A new follow on an old blog domain?

  • Unknown's avatar
    dakotamidnyght · Member ·

    Hello!

    I recently moved the blog associated with the url below to a self-hosted installation. Tonight I got two new followers, but the notifications were very odd. I’m looking at the dropdown notifications list in the wordpress.com site.

    For one of them (katespencer17) the notification assigns it to my actual blog name and url (dakotamidnyght.com) and the other (Jena Schwartz) is assigned to “chimeraroad.wordpress.com” as a follower.

    I guess it doesn’t really matter, as I have a url redirect set up, and anyone clicking on a “chimeraroad” url will be redirected to my actual site, but I’m really curious why WordPress assigned it that way and I’m concerned that anyone subscribed to “chimeraroad” won’t see any of my posts. I’ve been having problems with my wordpress reader and finally switched away to another service – I’m concerned that this follower assignment has to do with those issues.

    I did take a screenshot of the dropdown notifications but I can’t attach it with this form. I’d be happy to send it in a follow up email.

    Thank you so much for your help.

    Sincerely,
    Dakota

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    It looks like your WordPress.com URL is correctly redirecting to the self-hosted site. I’ll tag this for staff to check for you. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and be patient while waiting.

    To post a screenshot you’ll need to upload it to an online server like your WordPress.com media library, dropbox, etc. and then paste the URL here. http://snag.gy/ also works very well for posting screenshots.

  • Unknown's avatar
    dakotamidnyght · Member ·

    @kokkieh – Thank you so much. :) Already subscribed and yup, definitely can be patient.

    Here’s the screenshot link: http://dakotamidnyght.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Notifications-Dropdown-Snip.jpg

  • Unknown's avatar
    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi Dakota.

    Thanks so much for your patience while we got back to you. :)

    It’s possible that posts from your old blog are still showing in the WordPress.com Reader and that people are following directly from there. To stop this happening, you can set your old blog to private via Settings > Reading in its WP Admin:

    https://chimeraroad.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

    Check the ‘I would like my site to be private, visible only to myself and users I choose’ option on that page and then scroll down to Save Changes.

    You can also transfer the followers from your old WordPress.com blog to your new site by using Jetpack’s subscription migration tool:

    http://jetpack.me/support/subscription-migration-tool/

    Hope this helps to explain things! Please don’t hesitate to get in touch with any extra questions.

  • Unknown's avatar
    dakotamidnyght · Member ·

    Hello Siobhyb,

    Thank you so much for your answer… so, I guess I’m a little confused. I had someone help me transfer my blog to the new host/installation, and I was told:

    “If we didn’t, you’ll have to put in a ticket with either WordPress.com or the Jetpack people and ask them to help you get [your subscribers] moved. They’ll be able to move your email only subscribers (the ones who subscribed via reader will still see you in their reader).”

    I only had a few email subscribers, so I just notified them via email that I’d moved, and they resubscribed, but I didn’t think I had to do anything about the reader followers.

    It seems like you’re telling me that’s not the case?

    For a little more background – I’d had chimeraroad.wordpress.com mapped to dakotamidnyght.com for nearly a year before migrating to a WP.org install. And I have a redirect set up currently. So perhaps the issue is that the underlying url is still different from the current one?

    Also, if I set the chimeraroad site to private, then will anyone subscribed to “chimeraroad” (and not dakotamidnyght.com) still see my blog posts in their reader?

    Thank you so much for your help.

  • Unknown's avatar
    dakotamidnyght · Member ·

    Hello Siobhyb,

    Thank you so much for your answer… so, I guess I’m a little confused. I had someone help me transfer my blog to the new host/installation, and I was told:

    “If we didn’t, you’ll have to put in a ticket with either WordPress.com or the Jetpack people and ask them to help you get [your subscribers] moved. They’ll be able to move your email only subscribers (the ones who subscribed via reader will still see you in their reader).”

    I only had a few email subscribers, so I just notified them via email that I’d moved, and they resubscribed, but I didn’t think I had to do anything about the reader followers.

    It seems like you’re telling me that’s not the case?

    For a little more background – I’d had chimeraroad.wordpress.com mapped to dakotamidnyght.com for nearly a year before migrating to a WP.org install. And I have a redirect set up currently. So perhaps the issue is that the underlying url is still different from the current one?

    Also, if I set the chimeraroad site to private, then will anyone subscribed to “chimeraroad” (and not dakotamidnyght.com) still see my blog posts in their reader?

    Thank you so much for your help.

  • Unknown's avatar
    siobhyb · Member ·

    Hi Dakota. :)

    “If we didn’t, you’ll have to put in a ticket with either WordPress.com or the Jetpack people and ask them to help you get [your subscribers] moved. They’ll be able to move your email only subscribers (the ones who subscribed via reader will still see you in their reader).”

    It used to be the case that there was no user-facing tool for you to migrate subscribers from WordPress.com to Jetpack-connected sites. The only way to migrate subscribers would be to contact staff here. I think this is why you were given the above information.

    This is no longer the case as Jetpack now comes with migration tool I linked to previously

    http://jetpack.me/support/subscription-migration-tool/

    You can use that tool to migrate any of your WordPress.com followers over to your new site.

    Perhaps the issue is that the underlying url is still different from the current one?

    Posts from your old site are still visible in the WordPress.com Reader, as you can see via this link:

    https://wordpress.com/read/blog/id/13559618/

    I believe this is how people are discovering your old posts from that site and following you.

    Also, if I set the chimeraroad site to private, then will anyone subscribed to “chimeraroad” (and not dakotamidnyght.com) still see my blog posts in their reader?

    As you’re no longer posting to your old site, followers there won’t be affected by you setting it to private. It’ll just prevent posts from it appearing in the Reader. You can also just migrate those followers over to the new, correct site. :)

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