Adding Users to neighborhood blog

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    woodburnestateshoa · Member ·

    I have a blog that has been created for my neighborhood. I have sent out invitation to neighbors, but I want to be able to add their email addresses to the blog so that they can receive updates when a new post is posted. Am I able to do this? I have some neighbors that aren’t quite computer literate.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    timethief · Member ·

    No you are not able to subscribe others to your blog. Here subscribers control their own subscriptions including the frequency with which they choose to be sent your posts. All they are required to provide is an email address and their delivery preferences (instantly, daily, weekly, never).

    You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

    If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts go to > Settings > Reading and scroll down to Follower Settings:

    These settings change emails sent from your blog to followers.
    Logged out users __ Show follow button to logged out users.

    Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.

    You could create a Subscribe Page.
    Place the shortcode on it. We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/
    Create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and add the page into it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages

    You could also simply include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

    Note: You can create a Page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and place a contact form on it for private communication with your visitors, or for opting into receiving a newsletter for example. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

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