Blog not going on to wedsite/ disappearing when edited

  • CactusSearch

    (@cactussearch)


    9 years, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    So I work for a company that uses WordPress for blogs that are linked to our company website. For some reason the blogs that we post haven’t been pulling over to our website since November and we have no idea why. I have only recently been introduced to WordPress as the person who usually uses it for our blogs has left, so I am a little our of my depth! We also tried editing a blog to see if we would change the date on the our website to make it look up to date.. and now that blog has completely disappeared. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thanks!

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Because you’re not using WordPress on your site, you’ll need to detail how exactly you’re bringing the posts in.

    Thread Starter CactusSearch

    (@cactussearch)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    See this is what is difficult. I’ve never actually wrote and published a blog myself. The blogs that haven’t pulled over were published by someone who has now left the business and I literally have no clue how the blogs go from wordpress to our website. I need to know how it is usually pulled over to the company website in order to find out what’s going wrong if that makes sense?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 2 months ago

    How it can be pulled in is by taking data from a WordPress blog’s RSS feed.

    Thread Starter CactusSearch

    (@cactussearch)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    I know this is going to be a really dumb question, but just remember I only heard of WordPress a week ago.. But What is an RSS feed?

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 2 months ago

    It’s a file that is outputted automatically by WordPress blogs. This file usually has information about the blog. This is not a human-readable file, it is machine-readable. Machines, using which ever technique, can extract this information and display it on their own websites. It’s a way of sharing information easily. WordPress updates the RSS feeds automatically when new posts are created.

    Thread Starter CactusSearch

    (@cactussearch)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Okay I think I get it. So basically RSS feeds lets WordPress communicate with our website? I’ve just checked the settings on our website and the template settings is on “RSS News Listings”. is there somewhere I can check on WordPress that is this the case too? or have I got this completely wrong??

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 2 months ago

    The RSS feed will automatically generate without the need to check any settings on a WordPress website. Can you link to one of your WordPress websites in question?

    Thread Starter CactusSearch

    (@cactussearch)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    so here is a link to our website:

    http://www.cactussearch.co.uk

    you can see down the bottom the last blog on there is from November. And yesterday i edited the date on that blog and its disappeared lol so when you click on the link it doesnt find the page.

    then here is one of the blogs that has been published since then but its not on our website:

    https://cactussearch.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/considering-a-new-career-nows-the-time-to-act/

    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Oh I’m sorry, you will have to ask for support on WordPress.com’s forums about this: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

    Thread Starter CactusSearch

    (@cactussearch)

    9 years, 2 months ago

    Oh okay. Thanks for your help!

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