Posts not always showing up in reader
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Hi, I have been told by a couple of different people over the last few days that not all of my posts are showing up in the reader. It was suggested that using the new editor may result in posts that do not show up, and using the old editor may result in visible posts. Is this a recognised issue? I could see my posts in the reader, but was told that they were not showing up by a few other users.
Thanks, Matt
P.S. I don’t know if this is related, but my stats have been a bit off today, going down as well as up.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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my stats have been a bit off today, going down as well as up.
Our stats are not real time stats and take time to update. There are frequent fluctuations that most do not notice because we aren’t watching the process. For details see here http://en.support.wordpress.com/stats/ and note the views and viewers take hours to update.
Our stats are page view stats. But please do not assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks are not page views. In fact, follows, likes, shares, comments and reblogs are completely misleading when you are talking about page view stats.
Your followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into your blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment without clicking into the blog.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
You can control the length of the entry sent out on your RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. Choose the “summary” setting for your RSS feed rather than to “full text”. That will compel followers who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
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I had looked at those and I think my posts pass all of those. However, the issue seems to be alright now, thank you for your swift response. I am aware that not all likes and so on mean views, but I had not seen my view count going down before (it went both ways).
Best, Matt
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