May 28, 2018 / Community Pool

Community Pool

Where WordPress bloggers support each other with feedback and advice.

Welcome to the final edition of the Community Pool! Whether you’ve been a regular here for years or just recently discovered the Pool: thank you for making it such a supportive, lively, and collegial place for bloggers of all stripes.

As always, feel free to share links to your latest post for feedback, or ask a question about your site’s design, publishing cadence, or any other blogging-related topic you’re looking for input on. Since this will be the last time the Pool opens its doors, you’re also welcome to chat with others about any community initiatives you’re interested in starting or share links to existing blogging events you’re part of and think others might be interested in as well.

The Community Pool is for peer feedback and advice. Looking for more specific information? Check out some of these resources:

To help us keep 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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  9. Hello fellow bloggers!

    I’m Samuel, a nature and bird photographer.

    I visited a wonderful place called Suomenoja several times this past month, and as I head to new adventures further north, I invite you to visit my gallery of ducks and other inhabitants of this pond, located near Helsinki.
    Here is the article: https://eiwawar.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/my-spring-in-suomenoja/
    Please feel free to leave me a message, I’ll be happy to talk to you 🙂

    Also, as the Community Pool ends, make sure to follow the blog to get the latest updates! Thanks, and see you =)

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  10. Hi, I have published my latest blog and I would love some advice on how to keep up consistency with my blogs. Should I not reveal all my cards in one blog? I struggle for topics as a travel blogger when I get busy so advice would be great! Thanks in advance 😊https://mycoolview.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/do-go-chasing-waterfalls/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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    1. Hi!
      i have 3 blogs that i manage easily. I know some others who have more.
      the thing is to plan everything in advance for instance. If you have a blog about photography , another about tips and another about cuisine, you must have a time schedule for every one of them. Let’s say Monday for photography , saturday for the cuisine and sunday for the tips.

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  12. Hi! I’m Nicole, and admittedly, I’ve been in a blogging slump hence I haven’t been posting in a while. I’m planning on posting about my family’s trip to Europe (Spain & Portugal) – target is by the end of the week! 🙂

    Anyway, feel free to check out my blog! Really hoping that this is the end of my blogging slump, haha.

    https://gonicolec.wordpress.com

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  13. Bye Community Pool – it’s been fun! A big thanks to the people who have helped me out here over the last few years.

    Of course I had to plunge in for one last time to share my latest post. It’s a lighthearted look at flowers that look as if they are people. (Well, kind of.) Take a look and see if you agree!

    Plant anthropomorphism

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  18. Hey there . “Everyone waits for his results and some get the success while some get dissappointed but eveyone is successful in whatever work he does . It’s just there mindset which decides the result.” That’s what I think. Okay so the main topic is that my results are out and do you wanna see what is my result ; then check out my brand new post..

    RESULTS OUT!!

    And yaa don’t forget to checkout my other posts too.

    Thanks…. 🙂 🙂

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  19. Heres the last community pool.. O god I am gonna miss you all so much.. It was soo cool to be able to directly talk to people who love reading blogs..
    Well for the last time.. Check out my blog for weekly musing, a Romantic story of Andrea and Ethan and other stuff that buzz in my head..

    http://www.kinniisblog.wordpress.com

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  22. Hey Guys! i’ve been here too long to post this in First Fridays but i have a few posts that are a few years old..
    Trying to give my blog some direction – how do you narrow down the main focus of your blog from a multitude of interests?

    https://alesaurus.wordpress.com/in/

    I keep playing around with the style and layout…. i hope it’s easy to navigate, please let me know of any issues!

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  23. Hello Community poolers! Since this is the last community pool post, I wanted to drop in a quick line. Haven’t posted in a while but it has been great having this platform to share latest posts and provide feedback. Thank you readers and pool hosts for your support. You can check out my posts here in the following link. See you there!😊🌻
    https://passionforlotion.wordpress.com/

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  26. I, too, am sad to hear the community pool is closing, it’s such a great place to discover new blogs and connect with new people! Can anyone recommend any alternative pages/places to connect with the WordPress community?

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  27. A lifetime of chronic illness has often made me an observer instead of a participant. As if conducting an ethnographic study, I view others with a curious eye. You wouldn’t believe how many people are “too busy.” They have work to do, papers to grade, money to make, somewhere, anywhere, to be but here. The vulnerability and limitations of chronic illness do not permit these distractions, challenging the normative production rat race. Someday the healthy people of the world will be scurrying ahead when tragedy strikes. Somebody they love will die, and all at once, the tedious multitasking will become heartbreakingly superfluous. Busy can wait. Life won’t. Be here now; be here now with those you treasure.

    ticktalksite | Tick talk, around the clock. Because Lyme disease never takes a day off.
    https://ticktalksite.wordpress.com/

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  28. Hi fellow bloggers!

    I’m looking for some feedback on my blog. It has been a work in progress but I’ve incorporated all feedback received so far. Please let me know what you think, or if have any sugge

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  30. Hi fellow bloggers!
    Apologies, my toddler hit reply before I finished my last message.
    I’m looking for feedback on my blog. It’s been a work in progress but I’ve managed to organise it a bit more and incorporate a clearer image. Please let me know your thoughts.
    Also looking for followers so please feel free to have a read.
    The reflections page is where I plan to do some reflective writing, will start when I get a chance later on.
    Thanks in advance.
    Nyahbinghi

    https://honorarycounsellormuser.wordpress.com/

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