Why didnt my post make it into the Weekly Photo Challenge reader section?
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I see it in the “blogs I follow” section so it did post but it’s definitely not in the weekly challenge section. It’s correctly tagged and there are not too many tags. Can you check it out? http://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/weekly-photo-challenge-shadowed/ . Thanks
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HI there!
I was able to find it as seen here:
It is on this page:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_photo_challenge/shadowed/
Cheers!
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Yes, I knew that it made it to both of those places. My question was why did it not make it to the Reader in the Weekly Photo Challenge tag. That is where the readers look for posts. Typically I will have 150-200 “likes”, many more views, and 80 or 90 comments. My response this time was MUCH lower and primarily the result of my commenting on other posts.
Eventually my post DID make it to that section of the reader but it was many hours later and came in where it should have been in the first place rather than at the top of the heap so no one ever saw it. I’d like to understand what happened so that I can make sure it doesn’t happen again. -
Hi Tina,
I’m not quite sure what happened. It may have been a glitch, but it’s a bit difficult to troubleshoot after the fact. If this happens and your next post, can you contact us right away (you can just come back to this thread). It’ll be easier to troubleshoot when the post is not there.
Thank you!
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Hi Grace, I posted to the weekly challenge and once again my post is not in the reader. Can you check it out for me? Thx.
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My post just showed up. I posted this morning and it showed up buried deep in the reader as having been posted 2 days ago. Obviously it is not being seen. This is disgraceful when a blogger works hard on a post and no one sees it. I need someone to figure out what is going on.
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Hi Tina,
I just did a test post and found that it has worked immediately. For example this post:
https://gracetestaccount1.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/weekly-photo-challenge-reader-test/
was in the Reader within 1 second:
Can you walk me through your steps so that I can try to reproduce your issue?
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Quite simply, I created a new post, added tag and category for weekly photo challenge and hit post. Then I went to the post, copied the address and added it to the weekly challenge as a comment on ben’s original post. It showed up hours later on “blogs I follow” as having been posted 2 days earlier, and I never did find it on the weekly challenge reader. This was the second time I had a problem but in between I had a post that went to the reader immediately
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That is strange. Can you try making a test post now with the weekly photo challenge tag and we can test if it shows up in the reader?
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Just posted. Came right up. So no help there. Any way you can tell by looking at the previous post?
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I’m not sure how I can help since it’s already up. It would be possible to see what’s going on if the post never made it. Next time you post and it’s not up, can you contact us right away? It helps if it’s not over the weekend as many of us are out.
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The previous post never made it to the weekly challenge. You could diagnose it though that one can’t you? Weekly challenge-Depth. Maybe someone in tech support can help us? I don’t trust WordPress at all now and that’s a problem. The difference in response for posts that make the challenge reader vs other posts is 2X
I posted the problem yesterday but when there’s a full day delay before response it’s difficult to work an issue effectively.
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Which post never made it? You said there was a delay, but it showed up. Can you give me the post that never made it?
Thanks – and btw, this is tech support. :)
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Aha, sorry about that. So the post that never made the weekly challenge reader is https://travelsandtrifles.wordpress.com/2015/01/30/weekly-photo-challenge-depth/ . It made the “blogs I follow” reader with incorrect time stamp so was buried way down the list, and I never could find it on the weekly challenge reader. Thx
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Hi Tina,
So it looks like you posted it on January 30th, 2015 (3 days ago) and I’m currently seeing it in the 3 day old Weekly Photo Challenge tag as seen here:
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Actually, I posted it on Sunday 2/1. Not sure why it came up as 1/30 which I supposed caused the issue. Also, I can’t tell from your screenshot–was that actually the weekly challenge reader?
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Yes it is. It looks like it was published on January 30th, as seen in the actual post:
Here’s the link:
Make sure your Timezone is correct by going to Settings > General in your Dashboard.
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