Mar 16, 2018 / First Friday

First Friday

Brand 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.
  • When commenting, avoid copying and pasting the same response repeatedly. It makes it look like you’re not really paying attention. Not to mention, it’s spammy.
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    2. Finding love is indeed a minefield. I like your post. Lots of people will relate to this. Nice one! Like, like! xxx

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    2. Your topics are really interesting. I read the one about skin care products–exactly the sort of thing that I really need to know about because I am useless at all the girly stuff! What would be really handy are pictures of each product–because someone like me, who would benefit most from your knowledge, might want to go and buy one of the products, but I wouldn’t know what it looked like. I hope that helps. Wonderful blog, really helpful. Do you have a WordPress subscribe button–I couldn’t see it 😦

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      2. I will take a look!

        If you have time and fancied, I would be very grateful if you could check out my site. Leave a like or comment if you wish, and if you feel like it, hit the follow button. All new followers are warmly welcome! Click the gravitas next to my name to be taken there. Your thoughts and feedback is much appreciated! xx

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      5. Had a look, still couldn’t see the WordPress one. I don’t tend to sign up for blog via email, because I never get around to reading them unless they are in my WordPress reader 😦

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    1. OMG, I was exactly the same at 15! Like exactly. Never lose the passion! I vowed I would travel the world as soon as I had the money to do so, and it is exactly what I did. To say it is life-changing would be an understatement. I wouldn’t take any of it back, not for a second–even the really hard bits. In ten years I have seen 34 countries and 18 states of America, and I am going camping for a month in South Africa, Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe in just over 15 weeks. Definitely do it, start saving now, and go at 18!

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    2. This is incredible. I love the way you have mixed Indonesian with English and a passion of travel. I cannot wait to see what you write next. Where is your follow button, I couldn’t find it. Don’t stop blogging and DEFINITELY do lots of travelling! 🙂 xxx

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      2. On the menu of WordPress are options including pages, posts, settings. Select themes. select the customise button next to ‘themes’ and then choose widgets. From here, read what each widget does and add them as you wish to your site. Make sure you look through the options for each one. Hope that helps.

        If you have time and fancied, I would be very grateful if you could check out my site. Leave a like or comment if you wish, and if you feel like it, hit the follow button. All new followers are warmly welcome! Click the gravitas next to my name to be taken there. Your thoughts and feedback is much appreciated! xx

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    2. Nice architectural twist! Love the intro, it was written with taste and a home-cooked passion. Great stuff, interesting and different style. Keep up the great work! 🙂

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      1. Hi there!

        Please don’t copy and paste the same invitation to visit your blog as your reply to others’ posts. (We delete them.) The best way to attract new visitors to you site is to visit others’ sites and leave a thoughtful comment or pose a well-considered, respectful question about their work. People are genuinely curious about someone who has taken the time to read and comment thoughtfully and will want to pay you a visit in return.

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  24. She’s Blended

    So I wrote a piece about blended families. It got the least amount of traffic out of all my posts yet. It’s also very short compared to all my other posts. Please take a look and even comment a constructive critique please! I’m not sure why my audience didn’t respond as well !!

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    1. Congratulations! You published your first post more than a month ago.

      You’re ready to move on to the Community Pool, where the water is fine and the members of the community are lovely. A new pool opens every Monday. Bloggers of all stripes and levels of experience are welcome to comment there and ask for feedback and advice on their blog. All the best!

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    1. as far as i saw , you’re cool. Shorter the better ’cause some people have lots of blogs o follow so they won’t have the time to follow long posts

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  30. Hi new bloggers! I made my first post a little bit ago, but I keep missing out on these First Friday threads, so I’m glad I finally caught one. My name is Alex and I’m a self-professed bookworm who blogs about her reading and writing adventures.
    If you have any tips for new bloggers, feel free to leave me a comment. 🙂 I love hearing feedback and meeting new people!
    My first post:
    https://scribblesnstories.wordpress.com/2018/02/26/my-blogging-adventure-begins/

    Liked by 11 people