Any way to do stealth update on wordpress.com?
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I’m new to wordpress.com, but have long had a blog on wordpress.org. Something I’m constantly doing is editing old posts. When I do this, it’s essential that notifications are not sent out to readers, making them think I’ve just published a new post.
So I use a plug-in called Stealth Update. Is there any way to accomplish this on wordpress.com? This is vital to me. Without it, I’ll have to put my new blog on .org.
Thanks in advance!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Well when you edit an already published post, by pressing Update, your followers aren’t notified, because you haven’t posted a brand new post. So when you do this, it shouldn’t send out notifications, so you don’t need to do anything.
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Thanks, daniel and jennifer. Yes–the RSS feed gets updated, and so my readers got emails when I updated old posts, until I started using the Stealth Update plug-in. I’m leery of setting up a a wordpress.com blog without having that capability.
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Were you using Feedburner and was it taking it’s feed from the RSS feed?
I edit & update Posts here on a regular basis – I also subscribe to those sites – I only get one email per Post – no matter how many times I edit a Post after the Post is published
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As auxclass said, WordPress.com won’t send out updated posts by email to followers, so it has to be an external service generating the emails from the RSS feed, like feedburner (or other feed readers) that generate an email.
The only way I can think to do this is by temporarily changing the site Visibility to Private, update the post, and then setting it back to Public. YMMV http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
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