I had a strange message yesterday that worried me. Someone keeps getting notifications about my posts in their email and it’s irritating them. I don’t know them and am not sending them emails so it must be notifications from WordPress about my posts?
I know I sometimes write quite a few posts a day. My mind jumps about and I like putting my thoughts down, but I guess that might get on peoples nerves. If it does I apologise.
The only thing I could do was check if I was following the person (I’m not, and don’t think I’ve seen their blog). Then I thought, they don’t have to follow me. I’m not after lots of followers, it’s too much responsibility. So I suggested they unfollow me.
Finally you can click on some blogs to receive email notifications everytime someone posts. I used to do that when I started here. I’ve now limited it and unclicked notifications because my email inbox was getting too full. I was literally getting hundreds of emails on some days.
So, I think just follow who you like, but don’t expect them to follow back. Some people will instantly become friends, others acquaintances, and some you will be irritated by or they will be irritated by you. Its all depends on your personalities. Just enjoy x
Hi! I’ve also been trying to find a way to stop emails from going out to people when I post.
If you’re on WordPress.org I think there’s a plug-in that’ll let you do that.
But if you’re on WordPress.com (like I am) then there doesn’t seem to be a straightforward way. Here’s a an answer to the question, from Support: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/turn-off-emails-after-publishing/
I’m going to keep looking but that’s probably the answer.
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That’s useful… My mind goes blank as I read the instructions but if I get another complaint I will try it. As it says its also the followers choice whether to receive email notifications?
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Yes…the mail goes but followers can choose not to receive it. ๐
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I think,,,,
Ask them to try this,,,
go to the ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ
https://wordpress.com/read/subscriptions
and scroll down to ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ-๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ฏ๐น๐ผ๐ด.
on the right of that row, tap the 3dot menu ‘…’
That should give various buttons to set:
– ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ณ๐ me of new posts(presume that’s within the WordPress page)
-Receive web and mobile notifications for new posts from this site.
– ๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ถ๐น ๐บ๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐๐ : Instantly\Daily\Weekly
turn off or set to ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐น๐
– Email me new comments
– ๐จ๐ป๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ
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Thank you. Will share this to the original complaint.
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I can’t find the post the complaint is on. I just hope they read your message freddy x
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Hi! Yes, subscribers can choose whether or not to receive the emails (as shown in the comment). I never get any from anyone I follow, by choice. But WordPress generates the emails & sends to all those subscribers who don’t use the setting above. Subscribers can control what they receive. But authors can’t stop the email from being sent (at least on WordPress.com). I think that many subscribers aren’t aware of their notifications options, tbh.
One other thing: we’re automatically subscribed to our own sites, which is why it may seem like that setting would stop the email from going out. But all it stops is our receipt of it.
I know some frequent bloggers who use excerpts – another setting – bec the resulting email is just a snippet. I don’t know anyone who’s tried the “temporarily going private” approach (as mentioned in the Support link).
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Thanks, there’s always something else to learn…..
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I had a reader complain about that when I was scheduling posts ahead of time. The “happiness engineers” told me what I already knew. They need to change their settings.
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P.S. I get NO email notifications. As for that reader? No loss to me. Whatever her trip was, I didn’t need a long comment thread about how I was giving her “poor customer service.” What was I selling that made her a customer? People can be very very very strange and we never know what has gotten under their skin that has nothing at all to do with us.
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Very true. I wouldnt normally have raised it but I did wonder what they should do.
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Yes, simple answer
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