"Blogs I follow" ("Reading" on my site) not displaying
-
“Blogs I follow” are not displaying properly/in full. Only four show up, in fact, though I’ve entered 13 or 14. Also, can I manually change the order in which the blogs appear?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
Hi there,
The list of blogs that you follow appear in the order that you followed them with the most recently followed blogs at the top. Currently, you cannot edit the order of those blogs. Just a note, the blogs you follow can be seen here:
https://wordpress.com/following/edit/
Currently, at that link, I see twelve total blogs. Are you not seeing that many on your side?
-
Ah, got it–thanks!
Thing is, I’m wanting all of those (12–yep) blogs that I “follow” to appear in the right-sidebar/widget grid. My blogroll, basically. What do I need to do to enable this?
Thank you!
Kristen -
Hey Kristen!
Ah – now, I understand. So, the widget is only displaying four total blogs at the current moment because it doesn’t have images for the others. It looks like you’re following a few blogs that are not at WordPress.com. Sometimes, those blogs use Gravatar, which is a WordPress.com service. In that instance, the Gravatar image will display in the grid of the widget. However, if the blog is self-hosted (not at WordPress.com) and doesn’t use Gravatar, the widget doesn’t know what image to display so rather than displaying a blank tile, it hides the blog.
Within your widget settings, you can choose List as opposed to Grid. That will cause all of your blogs to be displayed. Can you give that a try?
-
Ah, I see–thanks for explaining! And I can indeed change to a list format, but then, a q related to that: is there a way to delete the numbers that appear to the left of each blog name in that format, as well as tweak the blog name text while preserving the hyperlinks?
Thanks again,
Kristen -
Hey Kristen,
You should be able to remove the numbered items using the following CSS after switching to the list format:
.widget_jp_blogs_i_follow ol { list-style: none; }Just place that under Appearance -> Customize -> CSS.
Regarding tweaking the blog name, if you’re looking to change the name (like “A CUP OF JO”), that won’t be possible. The blog names are set by the blog authors. However, if you explain a bit more about what you would like to change, I’m happy to let you know if it’s possible or not!
-
Ah cool–thanks!
I pasted what you sent into that field, though, and still the numbers appear. Does it just take a while to register?
-
Hey Kristen,
The numbers should be gone now. The CSS was just commented out. So, in CSS, you can use /* and */ to comment out code, which basically means it won’t render an effect on your site. It’s usually used to enter comments within code to remind yourself why you made a certain change. For example:
/*Remove numbers beside Blogs I Follow widget */ .widget_jp_blogs_i_follow ol { list-style: none; }Does that make sense?
- The topic ‘"Blogs I follow" ("Reading" on my site) not displaying’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 