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But I see no indication that any notification has gone out to my 3500 newsletter subscribers? I can do an email campaign but nothing I’ve seen in the directions says that this is what I have to do?

Do I need one of those “other” plugins? is it even supposed to send out a notification. The plugin page indicates that it is “supposed” to send out a notification to ALL my subscribers but the campaign too 4 hours to go out, is that the same for the newsletter notification. I really would like ALL email notifications to be listed under the campaign tab and tell me how many clicked and opened the emails

I’ll answer my own here. Once it publishes you have to close the published newsletter and then go to the campaign and you can track it’s progress. I’m used to getting an email within minutes but the plugin send out the emails in measured doses. I have 3,300 email subscribers and it took over 3 hours for them to all go out (I still never got an email myself)

My question is this, when I publish my next article will I see the tracking on the opens and clicks or is that only for Newsletters that I build. I would really like to get the open and click report on all emails going out. Jetpack had just started giving me this recently and that went back for 30 published articles and it would have been nice to see what articles got better results.

The privacy link mentioned above was only on the form seen in the plugin. when I used the short code or block it didn’t include it.

I think from what I’m seeing the plugin is worth using and maybe getting the upgrade… time will tell.

Well My business page is https://www.facebook.com/NewEnglandFoliage/

This is where I have 43K followers (my personal artist pg only has 17K) So I finally found the Facebook ID for the business. The directions are showing old info, its under transparency now (I realize its hard to keep up with)

I don’t know if my page has any likes, as I’m only interested in my followers which as stated is 43k. the FB ID only shows a zero so that isn’t working.

I have solved the problem for manual inputs. DON’T put in the k (for thousands) or a ( , comma) you formatted the input as integer only (I’m guessing) So my followers is 43,498. Only put in 43498 now gives me 43k in the pop up.

Mastodon seems to be hard wired for 20 even though my followers is a whopping 42. It defaults to 20 per the box next to the word Mastodon.

One note I don’t know or understand setting up API’s so that is not going to happen and most people will find that to be a daunting task so I would just remove it. It may make your job easier from the programming standpoint. but I’m betting 90% of users would ignore it.

BUT…! I would put in something about only adding digits, no letters or comma’s and it would reduce friction.

And I solved the other item as well. I was on an article that I’ve been writing so it gave an error.

Now how much is the pro version? The only feature I would like is the icons at the top of the articles…

Its been over a week and they haven’t responded and I have a paid account so I have to assume they are having major troubles. I had to switch over to the “New” stats to get real numbers.

Its hard to say why they are not responding either to direct support messages to their paying customers which I only got the automated reply (“we’ll be with you in one business day”)

Or here where you would think they would keep an eye on conversations to stay on top of things… We’ll see what happens

anks James, the only cache running is in Jetpack and jetpack is the problem so it is not running currently. there is a fatal error on line 75 and I emailed jetpack but no response from them.

I’m thinking if I delete jetpack and reinstall it, it should be fine…

My site is running ok for the moment so I may try to reinstall 6.1 but since it seems jetpack is the problem I just need to delete and reinstall.

I won’t do this until after dinner so if this is a bad plan let me know…

Thanks, that is what I thought but but while I’ve been using wordpress for 15 years, I don’t get under the hood so when a plugin creator said that I was like whoops… maybe I’ve been doing it wrong…

Thanks Moe, I went down the folders to a recent month (January) and allowed it to upload that folder as it doesn’t seem to be able to upload a folder of several folders. I wanted to see how it did. which was ok but not perfect. It did not re-attach the images to the articles. I’m going to test this on a couple more folders to see the outcome. Probably because it hasn’t been updated in 2 years, it’s not quite perfect anymore.

I also seem to have 10 different-sized images for every image uploaded over the years and I have to see if these different sizes are critical and need to be kept and not imported into the media library database.

Well I will close this out… the project has been completed but not without it’s trials.

lesson 1 if you run several blogs, make sure your host (or you) install them in their own folder. My hosts over the years just dropped them in the public_html and then put the admin files in their own folder but there seems to still be cross pollution.

But between the export/import function I’m able to say my site is back up and running. I lost a few things but gained a clean install…

Good luck with your blogs

stupid question, but have you installed a SSL certificate? Not having it should not produce that issue but not having the SSL installed could be an issue…

Wow no thoughts on this by anyone? Ok to continue the subdomain is up and running. I exported all from the website and imported into the new install of wordpress in the subdomain.

Note to self… do not make your login for the new install the same as the login on the old website. especially if chrome remembers you logins and passwords for you… Just don’t do it, nuff said…

The posts with images came over pretty well and one thing I noticed was the media files were up at 2700 files in my old media folder and the new is only 744, Is that 2,000 files of bloat that I got rid of??? I’ll let you know if this is accurate but I have seen 2 posts with missing image holders so I know I’m going to have some work rebuilding the images. (but I also have all the images saved as they were uploaded over the years.)

another issue is the reusable blocks that I had created over the years were gone. I exported the Json and imported it but it did not relink to them. so I have 300+ articles to add my signature block to. I have this as a reusable block so I change it once and it reflects across all articles at the same time.

Widgets are another sore spot, I had some legacy cooded ones and I’m not able to reset them up so I’m playing with this…

The big question is CAN I move all the old website files into a new folder and then have the new install moved into the public html folder and replace the old website. And once up and running will all links be correct OR will things be pointing to the wrong locations…

I think if I change the General settings to match the old website URLs then all internal links inside should work…

Any comments?

No thoughts on this after 24 hrs… So is this the holy grail of blogging? Being able to refresh your website/blog so it is as fast as the day you created it? Get rid of all the bloat that wordpress plugins leave behind and then this leaves just the bloat of 12 years of image uploads from telling travel stories…

No thoughts on anyway to do this? My host says I can create a folder under my root and install wordpress there and configure it to be a duplicate of where my current blog is now…

My blog is getting on my nerves. minutes to save a change, in fact anything on the backend take several minutes to do. Open an article, bring up the stats, etc… So I need to do something because I could lose everything

Just my two cents Oscar guy but is there a reason for not using the SSL? I know I would go to any site that is not secure (Https) AS far as I know all browsers will show a warning for Http sites and warn the visitor that the site is not secure… If you actually want visitors to come to your website/blog then you should embrace Https…

IMHO…

That helps, thanks. My upload folder is 1745.91MB which is 1.7GB and there in lies the problem. Even though I have limited my images to 135k to 175k, its still to damn big… I think I’ll close this and open a new one for photographers who have photo blogs and how they keep the size down…

Well it does say my public html folder is 2 GB but there is no way to drill down to see what is causing this bloat. The Hostgator techs says it’s my content folder but I don’t see anything that would indicate a reaso the folder is (public html folder) it 2 GB. I’ve estimated the content image folder is between 150-250MB. My database is around 150MB as well. But nothing I see would obviously cause my public html folder to be this size.

I’ve run malware scans and have decent security so if a malicious player got in I’m not aware of it.

I just need more granular info of all the folders. I keep going in and looking at file manager but my biggest file is about 1.3mb that I found so far…

I installed and uninstalled woocommerce through the normal plugin method last year. but in going over my database I noticed 30-50 orphan tables… Why does woocommerce leave all these behind… (I know you are not the only one that doesn’t clean up it’s entries but it would help the website owner immensely if you would code that in… I went in a deleted the tables manually but that is scary for someone who is not as familiar with his DB.

thanks