Feb 19, 2018 / 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.
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  • Please keep all comments civil and constructive. The idea is to have fun — it’s a pool, after all!
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  • If you haven’t looked at our Commenting Guidelines in a while, now might be a good time.
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    1. Short, thoughtful posts.
      But you still have your default About page and the text widget on the right side. You might want to consider editing that. Let me know if you need help with that.

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  3. If you have time, take a look at our most recent post, which is about using natural elements when designing a garden:

    Using Organic Forms To Create Balance

    At the end of the post, we are promoting a garden design course, but know that most people who read the post will not live near enough. If you read this post, would you be turned off by the mention of the course? And if you have a blog that is partly commercial, partly informative and inspirational, how do you balance the two? Please feel free to leave a link to an example post that we can check out. Comments are turned off on the blog, so please comment here.

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    2. Thanks for the history lesson. Living in a Caribbean paradise we do pay attention to what happens on the other side of the globe. 2 months ago I read the book The General of the Dead Army by Ismail Kadare. I learnt so much. Thanks for posting this in the pool.

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      1. That is one of my favorite books and it gives a very good representation of what happened in Albania after communism. You should also read Kosovo a Short History by Malcolm, The Serbs by Judah, and Women and Genocide by Women’s Press which has different articles regarding violence against women around the world.

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    1. Love the blog name in context to your journey; and I love how willing you are to share the journey and in turn, help others with theirs. Phenomenal stuff! Keep blogging, you’re a real inspiration. All the love 😊

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    2. I love dogs! And babies! And consequently, how could I not love your blog! You have great content; and a great theme; (Also love your name, actually, when am I going overboard? Let me know!) keep blogging, you’re clearly good at it! 😊

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      1. Haha! Thank you so much! You’re blog name definitely confused me at first, but your first post laid it all into place. I’m intrigued and look forward to your writing!

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      1. Ohh! Thank you very much. I just changed the image this morning. I was afraid that making the crop bigger would be too much. But I’m glad you liked it.

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  14. And yes…a huge thanks to community pool…Being a new blogger, I know how hard it is to reach people and to convince them so that they read your blogs and then you can have their valuable feedbacks and comments and ofcourse follow ups!
    So a huge thanks to this part of blogging system….I am getting views and people are appreciating it…it wouldn’t be possible without this place…n ofcourse a big thanks to everyone who takes their time to read blogs and then commenting on them…

    Will always be looking forward to more such blogs and people…i do love sharing my thoughts to everyone of you 😊😊😊

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  15. Hey everyone!

    I’ve recently come back to my WP blog (https://yourbeautifuljourney.wordpress.com/), and I’d like to warmly invite you to check it out – it’s a great community focused on growth and self-realisation, as well as dealing with your own mental and emotional blocks. As an example, here’s my most recent post about dealing with envy: https://yourbeautifuljourney.wordpress.com/2018/02/17/dealing-with-envy/.

    Please, share your feedback there, like and share if you feel like it, and, of course, follow to get more inspiring content!

    Looking forward to meeting you there ❤

    Elena

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  16. Hello awesome bloggers

    I have a beauty blog; makeup, product reviews, tips and tricks, fashion and i write stories sometimes.

    Here is a link to my recent post https://labakeblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/facial-skin-reaction-due-to-stress-treatment-products-review/

    Please do check it out and i would like any suggestions and advice on how to improve. If any of my post interest you, please leave a comment and a star below. Thanks

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  18. Hey guys… I’ve been blogging for over a year and a half now, but somewhere during the past few months I’ve seemed to lose my voice. Today I wrote a post about it and I’d really appreciate it if you guys to checked it out. I talk about what exactly made me not post regularly and that it wasn’t because I didn’t have any time. I feel like some of you can relate, especially if u have been blogging for a while now. Do check it out and be sure to leave a comment!
    https://teenmemoir.com/2018/02/19/why-im-actually-not-posting-getting-deep/

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    1. Ah, i related to so much of this! I used to have a blog before this one, which i deleted purely cause it was too public and out-there with the people i knew, and that really interfered with the writing process for me, you know?
      Like every time i got down to the biz, i would think, ‘Oh, what would this one think if i end up publishing this?’; and i don’t think i’ve still overcome that, although i’d really love to, and hope you can, too.
      This blog of mine is completely free of known followers, so that keeps me going, please do check it out.
      I love what you’ve done with the site by the way! Great layout, and the content, i think, speaks for itself. Keep writing, you’re clearly pretty great at it. 🙂
      (Also, holy shit, did i just write an essay for a comment?)

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  20. Hello!

    I recently posted that I was looking for bloggers who were interested in writing a guest post on my blog and am considering putting the call for submissions on my about page. I’m looking for feedback on whether the original post gave clear enough guidelines and was reasonable before I update my About page and add it.
    Thank you!

    https://everydaystrangeblog.wordpress.com/2018/02/14/strange-wednesdays-calling-all-oddballs/

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      5. Just the content that I would post, and the include a little introduction and link to your blog. Does not need to be something you have posted

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    2. Hi, I just took a peek, and personally think the original post was not too clear. You may consider doing these: 1. Rather than saying “Calling All Oddballs”, would “Calling for Guest bloggers be better? 2. You may want to also do a shorter intro paragraph, and go straight to the guidelines for submission, etc. I hope this helps! Cheers!!!

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    1. Nice site. Great thinking.
      One thing – the “text widget”. Go to My site-view site and click on any post to see the widget that we see. You can edit it from there, or go through customizer-widget. You can replace it with your own text, ot pictures, or other things.

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  26. Hello fellow bloggers!!

    Poetry is something that has gotten into my mind quite unknowingly. And since then, I’ve decided to give it a try.
    I write poetry on different aspects of life. Please do check them out.

    Below is the link to my recent post.

    inaworldlikethismoaam.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/reflections/

    Do read it and the other poems on the blog too. Would like to read your feedback. You could let me know of your views on the blog or here.

    Thank you!
    Happy reading.

    – Mabelle

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  27. Hello!
    Don’t you just love the sweet fragrance of flowers? I am a crazy nature-lover! I recently published a post in which I’ve expressed how I feel while being surrounded with leaves and twigs. Let me know what you think about it!

    Here’s the link to it:

    Oh, The Sweet Misty Air

    Hope you like it!
    With love,
    Meher

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  28. Heya bloggers!
    I hope you are all well and that you have a great week ahead. I started my blog in January. I would appreciate if I could get an overall feedback for my page. Here’s the link to one of my posts. It is an older one, working on 3-4 posts side by side for this week.

    Friend?

    Thank you!!

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    1. I really enjoyed your poem and the reality of its meaning, because we all experience such people at one time or the other in our lives. And for your page, I found it easy to navigate, and personally, that is what I look out for when I visit other blogs. Keep up the great work. Cheers!!!

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  30. Hello there!
    How’s it going with you all ?
    I blog about games, books and movies. Here’s a link to my blog :
    http://www.themechroblog.wordpress.com
    Also, if you’ve got any recommendations for me or just wanna have a conversation (about books, games or movies), you know where to find me!

    PS : Did y’all see Black Panther yet ?
    I really want to see but I’ve got exams going on.

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      1. Oh thank you so much for reading my posts! I do try to balance my posts in terms of new and old stuff. I also try to be consistent but that isn’t working out too well.

        Your post was really good. It was brief and to the point motivation which is required by people. Reading your post, I’m actually thinking about planning tomorrow in advance.

        Oh yes, Black panther! Even I wanna see it really bad! :3

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      2. I’m glad to hear it! Remember with practice, your writing will get better and your urge to write will get stronger. Keep writing and let me know how Black Panther goes 😉

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      3. Yes, I’ll keep writing! I don’t think I’ll be able to catch Black Panther in theatres since I have my exams going on. But I’ll let you know if I do watch it!

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