May 8, 2018 / First Friday

First Friday

The pool’s closed for maintenance this week — see you next Friday!

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.
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    4. I love your content! That’s absolutely the most important bit!
      If you look under your “me” button you can change how your name appears on your posts. At the moment it shows as mylifeafterfifty4889 etc. You can change that to My Life After Fifty, Sparkles McTootsie-roll or whatever you like. My blog is Bitchin in the Kitchen and I show as The Britchy One for example.
      I’d definitely recommend an about page. Tell us a little about you, why you’re blogging and what your blog will be about. It’s a taster, a teaser to get people to look deeper. Have a look at others about me pages and find what works for you but bear in mind, it’s the first thing a lot of people look for so make it work 😊
      If you change your posts to show as excerpts on your home page the layout will look much better and people can instantly see and click on individual posts. You can do this in your customizer under blog content.
      I couldn’t see like or follow buttons at the end of your posts. Those are pretty much essential. You want to make it as easy as possible for people to like, comment and follow you.I couldn’t see like or follow buttons at the end of your posts. Those are pretty much essential. You want to make it as easy as possible for people to like, comment and follow you.
      Go to your my sites button (where you can check your stats) Scroll down to ‘Configure’ and go to ‘Sharing’ then ‘sharing buttons’. Check ‘reblog’ and ‘like’.
      Also go to ‘Settings’,scroll down to ‘Discussion’ and check ‘allow comments’ ‘send pingbacks’ and ‘receive pingbacks’. These will notify you when someone tags you and also notify others if you tag them – very useful!
      I hope I haven’t put you off, these are all little things but they make everything much smoother!

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  4. Hi every one new in wordpress, don’t how how it work hopeing to get a friend who will guaid me through

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    3. Hi Juliana! I would love to see what you post! The WordPress courses are excellent, I used them and really enjoyed them. They were really straightforward too 😊

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    1. Wow, you’ve relocated, with twins and still have time to write a blog? Are you Wonder Woman? I definitely want to find out more! Followed.

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    1. at your post there is a kind of paper clip thingy, click on it and then click on copy. Then come back her and right click on your computer then click paste… see if it works for you, ; )

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    3. Your blog looks really good so far, great start! I noticed you haven’t got an “about” page which could be useful for your readers 🙂

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  16. Hello and welcome, new folks! We’re really excited to meet you.

    As usual, I just want to remind everyone that we moderate the comments on First Friday pretty heavily — this is really a space for brand new people to introduce themselves and meet one another, and for others to welcome and support them.

    If you’re not here to either share your (recent) first post or leave a supportive comment, please head to the Community Pool, which is where any blogger can seek feedback on any aspect of blogging. And if you’re not sure what the guidelines here are, please read the above post — or just ask!

    Happy blogging, y’all:)

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    2. Hello. Black backgrounds mixed with small, serif typefaces, make for hard reading. A white background is always the best choice if writing is what your blog is mainly about. Good luck!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      Looks like you haven’t given your site a title yet! If you’d like to add one (we recommend it), you can do that by going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

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    1. notalipsticklesbian.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/the-first-one/

      Sorry, here’s the link to the actual blog from yesterday. The first link is to my whole page.

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      1. This was so very sad to read. Thank you for sharing. I am often lost for words when I read things so moving, but I have left you a comment.

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