Excluding sites from tag listings
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I like to browse https://wordpress.com/tag/programming sometimes, but the listing is made aweful for a few reasons:
– some domains are essentially spamming the tag with trivial nonsense. It’d be nice to exclude those, even if manually somehow.
– several domains aren’t actually posting stories, but just links to posts on other sites. It’d be nice if these were excluded automatically. -
Hi there,
Thanks for the feedback. I’ll pass it along to our Reader team. We do filter sites out of tag search results if they abuse tags by adding more than a certain number, but it’s not that simple to distinguish if a tag is actually relevant to the content of the post. That said, we have some very smart people working on solving exactly this problem.
At the moment, the only option to exist is to block a site completely in the Reader, so you also won’t see it in recommended posts or the regular Reader search. When viewing the tag search results, look in the bottom right corner of the post card. Next to the Sharing and Like options you should see three dots … Click that, and select the block option to prevent the site in question from appearing in the Reader for you.
Note that currently there is no way to unblock a site once you’ve blocked it.
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I can use blocking. But it doesn’t appear on all the blog entries, for example the “Scapbi’s Weblog” doesn’t have the “…” when presented in the tag/programming listing.
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Ah, okay. That site is posting so regularly that we’re showing the combined Reader card for them, and the combined card doesn’t have the options menu. I’ll report this to the team right away.
I checked, and if you scroll down far enough on that tag listing you’ll see a post from that blog that’s in its own card, not in a combined one. You’ll be able to block it from there.
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