Reblog button. The button, it does nothing

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 9:14 pm

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  On this post http://news.nationalpost.com/2015/01/14/while-the-world-has-been-looking-elsewhere-boko-haram-has-carved-out-its-own-brutal-country/ the Reblog button appears clearly. It does NOT appear in the reader on that article. But it doesn’t work anyway.

  When I click it using Chrome Version 39.0.2171.95 (64-bit) it just bounces up and down the page. It does not in fact reblog the article.

  In related news, there are several blogs where the Reblog button does appear in the reader, but it doesn’t work; on going to the blog itself, I can see that it has disabled reblogs. Could this be a cache issue of some kind, where they changed that setting after setting up the blog and now WP needs to clear the reader cache or something so it can catch up to the actual blog’s state of being?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  raincoaster · Member · Jan 14, 2015 at 9:15 pm

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  Here is an example of a post which appears in the reader with the reblog button but does not allow reblogging http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/01/14/chinas-most-rotten-a-rogues-gallery/

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  jeroentju · Member · Jan 23, 2015 at 9:46 pm

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  I didn’t see my admin bar either on that post. Then I allowed all wordpress.com cookies (latest Chrome browser), reloaded and then the bar showed up.

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  jeroentju · Member · Jan 23, 2015 at 9:52 pm

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  I tried to reblog a post there, but I was not able to do that. The bar showed no ‘reblog’ button.
  The same with certain blogs I subscribed to in the reader. No reblog button in the admin bar and when reblogging from the reader I get the error “We encountered an issue reblogging this. Please Try Again.”
  Maybe this helps.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 23, 2015 at 9:55 pm

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 23, 2015 at 11:04 pm

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  Thanks for the report here. There does appear to be some weirdness with the reblog button in the Reader. From what I can see, it shouldn’t be appearing on foreignpolicy.com. However, I was able to successfully reblog a post from news.nationalpost.com as shown here:

  http://d.pr/i/1j92q

  I’m digging into the issue. I’ll report back what I find out!

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  jeroentju · Member · Jan 24, 2015 at 4:08 pm

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  Myself I was having problems with http://themigrationist.net/

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 4:01 pm

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  It looks like reblogs are disabled on themigrationist.net, which would explain why reblogs are failing. In that case, the button shouldn’t be appearing in the Reader (in theory). We’re working on fixing this!

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  jeroentju · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 4:15 pm

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  I didn’t know reblogging could be disabled on a blog. Thanks for the clarification!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Jan 26, 2015 at 4:33 pm

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  Yep! You can do that from Settings -> Sharing as shown here:

  http://d.pr/i/138FX