How do I allow people to follow me?

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  imjustacatiswear · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 4:50 pm

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  The follow me button in the lower right hand corner has disappeared and now people can’t follow me, can I change this in my settings? and if so how?

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

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 4:54 pm

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  Here at WordPress.COM our subscribers make the decision to act and to subscribe to our blogs. They control their own subscriptions; we don’t. They also determine how frequently they wish to receive our posts (instantly, daily, weekly, never) by email. Many choose to follow in the WordPress.COM Reader rather than by email.

  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.

  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.

  To enable social networking sharing buttons below your post see
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=sharing+buttons
  results here http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

  See also http://en.support.wordpress.com/follow-button/

  You can also use Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

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  imjustacatiswear · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 5:18 pm

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  Thanks a lot for the quick reply but I can’t find the reading and scrolling section of settings is it because I don’t have a premium account?

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  imjustacatiswear · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 5:22 pm

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  *I mean the followers section of settings

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 5:22 pm

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  No. Every WordPress.COM blog has a sole owner and it is the person with the WordPress.COM username account who registered the blog under that username account and associated email address.

  You have to be logged in as Admin http://en.support.wordpress.com/user-roles/#administrator under the exact same username account that registered the blog to access the blog’s dashboard and navigate to > Settings -> Reading

  http://wehaveevilcookies.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php

  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.

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  imjustacatiswear · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 5:27 pm

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  thanks, i went to the follower’s settings but it seems that the
  Show follow button to logged out users tickbox with the
  ‘Checking this will present a follow button to logged out users in the bottom corner of their screen.’ line below it was already ticked.
  Does this mean that the follow button isn’t showing for some other reason?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 8, 2015 at 6:33 pm

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  You have to log out of WordPress.COM, clear your browser cache and cookies, and then visit the site while logged out in order to see it. See here: https://en.support.wordpress.com/browser-issues/

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  imjustacatiswear · Member · Mar 10, 2015 at 7:10 am

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  K thank you