Email Blast in WordPress.com
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Hello and thank you.
I have all the sharing options I want already set up. But I’d like to produce email blasts to 30 to 40 people. Is there a plugin at wordpress.com to send out an email blast or is there a configuration already in place? And if so, can you point it out to me? Thank you.
Here is a screencast: http://www.screencast.com/t/xspxAyUs.
Mike
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There is no FTP access and no blogger installed plugin capability on any free hosted WordPress.com blogs.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/plugins/See here for a full comparison WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
http://support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/There is no upgrade you can purchase here that provides FTP access and the ability to install plugins.
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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/
Form codes are stripped out of wordpress.com blogs by our software here.
https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tagsYour 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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Oops! that link should have been this one
… specifically provide an email address for is illegal in some countries like Canada. http://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2014/07/02/canadas-anti-spam-law/
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