Mar 10, 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.

Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolebeaulac/14523302989/in/photolist-o8nHZF-8rm4S3-4qSDKZ-59PhPN-oehCvG-6L4biF-o8oMhZ-59K5dR-6L4j72-okR4Ln-5PiY9A-59K4UX-52g3dU-27Nf81-2ZYhE3-oL2VyZ-dGfrZn-6L8rvj-8hS4H5-6BcEmP-5Gx2tR-ocxbCS-8WLdjF-6BcGne-7e1ndv-oL2syE-oXdQbM-8KcZem-oiNrGn-6L4cEi-bjKZne-8g3bLG-bgykmz-6L8mio-8WLdjV-8WLdjv-aL4fMr-9X1RoC-boow88-oBYMUV-esxgv1-525zPK-duqKvE-pHSTmW-eewW8e-o92SFa-aL4fSV-2LvJoi-7e5gij-6L4az8">Nicole Beaulac</a>.

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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. A very nice one! Tons of salute to you mam..you are indeed a hero figure for supporting your daughter..keep up the good work and keep blogging!!!

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    1. 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 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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  10. The passion of writing made me write this very first blog.

    Hello there, my friends!
    Here’s the link of my first blog.
    Please do check out and share your views with me.
    Although, I am very new to wordpress but somewhere, and somehow I want you all to read out my blogs which are experienced and imaginated from my illusion little cosmos, that certainty exists in my mind.

    Hopefully, you would like it.
    Just take a glance over it.❤

    Thank-you so much, my buddies.❤

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    2. Good enough – great ideas of Winnicott. Lovely concept. Mums are so important – I’m a first time mum too and blogging about it as well :). We have the hardest and the best job. Keep blogging! I’ve followed you 🙂

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      2. Thanks girl. It’s very rough around the edges. Im a first time blogger. Its nowhere near complete. I’m trying to figure out how to put my blogs under the BLOG tab because right now theyre on my homepage. I wrote them in “blog posts” but somehow they are showing up on the home screen

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      6. The default is that your posts show up on the home page — that’s the blog standard. You can set it up differently if you’d like; I left you the instructions in another comment, but here they are again in case other folks want them:
        https://wordpress.com/support/pages/front-page/

        (I will say this, though: almost all blogs that do the best have their posts right on the home page. Making people click through to another page is usually a deterrent, and people will just leave rather than have to click around.)

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      7. And beat me to it. 🙂 I was just excited that I actually knew the answer. LOL Now mind you, that was after about two hours of strenuous battle with my dashboard, website, and the desire to simultaneously yank out what little hair I have, while jumping up and down on my phone with the force of a lamed elephant. But I figured it out eventually, and without ant damage to my hair or phone, and no trips to jail, to boot! So…semi fail? LOL

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      9. You have to fix it through your dash board. Assign your homepage as your static page, then the BLOG page as your posts page. Ran into this same issue, myself.

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  20. I am blogging about my new business venture. The joys of parenthood and the struggle of working full time with a toddler. Hope you like come an dhapes a read and leave comments. It is a working progress.
    wordpress.com/post/superstartots.wordpress.com

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    1. 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://superstartots.wordpress.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! You’ll also want to give your site a title yet — you can do that my going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

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  30. Hey everyone! I just started a travel blog. My first time blogging… ever… so bear with me. 😛 I didn’t know about these First Friday threads so I have posted twice so far.

    Here is my first post:
    Why I Travel With My Little One

    Why I Travel With My Little One

    Here is my second post:
    How to See the Best of Phnom Penh WITH KIDS in Just 4 Days!

    How to See the Best of Phnom Penh WITH KIDS in Just 4 Days!

    Hope you enjoy! 🙂

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