Pitching non-WordPress blog posts
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My question relates to the ‘pitch’ contact form here: https://discover.wordpress.com/about/
Can non-Wordpress blog posts be pitched? (from a non-Wordpress.com, non-WOrdpress.org blog).
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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No. Self hosted wordpress.ORG sites are not a part of the wordpress.COM hosted blog community.
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Hi all, given what it says on that page
We highlight people who use WordPress
I believe that only WP sites (org and com) are featured on Discover.
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No. Self hosted wordpress.ORG sites are not a part of the wordpress.COM hosted blog community.
Timethief – actually that’s incorrect. On the page I linked to it clearly says:
All flavors of WordPress: WordPress.com, Jetpack, and self-hosted WordPress sites.Thanks justjennifer – yes, I was just curious as to whether the Discover crawler only targets Jetpack-powered (therefore wordpress) blogs.
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@timjdurrant – you’re welcome. It looks like you had your answer even before you asked it. “-)
In all fairness, I believe tt may have been thinking of the WordPressdotcom Reader, which indeed does not automatically include WP (org) sites, even those connected to WordPressdotcom by jetpack.
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Yes you may be right re tt. (Although you can actually add any site feed to reader, not just a WP blog feed.)
Almost have the answer but still haven’t found anywhere that explicitly says you must pitch a WP based blog. :-)
In fact I was reading a WP moderators comment earlier and he believes that it’s not outside the realm of possibility that Discover may support pitches of other platform’s blog posts in the future.
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OK. I wasn’t aware that WordPressdotcom Reader can automatically add WordPressdotcom sites? (ie. one must still manually opt-in/follow one)
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All WordPressdotcom sites are available through the tags section in the Reader. You are correct that in order to follow a site in the Reader, you need to click the WordPressdotcom site’s Follow button.
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Wow! I Stand do corrected and I apologize.
The distinctions are becoming as clear as mud. wordpress.COM. Staff being be paid to promote self hosted wordpress.ORG sites on paid external hosting in competition with wordpress.COM hosted sites is mind-bending.
What’s next?
WordPress.ORG sites posts appearing on the WordPress.COM categories and Tags pages?
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I’ve noticed your objections to wordpress.ORG across the forums quite regularly, timethief. What exactly do you have against WordPress.ORG? I’m not intending to be argumentative, just curious. I notice on your blog, you describe yourself as an experienced blogger on both platforms.
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I have aimed for 11 years to provide correct answers here in the wordpress.COM support forums, where about 30% of those who post are asking wordpress.ORG support questions and require redirection to the correct support forums for their software. I apologize for not locating and reading the relevant support doc linked to on the bottom of the page that you linked to at the outset Getting Featured on Discover https://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-featured-on-discover/
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P.S. As our Moderator said above:
It looks like you had your answer even before you asked it.
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