Mar 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).

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.

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    1. Followed as have read your post before about being an older mum. Then I skipped down to the next post . . .kind of takes the wind out of your sails! My birthday was the day you posted – I hope you are recovering well. 🙂

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  6. Hey folks!

    I am in the business of uploading short stories to my blog, which I often find myself writing as smaller chapters, which helps myself to break the story telling process down into manageable sections.

    Anyhow, I have just added a new piece of writing in the form of a post, where as always, I would appreciate any feedback given to either what I have clacked in with the keyboard, or how my blog in general, looks and feels!

    Cheers, and I look forwards to also seeing your work!

    – Zac Z

    https://brainshutterblog.wordpress.com/2018/03/20/the-country-of-dutiful-dead-chapter-one-three/

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    1. Great start! I couldn’t find an About page. It’s always worth adding one, so your readers can engage with you. Have a look around some blogs to see how other people approach the subject and you might find some great blogs to follow.

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      1. They are even funnier in person 😉 but I will tell them your compliments. I think they will be happier thanks to you 🙂

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  17. Are you familiar with the phrase: “like calculator BOOBS for millennials”?

    Would you like to be?

    Then read on 😉

    All feedback on my “Daily Prompt” blog voraciously received – thanks!

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  18. https://tipsandtricksofbloggers.wordpress.com/

    Is a newer blog dedicated towards helping bloggers, giving free advice, free tips and tricks, and a free community.

    Our free community is a open and welcome place for all bloggers, no matter who they are or what they blog about.

    Please check it out, and if you would like to join the community of authors who operate this blog, please contact us, we would love to hear from you.
    Thank you!

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  26. What’s up to everyone in the community pool! Hope all is going well with my fellow bloggers. I am attaching my latest post which includes my visit and experience at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in Chicago. This is probably one of the longest post I have done so enjoy! All feedback is welcome from the content of my blog, to the writing, or photos within my post.

    Museum of Contemporary Art

    Peace,

    Manny P

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  30. Hello fellow swimmers,

    I’ve recently published my summary of my week without social media. Would love to hear some feedback and even more so, just if you’re interested in this project/challenge, I’d love it if fellow bloggers shared their own experiences of a week without social media 🙂

    https://casualtrainwreck.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/a-week-without-social-media-part-2/

    If you decide to join me, you’re awesome! Please tag me in the post and feel free to steal my title photo for this one!

    Big hugs!
    Ben

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