Feb 3, 2017 / 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.

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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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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, on the right side of your posts — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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  13. I’m a new blogger on a spiritual enlightenment journey. A high priestess in training, a vegan, single mother, and light bearer. I am on a mission to encourage others to express and cultivate their gifts while spreading joy and compassion.

    I want to cultivate thoughtful conversation. I really would enjoy some feedback and constructive criticism. I’m not sensitive and simply want to evolve as a writer. Please help! Thanks so much in advance.

    http://lunabrujalightwarrior.com/

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, on the right — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Liked by 1 person

  16. Hello – I too am new to the blogging world. Starting working on it last May and couldn’t move passed make it look appealing and evenly quit. After a conversation with a friend saying just write I took her up on it. My focus is on my fitness/health journey, but hope to grow it to include other areas of our life that impacts our health like finances/relationships.

    Shareiaoliver.wordpress.com

    Thank you!

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  24. Hi all, new to blogging, have just posted my first couple of blogs. I’m in a relationship with a single dad and this is my story sharing my trials, tribulations and the odd tip about the challenging role of potential stepmotherhood. Written with a bit of humour and not about bagging.

    https://thepotentialstepmum.wordpress.com

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    1. Hi, and welcome!

      We’re glad you’re so excited about your new blog (yay!), and that you shared your link here. We’d appreciate it if you didn’t leave multiple, identical comments linking to your blog — it’s considered a little spammy and we’ll remove the duplicates. The best way to get people to visit you is to visit them and/or leave them some meaningful feedback!

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    1. Welcome! The simplest way to get your is to go to your blog’s main page and click on a post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Paste the whole thing right into a comment, like this:

      https://poetess2017.wordpress.com/

      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/goran — it’ll help you learn to customize and configure all the parts of your home page.

      Welcome!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      Looks like you haven’t given your site a title yet! If you’d like to add one (we recommend it), you can do that my going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

      You also 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!

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