Mar 31, 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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    2. Your doodles are so cute!! I love looking through them. I like your recent post about including a post every now and then that talks more about you. Sharing something personal every now and then definitely draws people in. Good luck for all your future blogging!

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      1. Thank you.
        Your encouragement means a lot to me, especially in reference to talking a bit more rather than just art bombing!
        Again, thank you for such a wonderful and positive comment.

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      1. Thank you. Your feedback is really appreciated. I’m feeling really overwhelmed by all the positive feedback I’ve received. Thanks so much.

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    4. Haha that’s so cool. When first clicking on your link I felt like this is some sort of psychological test right there – the picture you choose will tell your personality type or something but then I got it! Nice way to present your art 😀

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      1. Thanks a lot. That’s such an interesting idea as well, I like it a lot.
        Maybe with my bigger art pieces, the first thing you spot says something about who you are?
        Thanks a lot for your comment, I appreciate it.

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      2. No problem, you’re welcome! But yes, art is great in so many ways. I mean everyone perceives it differently, so it automatically will have different effects on its viewers, and what we see/how art makes us feel does in fact resemble a part of our personality.

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    1. 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.

      If you want to get folks interested in your blog, the best way is to say a little more about what you’ll be writing about, and to leave some supportive comments for others!

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    1. Hey there! It looks like your blog is still under construction, which is awesome, because you have so much that you can do with it! I didn’t see anything to read, but hopefully will get to the next time you post 😉

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    4. 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! You also still have a placeholder post, which you can edit/delete in My Site > Posts.

      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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    1. You are doing great girl! Keep working on your layout and where everything is at. You have some unused widgets on the side bar and your footer, not sure if you are aware they are there. There are a lot of great themese to choose from to help give you some color and make your page pop! I am sure you will do great sense you are in to fashion, keep it up!

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      1. I literally just started using this site an hour ago and I wrote my first blog. So I still have no idea how to use anything lol. Thanks so much I’m going to try to navigate and thanks for the kind words!

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      3. I followed you and can’t wait to read your blogs as well 🙂 ! And I don’t even know how I even did that blog it’s a little hard to learn how to use this but thanks so much for the kind words !

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    2. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar and footer (on the right side of your posts, and on the bottom of your page) — you can remove or edit them by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widgets!

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      1. Thanks I only been on this site for less than 2 hours and I wrote my blog as soon as I got on here so I haven’t explored much yet. Thanks for the heads up.

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      1. Thank you for taking the time to like and respond on my blog… i will certainly visit yours.

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      3. Sheetal how do i like or comment on your blog? I read your beautiful poem but your blog needs me to login or sign up (on Kalaage) for me to comment. When i press “login to comment” it says “Kalaage connecting writers and publications” and that’s it. You can reply via my email joycembele8@gmail.com

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    1. Hint: include the http:// bit of your blog’s address, and you’ll get a clickable link when you publish the comment. Voila:

      http://mysubliminalideas.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!

      Welcome!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

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      1. Yes every time when I see kids holding iPads while the parents are looking on their phones I feel like something is going wrong with human interaction and connection. Today people tend to chase for fake connection rather than face-to-face connection, which is why in the big city people seem to be colder than those who are living in small villages.

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    2. Hey! I checked your blog out! Your first post was good! Keep writing!
      I noticed your heading “life in your twenty-somethings” and you also mentioned blogging anonymously. My blog is also anonymous and I’m also a twenty-something trying to figure life out. 🙂

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, on the right side of individiual posts — 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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  27. 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 very 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 introduce yourself and share your (recent) first post or leave a supportive comment for someone who is, 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. 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://magdallene83.wordpress.com/

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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://bethefighterblog.wordpress.com/

      I also noticed that the blog address in your profile is wrong, so folks here won’t be able to get to you by clicking your name — you can update it here: https://wordpress.com/me/public-profile/

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