WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately? en Sat, 25 May 2013 02:12:51 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-975002 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:19:54 +0000 angeliquejamail 975002@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You also. :)

]]> timethief on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-975001 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:18:24 +0000 timethief 975001@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome and best wishes for successful blogging. :)

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974943 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:24:21 +0000 angeliquejamail 974943@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Done! :) Thanks again for all your help.

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974911 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:18:21 +0000 thistimethisspace 974911@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes. Just edit the posts and remove the excess categories/tags and click "update". :)

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974909 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 23:16:00 +0000 angeliquejamail 974909@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Okay, then I don't need to repost them for this to happen. The edit updates should take care of it?

Thanks again.

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974890 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:44:24 +0000 thistimethisspace 974890@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I meant that if the system destected that you were using too many categories/tags then your posts would not be found on the Topics pages. Therefore if you edit and delete the excessive categories/tags it will take time (several days) for the system to recognize your posts are legitimate and do not violate any of the reasons for non-appearance on the Topics pages. Then they will appear on the Topic pages.

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974865 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:26:33 +0000 angeliquejamail 974865@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ "...so editing and removing excessive categories/tags is a good idea. After you do that it will take several days for your post to display on the Topics pages here."

By this, do you mean that my old posts which I've gone through this afternoon to reduce the number of categories/tags to no more than 15 (combined) will show up in a few days, even though they are old posts? Or does this apply only to new posts going forward? I think you mean the former, but I just want to make sure.

Thanks very much for all the guidance and the time you've spent answering my questions. Even though I did try to get through the tutorials when I first started, I think I was overwhelmed and so didn't really absorb all I should have.

All the best,
AJH

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974847 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:12:30 +0000 thistimethisspace 974847@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes. You do that in your dashboard. See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/#bulk-actions

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974841 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:09:00 +0000 angeliquejamail 974841@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have another question. Is there a way to delete items from my list of categories? Thanks.

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974840 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 22:08:49 +0000 thistimethisspace 974840@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi again,
Here's the link to the learn wordpress.com tutorial.
It's a very common error for new bloggers to think that the more categories/tags they assign to post the better when the reverse is actually the truth. The flow of traffic from the topics pages to blogs is negligible at best. It's search engine like Google and Bing that bring a signficant flow of traffic to blogs. Google search spiders can detect when any keywords used in categories and/or tags are not supported by the text in any post so editing and removing excessive categories/tags is a good idea. After you do that it will take several days for your post to display on the Topics pages here. Wishing you all the best with your blogging. :)

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974801 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:36:07 +0000 angeliquejamail 974801@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Actually, what I'd meant by my question was whether I was trying to be too specific in naming my categories/tags and therefore ending up with too many of them. I had already read the support post you were referring to.

Now I'm in the process of going back to all my old posts and making sure that I don't have more than 15 categories/tags (combined). And in the future I'll be more careful about it. I'd thought having more tags and categories was the better way to go, but then I'm still learning about blogging all the time. I can see why there would be value in limiting the number; "spamming" in this way hadn't occurred to me to be a problem, though I can see through the explanation in the support post why it would be.

Thanks again.

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974772 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:11:19 +0000 thistimethisspace 974772@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

Is the problem too much specificity in the tags?

1. You are using too many categories or tags. In most cases, there’s no need to assign more than a handful of tags per post. If you use more than 15 tags and categories (total), your posts will not appear on topic pages (because you don’t want to see irrelevant content showing up there, and neither do we). http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974254 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:06:02 +0000 angeliquejamail 974254@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Regarding the comments: I decided to undelete my original post and then put a note on the new posting saying why it was a duplicate. I also tweaked the new version slightly -- extra editing, as it were.

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974252 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:04:49 +0000 angeliquejamail 974252@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you again.

And no, I didn't overlook it; I'm trying to figure out how to comply. My posts tend to range over a lot of different things. Is the problem too much specificity in the tags?

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974046 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:58:22 +0000 thistimethisspace 974046@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We used to be able to manually copy and past comments but I don't believe we can do that since the Recent update to commenting took place. These explain what's changed when it comes to commenting and why it was changed:
Recent update to commenting:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/recent-update-to-commenting?replies=4
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/you-must-be-logged-in-to-comment/page/11?replies=327#post-852388

I never ever create a 404 (page not found) by deleting a post because if it has been indexed by Google and other search engines the result is not a pretty one > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/08/05/avoid-creating-404-pages/

I hope you did not overlook my first comment above as it's an important and relevant one. You are spamdexing AKA tag spamming (over tagging) and that has negative consequences. That's the key point in this thread.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-974041 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:50:21 +0000 angeliquejamail 974041@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the advice.

Out of curiosity, is there a way to copy over comments from a post to the new posting of it? Or once I delete it, am I just out of luck?

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973997 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:26:35 +0000 thistimethisspace 973997@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ P.S. I apologize for the typos. My app isn't working. :(

]]> thistimethisspace on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973995 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:25:39 +0000 thistimethisspace 973995@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Please read this > Topics > Missing posts
http://en.support.wordpress.com/topics/#missing-posts
Note: After you edit the posts and delete the excess categories and tags it will take several days for your posts to beign appearing in the Topics pages again. The rule of theumb for assigning categories and/or tags is to use as few relevant categories and tags as possible - not the opposite. Aearch engines pay more attention to your keywords in your content than they do to your keywords in Tags/Categories and Google search spiders can detect when any keywords used in categories and/or tags are not supported by the text in any post. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/03/01/revisiting-keywords-and-tags/

]]> raincoaster on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973969 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 02:00:21 +0000 raincoaster 973969@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Can't hurt. Copy it all then delete the post, then make a new post.

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973944 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:33:25 +0000 angeliquejamail 973944@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for your response. No, I wasn't using Sticky posts and hadn't scheduled the post to update automatically or anything like that. (I admit I'm only assuming I know what you mean by that; I'm not an expert on blogging or how to use WordPress by far!) I wasn't doing anything differently.

I posted another new post a while later and it appeared in my inbox normally. I guess it was just a glitch? No idea. But what I really want to know is whether I should try reposting the earlier one so that my followers will get it in their email.

]]> raincoaster on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973783 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:01:49 +0000 raincoaster 973783@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ A number of bloggers have reported problems with feeds and email updates. I'll flag this for staff attention.

You aren't using any Sticky posts, are you? Or was the post scheduled?

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973602 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:39:02 +0000 angeliquejamail 973602@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Not silly at all, and thanks for responding. I did already try the spam folder, and it wasn't there. And this support question thread is showing up in my email with no trouble at all.

In every way, the published post appears to be acting normally, except for not showing up in my email. And since I've had almost no views on it yet -- also unusual -- I'm assuming it hasn't shown up in the email of my followers yet, either.

]]> aiancu0108 on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973596 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:35:56 +0000 aiancu0108 973596@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This may seem silly, but have you tried the spam folder? Sometimes things get caught without it making any sense.. Does the post show up on your website?

]]> angeliquejamail on "Why won't my new post show up in my email when it usually does immediately?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/why-wont-my-new-post-show-up-in-my-email-when-it-usually-does-immediately#post-973594 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 17:34:05 +0000 angeliquejamail 973594@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Because I follow my own blog, I normally receive an email immediately when I publish a new post. However, this morning I published a new post about an hour ago, and I still have not received the email notification for it.
Blog url: http://sapphostorque.wordpress.com/

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