How do I stop it from sending emails to my blog followers when I publish a post?

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  sarahswingle · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 3:37 pm

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  I want to start using MailChimp to send emails out to my followers when I publish a new blog post because I can control the design that way. I don’t know how to turn off the automatic emails that are sent to my followers though. Any advice? Thank you!!

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 3:51 pm

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  I want to start using MailChimp

  There are code restrictions here at WordPress.com http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ Unless mailchimp has a plain HTML option for their code (no form code, iframe or javascript) then you are not going to be able to use it here at wordpress.com. It could be that you can get some HTML link code from them that will allow people who click on the link to be transported to a signup form at mailchimp. I suggest you ask them.

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 3:54 pm

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  I don’t know how to turn off the automatic emails that are sent to my followers though.

  You can’t. The only control we have is to set the blog temporarily to private and for example edit a post and then chnage the setting back to public. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/

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  timethief · Member · Feb 23, 2013 at 3:56 pm

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  I don’t know how to turn off the automatic emails that are sent to my followers though.

  Are you referring to removing the WordPress.com follow blog widget from your sidebar? http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/