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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    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 🙂 )

      Welcome!

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    1. Welcome to the community. We’ve got cookies (well, recipes – you’ll have to make them on your own, but you’ll have to use Search to find them first).

      Anyway, I guess now’s the time to start settling in and making your blog feel more like home. Why not spend a couple of hours in the Customizer? Get to know your theme, change colors, maybe even play around with different themes if you’re interested? This would also be a time to add an About Me page (or something) so readers could get to know you better.

      https://scicasual.wordpress.com

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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!

      Like

    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 🙂

      You still have a bit of placeholder text in your sidebar, on the right — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets and editing the Text Widget.

      Liked by 1 person

    1. 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!

      Welcome 🙂

      Liked by 1 person

  19. Hi! Just started my blog this week! Very excited to read others and be read. I think I’m a day late. It just noticed this post 🙂

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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 🙂 )

      Welcome!

      Like

  22. What is peace?? My own thoughts!! http://mythoughtsaboutpeace.blogspot.com… – http://wp.me/p8xU9M-g

    If anyone who is interested abt the concept of peace can share me their view abt peace too!!

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    1. It’s amazing how many interesting places you have visited. I look forward to seeing how you settle in to your new life in Sri Lanka xx

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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 🙂 )

      Welcome!

      Like

    1. 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.

      Here’s one place to start: 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 going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Welcome 🙂

      Like

    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 🙂 )

      Also — I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, on the right side when you’re reading a post — you can remove or edit that by going to one of your posts, then to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Liked by 1 person