Why is wordpress suddenly refusing to share my posts on facebook and twitter?
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Why is wordpress suddenly refusing to share my posts on facebook and twitter? When I tick the boxes for Facebook and Twitter under “sharing” the ticks disappar as soon as I click publish.
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Are you using the new Beep Beep Boop editor?
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(c) Exactly what you experience including what any error reports you receive state.Also be sure that you have read and acted on this section of the relevant support doc https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/#common-reasons-why-a-post-failed-to-publicize
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I see that this post has been tweeted https://rosbunneywriting.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/accurately-handling-the-word-of-truth-2-timothy-2-15/
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(a) It’s the beep beep boop editor – there doesn’t appear to be any option about that.
(b) I’m using the latest version of Mozilla Firefox, I always upgrade when one is available.
(c) No error reports – I tick the boxes and I soon as I click publish the ticks disappear, and the post doesn’t get publicised on Facebook or Twitter.
That support doc didn’t addess the question.
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Hi there,
Another blogger here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/blog-not-posting-to-twitter?replies=7#post-2323708 resolved this issue this morning by using the classic editor.The Classic Editor will continue to exist in wp-admin. We know some users prefer to use this editor, so we want you to have access to it, instead of phasing it out with the new version of the Dashboard. However, a link to the Classic Editor will not return to the New Editor. From: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/when-editing-an-old-post-how-do-i-switch-to-the-classic-editor?replies=5#post-2316097
Dashboard > Posts > Add New
Though Staff removed the link in the new editor to the classic editor there are two workarounds that can be used found here:
https://tpenguinltg.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/a-hack-to-use-the-classic-editor-in-wordpress-com/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-reinstate-the-option-of-choice-to-use-the-old-publishing-format/page/17?replies=507#post-2322624 -
Great – going to wp-admin worked. It seems a bit bizarre if their new version disables the publicize faclity, but I’m glad I’ve been shown a way of going back to the old version. Thanks for your help.
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Staff want to promote the use of their new Beep Beep Boop editor and providing links to the classic editor in it defeated their purpose.
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Fair enough, I’m not a Luddite who objects to prgress, but I can’t see the sense of disabling one of the most crucial features in the new version!
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Oh without doubt, I am with you and so is everyone posting here https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/please-reinstate-the-option-of-choice-to-use-the-old-publishing-format/page/18?replies=516 I was so angry about their intransigence, and failure to care about what inconvenience and frustration that they are putting bloggers through, while they protect their baby that I had to detach and walk away from that thread.
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That is not 100% correct. Many of us have upgrades and in fact our upgrade subscriptions are the primary source of income for WordPress.COM.
I have been here for nearly 9 years. I pay for domain mapping upgrades and no-ads upgrades on two blogs. If anyone had told me up front prior to purchasing them, that I would become an unwitting and unwilling guinea pig, who had to cope with nearly 2 years of unannounced and unwelcome changes due to the development of an in-house editor, I would not have purchased those upgrades. As it is now I am stuck with renewing them because the site redirect upgrade does not revert all the related links to earlier posts in my newer posts. So if I fail to renew them I would have thousands of broken links.
I feel USED and ABUSED. I am WHITE HOT angry. And, I am not alone.
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This is partly why I haven’t purchased an upgrade, even though I would like to. I have changed my surname since beginning the blog, and couldn’t get them to give me any assurance that if I changed from rosbunneywriting.wordpress.com to rosbayeswriting.com the links to my existing posts would still work, or indeed those posts would be imported to the newly named blog.
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if I changed from rosbunneywriting.wordpress.com to rosbayeswriting.com the links to my existing posts would still work
Yes if you purchase a domain mapping upgrade then that is what is is for.
The top level domain here is wordpress.com and ever blog hosted by wordpress.com is on a .wordpress.com sub-domain.
After you purchase a domain and set up domain mapping it can take up to 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet.
All that changes when you are domain mapping is the URL and nothing else. The content stays exactly where it is. What domain mapping does its create a seamless transfer between the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs to the domain URLs no matter where they are on the internet. Visitors who click the underlying .wordpress.com blog URLs will be seamlessly redirected to the exact same content under the domain URLs.
Please read Domains: Important Notes Before Upgrading http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
In order to map to a domain one must have an underlying .wordpress.com subdomain blog to map from, and the domain name you desire must be available for purchase, or you must already own the domain URL.
You must be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard at > Store > My Upgrades to purchase upgrades for the blog.
See here if you do not own a domain http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/
See here for mapping an existing domain that you already own http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/map-existing-domain/
if you already have a website you don’t want to affect, and you want to add a blog to it under a subdomain (for example, blog.yourgroovydomain.com) see here http://support.wordpress.com/domain-mapping/map-subdomain/
After you do the primary blog set up it can take between 24 – 72 hours for domain name propagation to take place throughout the internet. You can view the DNS changes here > http://www.whatsmydns.net/ What’s important during that stage is to be patient.
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I no longer blog regularly. I now blog without obligation ie. only when I have something I feel is worth sharing. The blogging tips blog linked to my username does very well despite that choice of mine.
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