WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How do people subscribe to your blog? http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog WordPress.com Forums » Topic: How do people subscribe to your blog? en Sat, 25 May 2013 20:25:08 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 thesacredpath on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-144022 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:59:07 +0000 thesacredpath 144022@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Are you hosted here at wordpress.com? Your username is linked to a commercial site, not to your wordpress.com blog (if you have one). If you are self-hosted then you need to inquire over at http://wordpress.org/support/ . WordPress.com use a multi-user version of the software and few, if any, of the volunteers here are familiar with the wordpress.org software.

Here at wordpress.com, you can use feedburner to alert subscribers to new posts: http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/how-can-i-offer-email-updates/

In your feedburner account, the emails of your subscribers are listed. You could then create a "group" in your email program with those email addresses in it, and then send emails to that group through your email program.

]]> etrib on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-144013 Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:30:44 +0000 etrib 144013@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Kind of new here, and read all the threads.

What is needed to have a subscription widget going through an auto-responder? I would like to be able to be in touch with my readers in other ways.

]]> lianadevine on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-122493 Thu, 04 Oct 2007 01:02:33 +0000 lianadevine 122493@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks timethief and judyb12. I'll have to think on this to decide which way to go. We have some non-techie friends and family, so RSS may be confusing to them (as it obviously is to me). But at least I know there are options.

]]> judyb12 on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-121988 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:31:15 +0000 judyb12 121988@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ IMO RSS is the best way. Your readers don't have to be members of wordpress to read your RSS feed, they just need a feed reader, as Timethief has pointed out.

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-121978 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:17:33 +0000 timethief 121978@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ One requires a free rss feed reader account to receive the posts by rss feed. Here is the feedburner alternative which amounts to the same http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/how-can-i-offer-email-updates/
You can also set up a free mailing list service at http://www.coollist.com/
But if you do not wish to have any 3rd party involvement at all then you will simply have to email the posts out yourself.
HTH :)

]]> lianadevine on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-121976 Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:09:40 +0000 lianadevine 121976@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We have a large addressbook of people we want to have follow our travels via our WP blog. I've initially sent them all the url and advised they bookmark it. Philosophically I *hate* forcing people (myself included) to sign up for/register for/become members of yet another online service - but isn't that what an RSS does? I just want a way for people WHO CHOOSE to be able to know when there's a new post to read, and an easy way for them to get to the url. Is RSS the best way to do this?
TIA

]]> thistimethisspace on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-94589 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:26:37 +0000 thistimethisspace 94589@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Best wishes and thanks for the thanks.

]]> msobetzko on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-94537 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:37:50 +0000 msobetzko 94537@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks folks. You confirmed what I thought the answer would be. I will give an email list a try, as well as send in feedback requesting a notification option for private blogs.

]]> shimworld on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-94447 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 02:28:25 +0000 shimworld 94447@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I wish WordPress allows elective notification by email (checkbox option) when you comment on a blog and you're asked if you would like to be notified of all responses to that post. MistyLook theme creator Sadish has done on his own site

http://wpthemes.info/posts/2007/06/25/thanks-to-you-i-got-the-lowest-technorati-rank/#comments

Support is closed for the weekend. Will email them re this come Monday.

]]> thistimethisspace on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-94428 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:44:08 +0000 thistimethisspace 94428@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Excuse me. I know this isn't exactly what you are looking for but it may be worth checking into for a free family mailing list you create yourself. Once a list is created you can send email (a link to a new blog post) to the list and everyone in the list will receive it. When you reply the email, everyone will receive the reply. http://www.coollist.com/reg/newlist.html

]]> trent on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-94426 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:38:17 +0000 trent 94426@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Nothing for private blogs right now that I know of, sorry.

Trent

]]> msobetzko on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-94423 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:37:03 +0000 msobetzko 94423@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ So I just started blogging, like yesterday. My blog is a registered members only blog for my family, we're spread out across the states and I want to use it to keep in touch. At any rate, I have been following this discussion until I ran into the snag that you can not use feeds on registered member only blogs. Any other way to have your members emailed when there is a new post?

Mike

]]> re5ch3n on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog/page/2#post-60592 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:42:33 +0000 re5ch3n 60592@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Adding RSS buttons by using text widget. OK, I am a couple months late to this thread and the link from Jan 5 gives a 404 code.

Any new links to this code?

]]> jaroche on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42280 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:20:43 +0000 jaroche 42280@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ jijiji :D I love the cappuccinos

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42276 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:14:25 +0000 timethief 42276@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Good catch! Thank you :D
The link is now fixed ... I need a coffee ...

]]> jaroche on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42274 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:06:47 +0000 jaroche 42274@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes I note it, an old thread :P.

Also could check your demo link because it goes to bloggersblurt's administrative pages :S

Thank you, happy blogging :)

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42272 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 18:00:57 +0000 timethief 42272@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @jaroche
You're right, this is an "old" thread and things do change. Information in forum threads isn't "wrong but it can become out-dated. :)

If you look at my post just above yours I have included a link to the new location of the demo and I'm expecting that drmike will check this thread and make the required changes when he is online.

]]> jaroche on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42263 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:44:51 +0000 jaroche 42263@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ TT and drmike, I see two wrong things at "rss subscription feeds part 2" post:

1) The demo blog coyotes.wordpress.com, is no longer available. :(

2) "After I posted this, I realialized that we’re not allowed to post *.png files to the sidebar over at WordPress.com". Yes you can have .png images in your sidebar! take a look to my blog's sidebar, I have the the CC Licence image as png file.

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42258 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 17:25:24 +0000 timethief 42258@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ G'Morning
This is where to go for blog promotion tips http://pimpmyblog.wordpress.com

This is where to go specifically for the code to add rss feed subscription buttons http://pimpmyblog.wordpress.com/2006/07/10/rss-subscription-feeds-part-2/

The demo is now at this link. I have chosen to put these on a page but you can also put them into a text widget and display them in your sidebar.

]]> copperhead on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-42228 Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:13:52 +0000 copperhead 42228@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi all. Very new to WordPress and I want to allow people to subscribe to my blog as well. However, the code that drmike posted is now a 404 file not found.

I'm totally lost.

Help?

]]> drmike on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17225 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:45:35 +0000 drmike 17225@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Fixed.

Please remember to save the *.txt file as a *.txt file without any encoding. :)

edit: Demo up at Coyotes

]]> onecoolsoul on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17143 Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:16:23 +0000 onecoolsoul 17143@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks Dr Mike you do a very good job here.

]]> drmike on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17085 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:42:41 +0000 drmike 17085@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yeah, I gotta fix it. It's on my to do list.

]]> onecoolsoul on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17074 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 18:42:21 +0000 onecoolsoul 17074@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sounds good enough to me! Thanks timethief! I was a little bit frustrated at trying to add buttons to the blog. Once again thanks!

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17023 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:42:47 +0000 timethief 17023@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ onecoolsoul - drmike won't be available until tomorrow. Others are having the same problem too.

drmike said: WordPress is doing something funky to the code.

Let's be patient and wait for him to get back to us on this tomorrow, okay?

]]> onecoolsoul on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17021 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 02:35:05 +0000 onecoolsoul 17021@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am having trouble adding buttons to my sidebar, I am getting null images when I do this. If some
one could help I sure would appreciate it! Thanks!

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-17012 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:35:17 +0000 timethief 17012@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ drmike you said this:

WordPress is doing something funky to the code. I'll stick up a *.txt page on one of my sites later this afternoon and link to that instead.

I need to remove a couple of those anyway since they've desided to spam me. :(

Sorry about that.
Posted: 2006-07-07 13:58:38 #

I wanted to do this in a text widget on my coyotes blog so I'm asking two questions

(1) Have you stuck up a *.txt page yet? If so please provide the link.
(2) Which ones spammed you? And do you recommend that I delete them from my main blog text widget?

P.S. I've got customers coming and going so communication will be hit and miss but I'll be checking the forum whenever I can.

]]> quotes on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-16988 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:18:35 +0000 quotes 16988@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have not yet experimented with the widgets. I fear losing some of the information which is already there in the sidebar. When I get a chance, I will try playing around with the sidebar widgets and see about putting those subscribe buttons on each page. I did that on another WordPress Blog which is on its own domain.

]]> timethief on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-16917 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 05:21:13 +0000 timethief 16917@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ahhh Vivian you're quite right. I apologize to quotes for not looking closely enough.

]]> vivianpaige on "How do people subscribe to your blog?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-people-subscribe-to-your-blog#post-16913 Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:39:52 +0000 vivianpaige 16913@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ TT-look again. They are on a separate page.

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