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. 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.

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  12. Hi, WordPress bloggers 🙂
    I make travel-blog and my first post is about TOP-7 hotels to stay in Istanbul. I write in blog in Russian.
    Come and enjoy!

    Привет всем!
    Давно хотела создать свой тревел-блог. Наконец-то сделала 🙂
    Первый пост блога о ТОП-7 отелей в Стамбуле. Заходите в гости 😉

    https://ditrips.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/где-в-стамбуле-жить-хорошо/

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  14. Hello everyone !
    I would like to share my blog Me and United, a blog laying down my perspective of everything Manchester United does.
    Below is the link to my blog ,I hope evry reader, even the neutral readers who don’t quite follow football and Man Utd would like something worded down on my blog.
    https://meandunited.wordpress.com

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  20. Hello, I’m a new blogger – constructive words of advice are very welcome. I’m off to visit some of you other bloggers. 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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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

      We’d also appreciate it if you avoided calling people names here — the satire is fine on your blog, but we keep a positive attitude around here. Thanks in advance!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s footer, at the bottom of the page — 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.

      If you feel like you could use a little more help with the ins and outs of WordPress.com, there’s a really useful “getting started” tutorial here: http://learn.wordpress.com.

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  26. Extremely Confused Jellyfish, the most normal blog ever, has emerged into this world.
    Hope it’s not a problem that I didn’t see this before and therefore posted on the Community Pool; if that’s not permissible here, sorry! (Not sure if “the same link repeatedly/multiple FF threads” applies.)

    Jellyfish

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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

      You’ve also got a bunch of empty placeholder posts — you can delete them by going to My Site > Posts.

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