In the middle of February 2013 I made The Big Switch from Blogger to WordPress. This decision is one that many bloggers on Blogger.com contemplates and stresses over due to the many factors involved with transferring to a new host and platform. I contemplated it for a long while because I only blog in my free time for my “me time” and wasn’t sure if the hassle and money were quite worth the benefits. I felt as though I had to justify my wants for my blog. My blog may not be my income source, but I realized that I did not have to legitimize my time spent blogging measured in financial profitability. I love blogging and that is the end goal that I achieve every time I engage in what I do online! Loving what I do is certainly legitimate enough to pursue greater things for my blog. That being said, I am so glad that I made the switch from Blogger to WordPress but it was NOT an easy feat and caused me much grief and problems during the long process. I wish that I had written everything down as I was going through the problems I encountered so that I could help other bloggers, but truth be told, while troubleshooting as I went along I managed to solve problems without knowing what I was doing; without having the verbiage or knowledge to know how I was fixing things. I just knew the why and went at it! Luckily it ended up a success, but I am still an eager novice and always learning more. I may not be able to help you with the questions and answers for the actual blog transfer, but I am able to share with you the tips and tricks I am learning as I go along in WordPress.
In this post I will address feedburner and e-mail subscriptions.
I came upon this problem while trying to understand how to find my “blog followers” in WordPress and while troubleshooting why I was not getting new feedburner e-mail subscribers.
I don’t know what I did to mess up my feed but I lost my subscribers and had to create a new one. Then I went to the widget in my side bar and clicked on my e-mail subscribe only to have a notice tell me that my feed was not enabled! (WHAT?!?!) This whole time my new dapper friends were getting an error notice – (ugh.)
Here is what I figured out . . .
How To Enable e-mail Feed Subscriptions.
- I logged into my feedburner account at feedburner.com
- I clicked my new feed
- I selected the tab on the top that is labeled ‘publicize’
- In the left sidebar menu I clicked ‘Email Subscriptions’
- As I scrolled down I saw that I needed to select ‘activate’.
YAY! (This is the fast version of what I actually did – LOL)
Now I have to get the word out to my dapper friends that now (finally) they can subscribe to my feed!
Get The Links and Boxes for Subscribers
While in the ‘publicize’ & ‘e-mail subscriptions’ tab (from the steps above)
you chose the sub heading ‘subscription management’. This gives you two codes to copy and paste! The first one is a box that looks like this:
The second bit of code gives you a direct link that looks like this:
Subscribe to jennyatdapperhouse.com by Email
Remenber to hit the ‘SAVE’ button at the bottom when you make changes in anything!
*I added the code to my sidebar in a ‘text’ widget.
** I edited the size of the box and the wording in the html so that it would better suit the space on my blog.
Sharon
This is one of those things that bloggers do so rarely that these directions are so helpful! Thanks for sharing how to do this!
Maria Iemma
I have been mulling becoming a blogger and this information is so very helpful for me and others considering starting a blog — I appreciate your sharing the experience.
Jennifer Williams
I just started two new sites and am learning all over again. I definitely need this!