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11:44 am
March 26, 2012
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seedebtrun
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Need some advice from the Wordpress Vets.
I have had the feedburner : subscribe by email option on our site from the start.. And we have a few dozen subscribers through this service. I like how the feedburner stats roll this subscriber count together with your RSS feeds to show a total number of "Subscribers to your site".
I was looking at add-vodka and some other sites, and really like how they have the following option underneath the comments section: "Notify me of new posts by email"
Looking into this further, it looks like that option is part of the Jetpack widget, which we had installed in Wordpress, but never actually activated it. I went ahead and activated it, and noticed that right away that option appeard on my site as well. Sweetness!
Now to my question.. Now that we have a Jetpack/Wordpress email subscription service active, does that mean that we will effectively have to maintain 2 seperate email lists? Will users that sign up via this method (and potentially an email subscription jetpack widget) be added to a seperate email list, and get the emailed posts from a different service?
If so, is there any way to merge the two lists?
Thanks ahead of time,
Jefferson
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12:04 pm
March 26, 2012
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sooverthis
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I just took a look at the Jetpack widget, and I'm guessing it subscribes people to your original feed (the one that is redirected to Feedburner), so it's a separate list.
There is a code on Feedburner under the email subscription options that will put the same kind of signup form in your sidebar, only connected to your Feedburner feed instead. In other words, it would look similar and would keep all your subscribers in one place.
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12:24 pm
March 26, 2012
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Aloysa
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jefferson @seedebtrun said:
I like how the feedburner stats roll this subscriber count together with your RSS feeds to show a total number of "Subscribers to your site".
Where does it show it? I am interested to see it, because I always view it separately: RSS one number and email subs a different one.
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12:51 pm
March 26, 2012
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seedebtrun
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Post edited 12:52 pm – March 26, 2012 by jefferson @seedebtrun
Aloysa said:
Where does it show it? I am interested to see it, because I always view it separately: RSS one number and email subs a different one.
When I go into Feedburner (login via Feedburner.com), and click on my site.. I can see the "types of subscribers"..
Some are email, some are RSS.
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12:59 pm
March 26, 2012
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seedebtrun
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sooverdebt said:
I just took a look at the Jetpack widget, and I'm guessing it subscribes people to your original feed (the one that is redirected to Feedburner), so it's a separate list.
There is a code on Feedburner under the email subscription options that will put the same kind of signup form in your sidebar, only connected to your Feedburner feed instead. In other words, it would look similar and would keep all your subscribers in one place.
Thanks Andrea..
I have a widget that allows folks to subscribe via Feedburner.
However, what I don't have is something like Jetpack that embeds at the bottom of the posts..
I think there is a lot of potential to get subscribers right at the same time that they leave comments.
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2:02 pm
March 26, 2012
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sooverthis
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There are several plugins – can't think of one off the top of my head – that allow you to add subscription options at the bottom of your posts. Alternately, you could put them in manually…. Just something that says "Hey, if you want to get updates via email, click here." One Cent at a Time usually does this if you want an example.
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5:58 pm
March 26, 2012
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Jefferson, I don't use Jetpack but I tried it out for one of my blogs for a week or two. If I remember right, it uses its own subscription (you can check that but just leaving a dummy comment and subscribing yourself :) ). I think you can see the email from site stats -> blog followers.
AFAIK, the self-hosted wordpress doesn't come with a native feature or there is no easy plugin to direct subscribers to feedburner email by just adding a checkbox. There are plugins for newsletter subscription (Aweber, mailchimp..) but not for feedburner, at least free ones…
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8:16 pm
March 26, 2012
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Post edited 8:18 pm – March 26, 2012 by Dividend Ninja
Oops sorry I had the wrong plugin, so I deleted my reply ;)
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1:41 am
March 27, 2012
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Jonnypean
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I have Jetpack Installed.. May be my loading time increased due to it..
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6:50 am
March 27, 2012
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seedebtrun
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I decided to go ahead and leave Jetpack installed.
We effectively have 2 separate email lists now, Feedburner & Jetpack, but they will be transparent to the users.
I just like having the "Notify me of new posts by email" checkbox down in the comment section, after the user has already entered their email address and everything.
I'm going to leave it this way for a little while..
If we don't get very many subscribers using this new method, I can always manually move those users to the feedburner subscription.
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