Making Blog Subscriptions work

  • rodinhood

    (@rodinhood)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    Hi!

    I just migrated my site – http://rodinhood.com from a wordpress.com hosted site to a self hosted site (on bluehost) now using WP 3.0.

    I have 3 questions:

    a) My blog subscribers (free; and to which I had also subscribed for testing) did not receive my latest blog entry after I made the switch – so I want to know how to activate those subscribers and make sure that the database of those users has not disappeared.

    b) I assume I will now have to install a plugin to get people to subscribe for free on my blog – any recommendations on which plug-in to use?

    c) How do I make sure that the old and new database of subscribers are then merged into hence receive my new posts?

    Thanks.

    Alok

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Were you using third-party email subscription service? If so, what was it?

    Thread Starter rodinhood

    (@rodinhood)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    No I wasn’t. I was using the subscription widget that comes with the .com templates.

    Thread Starter rodinhood

    (@rodinhood)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I just accessed my rodinhood.wordpress.com console and clicked on ‘blog subscriptions’ – i can see all the subscribers e-mail id’s.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I wasn’t aware they had such a feature (stopped using wordpress.com quite a while ago).

    If I had to guess, I’d assume that your only option would be to notify the original subscribers of the change in blog location and ask them to re-subscribe. Then use a subscription plugin like this one:

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/

    Considering that there’s a lot of question surrounding how wordpress.com handles these sorts of things and if you can even get the subscriber data from wordpress.com, this question may be better suited for the wordpress.com support forums:

    http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

    Thread Starter rodinhood

    (@rodinhood)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    I posted this on wp.com blogs and a bot replied saying ‘ur not hosted on .com so…’

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Approach the question another way. Say that you currently have rodinhood.wordpress.com and inquire about how you would keep your subscribers if you “upgraded” to wordpress.org.

    Thread Starter rodinhood

    (@rodinhood)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    interesting problem… the .wordpress link doesn’t show up while posting and without it (say blank) the forum doesn’t accept the question!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    15 years, 10 months ago

    Choose “None, this is a topic about using WordPress.com”

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