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 🙂

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

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      1. Thanks for the tip Michelle. I’m operating off a cell phone app and can’t seem to find the location you mentioned. So far this blog site doesn’t seem very cell phone user friendly.

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      2. On a phone, you’ll want to go to My Site (bottom left), pick your site, then pick “Dashboard” — that will take you to the full version of the dashboard in a browser; widget management still needs a bit of updating in the app.

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    2. 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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  7. Hello!. Super newbie here! Created the blog last year (2016) but wasn’t able to post anything. But I just started yesterday so… feel free to visit my blog! pls leave some comments on how will i improve my blog. Thank you!

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    1. It doesn’t looks like you’ve actually written anything yet, so be sure to share once you do. 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.

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  11. Hi all, After all these years of writing, and not getting paid much, today I wrote my first blog post. I am so happy that I have finally done it, I have been so scared for years and it has held me up. I hope I will be writing more and better blog posts, nice to meet you all I see I am not alone. Veronica.

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    1. Hey.. its great that you are starting out.. Your blog has too many grammatical errors.. maybe you can work on that.. Taking suggestions from Microsoft word could help.. Happy blogging !

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    1. One tip — you’re using a lot of tags on some your posts. The WordPress.com Reader 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 you, rather than easier.

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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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    1. Welcome!

      FYI: that link goes to your dashboard, which is private, so people won’t be able to see your site. The simplest way to get the public link is to go to your blog’s homepage and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that.

      Here’s your homepage: https://gimmemoreblog.wordpress.com/

      (Also, 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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