Inviting people to the blog & rss vs email subscriptions

  • Hello all,
    I was curious about a couple things. One is with regard to rss versus email subscriptions. I setup Feedburner to create an email subscription system. Unlike RSS subscriptions, this only sends email when something new is posted. My RSS feeds display the last 5 or so postings, even if those postings were weeks ago. Is there any way to have something like that happen via email? Just curious.
    With regard to getting new people to a new blog, it would be cool to have something like the social networking sites. When you join one of those, you can contact people via email to join you as friends or as part of your network. Has anyone created a wordpress plugin that would let one send invites to people to have them subscribe to one’s blog?
    There are a few different ways to share ones social networking pages and such from the blog. One plugin is Social Links, which didn’t seem to work with twitter for some reason. Does anyone have a favorite from among these that they could recommend?
    Lastly, there is a service called Addthis.com Is there a wordpress extension that would similarly create a button with drop-down menu (or similar functionality) to allow persons to bookmark or otherwise save one’s blog postings? I suppose the best way to do this is using links that appear with every posting instead of just one such thing for one’s entire blog.
    Thanks,
    Bruce

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  • Addthis.com

    they do advertise a wordpress plugin on their site. it might be hard to find but if you look its there:

    https://www.addthis.com/web-button-select.html

    look at the bottom of the page under: See Also

    My RSS feeds display the last 5 or so postings, even if those postings were weeks ago. Is there any way to have something like that happen via email?

    You want to send an email alerting ppl about chronologically old posts? Dare I ask why?

    Has anyone created a wordpress plugin that would let one send invites to people to have them subscribe to one’s blog?

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=WORDPRESS+INVITE+SUBSCRIPTION+PLUGIN&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

    Thread Starter brucewhealton

    (@brucewhealton)

    Regarding email subscriptions… What I want is that when a person first subscribes via email to get the most recent 5 postings. Then after that, they’d only get new emails with new postings.

    I have people I know that are less than web savvy. Email is the easiest for them. I want a way to share with a bunch of people the last few postings that I made that they might have missed between getting the email from me to subscribe via email and them actually doing that.

    I guess another solution would be to have a link on my postings that would allow me to manually email posting x to 10 people. Is that possible? An email this with a number of spaces where I could fill in several email addresses. It’s great to have these tools for other to join, but it might be a good thing to be able to send a few posts to others to give them an idea as to why they should subscribe?

    Does that make sense? Here’s why you should subscribe friends, here are the latest exciting things I’ve written…
    Thanks,
    Bruce

    Regarding email subscriptions… What I want is that when a person first subscribes via email to get the most recent 5 postings. Then after that, they’d only get new emails with new postings.

    that makes sense, yes ??

    did you take a look at the google link ?

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