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  georgiagibbs0 · Member · Jul 16, 2015 at 4:42 pm

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  I am getting ready to set up a client on wordpress.com and they would like to be able to have new posts automatically sent out to subscribers. Can I do this from within wordpress.com?

  How are others on this platform doing this?

  Thank you!

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2015 at 4:45 pm

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  Form codes are stripped out by our software here.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags

  Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they alone can control the frequency of receipt. You cannot subscribe for them or control the frequency of receipt of your posts by them.

  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.

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

  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.

  Additional information:
  You can create a Subscribe page and clearly state on it that you intend to harvest email addresses if that’s what you want to do. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ You can add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  You can create a sign up page on MailChimp. If you want to use MailChimp with your WordPress.com site right now you can do so by creating a link to the signup form on MailChimp and providing it to your visitors. Here’s the info from MailChimp Support http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog

  You can do the same thing with Aweber as I noted above for mailchimp ie. create a sign up page there and link tot.

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  timethief · Member · Jul 16, 2015 at 4:49 pm

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  Note that “email blast” is an unfortunate term because none of us wishes to be blasted with any email that we did not specifically request to receive. Collecting and using email addresses for any purpose other than for exactly what their owners specifically provide an email address for is illegal in some countries like Canada. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/07/02/canadas-anti-spam-law/

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  georgiagibbs0 · Member · Jul 19, 2015 at 7:49 pm

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  That is a simple way to describe a process but it would be to subscribers who want the information and regards fluid information they will (at their request) want access to. It is not for spam or anything illegal. Thank you for your concern. I am only trying to get technical information about this platform.

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  georgiagibbs0 · Member · Jul 19, 2015 at 8:05 pm

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  timethief, thank you very much – this information is just what I was looking for. Cheers, Georgia