How do my visitors sign up for WP email delivery?

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  cparente · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 1:38 am

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  Hope this doesn’t sound too newbie. I’ve always used Feedburner to enable email delivery of my blog posts.

  Recently, I’ve noticed the subscription information at the bottom of the Stats page. Two people have signed up for email delivery of my blog posts, yet I have no idea how. There is no sign up functionality on my blog page.

  So how did they sign up for WP email, not Feedburner? Hope this is clear, thanks!

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

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 2:12 am

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  Hi. When a registered WordPress.com user visits your website, they see a bar on top of the page with several options. “Subscribe” is now one of them since last month. More details here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-subscriptions/

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 2:34 am

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  You also have the Subscribe Widget about half way down your sidebar.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 2:41 am

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  @auxclass: That links to Feedburner, which he was talking about. I thought his message was about the WP.com “subscriptions” feature.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 2:55 am

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  Hmm.. I just subscribed to my own blog using the Dashboard stuff and the subscription did not appear in the Subscriptions area at the bottom of the Stats Page where the other subscribers are listed.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 3:13 am

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  @auxclass: I just subscribed to your blog. Do you see me?

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 6:34 am

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  @airodyssey – I have no new subscribers to captnmike.com as shown on the Subscriptions tab on the Stats page. Looks like the the Readomatic is separate from the email subscribers.

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 9:18 am

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  Following some correspondence with Staff, here’s what I know:

  If a visitor subscribes via the “subscribe by email” widget, they will show up in your subscriber list.

  If a visitor subscribes via the link in the Admin Bar, they may or may not show up in your subscriber list depending on what they have set as their default subscription setting in the new reader.

  • If they choose only to read your posts via the reader, they won’t show up in your subscriber list.
  • If they opt to receive your posts by email, they will show up in your subscriber list.
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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 9:37 am

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  Thanks @justjennifer -looks like the correct answer is “depends” – does make more sense now

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  justjennifer · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 11:07 am

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  @auxclass I’m glad it makes more sense to you, but personally I’d prefer to have all subscribers show up in my subscriber stats regardless of whether they receive by email or read in the reader. (Yes, I did suggest this in my correspondence with Staff.)

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  cparente · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 1:06 pm

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  Hey, my thread got hijacked! But since airodyssey answered my question, I don’t mind.

  Airodyssey — Appreciate you reading and understanding my question, before replying. Thanks!

  FWIW — Feedburner is same way, you don’t get any information about your subscribers when they choose feed, just a number. Whereas you (obviously) see email address when they choose email.

  Guess I’ll have to continue offering both, so people who aren’t WP users can subscribe.

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  auxclass · Member · Oct 14, 2010 at 2:18 pm

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  @justjennifer yes it would be nice to have a count on the number of people that have subscribed to just the feed thing using their dashboard.

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 15, 2010 at 12:53 am

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  @cparente: You’re welcome!