Need an option in email subscription widget to edit outgoing emails!
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Email subscription via the widget works well for me but it is critical I edit the Welcome email at minimum.
To give an example, in the UK “Howdy!” is seen as an Americanism. It is not a greeting we would use other than sarcastically and it is perceived as unprofessional and over-familiar. Not being able to edit leaves new site visitors with a poor impression of me as an author and of the site.
I hope you can help.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I think this is a very good idea, and I suggest to make sure staff sees it that you send it directly into them at http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/ . We never know if they are going to see it here in the forums or not.
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I also love this idea! Customization of outgoing emails would be a huge benefit to my organization.
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I agree, it’s pretty annoying that an email is sent out with the blog I’ve just written. I’d rather they were directed to the page itself and read it there.
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“Howdy” IS an Americanism. It’s probably included because Matt, who invented WordPress, is Texan. But yes, I think some feedback is appropriate here.
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jmtall: according to the ‘subscriptions support page’ your subscribers receive the RSS feed for each post. So if you want people to know you’ve updated, but want them to come back to your site:
Dashboard > Reading Settings > For each article in a feed, show > chose “summary”.
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Warning: doing that will increase your blog hits at the cost of subscribers. Many people hate that sort of pushing readers around (“gee, if I wanted to go to the blog, I’d have gone to the blog, not subscribed to the email”) and will not subscribe to partial feeds.
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Alert: I can’t imagine most people giving much of a thought to clicking on a link if they’re really interested in what you’re writing about. Thankfully WP allows bloggers to modify the text in the Subscription Widget so we can let people know they can expect to be sent a link to our blogs, or the full post.
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The stats are that 80% of people will NOT click through it. If they subscribed to get the blog by RSS or email, they want the blog, not a teaser. A teaser is just an ad, and nobody willingly subscribes to those.
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More features will be added to allow you to configure the appearance of the emails. This is not a secret WordPress plot to turn everyone into Texans :)
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I must be one of the 20% with eight seconds to spare. This is what’s on mine: “If you’d like to be notified when there’s a new Salted Lithium post, just press the button. You can unsubscribe at any time.”
No surprises.
I’m not doubting your stat, but where are you getting the 80% number from?
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From a report I read two years ago on clickthrough rates, which I can’t find now. Since I administer the links on a blog network, I have to say that seems like a very low figure. On the network I run, fewer than 5% of readers click through a link on any given day.
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@raincoaster
Here’s the other side of the coin. I have tried both and found that choosing to offer full posts on feeds resulted in seeing blog scrapers scooping them up and posting them on splogs within seconds of publication. I resented the time investment I had to make into tracking them down and getting my stolen content removed.“There are advantages and disadvantages to both methods. RSS feeds that offer summaries tend to receive more click throughs back to the website, but that’s really the only major benefit – and it may not be a benefit at all if a high click through rate means a lower overall readership. … Do you want to increase your SEO advantages? If so then publish the full text. If you value more click throughs back to your blog from those feeds then publish your feeds in summary.” http://www.searchengineoptimizationjournal.com/2009/11/24/rss-feed/
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