Apr 21, 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 🙂

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

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    2. Hi Wayne. Your blog looks nicely set up, except that for some reason I wasn’t able to leave a comment on your post. I think you’ll want to correct that. Are you by chance Canadian?

      As to your writing talent—or lack thereof, as you’d say—I think you really need to believe in yourself and sharing your thoughts on a blog is a good way to get there. Try not to be quite so self-effacing. You can do this! 🙂

      So welcome to the community and wishing you all the best.

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      1. Thank you for your comment and I will try to tone down the self doubt. I am actually from Oklahoma. I am still trying to figure all the ins and outs of blogging so I will get the comments working as soon as I can. Thanks again.

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  4. New blogger here! Please provide any feedback :))

    I’m a PhD student looking into societal issues that affect our mental health. Please have a look at my blog 🙂
    First post!
    To be honest, I did not expect myself to ever create a blog. I have never see myself a person who likes to write. I discovered my interest in writing…

    First post! 

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    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using quite a lot of tags on 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.

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      1. Thanks for letting me know. What do you suggest we tag and how many? Or more to the point, how do tags work? Hehe 😂

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      2. This might help:

        Tags help readers find your blog.
        Categories help people already on your blog find specific things on your blog.

        If you wrote a post about your favorite movies, you might give it the tag “movies” so people searching for posts about movies in the Reader can find you. Then, you might give it categories like “Comedy” and “Action” so the people already on your blog who are looking for specific kinds of posts can find it.

        Some folks use both, some only use one or the other — it’s up to you. Whatever you decide to use, you should have 15 or fewer per post (so, 10 tags and 5 categories, or 4 tags and 11 categories, etc).

        Make sense?

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

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  22. Here Goes Nothin’
    Wow, so I’m not sure where to begin. I guess my story will be told in bits and pieces as I go. That’s the way my favorite stories are told anyway.

    …

    Here Goes Nothin’

    First time blogger here. Still trying to figure it out😂

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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

      Liked by 2 people

    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: 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://evaciblog.wordpress.com/

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  28. hey new blogger here, i would like you guys to please check out my blog,its about some of my thoughts and feelings.Hope you guys like it.Thank you. 🙂
    My site:madona2017.wordpress.com

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