Post not showing in the reader

  • Resolved adrianne10

    (@adrianne10)


    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello and thanks in advance for the help.

    I did read some other posts but can’t find the answer for this – I have a self hosted blog and some posts have shown up in the reader, but the latest one I did tonight is not for some reason which I can’t figure out.

    I had a look back and it seems that the posts that did show up were ‘standard’ and showed a feature image. Whereas my latest was ‘gallery’. So I changed the post to ‘standard’ but it still hasn’t come up in this list.

    Please can someone help me brain storm why? I read that it can happen if you change the date a lot of your post or something to do with tags, but I don’t think either of those things are my problem.

    Cheers 🙂

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  • Plugin Support KokkieH

    (@kokkieh)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi there,

    I notice your latest post appears to have been published twice, but both versions are showing up for me in the Reader. I also checked your site’s feed, and the latest posts are all there, so everything appears to be working on our end.

    Please check https://wordpress.com/following/manage and make sure you did not accidentally unfollow your site, and also try clearing your browser cache in case something there is preventing the Reader from loading all your posts.

    If that doesn’t work, can you please let me know at exactly what link you are looking for your site where it’s not appearing?

    Thread Starter adrianne10

    (@adrianne10)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hello KokkieH and thank-you for your reply 🙂

    I can see that now too.

    So, I started my blog on a free wordpress site and when I would post I would get readers to visit my site as they would see my post in the reader feed so it was great as this made them click and read. (I think I used ‘gallery’) and had lots of pics so the preview in reader showed 4 photos.

    Now that I am on a self hosted site and use Jetpack to connect to wordpress, I thought the same thing would happen but it hasn’t yet, ie there must be somethings I am missing.

    On the wordpress.com site, the blog post would appear straight away in the reader and appear with 4 photos across.

    On the wordpress.org site, the post didn’t appear for at least 1 hr, maybe 1 1/2 hours and only showed one photo (which was the feature I think).

    I did some more research after I posted and another area said to disconnect Jetpack and reconnect it. So I tried that also. I still could not see the post which is why I then posted again as I really wanted those readers to come and visit my site.

    So, where I am at now is trying to work out:

    *What style eg ‘standard’, ‘gallery’, ‘video (obviously not)’, would show the 4 images in the wordpress preview, from my new site/theme.
    *How to get the post to appear there straight away after I have posted like they used to.
    *How to get the photos into the actual email that followers used to receive, as now they just get the text of the post with no pics
    *And why it all of a sudden worked, like whether this was the connection to Jetpack or just that sometimes posts from wordpress.org will be delayed in showing up in the reader.
    *I work full time and blog in my spare time so I will try again this weekend and see how I go, I just put so my time and effort into my posts that I was disappointed I wasn’t getting the same views yet as I feel that it is because I haven’t yet got wordpress reader figured with my new site – but I shall keep trying.

    I hadn’t thought to clear the cache, cheers, I will try that next time.

    Plugin Support KokkieH

    (@kokkieh)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    *What style eg ‘standard’, ‘gallery’, ‘video (obviously not)’, would show the 4 images in the wordpress preview, from my new site/theme.

    This is not influenced by the post format you use, but by your post’s content itself. For the Reader to use the gallery card, for example (the four images in a row), the post content has to contain at least four images wider than 350 pixels.

    You can see an overview of the different Reader cards and how they are selected here:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/reader/#reader-post-cards

    *How to get the photos into the actual email that followers used to receive, as now they just get the text of the post with no pics

    Can you please try publishing a post containing an image or a Jetpack gallery without using the Recipe shortcode or the gallery in your theme? We suspect that might be causing a conflict that prevents the images from being included in the email.

    *And why it all of a sudden worked, like whether this was the connection to Jetpack or just that sometimes posts from wordpress.org will be delayed in showing up in the reader.

    There can sometimes be a delay before new posts on a self-hosted WordPress site appears in the WordPress.com Reader, though our team is constantly working to make that delay smaller.

    I just put so my time and effort into my posts that I was disappointed I wasn’t getting the same views yet as I feel that it is because I haven’t yet got wordpress reader figured with my new site

    One possibility is that your site will no longer show up in the topic listings/tag search in the Reader. Only WordPress.com sites and sites on a paid Jetpack plan are listed there, so if you used to get a lot of traffic from people searching for posts with specific tags, you’re not getting that traffic any more at the moment. However your site can still be found via the main Search feature in the Reader.

    Thread Starter adrianne10

    (@adrianne10)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi Kokkie H and thanks again.

    I just did a new post – Spicy Satay Pork. This is the url: http://sweetcaramelsunday.com/2018/03/11/spicy-satay-pork/

    So I chose ‘standard’ for the template and I included both a feature image and 5 other photos all wider than your recommendation of 350px.

    I can’t yet see it in the reader of my followed sites, but I don’t want to do what I did last time and repost it cause well, that’s just embarrassing when you see 2 of the exact same thing!! So, I am going to wait a little bit and see if it does come up (with all 4 photos across) and I do have my fingers crossed it will.

    Do you know if there is a way to ‘clean up’ old not so user friendly posts. This is hard to explain without a screen shot but I posted a few blank posts when I thought I was still ‘under construction’ and yet, one of them ‘test post 5’ can be seen in the reader still. I have deleted this post from my blog, but I didn’t know if there was a way that I could delete it from the reader so my whole ‘blog image’ is nicer on there, ie looking like a pro and not an amateur!

    I will continue to scour these forums as they have great advice and thanks again, as I really was tearing my hair out. I don’t know why one of my images from my previous posts, Satay mushroom doesn’t show in the reader, it has blank, then 3 pics, but I will keep trying to figure that one out.

    I will post back here, if my latest post ever does show up in the reader.

    Cheers 🙂

    Thread Starter adrianne10

    (@adrianne10)

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Hi,

    1) My post is showing now and has the 4 pics across. It took about 10 hrs after I posted it for it to show in the reader, but I don’t mind as I would prefer that than it not showing at all.

    2) My images are in the image post I sent out to followers, possibly because I didn’t use the recipe shortcode and template.

    Cheers!

    Plugin Author Jeremy Herve

    (@jeherve)

    Jetpack Mechanic 🚀

    8 years, 3 months ago

    Excellent, I’m glad to hear that you’re all set! The synchronization of the posts is usually much faster, but can sometimes take a little while. If it gets to be too long, let us know and we’ll work together to see what we can do to improve synchronization times on your site!

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