temporary block on subscriber e-mails?
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I will shortly be adding 53 articles to my Wine Woman Travel blog which represent an archive from another site I used to write. I want to add them all at once, but clearly I do not want to swamp my poor e-mail subscribers with 53 emails all at once !!
Is there any way to temporarily block the new-article notification function? I was thinking I could turn it off, add the posts and turn them live, then re-connect the normal subscriber service. Is there any way to do this?
Note: these will be posted with back dates on them (most date from 2012 and 2013) – does that make a difference? Do subscribers maybe only receive notices of new, current-date posts and no notices for old back-dated additions? Thanks!
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Hi there. I’m not sure whether subscribers will receive notifications of back-dated posts, but you can’t switch notifications off either.
If you set your blog to private and then publish those posts I don’t think it will send out notifications. Then you can just set the blog back to public once you’re done. However, I’m only guessing here, not ever having tried something like this myself. With that in mind, it might be a good idea to publish a short post warning your subscribers what you’re going to do and apologising in advance if it doesn’t work.
Instructions for setting your blog to private can be found here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/privacy-settings/
Was your other site a WordPress site, or on any platform that can generate an export file of those posts? I’m asking because if you add those posts by using the import tool it also shouldn’t send out notifications, and will be much simpler than adding them all in manually besides. More on importing content here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/import/
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Thanks for the suggestions. I would be afraid turning the blog private might dis-connect my followers, and once I reverted to public, they would be gone anyway – the follower records deleted. Can you confirm or deny if that is what would happen?
This option is attractive, since making the blog temporarily private whilst I make all my changes – content, theme, domain name, all kinds of things – would be nice. But not at the price of throwing away all my followers, clearly! (40 via WP, 24 via emails)
If importing won’t do notifications, then I can create the posts in a test-bed site (I have several private blogs for that purpose) and export from there… still a copy and paste job to the test bed, but … beats generating 53 emails! Thanks for that suggestion.
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I don’t think setting to private disconnects existing followers (though it would make them unable to read your blog), but I’m not 100% sure. I’m going to tag this for staff to give you a definite answer on that, as well as whether importing will generate notifications. Please be patient while waiting for their reply.
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Importing should not generate a new notification – copy and paste into a new post will generate a new notification
Setting to private should not disconnect anything or anyone – but it will make the blog not visible to anyone that has not been invited – if the notification work as @kokkieh thinks – then just set blog to private for a minute or two and publish the articles – then set back to public – you can publish a short Post to warn your regulars that you will be updating your site and if they run into a Private setting for them to check back in a few minutes
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I cannot help but notice the use of the words “should” and “if” – which still sounds like no one is quite certain. I think I had better not risk the use of the private setting, unless a staff member can definitely confirm that the subscribers will not be lost – or that staff can recover and re-connect them if lost.
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LOL. I understand your hesitation. This thread is tagged for staff, so just wait for their answer :)
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I can 100% confirm that setting your site to private will not cause you to lose your followers, and it will keep the notification e-mails from going out.
The idea about a short warning post that you are making changes is still a good idea, not because I believe anything will go wrong, but it covers you in the very remote chance that you hit a system glitch, but more importantly because it builds anticipation for the updates.
Let me know if you need anything else!
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@lizthefair
Thanks for the confirmation. Now I also know for sure if this issue comes up in future :) -
Lizthefair – great name! And thank you very much for the re-assurance, this will make the whole changeover and upgrade much easier.
Thanks!!
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Glad to provide confirmation. Thanks also to kokkieh and auxclass for providing great answers in the first place :)
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