Email Subscriptions

  • kennethrjonesstem

    (@kennethrjonesstem)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I was visiting another blog, and I found these two options in the comment section:

    • Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
    • Notify me of new posts by email.

    Are these new options in 4.7? I’m not seeing them on my blog. I want people to get notifications from my blog as well. They have a fresh install of WordPress so I don’t think they have any plugins.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    That’s a feature of the Jetpack plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/jetpack/

    For more details, see https://jetpack.com/support/subscriptions/

    Thread Starter kennethrjonesstem

    (@kennethrjonesstem)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks.

    Are all plugins safe to use? I have a new site without any plugins, but I read on Google that people can hack your blog with plugins. I have no idea if it’s true. I heard the same about themes.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    All plugins at https://wordpress.org/plugins/ go through some very strict checks after being submitted: https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/handbook/performing-reviews/review-checklist/

    It’s generally fine to trust the reviews and number of active installs there. For example, you should have no trouble with a highly rated plugin that’s active on over a million sites, like Jetpack.

    Generally, WordPress’s approach to security is applied to plugin submissions here as best we can: https://wordpress.org/about/security/

    We cannot guarantee anything about plugins acquired elsewhere though.

    If you’re concerned, you may want to implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

    Thread Starter kennethrjonesstem

    (@kennethrjonesstem)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’ll look at those links. When I used plug-ins previously on a different website, I only downloaded them through the control panel. So those hopefully will be safe.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Yes, the plugins available at Plugins > Add New in your Dashboard are from https://wordpress.org/plugins/ only. 🙂

    Thread Starter kennethrjonesstem

    (@kennethrjonesstem)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’m looking through the help file for this Jetpack plugin, it appears that it needs to connect to WordPress.com, which I don’t have. It sounds like it’s going to store all my images and other things on WordPress.com. I’m not sure how I will get them all back, if I ever decided to uninstall the plugin.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’m looking through the help file for this Jetpack plugin, it appears that it needs to connect to WordPress.com, which I don’t have.

    Since Jetpack brings WordPress.com features to your self-hosted WordPress.org site, it requires a WordPress.com account, much like how a plugin which brought Facebook features to your site would require a Facebook account.

    Almost all of Jetpack’s features make use of heavy processing power (Photon the image CDN, related posts indexing), heavy database usage (stats), or require connections to third-party systems that can be very complicated to setup by yourself (Publicize’s automated sharing to social networks, email subscriptions, etc). They take care of that all on WordPress.com’s server cluster so your hosting provider doesn’t suspend you for using excessive resources.

    In order to do any of that, they need a WordPress.com account.

    It sounds like it’s going to store all my images and other things on WordPress.com.

    That’s just Jetpack’s Photon CDN, it can be individually disabled just like all of Jetpack’s features. https://jetpack.com/support/photon/

    When you deactivate Photon, the site reverts to using your originally uploaded photos.

    The feature you described originally is specifically a Jetpack feature, but there are plenty of other plugins for email subscriptions. They don’t function quite the same, but they don’t require a WordPress.com connection either.

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 4 months ago by James Huff.
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