Verifying that my blog is appearing on WordPress Reader
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Hello,
Trafffic to my site from the WordPress App has dried up by nearly 95% in the past 10 days to the point that it’s nearly nonexistent. I would like assistance in verifying that it can still be found in the reader and any feedback as to why traffic from the app has dropped so dramatically. Thank you for your help.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
It looks like your site has not synced with Jetpack for several months, so the Reader feed at https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/96788037 was completely empty. I’ve manually started a full sync in Jetpack and forced a refresh of the Reader feed, and now it’s showing your most recent posts.
Your site doesn’t appear to have any Reader followers, though, so I’m not sure how you would have been receiving traffic from the Reader to start with – Jetpack sites only show up in recommended posts and tag listings if the site is on a paid Jetpack plan, which your site isn’t.
Regardless, once you publish your next post, please check the Reader feed at the link I gave above and make sure it’s there. If not, it would indicated a problem with Jetpack still not syncing. In that case, please contact Jetpack support directly for more help with this:
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Thank you.
I have a follow up question for you regarding Android app traffic. If my feed wasn’t working, how is it possible that I was getting upwards of 150 daily users come to my site via that channel?
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Hello,
I uploaded a new post, but the feed no longer loads any articles at all. Is this a Jetpack or WordPress Reader issue? Thank you.
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Hi @xboxsimpson, could you double check on your feed format actually? I’m expecting this, and I suspect Jetpack is too:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" > <channel> <title>Your site name, etc.</title>I’m seeing this instead:
https://www.thewhiskeyshelf.com/feedI’m wondering if you have a plugin installed that’s doing that. Any thoughts? If you can get it to show the actual XML instead, I think we’ll be able to sort this out.
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You can also try verifying your feed’s validity here:
https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgiIt looks like your host may be reporting the wrong encoding.
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Hello,
The validator is showing that it is a valid Rss feed, but with the following feedback:Recommendations
This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations.Your feed appears to be encoded as “UTF-8”, but your server is reporting “US-ASCII” [help]
line 14, column 97: Self reference doesn’t match document location [help]
… rel=”self” type=”application/rss+xml” />
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line 24, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: com-wordpress:feed-additions:1 (11 occurrences) [help]Are there any common ways to fix that issue? Thank you.
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@xboxsimpson I’d recommend getting the encoding issue taken care of first, and see if that resolves other issues.
Do you have a plugin that could be changing its encoding — an optimizer or something perhaps?
Ideally, when you click your feed link, you should see the XML itself, like the example I shared.
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I do have some of those. I’m currently using Auto optimize, optimole (for images), w3 total cache, and shortpixel (for images).
Is there history of any of those causing problems?
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@xboxsimpson I haven’t run into that. But, you might try temporarily disabling those to see if any make a difference in how your feed displays.
You can also check in with your host to see if they have ideas.
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