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. 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! You’ve also got a placeholder post right at the top of your blog; you can delete it by going to My Site > Posts.

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  6. theredbellepepper.wordpress.com/2017/03/20/is-there-anything-worse-than-starting-over-again/
    I just started putting my blog together this week. It’s still a work in progress, but the ball is rolling!

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    1. I really enjoyed your blog. I’ve put on quite a bit of weight recently and hopefully reading your posts will help motivate me to drop the pounds as well :Dxx

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      1. Thank you! I seem to be taking two steps forward, one step back in this phase. BUT, I don’t want to let all of you down, so that will push me to get myself together. I look forward to reading more of your blog too. (I’m totally with you on the Naked 2 palette, btw. I’ve been using it for years.)

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      2. It’s hard, but baby steps get us there in the end 😀 and thank you! It’s amazing right? I think I must have re-bought it seven or eight times now haha xx

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      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!

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  14. Hello fellow bloggers. I’m newer to blogging…like a few weeks in. My first blog post I did more of an introduction since I was unsure exactly what I was doing lol. So I’d like to post a different one and get some feed back from everyone on this post or any of my other post. Thank you in advance.

    Revelation

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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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    2. Welcome 🙂

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

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  22. I’ve blogged before on blogger but I’ve just recently moved it to WordPress and started going serious with it, posted my first post from WordPress last week.. does that count as a new user? (I don’t wanna add link just in case it doesn’t count)
    If not then welcome new people!! 😀 x

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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!

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    1. 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.

      I also 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!

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  29. Hello, I’m the owner of fungamingnetwork.com, we are just starting so I don’t have my own writers yet. We have gotten permission from others to share their gaming news, and I think it’s coming along well. When I do get my first writer though, I will share the link. But until then feel free to visit and make any comments you want, good or bad, we are always looking for improvements. Thx

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    1. Awwhh.. the baby is adorable!
      One thing I noticed: whenever I click on the main menu, a new window would pop up, I think you can modify this in the Menu setting. 🙂

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    3. 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 🙂 )

      I also 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 that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget.

      Welcome!

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