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>.

For other help:
If you’re not new and are looking for support or feedback, the Community Pool is the place for you!

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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 footer, at the bottom of your home page — you can remove or edit those by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widgets!

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    1. Welcome!

      A tip: Your theme uses post excerpts, so you’ll want to make sure to give each post one — otherwise, you’ll get that “This is the post excerpt” text you have right now. When you’re writing/editing a post, you can find the place to add an excerpt under the “More Options” tab on the right side of the page.

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    1. Look like you’ve posted a link to your preview, which only you can see — make sure you share the link to the public, published post!

      (If you’re not sure how to get the correct link, just ask 🙂 )

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      2. Of course! The simplest way to get the public link is to go to your blog’s home page and click on a post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Previews are still part of your private dashboard, so other people can’t see those links.

        Here’s your home page: https://kathymuir.wordpress.com/

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    1. I genuinely liked your post. At the start I was cautious because much of what we read on motherhood (and especially breastfeeding) is about grandstanding or instilling guilt, but I think your site really is likely to be more helpful for new mothers because it comes across more objective (aka less judgmental), which suggests that your tagline just might deliver! 🙂 I like the way that you write (your written voice), and I love that you have included sources – it’s a great point of difference that will make your blog more authoritative. Most of all, I loved the About page, and I would suggest you add Like buttons to it. I wanted to like it because I remember too well how it was to just do my best and hope not to raise assholes.
      Although my kids are grown up now, I followed your page because you are keeping it real, and the internet needs more of that.

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      1. Wow! Thank you so much for the feedback (and taking the time to read my first post)! I’m completely new to this blogging business, so any tips and hints are awesome. I’ll work on figuring out a like button for my about page ☺️

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      2. Head to My Site > Sharing, then click on the “Sharing Button” tab at the top. Make sure the “Show like button” and “Show sharing buttons on pages” boxes are checked off, then click the blue “Save changes” button, and voilà!

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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!

      Like

    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 viewing one of your posts, then going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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