Apr 14, 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.

Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolebeaulac/14523302989/in/photolist-o8nHZF-8rm4S3-4qSDKZ-59PhPN-oehCvG-6L4biF-o8oMhZ-59K5dR-6L4j72-okR4Ln-5PiY9A-59K4UX-52g3dU-27Nf81-2ZYhE3-oL2VyZ-dGfrZn-6L8rvj-8hS4H5-6BcEmP-5Gx2tR-ocxbCS-8WLdjF-6BcGne-7e1ndv-oL2syE-oXdQbM-8KcZem-oiNrGn-6L4cEi-bjKZne-8g3bLG-bgykmz-6L8mio-8WLdjV-8WLdjv-aL4fMr-9X1RoC-boow88-oBYMUV-esxgv1-525zPK-duqKvE-pHSTmW-eewW8e-o92SFa-aL4fSV-2LvJoi-7e5gij-6L4az8">Nicole Beaulac</a>.

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, on the right — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Your theme uses post excerpts, so you’ll want to make sure to give each post one — otherwise, you’ll get that “This is the 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 left side of the page.s

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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. Welcome 🙂

      One tip — you 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!

      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://swtmnstr.wordpress.com/

      It also looks like you haven’t given your site a title yet! If you’d like to add one (we recommend it), you can do that my going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

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    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags and categories on some of your posts. The WordPress.com Reader actually 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 your posts, which is sad!

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  20. 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 pretty 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 share your (recent) first post or leave a supportive comment, 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 🙂

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

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      2. Is there any way you would be willing to look at my blog site and see if it’s set up ok? I’m just all over the place right now. You seem super knowledgeable and I love your reads!! Thanks
        2bloggingchicks24.wordpress.com

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      3. 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. And this site has tons of advice and tutorials on setting things up, design, and building an audience — spend some time clicking around!

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      4. Awesome thank you for your help. I’ll go check that tutorial out now. I’ve tried some of the other things suggested and it is helping as well. The only thing I don’t want is to connect with social media, Facebook etc, I wanted this blog to be for the public, not so much for the people we know. Is that bad? Just a personal choice I guess. But I’d be more than happy for others to share with their friends etc. we live in a small town where everyone knows everyone and sometimes just knowing that those same people don’t know everything about you is like a breath of fresh air. 🙂 Ive enjoyed so much just reading other people’s blogs and stories, it’s very inspiring!! Thanks again for your help and for all the amazing reads 👍🏻. 😁

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      5. It’s not bad at all; lots of people blog anonymously, set up different social profiles for their blogs, or don’t use social at all. Like everything on your blog, it’s up to you!

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  26. Hello from my new blog Onto The Next! I’ll post about my continuous adventures from being a stay at home mommy and all the projects I’m doing! I post on Tuesdays and Fridays! Check it out at ontothenext.me!

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    1. Per the guidelines here, posts should be less than a month old; we keep this space as focused as we can for very new bloggers and remove comments from bloggers who have been blogging for more than a month.

      We have another open weekly space called the Community Pool where any bloggers can give/ask for feedback and support; there’s a wonderful group of folks there, and I encourage you to visit if you haven’t already: https://wordpress.com/dailypost/category/community-pool/

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s footer, underneath your posts — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Like