How to set up Readomattic to view a blog
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I hope that this time someone will reply. I want to be able to view, from my Dashboard, the blogs that I select for myself.
Ok, I found Readomattic on my Dashboard on the top left corner. What I would like to do is add a blog to this Readomattic feature. How do I do it?
At Blogger, if I found a blog that I liked and wanted to follow, I would just click the FOLLOWERS button that is on that blog. I would be automatically added as a Follower which would put me in their Followers picture box — or, if I wanted to follow anonymously, I would not be mentioned and my picture would not be shown.
Anytime there would be a new post in that blog, it would show in my Dashboard as an RSS FEED.
IS THIS WHAT READOMATTIC IS LIKE? How do I set up Readomattic?????
lornakismet
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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The reason no one responded is because I don’t think anyone knows anything about it. The line of text on the readomatic page is all the clue we have:
This is a list of recent posts from your subscribed tags, blogs, and Top News categories.
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Why are you SHOUTING, lornakismet?
Most of us here are volunteers and sometimes we don’t know the answer or a stray question goes unanswered. The track record here is a far sight better than any other support board I can think of, and that includes wordpress.org — by a long shot.
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It seems what you really want to know is how to subscribe to wordpress.com blogs, which then appear in the readomattic http://support.wordpress.com/readomattic/
Click on the “Edit Subscriptions” link on the readomattic page and add whatever WordPress.com blog, tag, or twitter stream you like.
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Hi ellaella–
I typed significant words in CAPITALS as a visual to show emphasis. I figure no one in cyberspace gets sore ears if I shout. :-) :-) I do realize that it is a bad idea to type out an entire post in capitals, but that is because it is harder (visually) to read in that it lacks the ascenders and descenders that serve as visual markers.But if you meant why was I SHOUTING and you thought that I was angry — then no, no, I was not angry. The capital letters were just for emphasis.
Hi to JustJennifer–
Are you saying that in order to read other people’s WordPress blogs, I would then have to click onto the WordPress link in the upper left hand corner when I went to read those other blogs? Ok. this is not as easy as Blogger, but it is at least a way for me to always have the latest post of each person whose blog I want to follow.Thank you And ellaella, I will be aware of using capitals less. I also use the *asterisk* to show emphasis, and maybe that is preferable for most people in that they don’t get the wrong impression that I am angry.
Lornakismet
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Frustrating news:
I clicked to Dashboard but there is no such link called ”Edit Subscriptions“ so I clicked ”Subscriptions.“Once on ”Subscriptions,“ there was no ”Edit Subscriptions“ link but I did see an array of three columns: ”Subscribed“, ”(Name of) Blog,” and “post.”
Nothing there worked!
First, I clicked a link saying “Invert Checkbox Subscriptions” because I wanted to have the most recent post from the most recent blog at the top of the page. Well, instead of inverting the blogs on the list “inverting,“ they instead all got checked in the little box next to them, for the purpose of being removed from my Selections list. That would be wrong, since I don’t necessarily want to remove them;I just want to ”invert“ them.Then, I looked at the POST column and saw three posts from different blogs. I clicked onto one of those post links and it did not take me to that post. Rather, it took me to my own Dashboard! Then I clicked onto one of the BLOG links in the BLOG column, and rather than take me to that person’s blog, it took me again to my own Dashboard.
I think that either I am very very stupid or there is a glitch in the Comment Subscriptions Manager page.
One last thing: When I was taken to my own Dashboard, there were no RSS FED posts.
Just FYI:
In Blogger, each blog has a FOLLOWERS icon. It shows the icons/faces of all those who have decided to “follow” that blog. It is also possible to follow anonymously. If I visit a blog and I want to have it show up as an RSS feed in my Dashboard, all I have to do is click the link “Follow this blog” and automatically it is added to the RSS Feed that is in my Dashboard.At that point, all of the person’s posts show up in my Dashboard’s FOLLOWERS section near the bottom of the screen. All of the most recent posts of each blogger are shown in a toggle screen.
It was intuitive. I did not have to go and study how to do it. I hope that the people who write the READOMATTIC code take this into consideration. It would make it so muche easier….. wait. In fact, it would make it simply POSSIBLE to have such a feed of WordPress blogs.
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Ok, some progress here, but not ”all-the-way“ progress:
I discovered that I have to click onto Readomattic to find the Edit Subscriptions link, so I was successful in deleting some blogs and etc. (If you are curious why I even had them in the first place, I don’t know why. Earlier on I was trying and trying and must have set them up but then not known where to find them to read.)
Anyhow, I did find the Edit Subscriptions link and I did edit some items out.
The problem: When I click onto the latest post or the blog itself (of a blog to which I subscribed), I still get taken to my own Dashboard, which shows neither that blog or the latest post of that blog.
I am still unable, then, to follow posts in my favorite chosen blogs. 8-(
lornakismet
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I have figured it out. It’s a matter of jumping back and forth between Readomattic and Edit Subscriptions, not a matter of clicking on a link in Edit Subscriptions.
lornakismet
It’s solved.
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Actually I should say that although Readomattic is more difficult to set up initially, it offers more choices than Followers/Blogger does once everything is all set up.
Now that I have figured it all out, I like it.
~Lorna
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