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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    1. 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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  2. I’ve been blogging on and off for about a year, but I’m still learning the ropes of blogging. I recently found my blogging persona and am starting a new blog. Hopefully it will pique your interest enough to follow along on this journey with me.

    http://www.arealbeautifuldisaster.wordpress.com

    I want to build up my content and hopefully follwership before self-hosting. Looking forward to feedback and suggestions. Thank you.

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    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags and categories on some of your posts. 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! If you cut your tags down to the most relevant, you’ll actually draw more readers.

      Welcome!

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    3. 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: https://theprojectmanagementmama.wordpress.com/

      Also, you’ll want to make sure your profile includes this link, so people can click on your name to get to your blog. Right now, your name links to another, empty blog. You can update that here: https://wordpress.com/me/public-profile/

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  13. Hi everyone, I have tried blogging for about a week now. This is my first post sorry it was short and uninspiring:

    https://dysisdesign.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/my-first-post/

    I aim for the blog to be like a creative journal of my progress in jewellery making. I’m hoping to have tutorials and share ideas about making jewellery type gifts. It will also be a place to shamelessly plug my designs! Sorry! I’ve played around with the site and hope it all works. Though I’m a total beginner, I’m looking forward to my blogging journey.

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    1. Love your blog! 🙂 I’ll be following. I also just wanted to let you know that you don’t have a like button for your posts – not sure if that is what you were aiming for or not!

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  27. Hi!!!… i have opened my account on wordpress fron a long time now but i did not know much about blogging…so can you please consider my recent posts as my first coz i really didnt know what to write before and now i am trying to learn…..Thanks…please check out my posts….

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, on the left — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget! You’ll also want to give your site a title, which you can do by going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

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      1. Thank you so much pretty, you absolutely made my day!😍 – But I’m afraid it’s not a travel blog, it’s just a blog about a new things I have went to/situations or traints I gained/something I wanna talk about because I don’t travel a lot. I hope this doesn’t change a thing tho hahah, thank you again❤

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    2. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar — on the right side, when you’re reading a post. You can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Click on “sidebar” and then look for the Text Widget!

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      4. ETA: I checked with folks here, and it turns out nothing is amiss! If you open your Customizer while you’re looking at the individual post, you’ll see a sidebar under My Site > Customize > Widgets, and you can find the text widget there!

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      5. I have searched in google about text widgets, but I’m have difficulties in understanding what is it meant to be to be honest. But thanks anyways, I will try to solve the problem☺️

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