Sending emails to followers

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  smartdiscountshop · Member · Dec 18, 2014 at 6:48 pm

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  Can you send a email to all of your followers regarding a new post you have made on your blog?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 23, 2014 at 10:55 pm

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  There is no such mass mailing feature here at WordPress.com. Your followers can subscribe to receive your posts by email and they can control the frequency of receipt. However, when subscribers or commenters provide an email address for a specific purpose you cannot use it for any other purpose. In fact doing that in some countries like mine, Canada is against the law.

  You can create a 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/

  You can create a sign up page on MailChimp directly and simply link to it from your WordPress.com site. Here’s their instructions http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-to-add-a-mailchimp-signup-form-to-your-wordpress-blog

  Additional information:
  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.

  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 create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and add a Subscribe page into it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-pages

  Or you could also simply include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish. Also note that you can also use subscription shortcode on your About page or on any other page.

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