swjack14

OK, I guess Jetpack does qualify as a plugin. It’s always Jetpack that’s the problem. Intermittent. To some people. Some of the time.

Let me explain this more simply: People comment on posts at my Views from Eagle Peak (https://views.eaglepeakpress.com). I respond.

Many, if not most, of the people I exchange comments and replies use WordPress.com
Perhaps you are not familiar with it, but if you go to the site and/or jetpack you may find it and an image of the notifications tab which is opened when the bell icon is clicked.

I don’t understand what you couldn’t tell from my description. I DO NOT have a plugin for sending notifications to people that I have responded to any comments they have made. I have never heard from anyone in 13 years of using WordPress that such a plugin is required!

I don’t have any “strange” configuration. I’ve had self-hosted sites since 2007. Like everyone, I have had occasional issues over the years–most often probably with Jetpack. People comment, I reply and they get notified (apparently). Otherwise, what’s the point of having a box to check to be notified on an official theme that can be downloaded. I recall likes on replies, so I would think that this is working without a plugin. I haven’t seen long threads in a while here. I went back several posts to see if there were some. I don’t have any .com sites, I just make use of the wordpress.com site to interact with other blogs–both self-hosted and wordpress.com.

People are probably getting stuff now–unless I’m getting some likes from sharing the most recent post on Google+. Doubtful spam filters would block anybody; this is a new issue that arose a few weeks ago with people who HAD been receiving things but then they weren’t. I think it’s working again.

OK, it appears NONE of my followers from any sites are receiving notifications of my posts, comment/reply updates, etc.

I just did a post on John Maberry’s Writing, which I noticed you had followed. If YOU get it and no one else does, then it may be that people need to re-follow somehow. If you don’t get it, then there is still some kind of problem with the connection to all my sites. That, despite the apparent success using the WordPress Admin Panel on them.

OK, I’ll admit to being a bit confused, after ten years on www.ads-software.com.

When I login to wordpress.com, I have two lists of followers to my sites: Followers and Email Followers. I don’t precisely know the difference but assume that the email group gets more than simply a notification but at least an excerpt of a post.

I assume the other gets something else? The something else my friend gets is NOT an email. Instead, she gets notifications via the little bell icon alert. The same as what’s on the wordpress.com reader. She is NOT on the reader. She ONCE was on WordPress.com but switched to self-hosted some years ago.

She retained an admin panel apparently the same or nearly so as those WP users on the company site. I have never seen one and am not using the Jetpack alternative on my sites. But I have to assume that this alert icon is on her admin panel. (It’s not on the front end).

She gets over 200 emails a day and follows MANY blogs. She doesn’t want to get emails of blogs and never clicks those buttons to follow discussions–I have seen myself how that can get overwhelming on popular topics.

Again, I don’t know if this is a Jetpack problem or a WordPress problem. But for me it’s a BIG one. If people don’t know I’ve posted, they won’t see my stuff.

Not sure if it’s Jetpack or simply WordPress, but I do have one major problem that I learned about yesterday.

Most of the followers I have are non-email. This is true of both sites discussed in this thread. My biggest follower (in terms of interaction) is receiving NO notifications of new posts or replies by me to her comments.

If it’s true for her, it’s likely true of others. The only reason I know of the totality of the circumstances is that she is one of the few that I have an email address for.

Doubtful about the XML-RPC, given that there probably are at least several other Jetpack functions dependent on this.

I fixed it as I did once before–used Feedburner and the RSS widget to display posts from one site to my two other sites. It’s a good workaround.

I whitelisted accepting cookies from wordpress.com and jetpack. That seems to have cured the issue of likes on my desktop.

Can’t like on my Android phone however. There is no obvious way to accept cookies on the phone using Chrome.

Sorry, clipped the URL when I copied and pasted it in here.

Let’s try it again:

https://johnswriting.com/wp/

It should be noted that a red circle with an i says the site can be accessed (by Jetpack, evidently). Yet it is most assuredly available at least via Chrome and MS Edge and by my host and on Android phones. It’s a hiccup with Jetpack. Yet I CAN see who is following the blog and get stats–so it’s not completely non-functioning.

There may be a Like button on Facebook as well, but the one on WordPress has been around for a very long time. It’s a regular feature. Just look at WordPress blogs by many people. We’re not talking about a Facebook like–but a WordPress post or comment like

Hooray, the update to Jetpack fixed the subscription problem. I updated this AM and received my four most recent posts in one fell swoop.

Yeah, JetPack always has something that hangs stuff up.

There’s always updates–to WordPress core and to Jetpack. Hard to pin down a time when I first became aware of it. Everything is up to date. Not sure the point of your question about email name, but I don’t have an email address the same as the domain name for my own subscription and I am unaware of Jetpack offering a choice to administrators on handling subscriptions–they do it all through their system; opt in, etc. The host should have zero to do with the problem; I have other sites on the same host without this problem. Plus I previously did the whitelist of all Jetpack/Wordpress.com urls that they say their processes need to run through for JSON to work. As someone previously told me from Automattic, there are just some sites that Jetpack doesn’t work 100% completely. This is probably one of them. I’m not holding out hope. But WordPress does have more efficiency and working features than Joomla.