I don’t own an iron…
Many of you reading this are WordPress Bloggers. You may have heard of being ‘Freshly Pressed’, where WordPress Editors pick out posts that are instantly given a lot of attention. It feels like their way of saying some bloggers are better than others, that they’re more worthy of sharing.
I even Googled, ‘How to get Freshly Pressed’.
Hmmm, note to self, next time you search, add, ‘on WordPress’, because, wow, that got weird, really fast.
Apparently none of my blog posts have: ‘enlightened’, ‘inspired’, ‘entertained’, or got the WordPress Editors ‘talking’.
Oh well, at least I’ve learned a lot about blogging, sorta…
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I’m more concise (applause).
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I know about: fonts, stats, sharing, widgets, I know what SEO stands for, Search Engine Oops, maybe I don’t.
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I’m on Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest – I’m everywhere and as it turns out, nowhere.
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I’ve virtually met fantastic people…or who knows, maybe they’re all one giant app that pretends to be bloggers and readers.
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I’ve made mistakes…many. I’ve had popular posts and some you could hear crickets chirping as the post sits there being ignored.
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I’ve been encouraged, discouraged, disappointed, and delighted.
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I’ve learned to not take it too seriously.
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Yet for Freshly Pressed folks, apparently I don’t write ‘unique content’ that’s free of ‘bad stuff’ (where’s the fun in that?).
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I don’t have a ‘point of view’ (that’s silly, everyone has a point of view, even if they borrowed it from someone else).
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I don’t paint them ‘a picture’ or make it easy on their eyes (this seems like a blatant attempt to get me to buy a Premium package).
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I don’t add ‘relevant tags’ (too many tags, not enough tags, make up your mind).
My headlines can be ‘ignored’ (I already put the word ‘Obscure’ in my tagline).
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I make
typoos, er, typos. Sorry I’m not prefect, WordPress.
I’ve tried, I really have, for over 500 posts, but sigh, I’m still in The-Land-of-Never-To-Be-Freshly-Pressed. It’s worse than being Friend-zoned.
- Well, I never really wanted to be Freshly Pressed anyway (so there).
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You can keep your FP Clique.
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You keep your special jackets that say FP on them and super-duper secret decoder rings.
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Keep your secret Clubhouse where all the Freshly Pressed elite virtually hang out and talk about us losers that will never be Pressed.
Just realized, this little rant probably got me banned from being Freshly Pressed, for my blogging lifetime. So what? I was never going to be anyway (er, was I?).
So, why will I never be Freshly Pressed? Ummm, no clue….
Me neither! We will join the not freshly pressed club together!
Who wants to be there anyway? 😉
I’d like to join the “Not Freshly Pressed” Club too… 😉
You’re in. 🙂 Some of us are rustling up cake, any particular flavour…keep in mind your answer must involve chocolate. 😉
Yesss!! Chocolate indeed.. How about Chocolate with Vanilla Swirls? Time to get freshly baked!! 😉
You had me at chocolate… 😉
🙂 A cake fest it shall be!! Unless of course one of us does get the opportunity to get Freshly Pressed, then we can see if the chosen one will squeeze our blogs in through shout outs and such. Before we know it, we will conquer the FP crew and dominate the blogosphere. You know how it goes… The underdogs always manage to come out on top, somehow, some way!! LOL 🙂
That sounds like a plan…until then, let us eat cake! 😉
Cake it is!! 😉
Always. 🙂
LOL! Well said. Alas, many of us will never get invited into the cool kid’s club. There are many bloggers who have come up with other alternative categories instead,”freshly baked” was one of my favorites. 😉
lol, that’s funny. We’ll just keep blogging along. 🙂
Ha!!! I wondered what that “Freshly Pressed” thing was. Now I know. Funny, funny post!!!
Thank you kindly. 🙂
Hope this day is good to you, come back anytime! 🙂
Thanks. Same to you!!!!!
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I have ran across the title, Freshly Pressed, but never knew would it meant. Thank you for explaining what is meant by the term.
You’re welcome, hope this day treats you kindly. 🙂
Absolutely love reading your posts! G-uno
Thank you. You gotta have some fun, life’s too short to not have fun. 😉
I’m with you. I have no idea what makes a post Freshly Pressed worthy. If you and I haven’t been Freshly Pressed then no one deserves it. I wrote a post called Freshly Pissed once and it was hugely popular.
That’s a great title. 🙂
Who knows why, but such is life. 🙂
Hope this day is being good to you, Phil. 🙂
I’d rather never get FP’d 🙊🙊 seriously you’re awesome and I love this post 😊❤️❤️
Thank you kindly…that’s worth more than being Freshly Pressed. 🙂
Hope this day is everything you want it to be. 🙂
Pressed clothes are not comfy 😁😁😁
It’s why I don’t own an iron, I like to keep it real. 😉
I’ve given up by now!
Me too, as you can tell. 🙂
Hope this day is treating you kindly. 🙂
Freshly Pressed is like the “suggested posts” on your FB feed. It’s what someone else likes. I think you’re very unique.
I’m going to take that as a compliment. 🙂
Hope this day is all you want it to be! 🙂
It was surely meant as a compliment:)
It was from you so I knew it was. 🙂
I just don’t like to be told what to like or what is good quality. I find it myself.
That’s because you know what you like…I agree. 🙂
I just love this post. Especially the opening sentence (!)
I’m pretty sure I won’t be ‘pressed’ either. My stuff is hosted by Another Host, for one thing.
And the fact that WordPress makes it impossible for WordPress bloggers to ‘like’ my posts is sort of a hint that no ironing will be done on me. But I’m so glad we found each other!
When all is said and done, finding each other and enjoying each others posts is more important. So very glad we found each other! 🙂
I think of a post being “Freshly Pressed” as being similar to a film getting one of the “big” Oscars (like “Best Film” or something, not the “cool” ones like “Best Special Effects”). Sometimes worth watching, but generally I’d rather sit down in front of some X-Men/Marvel/Sci-Fi mayhem 🙂
Love that, I’m a mutant! Wait, is that what you meant? lol 😉
I sure wouldn’t worry about it!! I gave up looking on Freshly Pressed because I found each one sounded like a ‘cookie-cutter’ version of MBA creative courses – and to me – are very boring. So please strive to remain yourself, that’s the reason your have so many followers as is!!
Thank you for the kind words. 🙂
I don’t think I could stop being me if I tried. 🙂
Hope this day is good to you. 🙂
I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member~Groucho Marx
You had me at Groucho. One of my first loves. Love a man who makes me laugh. 😉
We have a lot in common: I have never been freshly pressed and I don’t own an iron! Perhaps we should start a group of unfreshly pressed ha!
Yes, Unfreshly Pressed…that’s us! 😉
Think of it like the old Groucho Marx gag. I don’t want to join a club that will have me as a member. Yah boo sucks. They can keep their freshly squeezed.
Love Groucho…he had so many brilliant ideas! 😉
Haha, since I mostly most about math, I also don’t expect my posts to be featured on freshly pressed. I bet that my posts would just bore the hell out of those editors… whoever they are 🙂
But math is the foundation of life, many people find it fascinating. But you’re right, who are they anyway? 😉
I don’t own a iron either. But I was once freshly pressed. Have a great day.
My first Pressed visitor today…is there a secret clubhouse, I know, you couldn’t tell me if there was, it’s a secret. 😉
Hope this day treats you kindly. 🙂
Yes, math is very fascinating but some peole thought otherwise.
For all we know, they might just be some kind of bots. 🙂
Thanks for following my blog btw
I like math, but it doesn’t always like me. 😉
There are many areas in math that can be very challenging. That’s the reason why math is fun. No matter how many years you study it, you will still learn new things everyday.
Very true. 🙂
Imagine what it would be like to be Freshly Pressed. Sure, you’d have a nice surprise that day, but then what? Would you be paralyzed at your computer wondering why your next piece wasn’t FP too? Would you start wondering if the first time was all a fluke? The next thing you know you are in a spiral of sleep doubt and restricted to re-posting cat videos. Not that there is anything wrong with cat videos per say, but I am more of a dog person.
lol Allie, now you’re making me happy not to be Freshly Pressed and I love cats (and dogs). 😉
You’re right, I even do that sometimes with posts that do well and others that don’t…well, except for re-posting cat videos, hey, maybe I’ll try that next. 😉
Hope this day is all you want it to be. 🙂
LOL, cats as you can imagine are not a Freshly Pressed topic, so I know I shall never be there. Yet I’ve been on the equivalent twice on Tumblr. Maybe you should try there. 🙂
I’m on Tumblr too… 😉
Well, we never ignore your cats, they’re top notch to us. 🙂
LOL. Freshly Pressed ignores us. I think I need Tsuki or Dust Bunny to get political and edgy. 😉
I’ve seen some pretty edgy stuff, your cats have a wild side. 😉
LOL either way we ain’t getting Fresh Pulp any time soon. 🙂
As wrong as that is.
I’m afraid we’re in the Unfreshly Pressed club. 😉
Too funny! I’ve stopped hoping I’ll get Freshly Pressed because I’m guessing my blog posts aren’t their style. As long as I’m having fun blogging and doing what I want with my blog, that’s what matters to me.
Thank you kindly. 🙂
Yes, having fun and meeting others is the best part, everything else would be icing on the cake…mmmm, now I’m thinking about cake. 😉
Hope this all is all you want it to be. 🙂
You’re welcome! I completely agree that meeting other bloggers is so fun and it really is the icing on the…wait, did you say cake?!? I could go for some cake now… 🙂
Now to decide the flavour…as if the answer isn’t going to involve chocolate. 😉
It always has to involve chocolate. That’s the only kind of cake worth eating. 🙂
So very wise. Sorry, trying to type while mixing batter, very tricky. 😉
It’s an art form! 😉
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They look Pressable to me (for good & bad), but now you jinxed it by putting focus on it. 😉
I wasn’t going to get Pressed anyway so I thought I’d have some fun. 😉
Well thank you! Oh no, I don’t want to jinx myself! I guess what I meant is that I don’t focus on it anymore. If it happens, it happens.
I too will never be fresh pressed.. I’ve read some of them and I’m not impressed one bit…
Some are awesome,some are cookie cutter, some I just don’t get…I’d probably be more impressed if I was on the list. 😉
I keep my posts to paragraphs and they don’t like that… Or my content isn’t interesting enough 🙂
Who knows? As long as we enjoy it, I guess it doesn’t matter. 🙂
I have been FP’ed. I have no idea how the hell it happened, it just did.
I strongly, strongly dislike the people who think they “help” others get FP’ed. I only had my blog a month and hardly any followers the first time. Who got “credit” for it then?
The bump in stats is cool, I guess, but my core commenters remain the same. That’s all I care about. There are enough cliques in blog world, so I guess I am guilty by association with the FP crowd but there are plenty, plenty of others who I think should have been recognized in some way or form a long long time ago and haven’t been still.
Now, I realize it may be easy for me to say this since I have been on the FP-darkside but I just don’t get it…all it brought me, other than a temp bump in views, was former blog-friends hopping over to get in on comments for recognition. Yep, I’m saying that. It’s the blogging equivalent of the lottery; everyone knows you and was “there along the way”.
By no means do I think I am a good writer, much less better than anyone else I follow…it really is dumb luck sometimes. I would have rather had my luck apply to the lottery instead.
I love your writing, it’s honest, there’s no guile, just real. I appreciate that.
And now I want all the secrets, is there a clubhouse, rings, jackets…I know, it’s a secret, nevermind. 🙂
I agree, it’s probably fun in the moment, but…why oh why is there always a but?
Thanks for dropping by and I hope this day treats you (and the Lego) kindly. 🙂
More’s the pity. I think you DO deserve to be freshly pressed. You’re fresh enough. 😀 😛 😮
Oh stop, you’re making me blush…I was kidding, keep going. 😉
Thank you, you’re always so kind. Hope this day is all you want it to be. 🙂
I wasn’t kidding. Have a wonderful Friday. <3
The day started off with snow, but I’m going to pretend it’s not there and still think it’s Spring. 🙂
Ours turned to slush by the end of yesterday.
Ours disappeared and seems to be doing it again. Driving I noticed it was more like snow/rain. It’s warm though. 🙂
Hope you have a magnificent day. 🙂
Our disappeared and came back for a return performance today. Almost gone again.
Have a fabulous weekend. 🙂
It’s tricky that way. 😉
Thank you. I hope yours is fabulous as well. 🙂
You make me smile. Have a fantastic weekend as well. <3
Thank you. 🙂
And you made me want Chinese food. 😉
And you added smiles which I always love. 🙂
Hope the weekend is everything you want it to be. 🙂
Thank you, same to you. All I want this weekend is to READ.
Best 4 letter word ever – read. 🙂
I know. I need to visit the book ‘stall’ every so often. ^^’
lol Oh stop. 😉
NOOOoooooo. 😮 Sorry. Did I knock you down. I didn’t mean to… o_O
Never, you always bring me up. 🙂
😀 😀 You’re a riot. Hope you never change. Have a fabulous rest of the weekend.
I’m my own party! 😉
So far, so good, you as well, Tess. 🙂
I’ve come to the conclusion we’re the only who can keep us happy. BE your own party and g.r.o.o.v.e. 😀 😀
Oh you know I do. 🙂
:star: :star: :star:
It will never happen for me but we’ve got a lot going for us…like, erm, stuff…
Truthfully, some of the FP’d stuff is very good and I enjoy it but at times it’s mundane and predictable. I like having the freedom to talk about owls and cheese and not worry about appearing “legit” or whatever.
You’re awesome.
Thank you kindly. 🙂
I think just doing what we do is the way to go. 🙂
Hope this day is everything you want it to be. 🙂
When I look at your posts and your long list of responders I’d say Donna that you’ve arrived where a lot of people only hope to be. How would your life or posts change with a FP stamp of approval? At what point do we say we’re good enough on our own without needing outside validation? It’s great to strive but somethings are just outside of our ability to control. The starch would make you itch anyway!
Never did like ironing… 😉
The only thing it would change is, well, by the sounds of those who’ve been Pressed, very little. I need to set my goals higher. 😉
Well, I love you! Lots of people love you! That should count for something? Maybe? Here’s some chocolate….
You had me at chocolate. 😉
I know, I know, and I thank you all and love you too! 😉
I had fun writing it and that’s the important part. 🙂
Yes! Yes it is. 🙂
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Search Engine Optimization. And I stopped feeling neglected by Freshly Pressed when I got published on Huffington Post. It was like giving FP the finger. Sort of. 🙂
OK, now I’m feeling a whole ‘why does Huffington Post hate me’ post coming on. 😉
I’m sure they don’t hate you! 😉
No, but I’m not seeing any Hufflove. 😉
Have you submitted stuff?
Yes.
I actually started to read a couple of FP’d posts once without knowing what it meant and I was bored. I think I might be glad not to be FP’d if they have to be too highbrow. Bloging might have a serious side but it’s meant to be fun too.
Now, for heavens sake stop swearing in company. If I see you use that I*** word one more time I may just have to deprive you of your chocolate cake.Talking of which, why had no-on offered me a piece yet? Pretty pretty please.
xxx Massive Hugs Donna xxx
We’re onto a 3rd cake, David, it’s just to the right, near Very Me. 😉 And there’s always some for you, you know that. 🙂
Sorry about the language, but you know how I get… 😉
Thanks for dropping by, David, although I suspect it might just be for cake although, it’s tasty…no, you’re always so wonderful. 🙂
I had a lot of fun writing this post, so that’s the important part, right?
Hope this day is everything you want it to be. Massive hugs, Donna 🙂
Well, I did get pressed about two years ago. It was a random topic (as most of my topics are) and I’m guessing I wrote it using the same voice as I always do. I can tell you that I got a lot of views that month. I can also tell you that it took 14 months for me to get back to that level. I gained a lot of followers, but if you take that and the previous statement together, I’m not sure many of them follow me. I have written better pieces since being pressed and I have written worse ones. Since I wasn’t sure what anybody liked about the post I wrote, I never tried to duplicate any part of it. I don’t write my blog for readers, I write it for me.
I cherish the people who have found my blog on an ordinary random day and have decided to come back a few times. I love the slow organic growth I’ve enjoyed and the people that I’ve met along the way. I love the interaction and genuine kindness I have found in the WordPress community
BTW, no secret meetings, no handshake and no discounts on premium themes and I hope I don’t come across as a snob.
But you might have a confidentiality thing about the secret stuff, cause it’s secret and all…I don’t know. 😉
I pleased that you still mingle with the UnPressed. 😉
I understand, I write what I feel like, sometimes it’s well-received, like I said, other times, crickets…
I’m sorry you won’t be able to join our UnFreshly Pressed club, but you can still have some cake and I’ll still visit. 🙂
Thanks. I like cake.
Perfect, enjoy! 🙂
Who knows what tickles the FP Gods fancy…
Just keep doing what you do and have fun with it.
Very true, Norm. 🙂
Oh, I had a lot of fun writing this. 😉
Join the club. I’ve read all the FP rules too, and although I think I have lived up to many (maybe not all, like the curse words), I,alas, have never been pressed either.
We seem to be forming a de facto club, the Unfreshly Pressed and there’s cake. 😉
i consider those of us who have never been freshly pressed to be an elite group. you are a part of our special club.
We are the Unfreshly Pressed and as long as we’re having fun, it’s a great club. 😉
I never pay any attention to the freshly pressed stuff. I love your blog! I follow your blog. I can honestly say I’ve never followed a freshly pressed blog!
We’ll just keep doing what we do, Jan, and let the chips fall where they may. 😉
Well D, I do own an iron and it stays up and on all-day-every-day because I sew! That has not pointed those WP editors in my direction either. 😉 ~Elle
lol Elle, who knows what points them where. 😉
I love that you wrote this! Hoorah for the “Not Freshly Pressed” Club!
We are UnPressed and Proud!!! 😉
I’ve never been freshly pressed and very much doubt I ever will be but to be honest the FP posts seem a bit boring!
We are who we are, if they don’t want us, we’ll just keep going. 🙂
FP is for those “beige” posts—posts that don’t exactly represent a blog, and aren’t often inspiring. Your posts tend to have a lot of text coloring. Hmm…
That’s it, it’s my ‘wordart’ that’s holding me back…but I love colours – most of them have meaning, you know. 😉
I’ve gotta be me, I’ve got be me!!!
I did it my way!!! 😉
Thank you for enlighting me! I had no idea what it meant and never gave it much thought. But now I know and will quickly remove that button. Reading the story behind made me think it is both silly and stupid. But I guess it serves a purpose. I will never be freshly pressed either and don´t care. At least my followers seem to like my content and that is enough for me.
Is blogging all about chasing numbers?!
I think blogging is different for everyone, some for fun, some to promote, some, well, who knows? But it shouldn’t just be about numbers. 🙂
Exactly, we like your posts, so isn’t what it’s really about? 🙂
Hope this day is everything you want it to be. 🙂
Ohhhhhhhhh I won’t ever be in that club either! I think we all want to be there someday, but I think our club is better anyway!
Yes, we are The Unfreshly Pressed!!! And we have cake. Can the Freshly Pressed say that? 😉
No way! And I’ll bring the wine to our club meetings, do they get that?
We don’t know what they get…it’s a secret. 😉
I think all of us who are un-freshly un-pressed have written a version of the post before. I thought I WAS witty, enlightening, and all those things, yet, I still haven’t been chosen. Oh well.
I don’t think it matters what we think we are, to them, but it matters to us. 🙂
Yes, true.
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Another fine “Julia Sugarbaker” moment, Donna. 😀
Who cares — just promise to always be so very uniquely you. Mega-hugs! <3
Now i'm off to Google ‘How to get Freshly Pressed’ so i can watch things get weird.
Thank you, Teagan, I’m on roll. 😉
I don’t think I could stop being me, even if I tried… 😉
Hope tomorrow is a wonderful day. 🙂
Mega-hugs! 🙂
I was FP’ed in 2013, for a post I wrote about identity. I’d been blogging for 7 years at that point, slowly gaining readers – but as some others have mentioned, it pushes the stats up for a few weeks and you gain more followers but the core commenters and readers often stay the same. It’s connection, not numbers, that make it interesting. I keep blogging because I have things to say and write about, it’s been 8 years and I’m still doing my thing. It really isn’t a big deal – it feels good for a bit, a bit like being retweeted or something, but in the scheme of things, it just seems very random! It wasn’t the best thing I had written, in my opinion.
The best part of this post, like the rest of blogging, I found a lot of interesting bloggers, like you, now following and on Twitter. Cats and chocolate, you got me. I’ll pop in when I have more time and scroll through your posts, maybe Saturday for #ArchiveDay on Twitter or Sunday for Suzie’s #SundayBlogShare. 🙂
I had a lot of fun writing this post and fun with the comments so far…that’s the important part. 🙂
I probably won’t either… Too much potty mouth here. But I do so love all three bad words…too much to give the up. 😉
I think we just have to be ourselves…and let the UnPressed chips fall where they may. 😉
Lol, this is awesome. I will keep in mind not to search for “How to Get Freshly Pressed” without adding “WordPress.”
I join you in the never Freshly Pressed club. Who needs it anyway? You got a gazillion comments without it! 🙂
Thank you. Yes, please join our UnFreshly Pressed club, we have cake. 🙂
I had fun writing it and apparently lots of people had fun reading it, that’s the best part. 🙂
I’ve wondered how I don’t get Freshly Pressed either. I understand my mathematics posts may be too esoteric for general interests, but the ones that go over comic strips seem like they ought to be accessible. And at the risk of bragging I’ve had at least a couple humor posts I thought worthy of attention, but they’ve gone un-tended. It’s a little embarrassing, really.
Who knows how they decide? As long as we like what we do and sometimes others like it and we’re having fun, I doubt anything else matters all that much. 🙂
I always delight in what you post…were I a WordPressian would freshly press all of your posts. I think “freshly pressed” is the Word Press version of Flickr’s explored which also ignores people and talent in favor of algorithms that any game cheat can hack.
You’re so sweet, Rob, thank you. I think as long as we enjoy our work and others, it’s all good. 🙂
yep!
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Donna, I think our next campaign (incidentally it will be our first) should be the creation of the “Never Been Freshly Pressed” award. This is because so many of us appear to have never been recognized as worthy of it. It should be given only to writers who are considered worthless (or in my case wordless should I decide to blog somewhere other than WordPress) in never having received a Freshly Pressed acknowledgment. Mind you, should I suddenly have it bestowed on me I’ll likely become a fathead, forcing you all to disown me as I would then be too good for all of you. ,O)
We seem to be in a de facto Unfreshly Pressed club and there’s cake, so I think we’re ok with that. 😉
Yeah we can have our cake and eat it too. 😀
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This is a brilliant piece of writing, Donna.
I’ll be honest and say that I no longer look at what is being featured on “Freshly Pressed”. In my early days on here I would check it out and would follow some of the bloggers being featured but, in some cases, I would then unfollow them because I was not really interested in the rest of their writing, or future posts from them were not great.
Thank you so much, Hugh, I had a lot of fun writing it and I’m sure that’s all that matters. 🙂
I don’t know how they choose and now, I’m sure I never will. 😉
Have a great day, all the best and thanks again. 🙂
I’m with you in the much, much larger Never Freshly Pressed Club – although I do own a largely disused iron. My blog is very slowly accruing followers. In ten years, I may catch up to you; of course, by then, who knows how many tens of thousands you will be up to? 😉 Keep having fun!
You’ll like our club, Joanne, we have cake. 🙂
The best part of blogging has been about meeting other bloggers and readers and having fun, I barely even notice my numbers…but I do love the comments. 🙂
Hope your weekend is everything you want it to be. 🙂
Thanks, D! I don’t look at my numbers much either. Then, every once in a while, WordPress sends a notification that surprises me. My comment volume is still pretty small, so it’s easy to manage responses. It is nice that I have a few people who visit and comment on a regular basis so it doesn’t seem so much like I’m talking to myself. 😉
I hope there’s nothing too wrong with talking to yourself because I have some fairly long conversations on a fairly regular basis. 😉
It’s all about the fun. 🙂
Hope to see you over on Twitter today for #ArchiveDay and tomorrow for Suzie’s #SundayBlogShare and of course, all weekend for #WeekendBlogHop 🙂
Is that you?…… A very beautiful child! <3
That is me and that wasn’t even my best pout. 😉
Thank you, although technically, my parents and ancestors get the credit. 🙂
Thanks for dropping by, hope this day is being good to you. 🙂
So credit to them all then…. and you! Have a lovely weekend <3
lol Thank you. 🙂
And to you as well. 🙂
Wow! You got a tremendous conversation going with this one. Excellent!
I guess a lot of people feel the same… 😉
I think it’s great advice to not take this stuff too seriously. I’ve never taken my blog too seriously (and my numbers show that–but, since I don’t take it too seriously, I truly don’t care). Unless you’re trying to make a living off your blog, just chill and write what you want. Let your colors show, you know?
You got it…as you can see by my posts, I don’t have any problem letting my colours show…and neither do you. And we’re having fun. 🙂
I wonder whether you can get kicked out of that group once you do not enchant them anymore. Is it a one-time nod of recognition or a life-long status symbol?
Excellent question, Alice. I don’t know, can they revoke your Freshly Pressed or is it a once-you-have-it-yours-forever-type thing? 😉
Lemme know if you find out whether they are one-post-wonders or not!
I will! 🙂
I love this. I feel the same way too – like I have to express my disdain for something or opinion in some special, secret way in order to garner that damn button. It was one of my goals for last year, but when I didn’t reach it, I said screw it. Not meant to be now, can’t do anything about it. If it happens, I would be thrilled, ain’t gonna lie! But I won’t be writing to it…
We’ll just do what we do and what happens, happens. 🙂
Thank you for dropping by, hope to see you on #SundayBlogShare 🙂
All the best, Joy! 🙂
Yes, I’ve already spent a bit of time on Twitter this morning – going over there again now 🙂
Me too, just got back and ready to go… 😉 See you there. 🙂
It was crazed today! Hope you had fun 🙂
It gets pretty wild over there…but a fun kind. Yes, had a great time, how about you? 🙂
I did – not as much time to spend as usual as my daughter was with me and we actually went to a movie (where I had to turn off my phone…gasp!) But it was worth it – Cinderella was fun as was watching my little monkey dance to the music.
That sounds like a lovely time. 🙂
Maybe we should start a new movement for the “unpressed” or “dishevelled” or just plain “wrinkly”?!! I haven’t been freshly pressed but at the last 4 months, I’ve been given 4 awards and I’ve now passed 15,000 views. These are great encouragements but what I really like is to reach out and help others…and also experience that love and encouragement myself. I’m a competitive, hard-working soul and sometimes the stats get me down but over time, those visits can add up and your work is actually getting out there and being read.
I think I have the wrinkly part, oh yes, and in clothes as well. 😉
Comments, views, likes, shares, those are all great and as long as we’re having fun…we’re all good. 🙂
Thanks for dropping by and hope this day is kind to you. 🙂
Hope to see you over on Twitter for #SundayBlogShare 🙂
I’m with you there. Will probably never be Freshly Pressed either, but screw it. Frankly, I don’t give a damn hehe
You can join our Unfreshly Pressed club…we have cake. 😉
Thank you kindly for dropping by, hope this day is good to you. 🙂
Dear D.
Count me into your Unfreshly Pressed club, but keep the cake. I’m soon to retire as a cake decorator and it’s the last thing I want on my plate. 😉
I’ve wondered about this FP thing. While my Friday Fictioneers blog challenge has been featured three times on the daily WP news and I have an international following that’s nudging the three thousand mark, I guess that’s not worthy of being freshly pressed.
My life goes on, pathetic, ignored and unpressed.
I enjoyed this post and found it entertaining, if not validating. Keep being you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
I’ll never be freshly pressed either. I’ve selfhosted since the inception of my blog, which apparently takes me out of the running.
You can still be part of our Unfreshly Pressed club, we have cake. 🙂
You are so funny. This particular post should be freshly pressed, too! I haven’t seen anyone else write about this. (But I certainly don’t have time to read the millions of blog posts out there.)
Thank you kindly. I don’t have time to read millions of blogs either, but I’m sure others have lamented being Unfreshly Pressed, but that’s ok, such is life. 😉
It would be nice to get freshly pressed and put in between some pages to dry out and to finally be found by a curious child taking delight in its butterfly- like beauty .
My goodness, Gerard, what a lovely image. 🙂
Haha! That was great. Who cares what those dorks think is cool, or “worthy.” I like you work, and based on your “likes,” so do a lot of other people. 🙂
Thank you so much, Kevin, we are enjoying our Unfreshly Pressed Club and we have cake. 😉
Congrats on a dozen years in Blogland, wow, that is cool! 🙂
Cheers and to many more years!
Loved the poem, I feel the same way, except I haven’t been blogging nearly as long. 🙂
Thank you for the mention, my heart skipped a beat when I read that you thought my post http://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/03/26/why-i-will-never-be-freshly-pressed/ was wonderful and that it had made you think of writing this. I am honoured and so thrilled.
Congrats again, what an astonishing milestone! 🙂
All the best and I hope this day and every day treats you kindly. 🙂
When I first started, I thought freshly pressed and press this were related. So I clicked on press this, thinking I was voting for something to be freshly pressed and was confused when I almost reblogged someone else’s content. So much for it being democratic…
I know exactly what you mean, it’s a weird thing, one of many on here.
Did you read this? http://yadadarcyyada.com/2015/03/26/why-i-will-never-be-freshly-pressed/ 😉
Hope this day is kind to you. 🙂
“I’ve tried, I really have, for over 500 posts, but sigh, I’m still in The-Land-of-Never-To-Be-Freshly-Pressed. It’s worse than being Friend-zoned.”!!!!!!!!!!! I was laughing from the beginning and then you had me in stitches at that! You are one of my favourite bloggers #justsaying #Suzie81SpeaksPartyGuest
BTW I’ve never really understood most freshly pressed posts. I finish reading and I wonder if I am that stupid or slow because I’m wondering what’s so fantastic about that post! Now I feel comforted- I am not stupid at all!
I’m sure it has it’s perks, but it sounds like they’re short-lived. 🙂
Oh I so agree with you. Very rarely I find a post I really like. Most of them are too complicated, too long, too boring for me… Just not enjoyable to read…
Then I’m glad to hear you liked this one. 😉 Welcome to the Freshly Unpressed Club. 🙂
We need a badge 😉
I have a vague memory that some blogger made one at one point. 😉
Seriously? Funny 🙂
Us Freshly Unpressed have to get, er, creative. 😉
Yep 🙂
🙂
Freshly squeezed is much nicer I think. 😀
lol Definitely…much. 😉
Thank you Joy, that is a huge compliment coming from an awesome blogger. 🙂
Glad I could make you laugh. 🙂
All the best, always. 🙂
I Freshly Press this post! I love it!
lol If only it was that simple, Joy. 🙂
oh No! My own Freshly Pressed corner! I am giving myself power to Freshly Press what post ‘I’ love!
Great, then I’d love to be Freshly Pressed by you, wait, that sounded wrong, but I’d definitely love to be in your corner. 😉 lol
lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D.Parker tsk tsk tsk!
But seriously, I wonder if someone has started a Not-Freshly-Pressed Club, for those of us left behind?
That’s a good idea! You are hilarious! Not-Freshly-Pressed-Club-For-The-Left-Behinds
It’ll be a big club with a lot of wonderful people in it. 🙂
I’m a relatively new blogger and didn’t even know about Freshly Pressed until reading this. I thought it was for recent posts. I always wondered why I never found my recent posts on it…I guess I follow your philosophy of write what you want and don’t worry about the rest.
So glad you could drop by and because of it I found your blog. 🙂
Hope we can virtually visit often. And you’re more than welcome to join our Unfreshly Pressed club – we have cake! 🙂
I’ll be honest. I didn’t even know about this “Freshly Pressed” thing. I thought you were talking about laundry, and I STILL thought. “me neither.”
lol I understand and you’ve sadly reminded me, I have more laundry to do. 😉
Hope this day is being good to you. 🙂
Aside from dealing with multiple meltdowns of my 8-year-old and the “I don’t need a nap” whining of my nap-needing 4-year-old…terrific!! 🙂
So just an average day then. 😉 I know what you mean, parenting has such pros and cons. 🙂
Exactly
🙂
Haaaa … a lovely read; glad I saw this in my twitter feed and clicked to read. I must confess that I’d love to be freshly pressed, but it’s good to take all this blogging stuff with a pinch of salt. Blogging awards do not define my blog, they are not why I blog, and I had no clue about them for quite a while into my blogging (I bet there’s many out there that I still have no clue about). O well, we blog onwards, anyway. 🙂
I think it’s more about enjoying what we do and then I think others will enjoy it as well. Recognition is lovely, but it shouldn’t be why we do things. 🙂
Y’know, I’d love to be freshly pressed but ironing’s against my religion.
I think I may have owned an iron once…come to think of it, I may have borrowed it. 😉
The unpressed club is fun too.
We just keep doing what we do and lovin’ it…and we have cake. 🙂
I just love your blog, pressed or not!
The feeling is mutual! 🙂
When I was a business premium blog holder for a year and had access to Live Chat, I took pleasure in annoying them by asking how I could get Freshly Pressed.
Have you read my post on Letting Go? 😉
I’m glad you had fun with it, just like I was here. 🙂
Is it the post, What Happens When You Let Go, then yes, excellent points. 🙂
You’ll be freshly pressed in my book, if that’s any consolation. Then again, maybe that sounds like a dry flower between the pages. Ok, ignore me. What you said. Yay for you 🙂 Love this blog 🙂
Both sound lovely except the flower one might be a tad uncomfortable. Thank you kindly, hope this day treats you well. 🙂
Oh it’s that way round! I have always thought freshly pressed blogs were the ones getting a lot of attention – and then they went onto a freshly pressed feed rather than the other way round (eg they get chosen and then get lots of attention). My thought on that had been they’re always American bloggers because there are a lot more bloggers in America liking other American blogs thus they get the attention….I haven’t really taken much notice of freshly pressed up until now, perhaps I should. Or maybe not! Do you get told if your blog gets chosen? Or would you just work it out by the sudden number of views you’re getting?
It is confusing. As far as I know they let you know, but the number of views would probably let you know before that, for sure. 😉
Thanks for dropping by, you can join our Unfreshly Pressed club if you like, we have cake. 🙂
Hope this day is being good to you. 🙂
I’ll go anywhere there’s cake 🙂
You are a woman of many layers. 😉
This should be Freshly Pressed.
lol But it won’t because they wouldn’t want to draw attention to it. 😉
That’s fine, I like our Unfreshly Pressed club, we have cake. 🙂
Just be sure it’s a chocolate cake or else i won’t join your club. hehe. oops, even the Unfreshly Pressed Club i believe i can’t join. Truthfully you have such a wonderful blog and i love the way you write. Thanks for this article. It made me smile.
Of course it’s chocolate, are there other kinds of cake? 😉
You’re welcome and thanks for dropping by, hope this day is treating you well. 🙂
Yes but chocolate cake is my favorite. Thanks Likewise, Have a Blessed Day Ms. Parker.
And to you as well. 🙂
Thank you kindly for the amazing review and promo, I’m thrilled. 🙂
Hope this day is a good one and tomorrow even better. 🙂
Great post Donna – I don’t write or create shock n’ awe type posts, so I am more than sure I’ll never be Freshly Pressed! I’m a big yawn in the editors eyes.
Who knows what they want, the important thing is you do what you love, if people like it, then I guess it’s meant to be. 🙂
Perfect!
🙂
There are pluses http://paulareednancarrow.com/2015/04/26/one-surprising-benefit-to-being-freshly-pressed-that-bloggers-can-miss/ and minuses http://paulareednancarrow.com/2015/05/03/the-dark-side-of-having-a-blog-post-freshly-pressed/ to the experience, like any other. And it is an ephemeral thing. The main advantage I think this time around is that I got enough traffic to be indexed by a few more search engines, so I don’t have to do as much social media schlepping to get readers. I can see why it might seem like a slap in the face, but honestly, if I had over 6000 followers and over 100,000 page views, as you do, I wouldn’t need to be Freshly Pressed. Honesty compels you to remove “obscure,” m’dear: you no longer qualify. 😉
lol I have been thinking of changing the tagline, the broke still applies though…Vague Meanderings of the Broke and Slightly Less Obscure? 😉
Yes, I read these posts of yours and you had some excellent points about sort of the dark side of being Freshly Pressed. Isn’t it wonderful to get all these different points of view? 😉
Hope this day is treating you kindly, Paula. 🙂
I’d never heard of being Freshly Pressed, but I’m happy writing my posts for those who want to read, so guess I’ll join your club #archiveday
It’s a big club and you’re very welcome. 🙂