followers
-
I administer my school’s blog. We’ve just had a follower sign up who we don’t know. We can’t understand why he would want to follow pictures of our young school children. He doesn’t seem to be a family member and isn’t an educationalist. His own blog has nothing on it to suggest why he would be interested in our children. We would like to unsubsribe him. Please can someone let me know how we do this?
Many thanks.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
We cannot block or delete subscribers from public blogs. Everyone on the internet can view and follow any public blog. That is in fact what the public designation means.
You can change your blog visibility to “private” http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/ Please read this about public blogs that become private blogs > Blog Privacy and Subscribers > http://wpcommaven.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/blog-privacy-and-subscribers/
Note that you have complete control over everything that’s posted to your blog.
comment moderation
http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation -
Good morning timethief,
Thank you for your reply and the time you’ve given to writing it. Your reply has made me realise that I mustn’t have made my request for help clear.
I don’t want to make the blog private. I do want children’s aunts, uncles and family friends able to view it. I also want fellow educationalists to be able to take a look. I’m more than happy for these people to be able to follow and to be sent an email each time I post a new comment or picture about a child’s achievement.
What I would also like is the capacity to be able to stop people following if I cannot see a reason for them to need regular updates and pictures of young children they do not know.
I know that this will not stop them accessing the blog again but they will have to make more effort than just having things drop in their mailbox.
Yesterday I had two people I don’t know becoming followers of the blog. One of them, I wasn’t sure about and the next one I was definitely sure about and do not want him following. I checked out his own blog only to find it’s full of anger and rage directed at his own school days and at people he is still looking to take is anger out on. You can surely see why I wouldn’t want him following the blog.
Whilst you may not as yet have a facility for me to stop people following, I would really appreciate it if you were to look into this, as other social media sites do. I think wordpress is fantastic and have made use of upgrades to ensure no adverts are used on the blog and to use videopress. I would definitely buy into an upgrade that could stop certain people following or, even better, block them from the site. I would be willing to police this myself.
By the way, I did not give the school blog address above as I did not want to encourage others to look at the site.
Kind regards and thanks in anticipation of your help.
-
Hi there. I understand your concern, I believe the best and most secure way is to make your blog private (otherwise anyone can read it).
That way, when people want to subscribe and read the blog (family or strangers) they have to request your permission to view it and therefore you can veto them. You might not have much traffic or have genuine people giving up because it’s too much hassle for them but at least you will know who is accessing your blog.Kind regards
Murielle
-
Hi there. murielle and timethief are correct, we do not currently have any feature that allows you to restrict your followers.
Thanks for your suggestion. We’ve registered your suggestion and will keep it in mind for future features and updates!
Also, don’t forget the ideas forum, where you can discuss your suggestion with the WordPress.com community: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas
Please let us know if there is anything else that we can do to help.
-
Hello,
I need to make little modifications in a lot of my old posts without informing it my followers. How can I do that without publishing these modifications ?
-
Hello,
I need to make little modifications in a lot of my old posts without informing it my followers. How can I do that without publishing these modifications ?
-
-
Thank you Murielle and Jonathan for your suggestions.
The first problem related to making it private is that a lot of the people I do want to access it will no longer be able to. I started out with the blog being private and inviting people to join but it proved a bit awkward for a lot of people to work through the process of joining so they gave up.
The second problem is that a lot of the things I put on the blog are those that I have a duty to put on the school’s website such as school policies. Legally, should be accessible to anyone.
As privacy won’t allow me to overcome these problems it doesn’t seem like a viable option.
Jonathan, you have said that you would look into future developments in this area. Please could you let me know if this is part of a wish list that might never happen (I fully understand you will have limits on your time and won’t be able to do everything asked of you and wouldn’t expect you to) or if it’s something that may be imminent? This might help me decide what I ought to do next.
I do think WordPress is brilliant, by the way, and, up until this, it had provided a great solution to communication with our parents.
Regards
Tricia
- The topic ‘followers’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 