Why do my posts never show on WordPress.Com
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I was looking for blogs about music on WordPress.com, by selecting the word “MUSIC” on the tag cloud. After going through a few pages I noticed none of my posts show even though I have two wordpress blogs that are both solely about music.
Do they not show up because the word music is not in the post? Must I go back and actually add the tag “music” or the category “music” to every single post on both blogs to get them to ever show up on WordPress.com?
Please advise.
Thank You.
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Yes, you must add the tag or category Music to posts you want to show up on the tag/category pages for Music.
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Yeah as raincoaster says. And WordPress doesn’t know what our blogs are about. So we have to label everything as we want it to show on global tags. At least you are being shown on global tags http://wordpress.com/tag/guy-groups/
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OMG. So if I go back and and tag music to every single post then it will show?
Just want to be sure because this is a massive project. Sounds like a saturday and sunday and then some for me to go back and add “MUSIC” tags to every post in both of my wordpress music blogs.
Is there perhaps some quick way to do this or must I open and update every single post?
Thank You
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No.
There are over two million blogs at WordPress.com. Getting to be the featured blog post in any given category is, to say the least, a crap shoot. But we can say that only posts which use tags or categories are listed as featured blogs in those categories. So if you never use tags or categories, your blog will never be featured on the front page of WordPress.com. It may be featured in Blogs of the Day, but that has much less exposure; that’s based on hits and some other alchemy that WP.com has dreamed up, but it’s not category-based.
And as for how to tag/categorize each post, there is no quick way to do it. You have to edit it by hand.
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Also bear in mind that tag listings show only the most recent posts. Adding tags to a year-old post might help you better organize your blog, but it won’t get them listed.
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Hi Raincoaster,
I do use tags to organize my work but apparently they are not the same tags that WP uses when it categorizes posts. For example I have a music blog, but I dont tag every single post with the word “music”. I tag with the artist and, song title, record label, etc.. So I guess you guys are telling me that if I wanted my music posts to show up under the posts in “WP Entertainment” I would have to label every single post with the word “Entertainment” and take the crapshoot that one day it would show up?
If that’s the case I will forget it and just keep on doing my thing.
Tellyworth – thanks for the clarification. I won’t be going back to add tags then since it would be useless.
Raincoaster – I asked about going back to add tags because on the now defunct Yahoo360 blogs every post had both an EDIT button to change text in a post and a TAG button to change, add or delete tags without opening up the entire post in an editor. Might be a nice addition here on WordPress — especially since my tags function hasn’t worked properly since the new dashboard was installed.
Thanks everyone for your time.
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That is exactly right. It’s why some people use both categories AND sub-categories. The subs help them organize the blog, and the main ones are for PR and SEO.
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OK I got it. This is one topic that the “closed topic’ goblins can now close.
Oh and BTW I meant to day in my last post that the CATEGORY function hasn’t worked since the new dashboard – the tags work fine.
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