A cool feature only available to Extras! customers is the Subscribe by email. It allows someone to simply add their email and be notified when the site adds new content. Site owners can choose to have the excerpt displayed, or make the person come back to the site. This basically removed the need for a subscriber user account and one more login!

Due to the potential for abuse, we restrict it to paying customers only:  

To Use:

If you installed in plugins users will first need to activate Subscribe by Email in Plugins > Installed Configuring a blog's email subscription options

1.  Go to Subscriptions > Settings

2.  Select whether you want users to be auto-subscribe or not

• This automatically subscribes all existing and any new users listed on Users > Authors & Users to your email subscription
• If Auto-subscribe is enabled you won't be able to remove them from the email subscription list and they won't be able to un-subscribe themselves from email subscription

3.  Select if you want Excerpt enabled or not

• Except means they will receive a small excerpt from the post in the email whereas not means they will only receive an email with the post title and a link to view the post

4.  Click Save Changes

Adding the Subscription Widget

1.  Go to Appearance > Widgets

2.  Add the Subscribe by Email widget to the desired sidebar

3.  Now all blog visitor need to do is add their email address and click Create Subscription to Subscribe via email.

About the Subscriptions page

The Subscription page lists all the email subscribers, their method of subscription and allows you to cancel or add email subscribers manually.

• Auto Subscriptions are those subscriber listed on Users > Authors & Users who have been added when Auto-subscribe automatically is enabled
• Visitor Subscriptions are readers who have subscribe using the Subscribe by Email widget in the blog sidebar
• Manual Subscriptions are subscribers that have been manually added using the Subscriptions page
• S2 Import Subscriptions are those subscribers who are automatically imported from your email subscription list if you were previously using the Subscribe2 plugin.

Canceling a subscription

Email subscription are canceled by:

1. Clicking on the Cancel Subscription link at the bottom of their latest email notification of a post
2. Manually removing them from the Subscriptions page in a blog dashboard

Update Notifications

• Included with every download from WPMU DEV is a file called update-notifications.php
• You should make sure that this file is *always* placed in /mu-plugins/
• It will communicate to you critical information about plugins and theme updates - including any security alerts!