Mar 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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  5. 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. Hey Michelle, yes my homepage is a complete mess. I set it up last year and couldn’t get to grips with WordPress so just left it. 😰 I’ve managed to post a couple of blog entries but I don’t know where to start with my original page

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    1. Hi there, your short narration isn’t extra ordinary but something I felt as if it was written about me…same pinch…continue to pursue your hobby and dreams

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      1. Yeah, sometimes I’m super boring. And then others I’m crazy and always have a story to tell. Maybe when I’ve decided to stick a foot in instead of just dipping my toes in the water, I’ll be more open and whatnot. Or maybe this isn’t for me. But we’ll see. Thank you for your honesty though. 🙂

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    2. I enjoyed your post! I hope that you enjoy blogging. It’s so therapeutic to express yourself openly to a lovely community who are happy to offer you support 🙂 xx

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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. thanks michelle! i appreciate the feedback. i’ve never really used tags before — my first time to use them with a blog — so this insight is great!

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  23. Hey everyone. I’m new at blogging and totally lost in the ginormous blogosphere. I recently updated my ‘about me’ page and I will be truly happy if you guys checked it out and gave me some feedback

    The One Who Writes

    Thanks in advance 😊

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    1. I think your bio is great, it gives a strong sense of your personality and I enjoyed its light, humorous tone. You write very well too! I love forward to reading more xx

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  25. Hi! Just started my new site called silverfoxesrock.com – visit us when you can and please tell any prospective silver foxes to check in and become part of this new vibrant and valuable community! Early days yet, but have lots of plans!

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  27. Hi yet again. I am so sorry for writing on here for the third time today and shall probably be in trouble for doing so! I forgot the link the first time and then included the wrong one the second! https://silverfoxesrock.com – please visit and tell any prospective silver foxes to come and be part of this vibrant and valuable community. I am so excited and have many plans!

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    2. Welcome!

      Your theme uses post excerpts, so you’ll want to make sure to give each post one — otherwise, you’ll get that “This is a 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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