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  hope72952 · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 10:31 pm

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  I just started a blog & paid $18 for a year. Want to add an opt-in email signup & can’t figure out how to do it.

  Any help greatly appreciated.

  TIA!

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 10:37 pm

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  WordPress.com does not provide an email service for domains. Note these support docs please:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/add-email/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/email-forwarding/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 12, 2015 at 10:38 pm

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  Here at WordPress.COM our subscribers make the decision to act and to subscribe to our blogs. They control their own subscriptions; we don’t. They also determine how frequently they wish to receive our posts (instantly, daily, weekly, never) by email. Many choose to follow in the WordPress.COM Reader rather than by email.

  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.

  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/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  To enable social networking sharing buttons below your post see
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=sharing+buttons
  results here http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

  See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/

  You can also use Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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  hope72952 · Member · Mar 13, 2015 at 1:30 am

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  Yes I understand that readers may or may not decide to sign up for my emails. Thanks for your help. I think I’ve added the sign up form.