Dec 1, 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. Hi!
      Welcome to WordPress!
      Your site looks great but, I noticed that you haven’t posted anything under the ‘About’ page. Giving a brief description about your blog in the ‘About’ page helps the visitors understand the blog better!
      All the best!🌻

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      14. I’m an editor and moderator here, and I encourage you to go right to people’s blogs when you want to strike up a conversation. We keep this post focused on people sharing posts and leaving feedback.

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    1. So. I’m still super new here but, I can gather about 100 views in a day or so by going out of my way to find other blogs I like, liking, following and commenting on them. It draws attention and people are likely to read your blog in return!

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    2. Welcome 🙂

      If you look over to the right of your posts, you’ll see a bit of placeholder text — it’s meant to help you learn how to work with widgets, and 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/)

      You also still have a placeholder post at the top of your blog — you can delete it in My Site > Posts.

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    1. Your writing is lovely!
      I noticed your “about” page is blank. You can add a little something here so people know what your blog is about for when they visit your site ☺️☺️
      Keep going! 😁

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  14. First blog post

    My attempt at writing a blog about the ups and downs I go through as a single working mum of 4. Only just started this blog but have got lots of funny and relatable stories to add. I would love some feedback/ constructive feedback so please do me a huge favour and have a peek! Thanks guys x

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      4. I’m so glad y’all are connected! If you just want to chat, can you head to one another’s blogs? We try to keep this space focused, so the new folks can all get the support they need. Thanks!

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  22. Hello, I started my blog about a week ago. I have a lot of feelings I need to get out, and journaling takes me a lot longer than typing. Plus it helps venting to strangers. So my blog is basically going to be a lot of nonsense surrounding what goes on in my every day life. if that interests you my blog is afinecatastrophe.wordpress.com

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  24. Hi everyone! I started this blog about a year ago but I posted for the first time this passed week. I saw this First Friday right before I went to work so didn’t get to share yesterday but hopefully I can still share with you guys. I am blogging about my journey as a writer and just keeping things super fun and positive. Hope you guys like it.

    Proper Introductions

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      1. Thank you so much for checking out my page and giving me some tips. I went in and hopefuly fixed them. I really appreceated the time you took to check out my blog and for posting your blog artical “First Friday”. Thanks so much.

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  26. Hello All! I’ve recently started my blog: beginner mamma! I’m a new mom and I wanted to share some real experiences and feelings with other new moms and just everyone in general. Tried to keep it sweet and short! Check it out! 😊

    Baby Love

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    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags and categories on some of 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, which is sad! If you cut your tags down to the most relevant, you’ll actually draw more readers.

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  29. Hello y’all! I am so happy to be apart of the blog world. I am extremely excited and nervous to write but I’m hoping it’ll help me figure things out with me. Feel free to view my blog and please give me any and all advise from the writing to the site! I take constructive criticism very well. I look forward to hearing from you!

    Finally a start

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