Introduce a Mailing List for wordpress.com

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    visionp · Member ·

    I have tried 2 weeks using the MailChimp Embedded Form on my site http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com without any success. I started my Mailing List and Campaign with Mail Chimp.

    Is it wordpress.com does not allow plugin. Can you introduce a mailing list that does not has a plugin for my website http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com

    I appreciate for any right assistance

    Sophia Lim

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

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    justjennifer · Member ·

    While you can’t use the embedded MailChimp form here, MailChimp has instructions on how you can use their service here using an HTML link. When people click on it, they are taken to the sign up form on MailChimp.

    You can find that info in any of the dozens of earlier forum threads by clicking on this link. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/mailchimp

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    visionp · Member ·

    Thank you Justjennifer for your email.

    You said HTML link – can you show me which one you are talking about ?

    I was able to get it by Widget right Sidebar and in my Customiser except the word “Subscribe”. Can you tell me why the word “Subscribe”is not there. Below is the Signup Form
    without the word “Subscribe”

    Subscribe to our mailing list
    * indicates required
    Email Address *
    First Name
    Last Name
    Mailing List
    / / ( mm / dd / yyyy )
    http://www.specialasianfood.wordpress.com
    Email Format
    html
    text

    Q2. Can you introduce me better mailing lists?

    I appreciate your attention and assistance.

    Sophia Lim

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    timethief · Member ·

    There is no mass mailing service here at wordpress.COM. There is no FTP access for us bloggers and we cannot install any plugins. Uploading an email mailing list is not possible.

    Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they alone can control the frequency of receipt. You cannot subscribe for them or control the frequency of receipt of your posts by them.

    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.

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

    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.

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

    Additional information:
    You can create a Subscribe page and clearly state on it that you intend to harvest email addresses if that’s what you want to do. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ You can add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

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