On WordPress.com, any reader can follow (subscribe to) your blog to receive an email whenever you publish a new post. To encourage readers to subscribe to your site, add the
Subscribe block
to your homepage, sidebar, footer area, or any post or page. You can also enable a pop-up notification in the
Newsletter Settings
to encourage visitors to subscribe.
You can make use of
Block Patterns
to easily add beautiful premade designs to encourage subscribers to sign up, like this example:
People logged into a WordPress.com account can also subscribe to your site by clicking the Subscribe button in their
action bar
. Readers without a WordPress.com account can click the Follow button and input their email address instead. For more information about this, see our
Subscribe to Blogs
guide. This feature is enabled on all WordPress.com sites by default, so there’s no action you need to take to activate it.
Your subscribers can decide to receive an email each time you post or to receive daily or weekly digests of all of your new posts. They can also change their subscription to receive no emails but to read your blog only in the
WordPress.com Reader.
WordPress.com will only send out notifications for new public posts. Publishing other content types (like pages or a custom post type) or updating an already published post will not send a notification e-mail. If your site is set to
private
, your subscribers will not receive any email notifications of your posts.
Do Not Send an Email For a Post
The email notifications described so far in this guide are useful for site owners who wish to have emails sent automatically. However, you may wish to have more control over the appearance and schedule of emails sent to your subscribers. In that case, you can use a third-party newsletter service to create an email list, design custom email templates without WordPress.com branding, and schedule emails.
