Apr 20, 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. Very nice! I didn’t see a like button available on your posts. You might consider enabling that for people to show your post appreciation. 🙂 Really great post.

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  2. A good, heartfelt welcome to each and every new blogger out there! 😉 I am so glad that you have joined the WordPress community, because it gives each of you the chance to simply be yourself and to showcase your talents. May I wish every one of you the very best of luck in your new blogging career; 🍀🌹🍀🌹🍀🌹🍀🌹🍀 with all of my 💘-JW

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      4. That’s awesome! 🙂 I took lessons for about ten years, but I haven’t really played in a while! Sometimes I’ll pick it up & mess around a little, but definitely not as much as I had used to.

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  11. Hi all. Great to meet you all. I am slow Lee scrolling through all your stories. You are all fabulous. I love all the community posts. I will slowly make my way through everyone who has participated in this Friday post. Please feel free to look through my posts. I’m new to this. so I’m still finding my way around and trying to use the website. A bit of trial and error. Any advice would be well appreciated. Look forward to meeting you here in the future. ❤️🙏🤗

    My Broken Friend

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    1. Great start!
      You still have a text widget to the right of your page – you can amend this in the customiser. And also your About page still has the example text. This can also be amended and the About page lets other blogger know a little more about you and your reasons for starting a blog!
      Hope this helps 🙂

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    2. Hello @escakat,

      Per the guidelines in the post, here’s some information on how to share your post:

      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.

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    1. Your blog is looking good so far! I do have a suggestion, though! Your background is really nice! However, it’s a little difficult reading your posts since the color of your text is more of a grayish color compared to the bright red/yellow background. Is there a way to change your font color to maybe a brighter color (like white)? Or maybe change the background if you can’t change the font color?

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