Do WordPress.COM Email Subscribers Transfer to WordPress.ORG?

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  jcryle · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 8:49 pm

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  I currently have around 850 email subscribers with WordPress.com.

  If I transfer to WordPress.org, will I lose these email subscribers?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 9:29 pm

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  No they do not. Your subscribers will be lost, and they will have to sign up at the new blog location.

  My suggestion is always to use a third-party email subscription service such as feedburner since that means you can move anywhere you want at any time and your subscribers will never see a disruption.

  You can export your subscribers from here, but there is no way to import them into feedburner.

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  jcryle · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 9:48 pm

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  Thanks a bunch.

  I have another 1050 email subscribers via Feedburner, but once WordPress.com offered their new email option awhile ago, I went with it. I personally MUCH prefer the WordPress.com email option since the email is sent instantly when my post goes “live”, unlike Feedburner, which sends it during the 2 hour window I have set up, which means the next morning.

  Anyhow, I’ll have to decide what I’m going to do as I thoroughly enjoy WordPress.com yet am currently contemplating moving to WordPress.org.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 10:06 pm

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  You are welcome.