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  alsister · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 2:27 pm

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  Hi everyone; I have gone onto the business plan and am happy to have lots of new widgets to add to my Changing Times website. The Follow widget seems to have disappeared, however. Can I add another Follow widget? Also do I need to inform my followers, including my email followers, that my URL has changed, or will those who have signed up for notifications of new posts by email still receive them automatically? Many thanks.

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

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 5:03 pm

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  Have you tried using live chat support? https://en.support.wordpress.com/live-chat/ All sites with upgraded plans include access to live chat support. https://wordpress.com/help/contact At times when all operators are busy or unavailable, you’ll be able to get through to private email support.

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  timethief · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 5:03 pm

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  re: wordpress.com blog subscriptions

  All that’s required to follow any blog hosted by wordpress.COM is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf. More to the point is the fact that when email addresses are submitted for the purpose of receiving blog updates that is the only purpose they can be used for.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widget by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a blog 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.

  The mailchimp and aweber pop-up subscription code provided by those source sites will not operate on WordPress.COM hosted sites. Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following

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  alsister · Member · Sep 25, 2017 at 5:09 pm

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  Thanks so much. I did actually make use of Live Chat and the person was very helpful and answered all my queries! It’s great to have that option now!

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  staff-doublebassd · Staff · Sep 25, 2017 at 6:29 pm

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  Hi there,

  Yes, I see that one of our Happiness Engineers was able to assist you in your question via live chat. Great! Please feel free to let us know if you have any other questions, but I will be removing the modlook tag for now.

  Thank you!