A Better Way to Discover Blogs and Get Inspired
Today, we’re announcing improvements to WordPress Reader on your mobile app.
WordPress is home to millions of sites across countless topics. It’s a big and beautiful world, and we want to make it easier for you to discover new voices. Over the past few months, the mobile team has been working hard to improve the experience of your WordPress Reader on the mobile app. In particular, we’ve been exploring different ways for you to discover new blogs and find inspiration.
The new Discover tab on your Reader will recommend blogs and posts based on topics you follow. These changes give you more control over what you see, making it easier for you to find interesting voices, while also giving you and your site the opportunity to find a bigger audience.
How it works
Add appropriate tags and categories when drafting your blog posts — this helps us recommend your posts to the right audience.
The topics you now see in your improved Reader are a combination of tags and categories. If you want to find interesting blogs, follow topics you care about. The Discover tab will then show you recommended blogs and posts based on those topics.
Each post on the Discover tab has a list of topics on top. If you want to go deeper into a topic, tap on it to see a feed of blog posts from that specific topic.
If you’d like to see more posts from a particular topic on your Discover feed, tap the Follow button from that topic feed.
Soon we’ll be rolling out improvements to posts on the Reader as well. To give blog posts more room to shine, the featured image will be more prominent.
If you’d like to try the new Discover tab, make sure you update your WordPress app to the latest version. If you don’t have the app yet, you can download it for free, on both Android and iOS. We’d love to hear your thoughts on the new experience. For specific feedback on the updates, reach out to us from within the app by going to My Site, tapping your photo on the top right, tapping Help & Support → and then selecting Contact Support.
- September 23, 2020
- Better Blogging, Community, Design, Mobile, Reading, WordPress, WordPress.com
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This sounds really good, I will have to update my app so I can see it, thanks 😊
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It’s about damn time! Keep the app’s updates coming!
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Looks like a good way to aid discovery for us bloggers! Thank you.
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That s brilliant!! I can’t wait for the search features of the reader to improve as I would love to connect with other bloggers!! So far when I have typed in e g “photographyblog” in the search bar of the reader, it would only show me about 10 or 20 posts and the next day it would be pretty much the same posts again – though there must be more and new ones every day on WP.. Happy to discover more:) xx
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Great post! Super helpful. I am a relatively new member of the WordPress family, and it is challenging to build.a follower base. So initiatives like this help. I wonder if it is possible to understand the traffic patterns on specific categories or tags?
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Wow! this is wonderful
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Fantastic update! I was in need of this. Thanks
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Yes, useful.
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This is a great feature to add to the app, will be sure to check it out!
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Can’t wait to check it out thank you!!
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What will happen for those of us who do not use featured images, do you know? Will the system default to feature the first image used?
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For the post page, if you don’t use a featured image, your post will remain the same! We won’t be defaulting to the first image used.
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Hi! I think this could be changing in version 15.8. (WordPress-Android/12895)
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Looks super cool! Keep up the excellent work!
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Thank you for constantly working to improve WordPress. I appreciate the updates!
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Sounds great. Can’t wait to discover some new blogs.
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Wow!
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I’m so happy and optimistic about this
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Hi there! For now, these changes are coming to the mobile apps, but this might change in the future.
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For now, if you don’t like a recommendation, you can tap the more menu button on the post (the icon with the three vertical dots), and either (1) report a post or (2) block a site. We hope to bring more sophisticated tools to provide feedback on recommendations in the future.
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Wow! This is really exciting–I just added tags to my posts, hoping this works out!
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Thanks for the the opportunity to new and wider discoveries 😊
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This function is great, easy way for blog readers to find their interesting contents and help increase blog engagement.
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