Dec 12, 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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    1. Hi there.
      First, I dig your blog name. I’m a writer myself and I’m partial to owls 😉
      Second, I’m heading over to your blog now to take a look.

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  5. Blog question: Everyone is it possible to make tags not visible? For example, whenever I post an article and tag it, the tags show up next to the article. I’d like to have the tags there but not have them be seen by readers. Anyone know if there’s a setting for that?

    You can take a look at my blog: http://www.jprobinson.org and let me know. Many thanks!

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    3. Hello! You can make tags and categories disappear from your posts by changing your theme’s CSS — this is part of our Custom Design feature that is part of the WordPress.com Premium and Business Plans.

      Since the exact change you’ll need to make may depend on the theme, I recommend you head to our CSS support forum, where experts from the community will be able to provide more concrete information:
      https://wordpress.com/forums/forum/css-customization

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  12. Hi. I posted at the beginning of this thread about a 300 word fortnightly story group I recently started. Please check it out if you might be interested. (It’s the second post.)

    In the meantime, here’s a link to the latest story I just published on my flash fiction blog, To Cut a Short Story Short. It’s a (700) word tale of a rather unusual evening at my local pub, entitled Black Swan, Green Lizard!

    https://simonjwood.wordpress.com/2016/12/15/black-swan-green-lizard/

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