Newsletter/Blog Email Signup
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Does anyone know how I can put a Newsletter/Blog Email Signup box at bottom of my published blogs? I see it when I am composing the blog and check it but once it publishes the email sign up box disappears.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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To add:
If I link to the actual post, it doesn’t have an email sign up box, but if I link to the main blog, it does. The problem is, the main blog page:
https://horrorfictionnewswire.wordpress.com/
doesn’t automatically update to the latest post, so if I want to provide an updated link each week from my website, it can only be linked to a post that doesn’t offer a subscription box at the bottom.
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The problem is the main blog page: https://horrorfictionnewswire.wordpress.com/ doesn’t automatically update to the latest post, so if I want to provide an updated link each week from my website, it can only be linked to a post that doesn’t offer a subscription box at the bottom.
Hi there,
I believe this update issue could be cache-related. If you clear your site’s cache, your blog posts should automatically update to show the latest post so that you can share your links with the email signup box. I’ve added the modlook to get the attention of Happiness Engineers to assist you with this.
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Hi @independenthorrorandfantasyfiction
It sounds like you have a few questions here, let me restate them a bit to be sure I’ve understood:
- You would like the homepage of your site to automatically show your most recent blog post (these appear to be created manually at the moment)
- You would like an email signup form to appear at the bottom of all areas of your site, the homepage as well as individual pages and blog posts.
Hopefully I’ve got that correct but if not please let us know
You would like the homepage of your site to automatically show your most recent blog post (these appear to be created manually at the moment)
You can do this by going to your site customizer at https://wordpress.com/customize/ and clicking on the “Homepage Settings” tab on the left. From there look for the “Your homepage displays: Your latest posts” option and pick that. This will show all your blog posts on the homepage.
From there you can visit your settings here, and select the number of posts you want to show in the homepage blog feed. You can select ‘1’ if you only want a single post to appear on the homepage: https://wordpress.com/settings/writing
You would like an email signup form to appear at the bottom of all areas of your site, the homepage as well as individual pages and blog posts.
I actually noticed the same signup widget you put in your footer on the homepage, and for me it shows on every page I visit. For example I see it on the bottom of this recent blog post, direct link here: https://horrorfictionnewswire.wordpress.com/2021/11/07/horror-fiction-newswire-week-of-11-8-21/
Do you not see an email signup on that page? Or is it the case you are looking somewhere else on your site and not seeing it. If so can you share the URL to that page so we can take a look?
Thanks for the additional info!
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I think this covers it. It seems to be now appearing on all pages, and the fix you have suggested to toggle the latest posts to appear at the homepage default URL has worked. thank you for the quick reply. I will respond here if I run into any other issues with the same problem.
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Awesome, glad that helped.
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Thanks for rocking WordPress.com! :)
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One thing you may be able to help with:
I’ve got the settings so it will show my latest post at my home page address.
I’ve also selected the option to show only 1 post per page.
However, the page is now showing all of my posts on the same page.
Isn’t it only supposed to be showing 1 post?
Here is the homepage:
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Your page initially shows 1 post, and then on scroll down loads the next, then the next, and so on.
To stop that, make sure that you disable Infinite Scroll: https://wordpress.com/support/infinite-scroll/#disabling-infinite-scroll
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