PDF You can let people subscribe to your blog by adding an email subscription widget to your sidebar. When readers subscribe, they’ll get an email each time you publish a new post.
Here’s what it looks like when it’s activated on a blog sidebar:
And here’s an example of the email they’re sent:
Setting up Email subscription
To set up email subscription all you need to do is:
1. Go to Appearance > Widgets in your Dashboard
2. Drag the Subscribe by Email widget (Edublogs Campus blogs) or Email Subscription widget (Edublogs Pro blogs) into the desired sidebar.
- You drag by clicking on the widget with your left mouse and moving the widget.
3. Now readers just need to add their email address to the email subscription widget in your sidebar and click Subscribe or Create Subscription.
- Please note some email domains block the email notification.
- If you are unsure if the email notification are being sent we recommend you test it by subscribing using gmail account (which doesn’t block these emails).
- If you receive the emails to the gmail account and they don’t it means they need to use an alternative email address.
Managing your Email Subscriptions
Email subscription on an Edublogs.org blog has less functionality than the email subscription on an Edublogs Campus blog.
On an Edublogs Campus blog you manage your email subscriptions using your Subscriptions menu item at the bottom of your dashboard. Here you can add/remove email subscribers, check subscriber numbers and control the type of email notification they’re sent.
If you are using the Email subscription widget on an Edublogs.org blog you can’t:
- Check who is subscribe by email to your blog
- Remove email subscribers
Configuring email subscription options on a Campus blog
1. Go to Subscriptions > Settings
2. Select whether you want users to be auto-subscribe or not
- This automatically subscribes all existing and any new users listed on Users > All Users to your email subscription
- If Auto-subscribe is enabled you won’t be able to remove them from the email subscription list and they won’t be able to un-subscribe themselves from email subscription
3. Select if you want Excerpt enabled or not
- Excerpt means they will receive a small excerpt from the post in the email whereas not means they will only receive an email with the post title and a link to view the post
4. Click Save Changes
About the Subscriptions page on a Campus blog
The Subscription page lists all the email subscribers, their method of subscription and allows you to cancel or add email subscribers manually.
- Auto Subscriptions are those subscriber listed on Users > All Users who have been added when Auto-subscribe automatically is enabled
- Visitor Subscriptions are readers who have subscribe using the Subscribe by Email widget in the blog sidebar
- Manual Subscriptions are subscribers that have been manually added using the Subscriptions page
- S2 Import Subscriptions are those subscribers who are automatically imported from your email subscription list if you were previously using the Subscribe2 plugin.
