What is the difference?
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Hi,
What is the difference if there are any of these? I can’t tell much difference from the support articles.
https://wordpress.com/support/widgets/follow-blog-widget/
https://wordpress.com/support/subscriptions-and-newsletters/
Does the follow button do the same thing as both of the above?
The support articles seem to me they do the same thing? If they do the same thing which one should be used?
Thanks.
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Hi there,
A follow blog widget will let anyone with a WordPress.com account follow it via their account. Anyone without an account will be asked to create one.
A subscription form allows anyone to follow the blog via email.
So if you want people who don’t have WordPress accounts to be able to follow your posts (via email), use the subscription form block (https://wordpress.com/support/subscriptions-and-newsletters/).
A subscription form block will automatically subscribe a viewer through their WordPress account if they happen to be logged in at the time of subscribing. Someone who is not logged in will have to fill out their email.I hope this helps!
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So if you want people who don’t have WordPress accounts to be able to follow your posts (via email), use the subscription form block
Does the email show the post or does it let people know about a new post or both?
What does the email say/look like?
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Hi there,
I think the easiest way to show this is through a screenshot. I created a new post on my test website, and this is the screenshot of the email I received:
(It has ‘Thank you for flying with WordPress’ underneath, but that didn’t fit on the page.)
So it lets them know about the new post and also shows it. It also shows who wrote the post, and has an option to comment, see others’ comments, like the post, and tells you which categories (and tags if it has them) it is in, as well as an option to manage subscriptions.Bear in mind that you can have the email show the full post instead of just an excerpt. This is a screenshot of an identical post, except after I had changed my ‘Writing’ settings (at My Site > Manage > Settings > Writing > Feed Settings) and disabled ‘Limit feed to excerpt only’:
(Again, it has ‘Thank you for flying with WordPress’ underneath.)If you want viewers to be able to read your full post directly from the email and visit your site if they want to respond, disable excerpts. If you want more traffic on your blog, I’d recommend enabling excerpts.
Also note that even if someone subscribes through WordPress, they can still decide to have email notifications. They also have an option to receive notifications on their account only, or both on their account and through emails. The emails look identical regardless of whether you have subscribed through WordPress or by email address only.I hope this helps!
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Oops… It still only shows an ‘excerpt’ of your post, however it is not the manual excerpt I had created for that post.
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