In case anyone is interested, I have added an Instagram account. With my site plan (or maybe this is just how it works in general on WP) I was not able to add an "Instagram button" at the bottom of my posts, for sharing. Instead, I was required to sync JetPack with an IG business account, so that when I publish a post on WP it will appear on IG simultaneously - without me doing anything else. With my other socials, I just use the share buttons to publish to my socials manually.
So all of that is to say I'm trying to figure out how best to use IG in conjunction with my website. My post from last night published just fine on IG. My "reblog" this morning of an old Quotes post did not. I'll keep playing around with it, so there might be some weirdness on the site for a day or two, with me trying to figure out the limits of how to publish directly onto IG. There are probably better ways to do these things, but you know...
The worst case scenario is that my new IG site will just be a place where I share reels.
To update my previous "WordPress Issues" post from last month: I eventually got back to normal levels of WordPress Reader traffic, within about a week of that post. However, immediately after that happened, my search engine traffic cratered dramatically. I struggle to believe that the latter was not connected to the former in some way. My overall website traffic over the last three weeks is down by half from where it was in March - and still trending down. I will be going through old posts, re-curating tags, and making minor changes to things to see if that re-attracts the old search engine web crawlers. It's strange, though. I've been through traffic fluctuations before, but this was very much like someone or something flipped an "off" switch.
Save me, Zuck!
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