Apr 7, 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. Welcome 🙂

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

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      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. (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 🙂

      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!

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  9. Hellow. I would love to hear your opinion bout my new blog. One week blooginng.
    😍😍😍😍😍 Lovealholic.wordpress.com

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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!

      One more tip — 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 at the top of your home page 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 left side of the page.

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    1. I love your post about food photography! Awesome pictures! Starting a blog can be a bit intimidating and scary, but just always remember to be YOURSELF! I love the concept of your blog about loving Life. Following! 🙂

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  13. Just Exercising My Faith (Introductory Blog)

    Hello, fellow bloggers! Here is my first blog, and as you will be able to see, my site is still under construction. I’m working on it as I go through the Blogging University Fundamentals. I am already a bit concerned about the upcoming Widgets section lesson, because I’m not confident about what to place there. At this point, though, I would be interested in hearing your ideas for what to use as tags. Thanks!

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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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      2. So basically (if you write on a computer) go to the “Write” button on the top right hand corner. Click it, and then refer to the right hand column. There is a “Sharing” button with a drop-down arrow. Click it, and you will find “Show Sharing buttons” and “Show like button” . Click both of those, and your post can be liked and shared by readers. For more tips like these, you can check out my Newbie Blogging Tips page: http://wp.me/P6pkmz-cW

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar when you’re looking at an individual post (i.e., not on your home page) — you can remove or edit that by going to view one of your posts, then going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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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! 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.

      Liked by 1 person

    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar on individual posts (i.e., not on the home page) — you can remove or edit that by going one of your posts, then to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Like

      1. Thank you for the tip…everything I’ve done with the site thus far has been through the Android app; I’ll give it a look from my desktop and see what else there is to play with!

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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!

      Liked by 1 person