Migrate Followers To WordPress.com

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  tornadoofchaos · Member · May 24, 2022 at 3:27 am

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  Hi,

  I recently moved my blog from atornadoofchaos.wordpress.com to a self-hosted wordpress.org site at tornadoofchaos.uk. I waited to migrate my followers from wordpress.com until I had everything set up and working on my wordpress.org site. However since doing some backend work to downgrade the server on which I was running the wordpress.org site, my posts have stopped appearing in the WordPress.com reader.

  Therefore I would like to migrate my followers back from tornadoofchaos.uk to atornadoofchaos.wordpress.com, until my new site is ready again. I believe it should just be a matter of time until WordPress Reader backend correctly propagates things and displays my posts (Jetpack is correctly set up and connected), but in the meantime I need to be able to use my original WordPress.com blog again.

  Please let me know if you need me to supply any additional information.

  Regards

  Robin

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 24, 2022 at 7:44 am

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  Hi Robin,

  I’ve migrated your followers back to the WordPress.com site as requested.

  I also checked into why the Reader isn’t updating, and it appears that your site’s RSS feed is broken – if I try to view the feed at https://tornadoofchaos.uk/feed, I get a 404 error, which means the feed doesn’t exist.

  Once you get the feed working again, let us know and we can force a Reader refresh to make sure it updates your content. If you’ve perhaps changed the location of your site’s feed, give us the new feed URL and we can update that on our end.

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  tornadoofchaos · Member · May 24, 2022 at 8:19 am

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  Hi kokkieh,

  Thanks a lot for the quick response! Yeah the feed URLs is an interesting thing, because I read here about the feed URLs, saying the default feed URLs are:

  http://example.com/?feed=rss
  http://example.com/?feed=rss2
  http://example.com/?feed=rdf
  http://example.com/?feed=atom

  Which become (or are in addition to?) the following URLs when using custom permalinks (which I am not, as I am using the “Post name” structure):

  http://example.com/feed/
  http://example.com/feed/rss/
  http://example.com/feed/rss2/
  http://example.com/feed/rdf/
  http://example.com/feed/atom/

  So from that I took it to mean that the first set of URLs (which have always worked correctly) would be used by default for the reader.

  I did however attempt to set up a RewriteRule in my Apache config to manually map /feed URLs to ?feed= URLs. I had it working such that the second set of URLs above were also working, though not when missing the trailing ‘/’. I’ve just modified those RewriteRules so that now the following set of URLs are all working:

  http://example.com/?feed=rss
  http://example.com/?feed=rss2
  http://example.com/?feed=rdf
  http://example.com/?feed=atom
  http://example.com/feed/
  http://example.com/feed/rss/
  http://example.com/feed/rss2/
  http://example.com/feed/rdf/
  http://example.com/feed/atom/
  http://example.com/feed
  http://example.com/feed/rss
  http://example.com/feed/rss2
  http://example.com/feed/rdf
  http://example.com/feed/atom

  (and their HTTPS equivalents).

  When I previously had my posts appearing in Reader feed from my wordpress.org site, I was using Redirect statements rather than RewriteRule statements in my Apache config. I’d changed it because it didn’t work correctly for some of the URLs (rss2, rdf, atom specific ones). But yeah my new RewriteRule statements I noticed just now broke with some versions of the feed URL such as the one you tried, which is now fixed.

  Anyway throughout all of this there is of course the question as to why my blog doesn’t have those working /feed style URLs by default 🤷‍♂️. It seems weird to have to map those manually but in either case, if it works I am happy with it set up like this.

  It would be great if you could try the force Reader refresh now please!

  Thank you

  Robin

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  tornadoofchaos · Member · May 24, 2022 at 8:26 am

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  Wait hang on a second sorry, I’ve just noticed my new feed URL mappings are now getting into a redirect loop.

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  tornadoofchaos · Member · May 24, 2022 at 9:26 am

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  Alright, my feed URL mapping is working as it should again. Ready for the backend Reader refresh.

  Thanks again!

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 24, 2022 at 11:19 am

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  Okay, http://tornadoofchaos.uk/feed appears to work now – if I try to visit it directly it redirect to http://tornadoofchaos.uk/index.php/feed/, but the Reader is picking it up, which is the important bit :)

  You can see your site’s Reader feed at https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/131133359, and if I follow the site, your post from yesterday correctly shows up in my Followed Sites feed:

  https://d.pr/i/4hgp0c

  It looks like the Reader had to create an entirely new feed for your site, and when that happens only the 20 most recent posts are fetched, so you won’t see older posts in the Reader any more. But from here on out it should hopefully show everything new you publish.

  If you move your followers back to the Jetpack site now they should see your posts. Or let us know if you want us to move them again for you.

  Anyway throughout all of this there is of course the question as to why my blog doesn’t have those working /feed style URLs by default 🤷‍♂️. It seems weird to have to map those manually but in either case, if it works I am happy with it set up like this.

  For that you’ll have to ask the WordPress.org community, as I’m afraid that’s a bit outside my wheelhouse :)

  You can find their forums at https://wordpress.org/support/forums/

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  tornadoofchaos · Member · May 24, 2022 at 12:11 pm

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  Thanks a lot! Yep, I’m seeing that now too. All good now :).

  Robin