Visual: disable email notifications
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Each week I receive 150 emails from the blogs I follow.
Whilst I’ve tried to disable everything in my Admin so that I am not bombarded each week, they still flood in! I’ve checked your documentation also, but can’t find an answer.
Is there a way in which I can disable email notification but not unfollow a blog?
Many thanks!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Thanks for the link, but this is the exact place that I have “Never send emails” selected.
Do I also need to check the “Block all email updates from
blogs you’re following on WordPress.com” option?Many thanks :)
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I’ve checked and disabled everything, and apart from actually unfollowing a blog, which I don’t want to do, I’m still receiving hundreds of emails each Monday.
How else can I stop the email but still follow the blog?
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Hi there,
Please go to https://wordpress.com/following/manage. If you click on the settings icon next to a blog to see the email notification settings for the specific blog. You’ll need to go through all the blogs you follow to disable email notifications, as the setting you changed will only apply to new sites you follow from here on out.
You can choose the Block email updates option if you want as well, but that will prevent you from following any new site via email should you decide you want to going forward.
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Hi,
My settings have always been the same and already disabled for all blogs I’m following, but I’m still receiving emails once per week. Everything is definitely off.
There must be a setting somewhere that’s overriding the options in the Manage following page?
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Did you check your sites at the link I gave above? I just did, and you have email notifications enabled for a number of sites there:
https://cloudup.com/c69Ssc_HNqT
You have two options: Block all email notifications from us, or go through that list and check every site you follow.
You can also go to https://subscribe.wordpress.com and enter your email address there. That will send you a unique link which will show you only the sites you’re currently following by email, and you can disable this per-site there.
If you already have email notifications active for a site, changing notification settings won’t affect the specific setting for that site. Notification settings only control whether emails are automatically on or not for new sites you follow. Any sites that already have email notifications on, need to have them disabled manually, site by site.
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I’ve gone through every one as you suggested, I must of missed early ones I followed. The ones you display in the above link are recent blogs I followed. In view of this, each time notification?
This isn’t going to unfollow the blog, just disable weekly email notifications? It’s quite tedious and not sure why WP functions in this manner. If I have an overriding option set not to receive emails, then I shouldn’t have to go into 400+ blogs and disable each one – seems ludicrous but thank you for your help!
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Hope you don’t mind me jumping in.
You can also set your general subscription preferences here: https://wordpress.com/me/notifications/subscriptions
Change the Default Email Delivery to “never send email”.
Let us know how that goes.
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Changing the email notification settings for a specific site does not unfollow the site. It only changes the email notification setting.
Just again so we’re clear:
Changing the general subscription preferences control what option is applied to new sites you follow. The notification option for sites you already follow can only be controlled from the Reader or from subscribe.wordpress.com
https://cloudup.com/cYwqzeWsQFu
Currently your general preference is set to no email, so you shouldn’t receive email notifications for new sites you follow. For example, the CyclingEurope.org site you followed 4 hours ago does not have email notifications enabled. But the ones that are already set to send out notifications need to be disabled manually.
You can also just click on the Unsubscribe link in the emails that you get. That way you can deal with them as they come in, rather than having to go through all 400+ sites for which you’re getting notifications at the moment.
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justjennifer, thanks but I have always had that set to “never send emails”.
I’ve gone through every single one individually, so I’ll see on Monday if I get any more!
Thanks for all the help :)
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@nilla2014 you’re welcome and thanks for letting us know that was your setting. Hope everything catches up.
Changing the general subscription preferences control what option is applied to new sites you follow. The notification option for sites you already follow can only be controlled from the Reader or from subscribe.wordpress.com
Good to know. Noted.
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