Feature request: more control over what posts trigger notification e-mails

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    badblood · Member ·

    Hello,

    First of all, I’ve been using WordPress.com for years. My thanks to the team of people who make it so stable and straightforward to use.

    Today I posted a password protected post, about some personal stuff going on in my life, something I wanted maybe 4-5 people to read.

    I was a bit surprised that it triggered a notification e-mail to all my followers… I immediately got an e-mail from Mum asking for the password.

    I guess I assumed a password protected post wouldn’t trigger notifications, but that made me think it would be great if I could choose how posts are notified.

    Many thanks,
    Daniel

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • staff-ozmodiar · Staff ·

    So, as a solution in the short term, if you want to post something like that again, here’s the workaround:

    • Set your site to “private”.
    • Make your post.
    • Then set your site to public again.

    That will keep an email from going out to your followers.

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