Why do email alerts / notifications contain the full article?

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  richardmknight · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 8:17 am

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  Hello,
  As I did not know how your email alerts to my subscribers, I added myself, so as to test this service. As I have over 200 postings, all containing photos, and 90% containing supportive videos, I was concerned when I received my first email alert.

  In this email, you actually publish the entire article. As I would like my subscribers to actually visit the site, and not read an email, I was rather disappointed about this. Further, at the bottom of the email, and unless one would know it, there was a photograph – theis is the photo of the video, and unless you knew to clikck on this, you would not see the video.

  Email alerts are a nice feature. However, I would have thought that you would only provide a link to the article, the featured photo, and perhaps a few first lines of the first paragraph…. In so doing, the reader is then automatically sent to my blog, and has an opportunity to view some other interesting postings.

  I use the HEADLINES theme, so it makes it interesting for the reader to quickly take a look at a posting he / she may have missed….

  Many thanks for your interest in this matter.

  Richard M. Knight
  Blog url: http://richardmknight.wordpress.com/

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  chrisrudzki · Member · Nov 30, 2011 at 6:28 pm

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  Hi there,

  If you want your subscription emails to contain summaries of your articles, rather than the full text, simply go to Settings -> Reading in your dashboard.

  Then, select the “Summary” option for the item, “For each article in a feed, show.”

  This setting controls how articles appear in your feed and in notification emails.