Apr 13, 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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  1. Hey there! I am a brand new blogger and need lots of advice and support. I enjoy reading and writing so that has brought me here. I have spent all nite trying to set up my pages n things. So any tips on that would be much appreciated as well! Thank you !

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  4. Hi Pia!

    I’m Dani and I’m also really new to the blogging world! I’m an aspiring author and my current project is writing a story in blog-format. It’s from a first person point of view and it updates every Wednesday. I’m really really excited about this, I can’t wait to show it off!

    Here’s the link, let me know what you think!

    New Beginnings

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  19. Hello everyone! I’ve just started blogging on WordPress. Please check my blog here – https://silentwomaniya.wordpress.com/

    I’m open to suggestions and contributions. You’d feature as a guest blogger here. You can write about issues that have endangered humans and of course, humanity. While my posts may revolve mostly around women and their rights, your write-ups need not be gender specific.
    Waiting to hear from you guys. Thanks a ton!

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