Aug 18, 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.
Show Comments

894 Comments

Comments are closed.

Close Comments

Comments

    1. Welcome!

      There are some great guided courses at http://bloggingu.wordpress.com, and if you feel like you could use a little more help with the ins and outs of WordPress.com, there’s a useful “getting started” tutorial here: http://learn.wordpress.com.

      One small change you should make now is removing the placeholder text that’s still on your blog. For example, I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, over to the right of your posts — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      Liked by 1 person

    1. Welcome 🙂

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

      Liked by 1 person

    1. Welcome 🙂

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

      Liked by 1 person

    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using 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.

      Focus on the tags that are the most relevant for your post, and you’ll actually draw more readers.

      Liked by 3 people

      1. Thank you! That was very helpful information, this is my very first blog ever so I kind of just winged it. I’m on Instagram a lot so I assumed the more tags the easier my blog would be able to be found. Again thank you!

        Liked by 3 people

    1. Welcome 🙂

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

      Like

  12. 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:)

    Liked by 1 person

    1. Congratulations. Here’s to the future for you. *raise coffee*

      Anyway, there may be some things for you to consider – notice that your blog posts are written by ‘Admin’ – you might want to fix that. Also, it may be early going, but perhaps start making categories for your stuff. It’s a very personal journal, sure, but with categories, it gives you a vision for where your blog will go, and it’s a reminder to you (the writer) that as your life unfolds, so too will your blog. Good luck, and have fun.

      https://scicasual.wordpress.com

      Liked by 4 people

      1. Thank you so much for your feedback. I’m still trying to fix and figure out how to navigate through a lot of things since this program is so new to me. I am definitely super excited!

        Liked by 3 people

  15. Foodie life!

    Let me know what you think. I really am not sure what I’m doing. I’d like to connect with some local people and get some followers on Facebook and Instagram. Is there a way to link it? Any feedback about my blog would be helpful! As well as, how do I get my new post on top instead of under my older one? Thanks so much!

    Liked by 5 people

  18. Hey! This is Aakanksha ! I love to dabble with words and just recently got active on WordPress. I plan to be regular here and learn from all the amazing writers. It’s a great time here because you chance upon such interesting blogs every moment and they are so well expressed. I would be more than elated if people critique my work. After all, mediocrity is a stepping stone. Link to my site is thelearningindian.WordPress.com. 🙂

    Liked by 7 people

  23. Hi Everyone! And thanks, Michelle, for making this available. I would like to share my blog with all of you. It’s about my decision to quit drinking alcohol for one year. While I do not think of myself as an alcoholic, I had noticed my alcohol consumption was creeping up. So I decided to quit for a year and blog about it every day. Would love your comments and involvement in the blog. Here is the link to my first post:

    https://oneyearnoalcohol.com/2017/08/16/first-blog-post/

    Liked by 7 people

  25. I’m new to WordPress- I’m open to any advice! 😊 Much Appreciated 🙌🏻

    I really enjoyed your Articles, extremely well thought out and positioned perfectly! Can’t wait to read more 😊

    Liked by 6 people

    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, over to the right of 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 🙂

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

      Like