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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  1. Hello, i am new to wordpress. i was on another site with 3k followers, but my blog just got deleted… so i am starting again!
    please follow, and share my blogs or my url to your friends to help me get back where i once was!
    thank you everyonne!

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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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      1. Thank you for taking the time to help me Michelle. I’m so new to this and haven’t a clue 😄What is placeholder text?

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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://morningglory21.wordpress.com/

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  5. Hey! I’m new to the WordPress scene and it’s my first time writing a blog. It’s always attracted me but I’ve never been brave enough to do one til now! Only got one post up so far but hoping to do a few things with it maybe so here it is: chlothefro.wordpress.com thanks!

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  6. Good evening to you all.

    New to the wonderful world of blogging and thought I would give it a go. It’s great to link and read all the other fantastic powerful blogs out there.

    Glad to be onboard :))

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  16. Hello, everyone. I didn’t realize that this thread existed until today. I happened to visit and noticed first-time bloggers could post a link to their very first blog post. So, here’s mine. It’s really nothing spectacular, but it lets you know who I am and what inspires me.

    What inspires you?

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    1. You don’t have to do anything to join except publish a post. If you add a link to the prompt or challenge in your post, that will include your post in the grid of responses you see under each prompt/challenge here.

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  27. Nice name, even I am new to blogging and except for the cool name and an old article I wrote an year back and a little poem I don’t really have much on but the idea sounds amazing. I hope I can have a little help to grow and find amazing people to interact with. I love to get to know new people and interact

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