Do subscribers get an email when I import posts from another blog?

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  crackedjar · Member · Feb 18, 2014 at 5:28 am

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  I have about 300 blog posts that I want to import from one blog to a new one. Will subscribers on the new one get notified of each one? I won’t be doing them all at once, but I will do them in batches, and I would hate for them to get a lot all at once. Thank you.

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  hfzrhmn · Member · Feb 18, 2014 at 5:38 am

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  Based on my understanding of the WordPress code, imported posts do not get sent to subscribers.

  This is because the action to send a post to subscribers is done when a post is explicitly published (i.e: when we click the publish button). Imported posts do not get explicitly published, they are just directly injected into the database.

  However, if the imported posts are posts that are scheduled to be published in the future, then they will get sent to the subscribers once their publication date arrives, after they get published in the new blog.

  So the answer is no. I might be wrong, though. You can test this by just importing 1 (already published) post, and then see whether that post gets sent to subscribers or not. If not, then importing a lot of posts at once will not get sent to subscribers as well.

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  crackedjar · Member · Feb 18, 2014 at 5:56 pm

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  Thank you. I was hoping that was the way it worked. :)