. Your Menu confused me. Generally, menus have a few static pages (About, Contact Me, etc.) and categories. It appears that you are using categories for your posts. Those categories might work better in your menu than what you have. https://gracelead.co

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      1. Which menu confused you? In the purple box, I do have a lot of pages linked. I write song lyrics, and each one featured in the box is a separate page for each song, other than the home,about, blog and contact pages. It reminds me of the back of a CD case, which is why I chose it. They are all linked in my first blog post also, but that is going to be harder to find as I do more blogging and the blog posts start displaying in a month instead of front and center. Does that shed a little light on why I have it set this way?

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      2. The purple box appears to be your Menu. Instead of making a separate page for each lyric, another approach would be to make each song lyric a post. Then you could make a category “Song Lyrics” and assign each lyric to that category. Then, put the Song Lyrics category on your menu. That would make it easy to find them. https://gracelead.co

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      4. So if I am to understand, you would find it easier for the Lyrics and Notes to be there instead of the page links for each song listed separately. I will think about that.

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      5. For me, it would be easier to see one page that holds all the lyrics. If you don’t want to make them posts, another option is to make each lyric into a pdf file that you store in your Media folder. Then you can make a Lyrics page that has a link to each one. That’s how I manage the Book Summaries on my site.

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      6. That is over my head. I looked at the menu, and I have a way to link the blog there, but not my first post, called Lyrics and Notes. If I could figure out how to do that, I would try it and see if I liked it or not. But I don’t know how.

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  28. Greetings fellow WordPressers!

    Over the weekend I added a post with a few thoughts about the presidential election in the US…and tinkered with the theme’s Widgets a bit. If there’s anyone who isn’t taking a vacation from politics feel free to drop by. I would happily return the favor.

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    1. It was easy for me to relate to your post, “10 Reasons to Travel.” It would be an even better read if you did some proofreading to fix the spelling errors and incomplete sentences. For instance, “I’m going. With my friends.” should be, “I’m going with my friends.” Also, your numbered list isn’t show 1-10. https://gracelead.co

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