Why are privately published posts being "sent to [my] subscribers"?

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  mghcoach4add · Member · Aug 21, 2011 at 12:24 am

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  Whenever a post is “published” – even privately – I get a prompt that tells me it has gone out to my subscribers. NOT GOOD!

  I publish privately (vs. draft updates) because it seems to be the ONLY way to keep WordPress from opening a blue million additional windows (off my screen, out of my awareness, eventually freezing my browser) — as I click back and forth checking out the WYSIWIG that isn’t,

  BUT, sending “drafts” sucks. My readers, who ALL have attentional issues, will stay away in droves from any site that sends a ton of nonsense email (nor do I want my drafts public!!!)

  Additionally, most struggle to stay tracked when reading, so ADD-friendly formatting is ESSENTIAL – not an option to simply write and post with ANY of the templates I’ve checked out. Even with custom CSS, I’m having to use html on almost every article. So I’m STUCK with time-consuming back and forth checking — don’t NEED to have to reload pages and browser as part of the session TOO!

  HELP!! I need a fix – either change “open in another window” to “open in same” as I click from edit to view draft and back OR, only send posts that are private – BOTH would be best, actually! (Another thought, of course, is that you guys need to change the auto-page return to be context sensitive?)

  btw – any way to turn that OFF – that’s one more distraction I don’t need – annoying, not helpful to MY brain. I’ve now memorized your great features to get more readers, etc. – I post often!

  Thanks!!

  xx,
  ADD Poster Girl going NUTS jumping through life-consuming hoops to use this WordPress everyone else seems to think is so straight-forward!
  Blog url: http://addandsomuchmore.wordpress.com/

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 22, 2011 at 7:16 pm

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  Well, WordPress shouldn’t be “opening a blue million additional windows” when you save a Draft. That sounds like a browser quirk. Which browser are you using?

  As for sending them out, it’s assumed that subscribers are given an all-access pass, so they receive everything. To have a truly private blog, you must set it as so via Settings -> Privacy.