EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PHOTOS?
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I’ve noticed for maybe a month or so now that copies of blog posts received by email no longer include the photos as subscriber-emails previously did. This is a terrible & discouraging development, if it was done on purpose by WP.com.
What happened to the photos-in-posts sent by email? WHY the depressing downgrade?
I subscribed to my own WP.com blogs because I LOVED receiving the PREVIOUSLY-beautiful email-copy of the blog post, just as it looked online, with ALL photos included in the emailed-post.
Now? Zilch! Nadda! NO photos in the email-subscription copies!
What’s the point of an EMAIL subscription when the BEST part of the content of the post (the photos) are missing?
If I did NOT want the photos in the email subscriptions I could go back to using YahooGroups! Is WP.com turning into YahooGroups? What gives?
I also noticed the FONT SIZE of emailed-subscription-copies of posts has been SHRUNK. Tsk tsk! Weasling everything down? Why? Us “old fogies” like LARGER FONTS. We also want to see our PHOTOS in the emailed-subscription copies.
Are these “new” backward/negative developments another way to pressure WP.com bloggers to upgrade to whatever/$$$?
VERY DEPRESSING!
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So if I want emailed-copies of mine or others’ FULL posts, I’ll have to go TO the blog post online, select/copy the ENTIRE post, PHOTOS INCLUDED, & copy/paste it into a blank email & email a copy TO MYSELF. — Now THAT’s “efficiency” for you (not!)
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You are using the P2 theme which is a twitter like theme and I’m wondering if that’s not part of the issue.
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Hi TT, no, I have several blogs using other themes & they ALL no longer include the photos in the email-subscription-copies, going on for about a month or more now, that I recall (though I could go dig through the prior emails & zero-in on a closer date range of when it began).
The P2 blog was just set up yesterday & no posts with photos have even been made there. I wasn’t even referring to that blog which is why I chose “Using WP.com” vs. “Specific blog issue” when creating this post.
Other themes are sending email-subscription-copies WITHOUT the photos: Pilcrow, Mystique, Triton Lite, etc.
It’s a system-wide change, not a “theme-thing.”
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I flagged this thread for a Staff response. As it’s the weekend, please be patient while waiting.
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OK, thank you! Maybe others who receive posts by email have noticed the same thing & will add their 2-cents.
I’m on the WP.com news/updates email list & I don’t recall anything being said about dropping photos from email-subs in the future (unless I missed that announcement(?)
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I receive blogs by email, and they still have photos in them.
My posts do not – I have the feed set to send a summary rather than full posts.
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Ha, SIS, great ID! & you hit the jackpot on 2-out-of-3 of the themes sebding email subs w/o photos! Meaning I will take the dunce cap on those same 2 themes IF “Full Text vs. Summary” (Settings/Reading) is the culprit which causes email-subs-copies to be sent w/o photos.
Here’s the lowdown. I went & checked all blogs like so:
1. PILCROW – it WAS on “Summary” (Settings/Reading).
2. TRITON LITE – it WAS on “Summary” (Settings/Reading).
3. MYSTIQUE – it was already on FULL TEXT (not “Summary”) yet it sent me an email-sub-copy of the post last night WITHOUT the photo! (It was a very short post, a quote with a photo, that I had posted TO the blog via email, which is my usual method for all posts 95% of the time on all themes except P2 which lets you post right on the front page).
So my next question would be: Does having a blog on “private”-mode make it send an email-sub-copy without the photo? (The Mystique blog is not fully finished which is why I have it on private).
If “private-blog-mode” (Settings/Privacy) causes email-sub to be sent w/o the photo, maybe that’s the answer?
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