Linking from one of my blogs to the other
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I publish my blog posts in English and German. At the end of each post, there is a link to the post in the other language. When I schedule my posts to get released at a certain time, it works, but the links are never active. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.
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Hi,
I find active and correctly functioning links in the posts of the blog on the site https://tanjabrittonwriter.wordpress.com/. Are you still encountering the issue you describe?
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The problem I encounter is if I schedule my posts for a future publication, with the respective links to the posts in the other language. The posts get published, but the links are not active. If I click on them, I get the message: Oops, page cannot be found. So I have to insert the links manually again. Thank you for helping.
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Yes, I understand. I’m not sure what’s is causing that failure, so I’ll call for staff attention to the topic. Hopefully staff will be able to provide an explanation and a remedy.
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I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I usually schedule the two posts to be published within a minute or two of each other. I appreciate your help, thank you much.
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You’re welcome : -)
Have you tried creating standard WP.com links instead of using just the post URLs? For example, the link to the post “Amerikanischer Graujäger,” using the standard link form would have the following HTML code:
<a href="https://tanjaschimmel.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/amerikanischer-graujager/">https://tanjaschimmel.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/amerikanischer-graujager/</a>
which is a specific example of the basic form
<a href="link URL">link text</a>
I don’t know if this will work either, because as you’ve suggested the problem have something to do with the publish dates and times. -
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No, I have not tried this, because I did not know about this possibility. I am technically unadapt and have always just used URLs. I will try. Thanks again for your assistance. Best, Tanja
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@tanjabrittonwriter can you send examples of the links that are not active vs the correct links?
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They are all active now, because I re-linked my two blogs with each other. This is not a problem when I publish something immediately. It is only a problem when I schedule both my English and my German post for a future date, and include the link to the other language post.
That’s why I wonder if one of the posts needs to published for a certain length of time before the link to it can be activated. I know it does not make sense, but it’s the only explanation I have been able to come up with. -
@tanjabrittonwriter okay. I looked at the revision for your latest post:
One lists this link:
https://tanjaschimmel.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/amerikanischer-graujager/The other lists this:
https://tanjaschimmel.wordpress.com/2017/06/15/amerikanischer-graujager/The difference is indeed the date – June 8 vs. June 15. So when you insert links to posts that you know will be published on a different date, please adjust the date in the link so that it will be correct.
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This is not what I had in mind, but I thank you for pointing out the different dates in the URL. I did not realize that it saved the date when I first uploaded the post, even if was published later. I will try it out and hope it works.
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Right, the editor will enter the post link as is. If you publish the post later, that link changes.
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And you’re very welcome – I hope it helps a bit! Unfortunately we don’t have any way to automatically update links in the editor for you.
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Well, it didn’t work. I scheduled my latest post to be released this morning, with the link to the other language attached at the end, as usual. I changed the date in that link. Both posts published at the predetermined time, but the links were not active. I had to insert them again manually. I wonder if it doesn’t work because because the URL I use in the link does not exist until after I publish my post.
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It is only a problem when I schedule both my English and my German post for a future date, and include the link to the other language post.
That’s why I wonder if one of the posts needs to published for a certain length of time before the link to it can be activated. I know it does not make sense, but it’s the only explanation I have been able to come up with.I think you’re probably on target in identifying the simultaneous publishing of two posts with links to each other as the likely culprit.
If they are both scheduled to be published at the same hour and minute, then it stands to reason that the links wouldn’t work. With the links going both ways, from language A to language B and vice versa, at the moment a post in language A is in the process of being published, but not yet fully published, the corresponding post in language B might be in the process of being published, but not yet fully published. It’s easy to imagine how that might lead to “page cannot be found” error messages. Even if the two corresponding posts were instantaneously published at the same moment it probably wouldn’t work.
However, simply publishing them a certain length of time apart wouldn’t resolve the problem either, because if the post in language A is published, and a few minutes later the post in language B is published, then I think we could expect to find that the link works properly in the language B post (linked to language A), but not the other way, because the error message would have been generated on post lang. A before post lang. B was published.
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@tanjabrittonwriter so after both posts are published, the links still don’t work?
If so can you copy and paste the non-working links here, and also copy and paste the URLs for the working posts?
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Now they are working, because I re-activated them, but when I scheduled them to be scheduled, with the embedded links to the other language version, the links were not active. I actually HAVE been scheduling them several minutes apart, to allow the URL to be active, but apparently not long enough. I think I will have to keep experimenting with different publication times, unless someone can tell me the minimum time lag necessary.
Thanks to everybody who has tried to help me figure this out, I really appreciate it. -
because I re-activated them
Please step us through your current process. I think that will help.
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