Are subscribers notified of edits?
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I am a perfectionist and often edit previous posts. I just got a subscriber to my newish blog and am worried that she will be bombarded with notification emails if I keep editing my posts! It’s partly a “how-to” blog and when I get more of them up I know I will be editing even more, and I hope adding videos and pics etc to keep improving them.
One of my “comments” was a long notated list detailing the items in my header pic–my one subscriber had requested this. Does she (as a comment subscriber) get a notification every time I edit this “comment” ? I have done that several times already, since I originally typed up the list off the top of my head without checking all the historical references etc.
Thanks!The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I don’t believe anyone is notified when a comment is edited. And staff have said that RSS notifications don’t go out when an old post is edited. Email notifications might, however; the workaround is to take the post Private, edit it, update it, then take it Public again.
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Subscribe to your own site via e-mail then you will see exactly what your subscriber sees.
I also think only one e-mail goes out per Post. It would make no sense to send out edits, change one word and carpet bomb your subscriber list would eliminate most subscribers in short order.
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thought about the same thing a few days ago because i published an article ad for some reason the comments were turned off. I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong, spent hours exploring different links on the dashboard and i still haven’t figured it out. i ended up deleting the post and republished, this time it came with the comments on. i was worried my subsscribers would find it a bit strange receiving 2 emails on the exact same post….anyone knows what i should have done about the comments problem? I put a question on the forum but didn’t get any answers …..www.livingitlight.wordpress.com
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@livingitlight: When you edit the post, there is an option to enable comments, but there is also an option under Settings> Discussion to disable comments on new posts. Perhaps this article will help.
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I’m back again to report that I did subscribe to my blog (as an email subscriber) and only the initial publishing of the post comes as an email notification, not any edits. I assume the same thing is true for comments.
Thanks again…
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