Control Email Regularity?

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    empgarrett · Member ·

    I’ve been using WordPress.com for a good four years now and love the platform. I’m well aware of the different ways to follow a WordPress.com blog—I have a WordPress follow button and an email follow button in my sidebar, as well as Facebook and Twitter widgets in case readers want to connect with me elsewhere. I also know WordPress followers control the regularity with which they receive emails from blogs, because I do this myself—I have that set to none, I only use the WordPress Reader. My question is this: Is there some setting or feature I’m not aware of that I can use to control email regularity myself, specifically for my email-only followers? I post 9 times a week, or try to at least, and I’d like to only send out one email with links to all 9 posts. Or, if I need to find my own separate email service for that, is there a way to hook it up to a public, Personal Plan WordPress.com blog?

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

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    My question is this: Is there some setting or feature I’m not aware of that I can use to control email regularity myself, specifically for my email-only followers?

    There is not. Only followers have the ability to control how often they receive emails for new posts on a site.

    You can of course use a newsletter subscription service like MailChimp and set up your own newsletters and email campaigns through them, but that will not prevent emails from going out from WordPress.com to people who have also signed up to receive those.

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    empgarrett · Member ·

    Thanks! So will MailChimp work with WordPress as I have it now, or do I need to get the Business plan or self-host or something?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    MailChimp is a completely different service, and it doesn’t integrate directly with your site. The only integration we do have is a subscription form that you can add that will allow people to sign up directly from your site. But to set up email campaigns you’ll log into your account at MailChimp and control it from there.

    You can see how to add the MailChimp subscription pop-up to your site here:

    Add a Mailchimp Pop-Up

    There are MailChimp plugins available as well, but I don’t know what those do, as I don’t use MailChimp myself. To use those plugins you’ll need the Business Plan or a self-hosted installation of WordPress, but if you just want people to be able to subscribe to a MailChimp mailing list and send out emails from there, the subscription form should be enough.

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    empgarrett · Member ·

    Thanks again. So, I got started with MailChimp, set up an email template, put the widget in my sidebar so the subscription pop-up works. Everything’s good. Question, though: What about my current email followers? I can manually add each of them to my MailChimp email list, but if I don’t remove them from my email-only follow list through WordPress, does that mean they’ll get 9 emails a week (for each post) and then a tenth one from MailChimp?

  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    but if I don’t remove them from my email-only follow list through WordPress, does that mean they’ll get 9 emails a week (for each post) and then a tenth one from MailChimp?

    Depending on their email settings on WordPress.com, yes.

    I suggest you publish a post on your site explaining this to your subscribers, and linking to our instructions on changing your email subscription settings. They’ll all receive this via email, and will be able to make an informed choice on how they’d prefer to receive the emails going forward.

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/following/#change-your-email-settings

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