Title: Making Blog Subscriptions work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Making Blog Subscriptions work

 *  [rodinhood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodinhood/)
 * (@rodinhood)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/)
 * Hi!
 * I just migrated my site – [http://rodinhood.com](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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556091)
 * Were you using third-party email subscription service? If so, what was it?
 *  Thread Starter [rodinhood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodinhood/)
 * (@rodinhood)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556098)
 * No I wasn’t. I was using the subscription widget that comes with the .com templates.
 *  Thread Starter [rodinhood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodinhood/)
 * (@rodinhood)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556102)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556118)
 * 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/](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/](http://en.forums.wordpress.com/)
 *  Thread Starter [rodinhood](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodinhood/)
 * (@rodinhood)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556123)
 * I posted this on wp.com blogs and a bot replied saying ‘ur not hosted on .com
   so…’
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556125)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rodinhood/)
 * (@rodinhood)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556131)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556132)
 * Choose “None, this is a topic about using WordPress.com”

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 * [Blog Subscriptions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/blog-subscriptions/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-blog-subscriptions-work/#post-1556132)
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