Oct 16, 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.
  • No running on the deck.

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  1. Hello Friends,

    I hope you all are doing great. I always enjoy reading blogs which are shared here. Well I find them very unique and at the same time, they introduce me to something new which makes me explore about them till depth. I also love sharing my takes on community pool

    Today, I would be sharing my latest take with all you guys.

    So,here it is

    Take 17

    Take 17 : There is no harm in listening! 

    I hope you all will like it☺️

    Love
    Aywriteslife

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    2. Honestly I was enjoying this until it came to Africa. Having visited two countries in Africa over the the summer I respectfully disagree with your outlook. I invite you to check out my blog where I wrote a few pieces on Kenya and Zanzibar.

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    1. It’s always so good to see success stories! I’d be interested to hear if you ever journaled in the traditional sense (paper and pen) prior to picking up the blogging? How do you compare the two? Great stuff! Keep it up!

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      2. I have a theory that so many more people are blogging than traditional journaling. I was never able to stick with it; whereas, blogging I’ve kept with (I started around the same time as you I think). Plus I think the feedback and encouragement from others helps. What’re your thoughts?

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  18. Happy Monday!
    Do you ever get so lost in your thoughts about the past that you almost forget to live in the present? I often start reminiscing about the gone moments and suddenly realize that it is better to live in the now.
    I wrote a poem on this and would love to know what you think about it!
    Here’s the link:

    Nostalgia Strikes Hard

    Hope you like it!

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    1. You have some good things to say, and I can feel your energy! Just be careful about leaving typos, as they can be distracting and even confusing (messing with your message), ultimately costing you readers (because it’s too much work to try to figure out what was meant). In this particular post, you need to capitalize the first word of every sentence; it helps readers to know where one thought has ended and a new one has begun. (Periods at the end of a sentence are too easily passed over, so capitalizing the the next word helps draw attention to it.)

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  21. What’s up, fellow bloggers?
    Just like many of you, I love good movies and books. And some other thing that you will discover while reading what’s written on my blog:

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  24. hey everyone,

    As a response to all the #MeToo status shares on Facebook today and the whole conversation on sexual attacks and harrassment since the Harvey Weinstein happenings of a week ago, i collated some thoughts and ideas and comments and with the focus firmly on the women, ask a question about where the men are:

    The invisible men

    On a totally different tack, especially for any of you who are involved in Travel Blogging or thinking about it, i share a super helpful infograph with some tips on how to Travel Blog well over here:

    Have you ever thought of becoming a Travel Blogger?

    i hope that one or both of those posts will be of interest to you – would love to hear some general feedback on other people’s responses to the #MeToo conversation…

    love brett fish

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  27. Hello, all of you bloggers and blog followers out there! Just wanted to let you know that tomorrow, my debut e-book for Amazon Kindle, “A Girl Named Cinderella”, will be released to the public in Kindle format only, October 17th; You can order it then at http://www.amazon.com, and just look for “A Girl Named Cinderella” in the Kindle Store! I have also continued my story serial, “The Blizzard of ’78”, and I have also published a special post that tells you how to participate in my blog’s 5th anniversary coming up next month, so that should be very well exciting! All of these things and a whole lot more are waiting for you at KALEIDOSCOPE at http://www.j2w7.wordpress.com! Have a blessed week, with ♡-JW

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