Blog entry e-Mail notification – is that possible?
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When an entry is added to a blog can an e-mail message be sent to every member of that blog? Currently, it appears that when I make a blog entry other members of the blog don’t have a clue as to the event. Is there a setting that needs to be modified in order for such notification to take place?
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Thank you ellaella for replying!
I am attempting to use the following outline at to setup Feedbruner.
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/how-can-i-offer-email-updates/I find it slightly difficult to following those setups since they don’t match-up with the Instructions on the website. All I am able to do is insert my WordPress address. It gives me the following error message:
“The URL does not appear to reference a valid XML file. We encountered the following problem: Unknown feed format encountered (The root element is [Element: <html [Namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml%5D/>%5D)”
What am I doing wrong?
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What is the URL of the blog that you are talking about? http://ulyssean.wordpress.com/ is set to private, and you do not have a feed on a private blog so you cannot use the feedburner email update service. If private blogs had feeds, then it would defeat the purpose of setting it to private since feeds at this time cannot be secured or password protected. None of the RSS people can come up with or agree on a standard way to do it.
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Thanks thesacredpath!
OK so one of the benefits of not being a private blog is being able to use the feedburner service. What will lose if the blog goes public?
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Sorry the question is: What will I lose if the blog goes public? Is there a chart somewhere that I can use to see the differences?
Thanks!
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There’s no chart as far as I know. Quite simply, you would lose your privacy and that of your blog and all that entails and implies.
You would gain the ability to have more than 35 readers (or whatever the limit is) without buying an upgrade.
Is there a specific area that worries you?
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Hello ellaella long time no talk to. :)
I don’t want the blog to be picked up by the search engines is my main concern. I remember that there is an option that I’ve check off that directs WordPress not to allow the blog to be index. I am not sure if that option disappears if I go public.
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ellaella,
The other thing that bothers me is when you said “all that entails and implies”. Because I don’t know what all that entails that does not leave me feeling secure. It’s not like there are secrets stored in the blog. But I don’t want the blog to be index and some of the data lifted.
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the main disadvantage of going public is that you’ll be flooded with spam comments.
Diane Lys Priest
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@ulyssean – If you go to Settings>Privacy in your dashboard, you’ll have an option to block search engines from your blog but to allow normal visitors. Your content will not be indexed but the blog — and everything in it — will be available to anyone on the planet who comes across it.
If someone likes it and links to it, you can not control who links to it or why or whether another blog’s readers are people you’d like to have reading yours. It’s not much different from not having any control over next-door neighbors.
The only way to ensure nothing is lifted is not to publish it. Ever. Anywhere.
Don’t worry about spam; Akismet does its job very well and catches almost everything.
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One solution to your original question, though, is to leave the blog private, assemble the email addys of your readers into a group within your email client and send a daily email if you’ve posted something new. A couple of clicks and you’re done.
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In my experience about 97% of spam is caught by Akismet and you can delete any spam caught with the simple click of a button. If a few do get through, have your blog set so that first-time comments have to be moderated.
@ulyssean, on the privacy page, you can select the middle option which allows normal visitors but blocks search engines.
If the blog is public, there is always the chance that someone that you do not know will find it, and possibly paste the URL onto another site, which could bring more unknown viewers to your blog, and the more that come there, the more likely it is that some of your stuff will end up being scraped or stolen. That is the sad reality.
The only way to keep things from being stolen is to keep it private, and that isn’t necessarily a guarantee, but if something of yours does show up on the internet somewhere, the list of possible culprits is a lot shorter.
ANYTHING posted on the internet, whether the site is set to private or not runs the risk of being stolen.
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Thanks for the data. My privacy settings are set to “I would like mto block search engines but would allow normal visitors.”
Having done that I want to know how will that effect the use of Feedburner? I want the users who are members of the blog to receive email when anyone submits an entry to the blog. If this is not the way to go, how should I go about completing the task?
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It would be easy to answer the question if you’d link your name to your WP.com blog rather than an external website. If your RSS feed is active, it should work, but I can’t tell if it’s active because I can’t see your blog. Please give us a link starting with http.
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Sorry about that raincoaster.
The blogs are as follows:
ulyssean.wordpress.com
ulysseanm.wordpress.com
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