Trouble with subscriptions

  • alissasklar

    (@alissasklar)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    I just moved my blog from wordpress.com to a self-hosted WordPress.org site. I thought my subscribers would have been moved with everything else, but it doesn’t look that way. I added the Ajax Quick Subscribe plugin, which seems to allow new subscriptions, but I don’t see them anywhere. When I tried adding an extra email address as a new subscriber it didn’t show up in anywhere in my settings. I’m getting a bit frustrated, since it seems as if new subscribers may be getting lost in this technical snafu. Ack!
    I considered moving to another subscriber plugin but most havent been tested on this version of WordPress yet.
    Any advice or tips?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Why are you adding subscription plugins?

    Thread Starter alissasklar

    (@alissasklar)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Hmmm. Clearly I’m a newbie here, but I didn’t see anywhere on this template for subscriptions, while it was an obvious widget on the wordpress.com interface. I thought I had to use a plugin to offer this feature. My site is http://www.risk-within-reason.com in case that helps. I appreciate any pointers if I’m missing something obvious with this subscription thing?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Try adding the Meta widget to one of your sidebars via Appearance->Themes.

    Thread Starter alissasklar

    (@alissasklar)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, but if I understand correctly, the Meta widget just allows Admin login and doesn’t have anything to do with subscriptions to my blog for other people. Am I wrong?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Look below the member/admin login form. There’s a register link.

    Thread Starter alissasklar

    (@alissasklar)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    There isn’t a register link on mine. Maybe it’s the version I’m using. I see the following under the customizable Meta title: Site Admin, Logout, Entries RSS, Comments RSS, WordPress.org

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Try logging out and then follow the link to log in again.

    Thread Starter alissasklar

    (@alissasklar)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    Wow – you are right! There it is. But “Register” is not an ideal way to get people to subscribe. I’d like to change it to “Subscribe” and I like the way the Ajax plugin offers a button to click on. Do you know if I can alter the way this looks?
    Thank you so much for your patience! 😉

    Thread Starter alissasklar

    (@alissasklar)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    From what I can see, the Register button is very different from subscribe. It lets people register for wordpress and has nothing to do with subscribing to my blog. I want readers to be able to put their email addresses down so they get emailed updates with each new post. Do you know anything about this?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 7 months ago

    People who register to your WP blog are called “subscribers”. what you want is something very different. Try setting up a Feedburner account to that people can subscribe to your feed by email.

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