Feb 24, 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.

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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    5. Gargi,
      Nice work, keep it up including the doodles during your boring lectures. I created an entire collection of comic book characters doing the same thing!

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  10. Hello and welcome, new folks! We’re really excited to meet you.

    As usual, I just want to remind everyone that we moderate the comments on First Friday pretty heavily — this is really a space for brand new people to introduce themselves and meet one another, and for others to welcome and support them.

    If you’re not here to either share your (recent) first post or leave a supportive comment, please head to the Community Pool, which is where any blogger can seek feedback on any aspect of blogging. And if you’re not sure what the guidelines here are, please read the above post — or just ask!

    Happy blogging, y’all:)

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    1. Hello Michelle! Could you please fix my pingbacks on the daily post! It never tags my post on the comments and that’s entirely heartbreaking! 😓

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    1. Welcome! The simplest way to get the public link 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 here.

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  16. hello check out my first post. I am a Writer, Poet and a Doctor and am new to WordPress. I write fiction – thought provoking stories pertaining to spirituality, travel and life beyong mundane. Here is the link –
    http://wp.me/p8n7fG-2y
    A story about how the Hindu God Shiva rescues the life of a Sheep and helps it realize its true path! Please follow!

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    1. Just FYI, I tried that URL in two different browsers and it isn’t working for me. My new blog is intertwined with religion, so I’m interested in what you have to say. I’ll follow your username and see if I can find your post from there.

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    2. Welcome! FYI: that link goes to your dashboard, which is private, so people won’t be able to see your site. The simplest way to get the public link is to go to your blog’s main page and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Here’s your site:

      I also 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.

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    1. Good first post, and interesting concept for it. 🙂 Obesity is a problem facing today’s generation and unlike smoking that is becoming a dying thing, if we make any comments about obesity we are told we are being disrespectful. Yet tell a smoker it will kill them no one bats an eye. I am thinking myself of doing a post on obesity and eating habits myself actually so I enjoyed this read. 🙂 Keep up the good work. The only advice I can give is take time to set up your blog and customize it. Fill out your about page or change the page to something else etc, but you are off to a good start.

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    2. Welcome 🙂

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

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    1. One tip — you’ve used a lot of tags on your post. The WordPress.com Reader actually filters out posts that use more than 15 tags and categories (combined) as an anti-spam measure, so using this many tags actually makes it harder for folks to find your posts, which is sad!

      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!

      Welcome 🙂

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  26. This is the very first post on the new blog The Shinbone Star, which is a combined effort by many ex-journalists who have come out of retirement to face what they perceive as a new threat to America and the 1st Amendment. This post explains the entire concept for the blog, and why we’re doing what we’re doing:

    Why The Shinbone Star?

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