Oct 13, 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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  10. Hi everyone. I’m LUMI😊😊 feel free to stop by at my new blog. i’m still new to this but every step is an achievement
    lumirock.wordpress.com/
    This is actually my first..your suggestions and ideas will be appreciated. i hope you love me

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      6. I think the first few months are going to be really a pain in ass. But i think because of too many people like us who need attention, we have to position ourselves differently, i assume you’re familiar with some marketing terms, I believe every individual is unique and blogs are personal, so we are selling ourselves to the world, and every product is unique, we will make it

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  14. I tried to post before but I don’t think I did it right! Still getting the hang of things. My husband and I (oh I get a kick out of that! I’m a newlywed) have started short story blog- we pick random writing Prompts and give them a go. We’re trying to become better riders because there are so many stories in our heads! Take a look if you can!

    https://sheekswrites.wordpress.com

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    2. 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!

      (For more on widgets, what they’re for, and how to use them, check out https://learn.wordpress.com/get-flashy/)

      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.

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  26. This is my first blog post. That went successful for that matter. This is after numerous attempt to open a blog with WordPress. All efforts went unsuccessful until recently when I tried and luckily it went well. I wrote this post in response to the current situation in my country Kenya. Have a look.

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    1. This might be one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen – a very wise and enlightening take on life, its lessons and family. I read quite a few and I can safely say I am more appreciative and inspired. Thank you =)

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