Jetpack for WordPress 17+

Technowizardry

Remembering back to role playing games as a kid, when bionics and cybernetics were science fiction. The time before cell phones, when the cord to the wall didn’t allow for blogging on the beach, or sending love messages from the top of a ladder. I love how with a little practice, something like Jetpack for Wordpress; takes me back there. I’m not a Elvin Sorcerer, or an Aberrant Mutant, I’m a Technowizard’s Apprentice. I belong to the Jetpack Guild. We lay digital scripts for others to find on the Ley Lines they ride.

It works well enough

But not all the way. Scheduled posts only post IF and WHEN someone comes to your page, according to the tech help anyway. If they don’t post then, that means setting a time for a post to go public on its own is dysfunctional entirely. I don’t get enough traffic to watch and see if something I set up posts on its own after a visit to know for sure. The discover feed doesn’t update. I’ve had the same articles displayed for more than five days. Not that others haven’t been published, just that jetpack is pushing this set that I have already read. I have to scroll through nearly 50 to find a new one at this point. Feeds should update regularly. Not pick a handful of writers and push their same pieces multiple days in a row. And no I don’t care if they paid to be at the top, if someone has already seen it, scrolled past or read, an updated feed should be presented. It updates for followed pages but not the general public and golly that makes it hard to read anything new. Also, no longer allows me to delete followers from the ap. I have to jump online to do so. Used to let me. Then suddenly stopped. Is the ap really helpful if it doesn’t do what the site can?

Developer Response ,

Hey! Thanks for your review and for bringing this to our attention! It sounds like something isn’t working quite right for you, and we’d love to investigate further to help sort it out. Could you reach out to us at mobile-support@automattic.com? We’ll dig into this and do our best to improve your experience.

Won’t Sync Properly With My Site

I have a self-hosted Wordpress site and it will send posts to my site ok, but when I then work on a post on my computer it doesn’t show the updates from that revision in the app. So I posted an article this week and I came back to the app to post another, and it showed my last post that I published but it was in draft status. I would not change. I made the mistake of updating in the app hitting the Update button in the upper right. Instead of comparing the local draft with the remote published and downloading the updates made in WordPress from my computer, it set the post to draft and removed all the additions I made on my computer. I had to go into the post and restore a previous revision and then make some edits I already made just before I hit publish.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for the report, and sorry for the trouble caused by the app's syncing problems. We have a team actively working to address these problems and have shared your feedback directly with them. Although I don't have a specific timeframe for when the team's work will be shipped, it should be within the next few months. We hope you stick with us to see the upcoming improvements! In the meantime, when working in the app, we recommend navigating to My Site → Posts and manually pulling down on the screen on your finger to force a refresh. Pulling to refresh should force the app to fetch the latest content from your site. If you'd like to talk through these issues further, please feel welcome to contact us via mobile-support@automattic.com.