[Wordpress issuses] justjennifer on "I am losing followers because they don't want to create a wordpress account"

justjennifer on "I am losing followers because they don't want to create a wordpress account"

justjennifer: From what I understand, when they enter their email address in the "follow blog" box it brings them to a box where they have to sign up for a WordPress account to follow the blog. I didn't realize that.

@colmcb-Here's the message I received after I signed up to Follow your site while being logged out of WordPress.com:

Hi there

You recently signed up to follow Royal Icing Diaries' posts. This means once you confirm below, you will receive each new post by email.

To activate, click Confirm Follow. If you believe this is an error, ignore this message and nothing more will happen.

After clicking the link, I was taken to a page that confirmed my subscription and also allowed me to set the frequency of mail delivery.

So, apparently no need to sign up for a WordPress.com account at all. Perhaps you should ask those that said they had to sign up what notification they exactly received.

As far as auxclass, his answer may have been gruff (!), but as timethief's explanation showed it was spot on.

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