Substitute for Sovrn when I am writing a wordpress blog

welltempered · Member · Jun 1, 2018 at 3:55 pm
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Now that sovrn no longer does content recommendations with links and photos, is there some other plugin that is comparable form wordpress blog?

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kokkieh · Staff · Jun 3, 2018 at 9:40 am
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Hi there,

On what site are you working? No service named Sovrn has ever been used for content recommendations on WordPress.com, and we don’t currently have an integration with any other service that does that.

If you want advice on plugins, the best place to ask is the WordPress.org forums, and you can also search the plugin directory there.

https://wordpress.org/support/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/

Note that using plugins on WordPress.com requires our Business Plan upgrade.
bwmedia · Member · Jun 4, 2018 at 5:14 pm
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It used to be Zemanta but Sovrn took it over. Now I don’t have it on my two sites, either. I use it to set up recommendations to articles on my own site but it hasn’t been up in days.
supernovia · Staff · Jun 4, 2018 at 8:27 pm
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We haven’t used it here for quite some time. We do have recommended posts for blog posts on your own site, for what it’s worth, just not anything recommending posts on outside sites.

You could specifically recommend certain posts if you wanted to, though.
bwmedia · Member · Jun 5, 2018 at 2:00 am
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But I also used it to find pictures and suggest links/tags to my articles. It was rather convenient. And it was working last week.
kokkieh · Staff · Jun 5, 2018 at 6:37 am
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As @supernovia said above, we haven’t supported it for quite some time – support for Zemanta was dropped in 2014 already, if I remember correctly.

I assume you were using the browser extension? It’s possible that it still happened to work with WordPress.com, but not because of any support or integration on our end.

I’d recommend contacting their support to find out if anything has changed on their end.
torontostreetcars · Member · Jul 15, 2018 at 3:46 am
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@kokkieh, I also have been using Sovrn recently. It used to Zemanta, but then Sovrn was the option. It worked quite well. Now it doesn’t show up at all. I’d like to know why we can’t use Sovrn anymore. It worked until about a month ago.
bwmedia · Member · Jul 15, 2018 at 3:59 am
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I think they stopped running it. You can’t even go to the download page for the browser plugin anymore, at least last time I tried. That’s why I was hoping for a WordPress-friendly alternative.
gemmacevans · Staff · Jul 15, 2018 at 12:53 pm
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Hi torontostreetcars,

As @kokkieh mentioned, please contact Sovrn for more information about whether there have been any recent changes on their end.
torontostreetcars · Member · Jul 24, 2018 at 8:44 pm
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@gemmacevans Thanks for the feedback. My issue is the both Zemanta and then Sovrn worked on WordPress. If neither no longer work on WordPress then how do people add pictures and related articles on their blog? WordPress is supposed to be this great blogging site and yet it seems like every time there is a change it ends up being a step back.

So, I’ll ask again, if we can no longer use Zemanta or Sovrn then what program can we use to help us?
brookedot · Staff · Jul 25, 2018 at 12:18 am
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Howdy!

how do people add pictures and related articles on their blog?

Back in May, we added Pexels to WordPress.com allowing you to add images to your posts for free. You can read our announcement on this feature over at our blog

Find the Perfect Image with the Free Photo Library

Click on the “+” in the post or page editor then selectFree photo library

Here’s a screenshot:

As others have mentioned we don’t currently have a method of recommending content for your site.
torontostreetcars · Member · Jul 25, 2018 at 1:54 am
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And for people who don’t use the app? I do my work on a laptop or desktop computer. It’s a nice idea if you are willing to work off an app. But I don’t – so this doesn’t help me at all. #sad
kokkieh · Staff · Jul 25, 2018 at 6:25 am
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The Pexels integration is not available only via the mobile app. The screen shot @bdukes provided above is what you see if you click on the Add Media button in the editor at My Site ->Blog Posts in a web browser.

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