Following Blogs
Contents
- How to Follow New Blogs
- Follow a Blog Not on WordPress.com
- Change Your Email Settings
- Manage Email and IM Settings for Specific Blogs
- Unfollow a Blog
- Following Comments
- My Followers
- Invite Followers
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When you follow a blog on WordPress.com, all new posts from that site will appear in your Reader, where you can view all the latest posts published across all the blogs you follow. You’ll also receive notifications of new posts by email.
How to Follow New Blogs
Click the 
button that appears in the toolbar at the top of all WordPress.com sites (when you’re logged in) to start following a blog. All new posts published on that blog will start showing up in your reader, and you’ll also receive email notifications of new posts. (To change your email settings, see below.)
You can also start following a blog using the Follow Blog Widget in a site’s sidebar:
Readers without WordPress.com accounts can follow a blog with the button that appears in the lower right-hand corner of WordPress.com sites:
After clicking on the Follow button, a dialog box will pop up asking for the email address where new blog posts should be sent.
Be sure to click on the confirmation link in the email that we send you. Until you’ve confirmed your request to follow, you won’t receive email notifications for new posts and updates.
Note: Blog administrators can hide the follow button that’s shown to logged out users by adjusting their email reading settings. Here they can also customize the message that’s sent when someone follows the blog.
Follow a Blog Not on WordPress.com
To add a blog from Tumblr, Blogger, or any other service to your reader, click EDIT:
In the text box at the top of the page, enter the URL of the site you’d like to follow, and new posts published on that blog will start appearing in your reader.
Change Your Email Settings
Click the Manage Delivery Settings link in your reader to change your default email delivery methods for all the blogs you follow.
Manage Email and IM Settings for Specific Blogs
To change your email preferences on a per-blog basis, click Edit in your Reader and click the “edit” link next to the email delivery details for a specific blog you follow. Use the toggle buttons to change the frequency of email notifications for specific blogs:
Jabber Instant Message Delivery
If you have set up a WordPress.com Jabber account, you can get new posts pushed to you instantly via instant messenger by checking the box next to the title of the blog.
Unfollow a Blog
First, make sure you’re logged in. Then visit the site you want to unfollow, hover over the button that says Following in the toolbar at the top of the screen, and the option to unfollow the blog will appear.
You can also click Edit List in your Reader to display the list of blogs you follow. Find the blog you no longer wish to follow, then click the grey X next to the name of the site to stop receiving notifications of new posts from that blog.
Following Comments
To learn about following comments on individual posts, visit the Follow Comments support page.
My Followers
Want to know how many followers you have? Check out the My Followers support page.
Invite Followers
You can invite people to follow your blog with an email invitation sent from your dashboard.
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