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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  15. I’ve written a little in the past but not really blog before. Not sure what my blog will be about. At the moment I’m planning on writing about anything that’s inspired me to put pen to paper. This. First one was written out of frustration at hotel which was really average but with very unfriendly staff – a bit Fawlth Towers

    Ode to the Strange Hotel

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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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    1. Welcome 🙂

      Looks like you haven’t given your site a title yet! If you’d like to add one (we recommend it), you can do that by going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

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    1. Wow, what an amazing adventure! I took a look at your post, but couldn’t see where to add a comment or a ‘like’ button. Always best to include these so you can see how much traffic your site has received.

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  28. Hi everyone. What a great idea First Friday is. Here is the link to my first blog that I wrote a couple of weeks ago. https://thenewfarmgirl.blog/2017/10/29/hi-im-the-new-farm-girl-and-i-suffer-from-anxiety-and-depression/
    I started to my blog in the hope to help end the stigma that sometimes goes with mental illness and to share my quest to climb the corporate ladder while battling anxiety and depression. Hopefully someone finds some inspiration out of it.

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  30. BelovedinHissight.com is my new blog! I am really excited to finally have a voice that has no limits and no boundaries. I’m open to feedback & suggestions. I’m grateful for the time you take to share your voice. Thanks…

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