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Diposting oleh Unknown Jumat, 27 November 2009

Blog Subscriptions

by John
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There are many ways of reading WordPress.com blogs and we’ve now added another: blog subscriptions.
This is a very simple way for your readers to subscribe to your blog and receive updates by email. Anyone can subscribe, whether they have a WordPress.com account or not. All you need to do is add the Blog Subscription widget to your blog and then you and your readers are ready to go.
If a visitor is logged in to WordPress they need only press the Subscribe Me! button, otherwise they can enter their email address.
All subscriptions require confirmation by the address owner, and subscriptions can be disabled at any time – the subscriber is in full control of what they receive.
Day trip — Inbox
HTML formatting will be used in emails, where possible, to retain the flavor of your post. This includes your images, making for attractive email photo galleries. Subscribers can also choose to receive emails in plain text, should they not have access to an HTML enabled mail client.
You can select to have an email sent each time a post is made, or to receive a daily or weekly digest of all the posts. Perfect for catching up on your reading at the weekend.
Want to keep up-to-date with all the latest WordPress.com developments? Subscribe to this very blog and get all future announcements delivered to your inbox. It really does only take a few seconds and you’ll find the form just after this text. Want to keep up-to-date without using email? Have posts sent direct to your Jabber-supporting instant messenger client, or try Readomattic to keep a list of your favourites. Remember that you can also subscribe to an individual post by checking the ‘notify me of follow-up comments via email’ when making a comment.
We’ve got a lot more plans for email so stay tuned!
Full details of the subscription feature can be found on the subscriptions support page.
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125 Comments

  1. javcasta
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:16 am
    Finally!. Thanks.
  2. johnonline
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:17 am
    i’ve been witing for this feature for a long time… thanks for granting it! now i know i made the right choice to blog here…
  3. egomaniac
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:25 am
    Great!
  4. VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:30 am
    This was long overdue! You are introducing many features these days with a formal announcement.
    I wish there was a way to see the list of subscribers like the feedburner list.
  5. Flesh-eating Dragon
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:30 am
    Perhaps the biggest disadvantage of reading a blog by email is that many people update and make corrections to a blog post after publishing it, whereas you can’t correct an email.
    However, for those bloggers who very rarely touch their posts once they’ve been published, I can see how this might be a useful option to have.
  6. Yi
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:34 am
    Hm… I’ve been using Feedburner’s email subscription. Not sure how I feel about switching or having 2 different ones.
  7. پدرام Pedram
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:39 am
    but it doesn’t work in Iran. its filtered! :(
  8. alisyah
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am
    Great feature.
  9. ajikinai
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:43 am
    cool…this will make me some advantages…
  10. VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:06 am
    John, thanks I found the list of email subscribers in the stats. It also shows posts subscribers as 74. Does that mean my total RSS subscribers are 74?
  11. Giorgio
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:14 am
    fantastic… also ’cause it’s possibile to “save” an additional backup in this way! ;-p
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  13. Jan Shim
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:18 am
    Finally after a 2+ year wait !
  14. xcobar
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:26 am
    This is so cool.
    Bye bye FeedBurner – LOL…..
  15. James Turnbull
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:32 am
    I won’t use this personally, for the reasons Flesh-eating Dragon, but I appreciate the option.
    One thing I would find MUCH more useful though, is information about the total number of subscribers to our blogs: whether they’re going up or down is a much more reliable indicator of a blog’s popularity than mere hits, especially when you write about sexuality and gender issues like myself.
    As far as I can tell, this used to be part of WordPress.com’s statistics package, but was discontinued? Why? Regardless, I don’t know why something so helpful and yet so simple to provide is not offered, and I would really appreciate it that was the next feature WordPress offered!^^
  16. RandomizeME
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:36 am
    I’ve been using feedburner… so I’m not sure if I’ll be switching to this…
  17. Gerrit Eicker
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:56 am
    Nice addition!
    Just found out that there’s still no way to subscribe to individual posts via eMail in P2: Will you add this feature to the theme in future?
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  19. Bintang Pratama
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:07 am
    I LIKE THIS
    THIS IS SO COOL
    THANK YOU.
  20. James Turnbull
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:09 am
    Well it wasn’t an option here, and I doubt it would have picked up my missing the word “mentioned” anyway.
    Perhaps you could shed some light on the subscriber and RSS feeds issue(s), instead of laughing at a simple editing mistake?
    • John
      November 25th, 2009 at 10:46 am
      I didn’t even notice your mistake, James, I was just highlighting the spell checker feature that can be used to check posts – you mentioned about corrections after publishing. I’m unaware of changes to statistics but if you drop a line to support they’ll be able to help.
  21. dhenztm
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am
    I love it! Nice! :D
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  25. Milo
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:38 am
    Can you advise what this stat means from my stats page please:
    Subscribers (email)
    Blog:0
    Comments:151
    Don’t understand that as I haven’t enabled subscription by email on my blog. What does the 151 refer to?
  26. ileaneb
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:45 am
    I’m glad to hear this news. I’ll be adding the widget later today. I’m wondering how the email subscribers will appear in my stats.
    Thanks!
  27. James Turnbull
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:50 am
    Sorry John, I misunderstood. Bad day at work today…!
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  29. sivaaalayamnews
    November 25th, 2009 at 11:32 am
    Well done guys – this is a great enhancement
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  32. Milo
    November 25th, 2009 at 11:52 am
    John – thanks for the reply but I think there is a glitch here. The system may say I have 151 people subscribed to comments but I think that’s *extremely* unlikely. Possibly 151 subscribing to blog posts – though even that is higher than I would have thought, but seems absurd that 151 people would want to be subscribed to comments (unless spam bots are subscribing). This figure cannot be right.
    Giving bloggers subscription stats is a great idea, but as someone higher up this thread has said, the one key figure we all want to know is ordinary RSS blog (post) subscriptions and this figure isn’t apparent. Hence many of us use (and will continue to use) Google Feedburner (which itself isn’t flawless if people end up clicking on the RSS feed in the address bar rather than the feedburner link!)
    • John
      November 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
      The stats page has been updated – what you saw was the total number of subscriptions. You can see this and the number of subscribers (i.e. a person can subscribe more than once)
  33. cokluiser
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
    Perfect for me.
    thanks
  34. tylerandalyssa
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
    I’m also interested to see how this will affect stats. Please tell us more! (And I read the support page, but couldn’t find anything on stats).
  35. DeannaS
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
    Are you going to release this to the community as a plugin? I know there are some out there, but I’ve not really been happy with the existing ones. Please please, pretty please? :)
  36. Jason
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
    Fantastic! Well done guys, yet another way to get connected with our readers!
  37. LO
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
    This new feature is great. But, when can we expect integration with services like FeedBurner?
  38. scikid
    November 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
    So does the owner get any emails?
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  40. navedz
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
    Great job guys. this one was due since long!!
  41. Gerrit Eicker
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
    @Sheri Thanks! I’m rarely surfing not logged in.
  42. ian in hamburg
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
    That’s a great idea. I hope we can customise the widget’s message.
  43. qbit
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
    I don’t understand the difference between 21 and 32:
    Email Subscribers
    Bitácora:0
    Comentarios:21 subscribers, 32 subscriptions
  44. yongsheng
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
    This is an excelllent idea which is quite overdue.
    Just asking, will this result in some sort of decline in blog views? Meaning that the subscribers will simply receive it through email and no one visits your site.
  45. vjp
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
    While I won’t use the feature (since I’m already using Feedburner), it is a welcome addition.
  46. Ted Mann
    November 25th, 2009 at 2:58 pm
    Is this available on .org blogs as a plugin?
  47. phoxis
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
    i think this is a good feature, and would be easier to keep in touch with the blogs
  48. ismailimail
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
    Thanks. The delivery is very fast. This has been a much needed feature for long time. .
  49. whalingman
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
    Nice addition!
  50. ronakorn
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
    Nice, I love this option.
  51. Tom Baker
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
    Wonderful addition. Keep ‘em rolling out!
  52. Moses
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
    you guys just love to make life easier! :P
  53. Lagunatic
    November 25th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
    Oh boy – don’t I torture my readers enough w/out becoming a constant battery on their in-box as well? :D :D
    Of course, I’ll probably add it…being the attention ho I am.
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  55. Olivia Tejeda
    November 25th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
    Yay! Happy Thanksgiving for WP bloggers! This looks like it will be much easier to use than Feedburner. I do have a question about integrating my Feedburner subscribers into the new WP widget, but I’ll go find the forum to ask that question. Excellent feature. Thanks thanks thanks!
  56. Roberto
    November 25th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
    Nice and powerful feature. I don’t know why no one uses it O_o
    Thank you from my mother!
  57. joshi daniel
    November 25th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
    something i always wanted! thanks!
  58. mrash
    November 25th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
    This is a very welcome addition to what is, for my money, the best-featured blogging platform there is. Thank you, WP. I would switch my feeds from Feedburner today if it were possible for visitors to subscribe to a single category of posts, so that they receive only those posts labelled with that category. Perhaps it is already possible? Or will be soon?
  59. elleica
    November 25th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
    I’ve started using this in my blog. Although no one has subscribed to the blog itself yet, I can see in the stats page that there are some posts subscriptions. Are they the ones who clicked the box for “notify me of follow-up comments”?
  60. sylviahubbard1
    November 25th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
    AND I LOVE IT!!!
    omg!!! i LOVE YOU WORDPRESS!!
  61. Matteos
    November 25th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
    Nice feature, but the “Subscribe Me!” button looks awful on INove :(
  62. Raquel
    November 25th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
    It’s very nice! I added this widget since the “Blog email subscription now available” post! This is one of the best widgets!
  63. princeconnoisseur
    November 25th, 2009 at 6:33 pm
    Great news. Love the idea.
  64. joshi daniel
    November 25th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
    but non wordpress users have to create an account with wordpress right???
  65. eideard
    November 25th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
    Increasing traffic and ease of access is always a Good Thing.
  66. realthor
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
    This is just great, many thanks wordpress.
  67. eof737
    November 25th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
    Awesome news and one I will add right now… Thank you!
    By the way, I now look forward to that global translator feature being available to us – your beloved WordPress fans and family ;-)
    Happy Thanksgiving to y’all!
  68. joshi daniel
    November 25th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
    @Sheri No! when one clicks on the confirm subscription it takes to the wordpress.com login page.
  69. Video Dinle izle
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
    Thank you very good information
  70. Anthony
    November 25th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
    Sweet!
  71. trollboy
    November 25th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
    awesome! now to get some subscribers…
  72. ismailimail
    November 25th, 2009 at 11:45 pm
    Just thought of something. Bloggers would want to keep this widget prominent on their sidebar, but if someone subscribes to the blog, than this widget is irrelevant for them. It would technically be wasting the real estate of the page for the subscribed visitor. The widget space is actually too big for one service (an email). A drop-down list could be better, or something else.
  73. Corve DaCosta
    November 25th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
    Thanks so much

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