The 2,000 or so non-Wordpress users who are subscribed to this blog by email seem to be having no issues (please tell me if that’s not the case!). The 42,000 or so WordPress users who follow this blog are another matter and your subscription could be futzed up. I know some of you are getting two notifications, and some aren’t getting any at all. I think I have it figured out, and you might need to fiddle with your WordPress subscription settings.

Because WordPress does a few funny things with WordPress users. If you try and subscribe by email, it will kind of “convert” that into a WordPress Follow instead. Depending on your settings, this might mean you get an email as soon as I publish a post (the setting I recommend!), some kind of weekly digest where all 59 or whatever blogs you are subscribed to get lumped into one email where you never really see anything (I do not recommend this!), or just a notification in WordPress Reader – which most people never use, despite the best efforts of WordPress (I definitely don’t recommend that either!). Read More…