Thanks.

On my end, after I unfollowed my blog and now following again, my post was in the Reader and I'm receiving all notifications on my reader page, stats page, admin page and when on my blog or others. In otherword, the simple unfollow and follow has worked in correcting both reader issues and notifications. Who knew - !

For my followers, my post has asked them to unfollow and then follow if they were not receiving posts, so they will begin to receive notices of postings in their Readers - it's working for those that did this.

Thanks, from my end I think the issue has been resolved. I'll continue to encourage my followers to unfollow and follow mine and other blogs they follow if they suspect they aren't receiving posts in their Readers.

Thanks for getting back to me - truly appreciate your assistance. Mary

I think something may have just happened to your subscription, I'm not entirely sure what yet, but we'll keep looking. I'm glad it's working now. :)

I went in as you directed and unfollowed, and then followed my blog. My notifications bar on top of screen on stats page and reader page began to work. I'll find out during the night whether it continues when comments, likes or new followers are indicated.

It seems to simple to have corrected the whole problem.

W/re to the notification menu, only when I am either directly on my blog, or in the Admin for my blog would it work. Otherwise it would keep going round-and-round (like it's trying to open it up) and not shows any results when I would click on it.

When I clicked onto your link, it worked. When I re-followed my blog it began to work. So I'll be monitoring this during the night to see what happens.

Hopefully this corrects this situation - seriously just unfollowing and following my blog? What are your thoughts on this?

Thanks, Mayr

In your case, try unfollowing and refollowing your blog.

For the Notifications, are you seeing them in the orange Notifications menu in your navigation bar or https://wordpress.com/#!/notifications/ ?

I sent a note out to my followers and several replied that they didn't not receive my posts for April 17 and April 18 in their Reader.

Several didn't receive the April 18th post in their Reader.

One received my post as spam.

And, several received both posts.

So it appears the results are varied and different across the board.

For me, I haven't received my posts for April 17, 18 or April 21 in my Reader. I used to regularly receive any post I make in my Reader, now I'm receiving none.

Also, when I'm in my Reader or on Stats page, I used to be notified of likes, comments or new followers. Since last week I no longer receive these notifications unless I on directly on my actual blog, on the Admin page or on someone else's blog that I'm following. I used to see activity as noted any where on wordpress - now longer is the case.

Could you assist me in finding out why the above situations are occurring for both my followers and my case.

Something has happened since the middle of last week and I haven't a clue what because I haven't gone into the blog admin and changed any settings. My tags are limited, I'm not an account holder of facebook, twitter or linked-in.

Really appreciate if this could be cleared up. If you want to see what some of my followers have said about the issue that I asked in my post yesterday, here is the link http://oilpastelsbymary.com/2013/04/21/to-my-followers-are-you-receiving-a-notice-of-my-postings-in-your-reader/

Thanks, Mary

For the email subscribers, would you please have them check their spam folders?

Seems the problem is widening.

I sent a blog posting out to my followers this morning asking them if they are receiving my posts to their Readers. If you do to http://oilpastelsbymary.com/ you'll see the answers coming in, they are varied and some are experiencing the same as me.

Some followers have not received my latest two blogs from last week, some have not received the post on Thursday of my painting, and I received notice that one so far received notice of both postings.

So very curious as to what is happening. I still have not received both postings of last week in my Reader, nor the one I posted today.

Thanks - wish WP Staff would follow-up.

Anyways, I do not have accounts for twitter, facebook or linked-in - so I don't think this addresses my problem.

My posts are not showing up in Readers, mine or my followers.

Thanks, Mary

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All of a sudden my reader isn't showing my postings and my followers aren't receiving my blog postings. I haven't changed anything in my settings.

Can someone look into this please - can't have a blog if people aren't aware of my postings. Very frustrating since I've wait for 72 hours and still no response!

http://www.oilpastelsbymary.com

First, when I post the link to Facebook and have to chose the thumbnail I'd like to show, I can only chose few pictures available in the post rather than all of them. In other words, some pictures are part of the thumbnail choice while some others aren't.

Second, once I've posted the link and someone wants to share it from my profile or my page no thumbnails appear! This is extremely annoying because it refrains many people from sharing.

How can I solve those two issues?

I'm sorry that you had to end up with a whole new site! But I'm glad that you're on steadier footing now.

Just let me know if you have further questions about WP.com.

I think the issue was that it was a WP.com and not WP.org site.

I'm new to this so I can't be too specific on the details as it's well over my head at this stage in my web building process.

You may have changed these nameservers since your call from GD, but I see that the nameservers are pointing to WP.com - did you change these back? If not, that was your problem.

To answer your question of what to do now: You have multiple options! For my WP.org installation, I use BlueHost. I know a lot of people have had success with Dreamhost and HostGator as well.

You can set up your hosting and install your WP.org site (Dreamhost has one-click installation, for example), and then you can log into WP.com to redirect your nameservers to point to your new WP.org site:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/change-name-servers/

I'm surprised GD gave you some pushback - if you check out the link above, there is information specifically for changing your nameservers with GoDaddy. I'm sorry you've had a frustrating experience!

Here is a lot of clarifying information that I think is really helpful to folks who are just starting out with domains:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/

Does this help you?

Any advise would greatly be appreciated.

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If you don't understand the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, you may find this information helpful.

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Now the question is. Since I registered the domain through WordPress.com (and all I want to do is use a custom theme) can I go to a company such as Bluehost or HostGator and get this to work?

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/purchased-wordpresscom-domain-to-godaddy-hosting?replies=6

@auxclass - When speaking with GoDaddy, I verified that my nameservers were named properly and pointing in the right direction. From my understand (I'm a nOOb with this stuff), the issues has to do with GoDaddy not being able to recognize the information being sent from WordPress since it works through multiple IP addresses.
- This is where GoDaddy advised me to edit my DNS where I bought my domain name (WordPress) to point to their IP.
- Since WordPress uses multiple IP's instead of point to one specific, this is where the issue occurs. (If I understand what GoDaddy was saying)

http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/domain-management/#update-name-servers