Tag Surfer Missing
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and so is Blog Surfer missing from my dashboard. Any thoughts ?
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I think WordPress has finally done away with it and left us with there crappy new ” blogs I follow.”
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Blogs I Follow isn’t new. And it isn’t a substitute for the tag surfer, which allows you to see blogs that you *don’t* follow.
So is this just another glitch or is WP screwing around with features again?
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For me, the Tag Searcher is one of the WordPress best features. PLEEEASE could we have it back????? Pretty please?
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I am also facing the same problem. Tag surfer missing from my dashboard. It was something very useful…Hope it is restored in it place again.
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Tag surfer is still there, though it’s now under “Read Blogs.” The WordPress “W” in your admin bar has a drop down menu where it can be found on the list to the left. You can add or remove tags (topics) you want to see.
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Perhaps the removal of it is just a glitch? Though my instinct is that we’re supposed to be using the “Readomatic” instead. From the looks of it, it can do the same thing, and it appears to reuse the same tag set which the tag surfer used.
However, if I press “Tags” (to find objects based on tags matching, I assume) I get an empty list.
Am I correct in assuming that the Readomatic, using the Tags-feature, is meant to replace the Tag Surfer? If so, any idea why the list always comes up empty?
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@1tessCool! Thank you! It’s a real improvement and I especially like that when clicking on a blog, it opens in a new window. ♥♥♥WordPress :))
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1tess,
Just as with the Readomattic, when I go to the “Read Blogs” I find all my old Tag Surfer tags listed — but I get a message stating that I have no subscriptions and that there’s “Nothing to read” (which I find hard to believe, considering the wealth of new blogs the Tag Surfer has given me since I started using it).
Is there a temporary problem which is causing it not to find any blogs matching tags, or does this work differently than the old tag surfer in some fundamental way? (AND, rather than OR, matching tags?)
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1Tess, sorry but I’m not seeing anything that leads to the Tag surfer. The tags I chose are there, but no list of current blogs with any of those tags. The current posts for blogs I follow is showing, but the tag surfer has simply disappeared. “Tags” is the usual list of most popular tags on WP.
If you’re referring to Readomatic, this is a horrible substitute. Not only does it lump everything together — Top News? I don’t remember ever asking for that — but there’s nothing but titles to go by. That means you have to click on every single title to find out whether it’s something you want to read.
Again, we’re stuck with a feature that seems designed by engineers rather than readers.
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Please bring back the tag surfer that we all know and love. In fact, the tag surfer is the one feature that brings me to WordPress each day.
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It is not Readomatic (which I never liked).
The blogs you follow are shown when you first get to the page, but if you click on an item in the “Topics” list, those go away and there are posts with the tags you are interested in.If you want to read one of the posts it even opens in a new window so you can easily return to scanning more posts.
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Ah, now I see. You don’t want to choose “Topics” from the drop-down list, you should choose “Read Blogs” and scroll down the list on the left of your screen. You should see a list of tags (which they are apparently now calling topics). You can add or remove topics (of your choice) way down near the bottom.
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I agree with mcoville. Please bring it back the way it was! The new system is too complicated as I have to view each tag separately.
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1Tess Is this new design supposed to be some kind of joke? The simple and understandable link, “Tage Surfer” has been replaced by a “Screw you, people, we’re going to make you hunt for what you want?” Just how many additional steps are going to be added, and how well hidden is the feature going to be before the so-called designers are satisfied?
Would it even do any good to mention that not every tag is included on the Tags page, just the most popular ones? So, rather than having an easily readable page of any post with the tags we’ve chosen, we have to do an individual search for each tag.
Please explain how any of these changes make sense.
While you’re at it, please explain Hide and Block, and what they are supposed to accomplish.
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“You should see a list of tags (which they are apparently now calling topics). You can add or remove topics (of your choice) way down near the bottom.”
This still forces readers to click on each topic individually. I tried “dystopias,” which is at the top of my tag list. The latest post was five days ago. Please tell me what is convenient about having to click on each topic separately and then find that there are no current posts. Oh, I know what’s behind it! People who blog on WP have nothing better to do with their time than follow dead-end clues in someone’s obscure game.
Please stop making excuses for this obscenity of a change. Anything that requires as much explanation as this one does, and generates as many complaints, is terrible design.
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Please realize that I am not staff, not paid. I volunteer, as do most of the folk who answer questions in these forums. We do the best we can, so please maintain a polite tone for a productive discussion.
If you want to complain about the recent changes to the tag surfer, then contacting staff directly is the way to go.
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Oh thats so bad. What a lot of tedious work. If I understand it correctly, I am to click on the admin bar at the top, click topics, and then my tag categories will appear. Then I am to click on them one by one to see whats been posted on that subject.
If that is the situation, that has to be a bad bad joke. So much extra work for something that should be at a glance and scroll down.
Please go back to the original form. Who comes up with ideas like this? I know this is a free service, and I normally love WordPress, but these upgrades with continual changes to basic basic protocols is just so bad.
The changes in each upgrade are now just to radically wild: they are not conducive to stable while increasing and evolving use.
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