Jan 2, 2017 / Community Pool

Community Pool

The place for feedback, advice, and conversations about blogging.

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 free, self-guided courses to help you get started with your blog (or revive a dormant one)? Check out our current offerings at Blogging U.

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.

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.

Show Comments

907 Comments

Comments are closed.

Close Comments

Comments

  3. Happy New Year guys!!

    I have been trying my hand at Hindi poetry for the last two months. Would love it if you guys checked it once. नए साल की हार्दिक शुभमानायें सभी को। बड़ी ही ख़ुशी होगी अगर अहमदुल्लाह की शायरी पढ़ने का कष्ट करें यहां की आवाम। धन्यवाद।

    https://rhassanahmadaullah.wordpress.com

    Liked by 1 person

  4. Hi, I have a blog that I really started just for fun, written in the prospective of a dog. If you feel like reading it and giving me any feedback that would be great or if you just want to read it for a chuckle that’s good too. whenparkspeaks.wordpress.com

    Liked by 5 people

  5. Hello friends, and Happy New Year! I have a question for anyone who might know about plugins. I signed up for PopUp Domination, and I want to get Yoast for my blog, but with the new WordPress update, I am unable to install my own plugins. Does anyone have any advice/run into this problem before?

    Like

    1. Hi, my understanding is that using WordPress.com, we can’t use plugins. If one uses WordPress.org and self-hosts, you can use plugins. But I’m still learning, so I may be incorrect about this!

      Liked by 1 person

      2. Me as well. I tried out a wordpress.org self-hosting process a couple of years ago, and I found that having the built-ins through wordpress.com and also the speed (when posting, etc.) was much better on wordpress.com. Plus, there is the built-in community through the wordpress reader. Good luck!

        Liked by 2 people

  6. I’d like to invite everyone to stop by and check out a photography piece from a few months ago, “Autumn 2016.” The photograph was taken during a hike, and captured the atmosphere of the season. If you like the photograph, please click the “like” button on the post page. Comments and feedback are always welcome, and please leave them in the comments section of the post page as well. If you like what you see, feel free to browse around, and follow along so you don’t miss anything as I post several times a week. Thanks in advance.
    Drew

    Autumn 2016

    Liked by 2 people

  8. Hello everybody! I have a blog I just started, and I would love some constructive feedback. passthepick.wordpress.com it is for God, for the people, and for the love of music. I hope y’all get curious and come check it out! 🙂 thanks for reading

    Liked by 2 people

  9. Hey all,

    I just wanted to stop by and see if I could attract anyone to be a guest poster on my blog. I am doing a series called Sunday stories and would love to hear from anyone. Its a series where I am going to get fellow bloggers out there to share their life quotes, affirmations, songs, poems and pictures, whatever it is that make them who there are. In an essence – their stories. More appropriately, their reasons of being – their ikigai.

    I just want to connect with the world to find out how they found there ikigai with the hope to help me find mine. I want to know what makes them them to leap out of bed, the words that they choose to live by, the greatest advice they have been given…. All of it. There is a world of experience inside each of us and I want to explore it. I want to know people. I want to know the moments that defined their life.

    And if your thinking I don’t have a story, email me. Let’s talk and see where it goes. If anything, you get to meet someone new (that’s me) and I get to know you.

    I have some Sunday stories already on my blog and they have kindly wrote about their experiences of doing a Sunday story with me. Have a look and I hope to hear from you soon.

    I am also here to help with advice 🙂

    Happy new year

    Ivy xx

    Liked by 8 people

      1. Thanks for your reply… I’ll head over there and see what I think.

        I guarantee I will love it already

        Ivy xx

        Like

  10. Hello and happy 2017 everyone! It’s that lovely time of week again that makes me somewhat excited for a new Monday. I’d love to hear from some fresh faces, so let’s get down to it.
    Feel free to check out my completed 30-Day Writing Challenge:
    https://hailangeliccreation.wordpress.com/challenges/
    Also, being the new year, I want to give readers and new faces an opportunity to have a say in the content they see, so I opened up a new post where you can drop in a prompt:
    https://hailangeliccreation.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/box-of-prompts-interactive-opportunity/
    Have fun, leave some feedback, and drop in a prompt!
    Happy New Year!
    -Author S

    Liked by 2 people

      1. Thank-you so much! I will definitely check out your blog and comment in the next few days! I’m in Copenhagen at the moment so when I get decent signal I will definitely have a read!! Thank you so much for your comments they are much appreciated! Happy New Year

        Liked by 1 person

  19. Hello and happy new year! I feel inspired right now, and think that I would love to be active on this pool every week. Read, and also share. Or often, at least. 🙂 Here’s the last one I wrote… it’s been some time… But until then! The sea calls~

    Maria I.

    Liked by 1 person

  20. Good evening creative souls, and fellow bloggers,

    To those of you who are interested in creative writing, there is a relatively new blog called Mug’s Tale,https://mugstale.wordpress.com that offers weekly writing workshops.

    Anyone can send their texts and they are then submitted to the editors of the blog proofread if necessary and published on the blog with a link to your personal blog if you have one.

    Have a look and tell me what you think of it.

    Thank you so much for your feedback!

    Liked by 5 people

  22. Hi everyone!! Welcome to 2017. I started this year off with my first book review. Check it out at musingsandmusic014.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/righting-the-wrongs-of-a-wayward-justice-system-book-review/

    Liked by 2 people

    1. Your writings are SO GOOD. I’ve left a bunch of comments in your blog haha. And plan to read more of your pieces.

      I’m actually a pre-med right now (in college, planning to go to medical school afterwards), and also love writing poetry and short stories. 🙂

      If you’re interested, feel free to check out my blog, and leave some feedback + constructive criticism:

      https://sonderwriter.wordpress.com/

      Liked by 2 people

      1. Thanks! I checked out your page. It’s nicely formatted, and I could tell you thought deeply for your post. Very interesting. Just one thing: you might want to either add something to the text widget in your sidebar, or get rid of it.

        Liked by 1 person