Email Subscriptions

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Note that this is legacy information. While you can still use FeedBurner, we recommend using the new blog subscriptions feature instead.

If you would prefer to use Feedburner to offer e-mail subscriptions instead of the built-in WordPress.com blog subscriptions follow the instructions below:

1. Register a Google account (if you do not already have one) at http://feedburner.google.com/
2. Once you log into your new account, you will be offered to ‘burn’ your blog’s RSS feed (which is, http://DOMAIN.wordpress.com/feed). Enter the feed URL there and click Next.
3. Enter the details of your feed – Feed Title and Feed Address (if the feed address has already been taken, you will be notified accordingly and need to choose another).
4. You will receive a message stating that your feed is now live. Click on the Skip Directly to Feed Management link.
5. Click on the Publicize tab and then the Email Subscriptions link.
6. Click on the Activate button.
7. Copy the Subscription Link Code
8. Paste the code into a text widget in your sidebar.

Voila! Your readers will now be able to subscribe and email updates every time you publish a new post.

Last modified: December 29, 2009