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  trschell · Member · Oct 13, 2013 at 1:41 pm

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  My posts are not showing up in the reader since I changed themes. Can you see what’s gone wrong? I followed all of the rules. My categories are weekly photo challenge and travel. I’m travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com

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  gcorne · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 4:28 pm

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  Hi Tina,

  Thanks for contacting us. I don’t think that the issues you are seeing are related to changing themes. I took a look at your last post http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2013/10/12/weekly-photo-challenge-infinity/ and the post is categorized correctly with “travel” so I am confident that it showed up correctly, but it looks like it took a couple hours before it was visible in the Reader. As far as the “Weekly Photo Challenge” Reader tag goes, you want to make sure to always use the “Weekly Photo Challenge” tag not the category for your posts so that the slug is “weekly-photo-challenge” instead of “weekly-photo-challenge-2”. This will insure that the post shows up under http://en.wordpress.com/tag/weekly-photo-challenge/ in the Reader.

  I hope this helps.

  Best,
  Gregory

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  trschell · Member · Oct 14, 2013 at 9:48 pm

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  Thanks very much Gregory. It did in fact show up eventually in travel. Interestingly, last time I had a problem I was told to,always be sure I use the Category field for weekly photo challenges! Guess ill do both and that way ill be sure I’m covered :-). Appreciate your taking the time to respond.

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  gcorne · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 2:04 pm

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  No problem. In terms of the Reader, it doesn’t matter if you use a category or a tag. The main thing is that the slug needs to match the slug in the Reader. You can see the slug on the pages for managing categories and tags. See http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#adding-categories-via-the-dashboard for a screenshot of the category management screen. I am hopeful that we can make this a bit more intuitive at some point in the future.

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  trschell · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 3:23 pm

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  Thanks again! I looked at the link. Just out of curiosity, what is a “slug”?

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  gcorne · Member · Oct 16, 2013 at 2:52 pm

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  The slug is the bit in the url that corresponds with a particular piece of content and helps to form the permalink. So, with a tag for example, the url structure is http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/tag/%5Bslug%5D/ so all of the posts tagged with “Weekly Photo Challenge” are at http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/tag/weekly-photo-challenge/ which corresponds with the same url in the Reader: http://en.wordpress.com/tag/weekly-photo-challenge/. Make sense?

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