Separating Subscriptions and Comment Notification
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I spent a half hour composing this, after spending an hour researching possible solutions, and when I went to submit I got a ‘Document Expired’ error message, and all my work was gone.
So I recomposed & resubmitted, got a ‘Secure Connection Failed’ error, wiped out my work again. Luckily this time I had saved a copy.
Not good.
I went to Mailchimp for my subscriber notifications. So I turned off my Jetpack subscriptions module, only to realize people making comments weren’t getting notification of responses which really hurts my traffic.
So I need to turn it back on, and realized that I could simply delete my subscribers. According to this, I can’t do that:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-a-single-subscriber-from-the-list-of-jetpack-subscribers-1Subscribers are giving me their proprietary information, not WordPress and not Jetpack. You should not have control over it. This is concerning, and even a bit unethical.
However, I then found this post, which tells me how to stipulate which of my blog posts are sent to subscribers, an awkward but acceptable work-around:
https://jetpack.com/support/subscriptions/The problem is, it doesn’t stipulate which functions.php file to use. My theme is actually several layered themes, and Jetpack has a long list of its own functions.php files.
And even if I knew which file to use, it doesn’t tell me where in the file to insert the command.
WP is powerful because it is easy to use by nonprogrammers. My problems here cannot be unusual, and I don’t understand why the solution has to be so complicated.
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