Dear readers,
Recently I have noticed a decreased number of visits, likes, and comments on my blog. I have also noticed that some of my posts (and some of others) do not show up in the WordPress.com reader. My theory is that these two phenomena are connected.
Could you please like this post or leave a comment when you see it in the WordPress.com reader?
As a test, I will publish a post “live” and I will schedule one to see if that makes any difference. This is the scheduled post.
Thanks for your co-operation!
Stefan
Stefan's Gourmet Blog 
Very strange. Both the scheduled and the unscheduled test post show up in my reader, so that doesn’t seem to make a difference. However, the “Burgundy is all about Terroir” post does not show up in my reader.
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I’ve noticed that WP can be inconsistent about what appears in the Reader. I’ve not discovered a rhyme or reason to what shows up and what doesn’t.
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Thanks. I left a question about this on the forum yesterday, but have not received a response yet.
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There you are. I can see your post from here (SF). 🙂
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Thanks. I also see both of the test posts, but I don’t see the one on Burgundy wines.
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How many tags and categories did it have? See my comment in the other post – 15 or more disqualifies it…
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The post about Burgundy that doesn’t show up in my reader only had 5 tags. I knew about that rule (although I didn’t know it would have that effect if broken). Do you see that one in the WP reader on your end? “Burgundy is all about Terroir” Thx…
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Hmmm I seem to have found a problem. I had tagged the post about Burgundy with “drinking”. As soon as I removed the tag, it showed up in my reader! Apparently they are banned tags…
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What? Drinking banned! My word! (Or their word.)
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Hoi Stefan ik zie ze alletwee hoor
Groet koen
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Dank je 🙂
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No I don’t think its that tag (I mean there are posts out there with tags a lot worse than that!) I think you are just suffering from a random intermittent fault (like my Audi but that costs a lot more than a post missing from the reader). I did a post a while ago that didn’t appear on the reader, and it really pissed me off because it took hours to write,
I think (hush don’t tell wordpress) that wordpress is constantly buggering about with the platform and the features and so on, and when they change things it has an impact on the overall infrastructure.
For example the big ‘notifications’ icon in the top right corner that allows you to view likes,.comments and follows is fairly ropey on my machine – sometimes I write a reply and press ‘reply’ and it just sits there and doesn’t load.
Wouldn’t worry too much – re the post above I mentioned above – I added some more tags and it suddenly appeared!
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Thanks. It does worry me when less people get to see my posts though.
The next step is to figure out whether the visibility of a post in the WP reader is the same for everyone, which would mean you could fiddle with the tags yourself to make it appear if needed…
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I saw this one too BTW. Both appeared on FB too.
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I have the Burgundy post in my reader, delivered before either of these scheduling posts appeared. 😀Happy days!
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Thx 🙂
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I got the scheduled post in my reader, but not the unscheduled one. The reader can be inconsistent…
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Thanks for letting me know. It certainly appears to be random.
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See the Burgundy Post…. and this!
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On a different note, I realized that not all e-mail subscribers show up on the Stats page or, sometimes, it takes weeks before they show up, while the ones who subscribe through WP show up instantly. WP seems to be a pretty stable platform but it does have some kinks.
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You are right about that. I haven’t noticed delays in e-mail subscribers yet, but then again in most cases I don’t know when someone subscribes.
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I see your posts on Reader and I have liked every one of them. If you don’t see my like on a particular post of yours, it means I have not seen it on Reader.
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Thanks, Fae.
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I read your blog through feedly, if that helps at all.
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Thanks for letting me know. I had never heard of Feedly before, so nice to know that exists 🙂
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