Blog subscriptions widget not sending email advice of new postings

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  muetzelfeldt · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 3:59 am

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  I’ve added the Blog Subscriptions widget, and then tested it using a couple of other (not WordPress registered) email addresses. The ‘Please confirm’ and ‘Confirmed’ emails came through OK, but there are no emails advising of new postings that I’ve made as Administrator. What should I do?
  thanks

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

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 4:30 am

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  http://www.insightleadership.com.au/ is not a WordPress.COM blog and we won’t be able to help you with that.

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  muetzelfeldt · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 6:27 am

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  Not sure why that URL showed — the site I’m having the issue with is photocoaching.wordpress.com
  thanks

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 8:04 am

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  That site showed because it’s what you have under “website” on your profile. If you can change it, you’ll get answers faster in the forum.

  Now that I can see it, it’s easy to answer your question. The reason people are not getting updates is that you have not made any new blog Posts. You have created only static Pages, which do not have an RSS feed and are not sent out on email or RSS subscriptions. Here is the difference:

  Pages vs. Posts

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  muetzelfeldt · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 9:16 am

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  Thanks — what I was trying to do (and thought I had done) is have several static pages, with posts on just the Discussion page. The one post you’ll see there (labelled a Response in this theme) was basically to test the Subscriptions widget, but it didn’t result in emails being sent. What do I have to do to the Discussions page to make it a proper post? Sorry to ask a question for which the answer is probably somewhere in the documentation, but I’ve not been able to find it there.

  The subscriptions email addresses were entered on other static pages, but that seems to be what will often happen as the Subscriptions widget goes to all pages, and I’d expect visitors will probably subscribe from the Home page.

  thanks again

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  raincoaster · Member · Jun 23, 2010 at 9:59 am

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  Discussion is a static page just like all the others. The actual blog is at the HOME tab as far as I can tell, and posts go in reverse chronological order, with the newest at the top

  In order to make a Post rather than a Page you need to go to the Dashboard and click the large New Post button over on the right-hand side near the top. Or you can click the New Post button on your grey Admin bar. Then what you make is a Post, not a Page. You can also see the difference on your Dashboard on the left: there is one icon for Posts and a different one for Pages.

  If you want Discussions to be a Post, you’ll have to copy all the content and paste it in as a Post, then delete it.

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  muetzelfeldt · Member · Jun 24, 2010 at 5:15 am

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  Thanks, Raincoaster — all’s well now.