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. It is difficult – I totally get you but I think your post are great. Try to keep going, even if no one reads, as long as you keep your voice out there! New follower for sure!

      -Ash

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    3. Your post and your story was remarkable. Keep posting & keep fighting. No need for self loath, for there is a special place in world for beautiful souls like you! 😊

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    4. 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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  7. Hi all! It’s nice to meet everyone. I just recently started blogging and I will admit, I honestly don’t know too much about what I’m doing. I’m always open to constructive criticism or help and of course I enjoy meeting new people and reading other blogs! So far, I’m really enjoying my time here in WordPress. I look forward to learning & being able to do more.

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  8. Me gusta mucho el tema del viernes primero. La Epoca de La Natividad; acà en Ciudad Panamà la inició nuestro municipio con ‘encendido de bellas luces en 19 sitios parques plazas..! #BrillaLaNavidad

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    1. Continue blogging & keep posting. Your comment does not have the link in proper way…. So it doesn’t lead to you post directly. Try to change it. 😊

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    1. the blog and posts are very clean and organized. If you’re going to add more photos later on I would consider categorizing them into “albums” so readers can choose what type of photos to look at as opposed to scrolling for a long time. Just my opinion! 🙂 Happy Blogging! 🙂

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    2. 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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      1. Thank you! I had no idea! Do you have any recommendations of main tags that would be relevant and is around 3-5 the normal? I’m so used to social media it’s sad. I’m going to try to figure out how to remove them.

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    1. 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/)

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    2. Intresting beginning, what is next ? A few spelling mistakes here and there but it feels easy to read and compelling, if you post anything else in the future I’ll try to come by and have a look! 😉

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    1. Right now, you have your site set to use a static home page rather than a regular blog page — you can’t stick things to a static home page, which is why setting that post to be sticky seems to have to effect. If you switch to a blog layout, it should pop up to the top. You can change that in My Site > Customize > Homepage settings.

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