Dec 4, 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).

Looking for more information about custom domains, advanced design options, and other enhancements for your blog? Find the WordPress.com plan that’s right for you.

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.

Looking for free, self-guided courses to help you get started with your blog (or revive a dormant one)? Check out our current offerings at Blogging U.

Show Comments

1,595 Comments

Comments are closed.

Close Comments

Comments

  6. I’m not really new into blogging but I have been discouraged so I went off for a long while but then I heard of this community pool and a little spark of hope sneaked into my life and now I have started blogging again. Hopefully, I’ll find fulfilment this time.

    Liked by 3 people

  22. Hi, would appreciate feedback on my 500-word challenge. This one is focused on the degrees of emotions I went through when making some decisions for university and degrees of layers I had to dig through to hide my university anxieties. I am still struggling to open up to my family and to people I care about so, naturally, I had to write about it and write to said people to express. Thank you if you do read.

    https://zeijkh.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/church-bells-ring-with-their-hollow-insides/

    Like

  27. Dear bloggers, I am writing about my life and my travels around the world (at the moment, around Southern Africa). I wrote my latest post today and I would love to know if you think it’s interesting/captivating, or if it lacks something (like some “spark” or maybe more personal details? or does it have too many details?)…I would appreciate any comment you may have! Many thanks 🙂 https://wonderlustqueen2.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/its-a-kind-of-magic/

    Like