Why am I no longer able to subscribe to my site via Reader?
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We moved our blog to a self-hosted setup through wordpress.org several months ago. I decided to subscribe to our blog using the current site URL through the WordPress.com Reader the other day as a test, but it is only showing our old posts from the eatnabout.wordpress.com blog and nothing current in the reader. It also seems to be pulling our old wordpress.com avatar instead of the RSS button.
It’s my understanding that I should be able to subscribe to any blog via the reader, through RSS feed? Our RSS feed validates and we have made sure it’s discoverable, plus Feedly, Bloglovin’ et. al. show all our posts just fine, so I’m wondering why our current self-hosted blog can’t be subscribed to in the Reader when using the direct URL. The link it goes to when subscribed is wordpress.com/read/blog/id/4974019/
We have this in our site <head> section:
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Eat ‘n About » Feed” href=”http://eatnabout.com/feed/”/>
We also used Jetpack and wordpress.com to transfer our old subscribers to the new self-hosted setup, but now I’m wondering if they’re even able to view the new posts in their Reader?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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It depends when you moved. NOW people can subscribe to independently hosted WP.org blogs via the Reader, but they didn’t used to be able to.
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We moved at the beginning of the year.
That’s the thing though, you can’t subscribe to mine via Reader. Our URL is http://eatnabout.com but when you subscribe to that URL in Reader it only shows old eatnabout.wordpress.com posts, even though I have the domain mapping upgrade pointing users to the new site.
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You’re right, I can’t subscribe to it. But there’s another thread where someone is going “YIPPEE, you can subscribe to externally hosted blogs!” so it must work for some people, or some blogs. Sorry, I am out of my depth with this.
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Yes we do, and after a bit more playing around it seems you can subscribe to our blog on Reader through http://www.eatnabout.com but not http://eatnabout.com
The problem is we have never used http://www.eatnabout.com so I suppose what we need to do is change our redirect upgrade to point straight to http://eatnabout.com
I’m just not sure how to go about doing that without being able to contact WordPress staff, since I don’t have that option on the Contact page. Is it possible to flag this thread for their attention? (unless someone has a possible solution)
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