Aug 28, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where WordPress bloggers support each other with feedback and advice.

Have you just published a new post and are dying for some feedback? Are you redesigning your blog and could use some layout or design advice from your more seasoned peers?

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

Tap into the wisdom of The Daily Post blogging community and leave your question here in the comments. Others can then click through and offer input either on your site, or in the comments here (feel free to indicate which you’d prefer).

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Are you a new blogger looking to share your very first post? We have a special forum for bloggers just like you in our weekly First Friday posts.

To help us make the Community Pool a productive space for discussion, here are some tips and guidelines you might find useful:

  • While you’re not required to, we encourage everyone who requests feedback to also reply to at least one or two other bloggers who need some help. Spread the love!
  • The Community Pool comments section can get quite big — and starting duplicate threads doesn’t help. Thanks for not posting the same question more than once, as well as for not starting numerous threads in a single Pool.
  • If you’re looking for quality feedback, be as specific as you can. Questions about a particular post tend to draw more comments than ones about entire blogs. Questions about specific design elements are more likely to be answered than ones asking for general layout advice.
  • We discourage leaving links without a more substantive message or question. These are often overlooked by other bloggers, and we frequently remove them to make the comment reading experience smoother. Also note that including multiple links in your comment might automatically put it in the moderation queue, which will delay its publication.
  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
  • To keep from losing your place in the comment thread while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on a link to open it in a new tab or window.
  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
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  3. Greetings again and welcome to a question I call “Walking Through a Widget Wonderland”. On the advice of a few of my fellow swimmers last week, I have added some widgets to my page. I may have gotten carried away. Please feel free to come by and let me know what you think of the new storm of widgets. Thank you so much and kudos to finding new blogger friends in the pool!

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    3. Hi Jessica! I quite adore the layout of your blog. The color is charming and not overwhelming. The layout is easy to navigate. And I definitely didn’t see anything overboard in terms of your widgets. Cheers! 😃

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      1. Thank you SO much! I’ve put a lot of effort into making the space as “me” as possible. I think it’s because I went from like two widgets to eight widgets. It seemed like quite a jump for me! Thanks so much for chiming in! I appreciate it far more than words can say!

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      2. It’s no problem, but I am so happy to help! And so long as it’s a “you” space and YOU ARE HAPPY. Well. That’s all we can ask for, is it not?! ❤️😁

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    4. May I suggest possibly changing the font of your headers and maybe the color too? The same font and colors are used for advertisements and readers might be turned off by it. Just a small suggestion! Everything else looks great 😊

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  9. Happy Monday everyone,

    Lately I’ve been doing lot of thinking which led to me writing this short blog/essay on my intentions to live overseas. We all have intentions, but how many of us follow-thru?

    http://wp.me/p8eD4m-Ed

    Let me know what you think and if anyone has successfully moved from North America to Europe, I’d love to chat with you!

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    1. Hello! Im from Guatemala and Ive lived in the states, dubai and I now reside in London! Living abroad is one of the best things that has happened to me! Hope you decide to do so! x

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    2. I always enjoy reading your poems and prose! In fact, this weekend I was in a bit of a prose writing mood myself; so thanks for the share! 😄 I sincerely enjoyed the imagery and language in this piece. It was thought provoking for me. I’ll probably need to return to read it a second time later on, it was that good.
      One little thing I noticed is you’re using a lot of tags and categories. I’m not sure if you know, but WP filters out posts with more than a combined categories and tags at fifteen. So it makes it harder for people to find you.
      Thanks for sharing and happy blogging!! 💫

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      1. I had no idea about the tagging thing so thank you so much for letting me know, I assumed it worked the same as hashtags tbh so teaches me yet again about assumptions,

        Also thank you so much for the kind words regarding my writing.

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      2. Well then I’m so happy to have told you! And yes I know, I keep thinking they’re a lot like hashtags too haha. Just want to make sure other people can find you! You’re very welcome, you deserve it!

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    2. Nice looking blog overall. If your theme supports it, I would consider putting a link to your Instagram (and any other social media) on the side of your page. I think the pictures are great, but on the longer posts, you might consider doing a post about the overall trip with a gallery at the bottom. Other than that, seems like good times!

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  12. If you are an anime fan, a fan of Marvel ( and DC), a make-up lover or simply a passionate reader, then I bet you’ll agree with what I wrote in my reviews. Thank you in advance for your time! Here is the link to my blog and may you find at least one article that you will enjoy: https://reviews635.wordpress.com/

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    1. Congratulations on your one hundredth post!! That’s a great milestone! And I’m recently over that myself and there are some days I still don’t feel like a blogger. 😅 so a huge congrats to you and keep up the great work. Cheers! 💫

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  29. Hey all! I posted a new recipe… it seems like my dessert things get a lot more attention. So are the non-dessert things just not as popular because people like sweets, or are the posts lower quality? Hm… check it out and let me know what you think. ALSO, for some reason Pinterest and Facebook never seem to choose the photo I want them to when posts are shared. Any insight? Thanks! http://foodallergydad.wordpress.com/weekday-barbecue-chicken

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