Mar 17, 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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  7. Hii ! I’m an aspiring blogger . I rather express my opinions and try my best to spread positivity and try bringing back faith in humanity again . My first post is on something that I believe most people can relate to , its best if you read it yourself 🙂 Please support my blog if you enjoy it and I accept constructive criticism as well 🙂 Thank you !😀😀

    Simple Little Things

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    1. Howdy! Per the guidelines in the post, we ask that folks not use First Friday as a place to share new posts once they’re already introduced themselves here and shared their first post — there are so much new folks, so we keep it as focused as we can! But the weekly Community Pool threads are exactly right for this. Any blogger can ask for or give feedback there, so I encourage you to visit: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/category/community-pool/

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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

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      3. Well , I’m on an iPad and whenever I try accessing the Social Media menus or try adding widgets the app crashes , is there anything I can do to fix it ?

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      4. Can you use the help function in the app to let the app folks know about the problem? In the meantime, try logging into wordpress.com normally in whatever browser you use on the iPad.

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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

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  14. Hello fellow bloggers,
    I am new at blogging and stumbling along the way. My intentions are to inspire as many people as I can reach, share mine and others life stories, keeping it positive uplifting, and anything that pops into my mind. Please visit my page, make comments or contact me with and tips/feedback (I will visit your page when you like or comment on my page). It’s how will learn and grow in this new skill and sharing adventures. Have a fabulous weekend!
    Link: https://classycarmelite.com

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  24. 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. 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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      1. Oh – thanks for that Michelle. I’m new at this and appreciate any tips. So you recommend I keep it down to a few tags? Any tips on how to choose tags?

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