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Blog Transition Issues and Pictures
Jul 17 2007

The move to our self hosted WordPress blog this weekend went reasonably well.  We are still having problems with our feed (i.e., it was not being displayed/emailed with full text and images).  For some reason the posts were coming through in summary format without images.  After much purusing through the wordpress.org forums, Erin installed the Feedburner Plugin and just made a change to our original feed URL on Feedburner and now it looks like full text and images are showing up in the RSS feed.   I’m going to put some images in this post to see if the full text post show up in the email that comes out tomorrow from Feedburner.  Since we couldn’t find a lot of detailed documentation on this topic, we are not sure if the Plugin helped but we know changing the original feed URL did.  It’s still unclear if it will work on Firefox readers.

The other big issue we are working on now is the Subscribe to Comments feature.  I love that feature and first encountered it at the eMomsatHome blog.  It’s so nice to get notification of comments left after yours on a post so you know if someone answered your question or asked a question of you or just to see what people are saying so you can learn some new stuff!  We have installed the Plugin and we see all the appropriate boxes and fields.  We’ve entered what we think is the right information but it still seems as if it’s not working.   Apparently, we are not the only ones experiencing this same issue…see the comments on this post.  This is doubly troublesome because I’m also no longer getting email notifications when comments are made and held for moderation.  If I happen to log in to the admin site, I’ll all of a sudden see that there are comments waiting for approval!

So it looks like we will have to deactivate the Subscribe to Comments feature until the creator figures out what is happening.  Darn!  Slowly but surely I’m sure we’ll (or shall I say my husband) will figure them out.   🙂

Now for some images/pictures:


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3 Comments on “Blog Transition Issues and Pictures”

  1. 1 Babble Soft’s Blog » Blog Archive » Subscribe to Comments Issue Fixed - Sort of said at 9:41 PM on September 1st, 2007:

    […] have been struggling with some WordPress and WordPress Plugin issues for some time now (see here, here, here, and here) and we think we have finally come to some sort of manageable work around for […]

  2. 2 Hani Obaid said at 4:19 PM on November 13th, 2007:

    I just upgraded from wordpress 2.3 to 2.3.1, and installed some plugins. I’m not sure what happened, but I no longer get notification when users post comments either.

    If you figure out how to fix this, please let me know.

    Thanks

  3. 3 Aruni said at 8:42 AM on November 14th, 2007:

    Hi Hani – I am getting notifications of comments now. Here are some things to check.

    SwiftThis plugin – go to Options/SMTP and make sure there is a viable email address in the username area.

    Subscribe to Comments – go to OPtions/Subscribe to Comments and make sure there is a viable email address in the From field.

    Go to Options/Discussion and make sure the appropriate boxes are checked for comment notification. Right now I have all checked except for the one that says all comments require admin approval. I only moderate comments from new people.

    I hope this helps! Thanks for stopping by.