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May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Use Social Media to Boost Email Subscribers in WordPress

In this tutorial, we’ll discuss why email and social media integration is so important for every business, and show you how to use social media to boost email subscribers in WordPress.

Email Marketing vs. Social Media – Which Is Better?

One of the most common questions we get asked from new business owners is which is better when it comes to email marketing vs social media?

Social media platforms offer a great opportunity to interact with your users and keep them engaged. However, nothing beats email marketing when it comes to engagement.

First, email marketing is very cost effective. For every $1 spent, email marketing generates $38 in return. On the other hand, less than half of marketers agree that social media gives them any return on investment at all.

Social platforms like Facebook tightly control your reach to your own followers. Only about 2% of your Facebook fans will see your updates. Even your tweets are visible to the user for a very short time before it gets pushed down by other tweets. Social media platforms also retain the right to block your account at any time, for any reason.

Even if social media marketing is working well for you now, that’s not guaranteed to last. Social media websites come and go (no one uses Friendster, MySpace, or Digg anymore). When they disappear, all the hard work you put into building a following is gone too.

Email gives you direct access to your subscribers. Most importantly, you own your email list and no one can take away your users.

We’re not saying that you shouldn’t use social media to promote your website. However, your focus should be more on building an email list for higher ROI and long term marketing goals.

Many successful website owners will tell you that not starting an email list was the biggest mistake they made when starting out. See our article on why building your email list is so important today for more on this topic.

Convinced about the importance of your email list? Let’s see how you can leverage your social media profiles to get even more email subscribers.

What Do You Need to Start Building Your Email List?

There are three things you will need to start building your email list.

A website or blog
An email marketing service
Lead generation software

All three of them are quite easy to set up without learning any technical skills.

If you don’t have a website or blog yet, then see our step by step guide on how to start a blog.

You will also need an email marketing service. It helps you collect email addresses, manage your email lists, and send out emails. Most importantly, using an email marketing service will help you to stay compliant with email spam laws, and ensure that your emails don’t end up in the spam folder.

We recommend using Constant Contact. It is one of the largest and most popular email marketing services in the world. For more recommendations, see our list of the best email marketing services for small business.

Once you’ve got your website, email newsletter, and lead generation software set up, you can get started with these email and social media integration techniques.

1. Collect Email Addresses From Your Facebook Page

If you have a successful Facebook page, you may have a lot of fans who have never visited your website before. An easy way to convert those fans into subscribers is by adding a prominent link right to an email signup form.

Luckily, Facebook has made this easy by introducing call to action buttons for business pages. These buttons are prominently displayed on top of your cover image and are visible without scrolling.

To add a signup button to your Facebook page, you’ll need to visit your Facebook page and click the blue Add a button button.

This will bring up a popup with multiple choices. You need to click on the Get in touch with us tab and then select Sign up.

Next, you need to provide a link to your website where users will be taken when they click signup.

The link should be to a page on your website that features an email signup form. Don’t forget to click on add button to save your changes.

That’s all! Visitors to your Facebook page will now see a prominent call to action button leading them to sign up for your email list.

2. Use Facebook Retargeting/Remarketing Pixel

Have you noticed that after you visit a website, you often start seeing their ads on Facebook?

This is called retargeting or remarketing. Those websites use Facebook’s retargeting technology, commonly known as Facebook Pixel.

The retargeting pixel does not add anything visible to your website visitors. It simply sends a browser cookie to your visitors, so that Facebook can recognize them.

After your website visitors leave your site and go on Facebook, they’ll see your ads targeted just to them.

Follow our step by step guide on how to install Facebook retargeting/remarketing pixel in WordPress. Then, check out these tips for optimizing your Facebook ads for conversions.

3. Use Facebook Ads to Promote Pages with Special Offers

Often people are hesitant to give out their email addresses, but become much more willing to share when you offer them something of value in exchange.

These special offers in exchange for email addresses are also called lead magnets. Common lead magnets include e-books, cheat sheets, templates, reports, coupons, and more. The more targeted your offer is towards a specific audience, the more email addresses you’ll get.

You can create a landing page or blog post on your website that features your lead magnet, and use an OptinMonster campaign to capture email addresses. Here’s a guide on how to create your first OptinMonster campaign to build your email list.

Then, create an ad on Facebook for your free special offer that links to your landing page. This technique is even more powerful when combined with Facebook retargeting, because you’re advertising to people who have already displayed an interest in what you have to offer.

4. Add Links to Your Signup Pages in YouTube Videos

Do you run a YouTube channel? You can stay in touch with your viewers by adding calls to action and URLs right in your videos.

Again, it’s smart to offer an incentive for users to click on the links. Many online marketers do that by offering bonus content, learning material, coupons, and special discounts.

You can easily add a link to your video by going to your Video Manager, then clicking on Edit » Cards » Add card. Then you can add a link to your website.

Once the user lands on your website, you can use a landing page with an OptinMonster campaign to show them targeted offers. OptinMonster’s referral detection feature makes it easy to target your campaign so that only your YouTube fans will see it.

5. Run Twitter Ad Campaign

Twitter Ads is another social platform that you can use to boost your lead generation efforts.

In fact, Twitter even allows you to run lead generation campaigns directly in the user’s Tweet stream. This way users can sign up for your email list without even leaving Twitter.

You can also use Twitter Ads to drive traffic to your website landing page.

6. Promote Old Posts With Targeted Optins

If you have been blogging for a while, then you already have plenty of content that your new followers may not have seen.

Sharing old posts allows you a chance to share more content with your users on social media platforms. This boosts user engagement on your social profiles, at the same time it brings more traffic to your website.

You can use the Revive Old Post plugin to automatically share your old posts on social media websites. For detailed instructions see our guide on how to automatically share your old WordPress posts.

Then, you can use targeted optins that only display to visitors who click on those older posts. You can use content upgrades, special offers, free downloads, etc.

7. Use Pinterest Boards for Lead Generation

Pinterest is another powerful social media platform that you can utilize to boost email subscriptions. Similar to Facebook and Twitter, you can offer your Pinterest followers content upgrades, coupons, and discounts.

You can also offer free downloads like ebooks, PDFs, audio or video content, and display a welcome gate to entice visitors to subscribe as soon as they visit your site.

9. Ask Influencers to Share Links to Your Special Offers

Don’t just keep your special offers limited to your own social profiles. Ask your friends, family, and followers to share your special offers.

You can also reach out to influential users that you are connected with and ask if they can help you spread the word. People love to help out, but they will not be able to do that if you don’t ask them.

Your offer becomes more valuable when it is recommended by influencers. It makes users feel that they can trust you with their information.

That’s all for now. We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to use social media to increase email subscribers in WordPress.

May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Add Feature Boxes With Icons in WordPress

In this tutorial, we will learn how to easily add feature boxes with icons in your WordPress site.

What is Feature Boxes With Icons?

Most people when they visit websites don’t actually read them. As humans, we’re becoming professional scanners.

This means that as a business owner, you need to present important information in an easily scanable and highly engaging format.

That’s why most popular business websites usually have a large image or a slider on top with a call to action button.

Just below that, you can use a features box which allows you to showcase the important features of your product or service. Each feature box can have its own call to action which can lead users to learn more.

Here’s an example from our OptinMonster website:

Adding Feature Boxes with Icons on Your WordPress Homepage

First thing you need to do is install and activate the Advanced WP Columnsplugin. Upon activation you need to visit Settings » Advanced WP Columns to configure the plugin.

Simply scroll down to the option ‘Column class’ and enter mycolumns next to it. Don’t forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings.

Next, you will need a plugin to insert beautiful SVG icons into your feature boxes. Install and activate WP SVG Icons plugin.

You are now ready to create your feature boxes.

Start by editing the page where you want to add the feature boxes.

You will notice two new buttons on the post editor screen. The first one is the Add Icon button located just above the editor. The second button is located as the last item in the visual editor menu.

If your visual editor is only showing one row of buttons, then you need to click on the toggle toolbar button to expand it.

First, you need to click on the Advanced WP Columns button. This will bring up a popup where you need to click on Empty and then select the number of columns you want to add.

After that you need to click on each column to add some text. If you don’t add some text now, then it will be difficult to see the columns in post editor. Once you are done click on the add columns button at the bottom.

You will see the columns in your post editor now. The next step is to add icons above the text.

Take your mouse to the beginning of the text area in the first column and click on the enter button. This will move the text down and give space to insert your icons.

Now you need to click on the Add icon button, which will bring up a nice popup like this:

From there, you can select the icon you want to use by clicking on it. Next, you need to click on the span button, so your icon is wrapped inside <span> element.

Finally, click on the insert button. You will now see the shortcode for the SVG icon in your post editor. Depending on the name of the icon you selected, it will look something like this:

[wp-svg-icons icon="rocket" wrap="span"]

Repeat the process to add icons in other feature boxes as well.

Once you are finished, simply click on the Update button to save your page.

You are nearly done, but if you preview your page, then you will notice that icons are too small and your feature boxes are barely noticeable.

You will need to add a little CSS to solve this problem. Simply add this CSS snippet into your theme or child theme‘s stylesheet.

span.wp-svg-rocket.rocket { 
font-size:100px; 
} 
 
span.wp-svg-cloud.cloud { 
font-size:100px; 
} 
span.wp-svg-headphones.headphones { 
font-size:100px; 
} 
.mycolumns { 
border:1px solid #eee;
min-height:250px; 
padding-top:20px !important;
}

Don’t forget to adjust the CSS to match the names of the icons you are using.

We hope this tutorial helped you add a beautiful features boxes section on your homepage.

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Disable Visual Editor Formatting Shortcuts in WordPress

In this tutorial, we will learn how to disable visual editor formatting shortcuts in WordPress.

What are Formatting Shortcuts and How to Use Them?

WordPress 4.3 came with a new feature called formatting shortcuts. It allows users to quickly add common text formatting without removing their hands from the keyboard and without writing any HTML.

Using * or – will start an unordered list.
Using 1. or 1) will start an ordered list.
Using # will transform into h1. ## for h2, ### for h3 and so on.
Using > will transform into blockquote.

Disabling Visual Editor Formatting Shortcuts

While we think that formatting shortcuts are awesome, some users are finding this feature a bit confusing and distracting.

If you want to disable the formatting shortcuts in WordPress, then follow the instructions below:

Copy and paste this code in your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin.

function disable_mce_wptextpattern( $opt ) {
 
    if ( isset( $opt['plugins'] ) && $opt['plugins'] ) {
        $opt['plugins'] = explode( ',', $opt['plugins'] );
        $opt['plugins'] = array_diff( $opt['plugins'] , array( 'wptextpattern' ) );
        $opt['plugins'] = implode( ',', $opt['plugins'] );
    }
 
    return $opt;
}
 
add_filter( 'tiny_mce_before_init', 'disable_mce_wptextpattern' );

This code simply removes text formatting shortcuts from your WordPress visual editor. Your other WordPress keyboard shortcuts will work as usual.

We hope this tutorial helped you disable visual editor formatting shortcuts in WordPress 4.3 and later versions.

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Fix “Site contains harmful programs” Error in WordPress

In this tutorial, we will learn how to fix this site ahead contains harmful programs error in WordPress.

Reasons for This Site Contains Harmful Programs Error

The number one reason for this error is that your website is hacked and is believed to be distributing a malware. This code spreads itself from the infected website to website visitors and can even spread to other websites.

Google marks a website with this warning if they find any suspicious code that could be a malware or trojan. This warns users to be careful when visiting these sites.

Another common reason for this error is showing ads from low quality advertising networks. These networks may sometime display ads linking to websites distributing malicious code.

To find this malicious code on your site, take a look at our tutorial on how to scan your WordPress site for potentially malicious code.

You can also check your site using Google’s safe browsing analysis tool.

All you need to do is add your site’s domain name as the query parameter to the URL like this:

https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=YourDomain.com

Now that you know why the error happens, let’s take a look at how to fix it.

Fix This Site Contains Harmful Program Error

Before we start, please make a complete backup of your WordPress site. If you already had a backup system in place, then keep it handy as you may need it.

Removing malware and recovering a website can become a very complicated task. Sometimes even when you clean your site thoroughly, the malicious code can keep coming back until you find and remove the backdoor placed on your site.

Backdoor is referred to a method of bypassing normal authentication and gaining the ability to remotely access the server while remaining undetected. Finding the backdoor is not an easy task either. It could be a compromised password, unsafe file permissions, or a cleverly disguised file. We have a detailed guide on how to find a backdoor in a hacked WordPress site and fix it.

Once you have successfully removed the backdoor, you will still need to thoroughly check all your files and database for any malicious code.

As you can see that cleaning up and infected WordPress site can be a very tedious task. This is why we use Sucuri on all our websites.

Sucuri is a website monitoring and security service for WordPress users. It monitors your site 24/7 for suspicious activity, blocks any hacking attempts on your site, and clean up your site of any malware.

Getting The Warning Removed by Google

Once you are absolutely certain that your website is clean, then you can ask Google to remove this warning from search results.

You will need to use Google’s Webmaster tools for that. If you have not already added your site to webmaster tools, then follow our tutorial on how to add your WordPress site to Google webmaster tools.

Once there, you need to click on the security issues section in webmaster tools. This page will list any security issues Google may have found on your website. You will also see the links to resources on clean up on your site.

Once you have fixed the issues, click on the checkbox and request a review.

In case you do not see any security issues in Google Webmaster tools, then you should the following form to report incorrect phishing warning.

We hope this tutorial helped you fix this site ahead contains harmful programs error.

May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress

In this tutorial, we will learn how to disable self pingbacks in WordPress.

What is a Pingback?

Pingbacks give softwares the ability to communicate between websites. Its almost like remote comments. Think of it like this:

We write a post on WPCademy blog.
Then you write a post on your blog mentioning/linking to our article.
Your blogging software (WordPress) will automatically send us a pingback.
Our blogging software (WordPresS) will receive the ping. It will then automatically go to your blog to confirm that the pingback originates there (check if the link is present).
Then we will have the ability to display your pingback as a comment on our post. This will solely be a link to your site.

Pingbacks also work within your site. So if one of your posts link to another post, then your WordPress will send a self-ping. This can get really annoying.

Fore more details, take a look at our guide about trackbacks and pingbacks.

Now that you know what is a pingback, let’s take a look at how to disable self pingbacks.

There are multiple ways you can disable self pingbacks on your WordPress site. We will show you both plugin method and manual code method.

Disable Self Pingbacks in WordPress Using Plugins

There are two plugins that you can use to turn off self pings.

1. Using No Self Pings Plugin

First thing you need to do is install and activate the No Self Pings plugin. The plugin works out of the box, and there are no settings for you to configure. Simply activating the plugin will turn off self pingbacks.

You will notice that No Self Pings plugin hasn’t been updated for more than two years. Usually we do not recommend installing plugins that haven’t been updated this long. Simply because in most cases those plugins do not work. However, No Self Pings is very simple plugin, and it works even with the latest version of WordPress (4.2.3 At the time of writing this article).

We recommend you to read our guide on the issue of installing plugins not tested with your WordPress version.

2. Using Disabler Plugin

Simply install and activate the Disabler plugin. Upon activation, visit Settings » Disabler page to configure the plugin.

You will notice that the plugin allows you to turn off several WordPress features. You need to scroll down to Back End Settings section and check the box next to Disable self pings option.

Click on the save changes button to store your settings.

Turn Off Self Pings Without Using a Plugin

If you do not want to use a plugin, then you can use these two methods to turn off self pings on your site.

1. Turn off Pingbacks Globally

WordPress allows you to turn off pingbacks on your site. By using this option will disable pingback feature completely on your site.

Simply go to Settings » Discussion page. Under the Default article settingssection, uncheck the box next to ‘Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article’ option. Click on the save changes button to store your settings.

2. Manually Insert Code to Disable Self Pingbacks

If you are comfortable with adding code snippets to your WordPress theme files, then you can use this method to switch off self pings.

Simply copy and paste this code in your theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific plugin.

function no_self_ping( &$links ) {
    $home = get_option( 'home' );
    foreach ( $links as $l => $link )
        if ( 0 === strpos( $link, $home ) )
            unset($links[$l]);
}
 
add_action( 'pre_ping', 'no_self_ping' );

That’s all, we hope this tutorial helped you disable self pings on your WordPress site.

May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Style Contact Form 7 Forms in WordPress

In this tutorial, we will learn how to style contact form 7 forms in WordPress.

We have a step by step guide on how to create contact form in WordPress.

Getting Started

We are assuming that you have already installed Contact Form 7 plugin and have created your first contact form. The next step is to copy the shortcode for your contact form and paste it in a WordPress post or a page where you would like your form to appear.

For the sake of this article, we have used the default contact form and added it into a WordPress page. This is how the contact form looked on our test site.

As you can see that the contact form inherits some form styles from your WordPress theme. Apart from that it’s very basic.

We will be styling Contact Form 7 forms using CSS. All the CSS goes into your theme or child theme‘s stylesheet.

Styling Contact Form 7 Forms in WordPress

Contact Form 7 generates a very useful and standard compliant code for the forms. Each element in the form has a proper ID and CSS class associated with it.

Each contact form uses the CSS class .wpcf7 which you can use to style your form.

In this example we are using a Google font Lora in our input fields. See how to add Google Fonts in WordPress.

div.wpcf7 { 
background-color: #fbefde;
border: 1px solid #f28f27;
padding:20px;
}
.wpcf7 input[type="text"],
.wpcf7 input[type="email"],
.wpcf7 textarea {
background:#725f4c;
color:#FFF;
font-family:lora, sans-serif; 
font-style:italic;    
}
.wpcf7 input[type="submit"],
.wpcf7 input[type="button"] { 
background-color:#725f4c;
width:100%;
text-align:center;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

This is how our contact form looked after applying this CSS.

Styling Multiple Contact Form 7 Forms

The problem with the CSS we used above is that it will be applied to all Contact Form 7 forms on your website. If you are using multiple contact forms and want to style them differently, then you will need to use the ID generated by contact form 7 for each form.

Simply open a page containing the form you want to modify. Take your mouse to the first field in the form, right click and select Inspect Element. The browser screen will split, and you will see the source code of the page. In the source code, you need to locate the starting line of the form code.

As you can see in the screenshot above, our contact form code starts with the line:

<div role="form" class="wpcf7" id="wpcf7-f201-p203-o1" lang="en-US" dir="ltr">

The id attribute is a unique identifier generated by Contact Form 7 for this particular form. It is a combination of form id and the post id where this form is added.

We will use this ID in our CSS to style our contact form. We will replace .wpcf7 in our first CSS snippet with #wpcf7-f201-p203-o1.

div#wpcf7-f201-p203-o1{ 
background-color: #fbefde;
border: 1px solid #f28f27;
padding:20px;
}
#wpcf7-f201-p203-o1 input[type="text"],
#wpcf7-f201-p203-o1 input[type="email"],
#wpcf7-f201-p203-o1 textarea {
background:#725f4c;
color:#FFF;
font-family:lora, "Open Sans", sans-serif; 
font-style:italic;    
}
#wpcf7-f201-p203-o1 input[type="submit"],
#wpcf7-f201-p203-o1 input[type="button"] { 
background-color:#725f4c;
width:100%;
text-align:center;
text-transform:uppercase;
}

Styling Contact Form 7 Forms with CSS Hero

Many WordPress beginners don’t have any experience of writing CSS, and they don’t want to spend time learning it. Luckily, there is a wonderful solution for beginners that will allow you to not just style your contact form but almost every aspect of your WordPress site.

Simply install and activate the CSS Hero plugin and go to the page containing your form. Click on the CSS Hero toolbar and then click on the element you want to style. CSS Hero will provide you an easy user interface to edit the CSS without ever writing any code.

That’s all we hope this tutorial helped you learn how to style Contact Form 7 forms in WordPress.

May 27, 2019

Easy Guide to Add Email Subscriptions to Your WordPress Blog

In this tutorial, we will learn how to add email subscriptions to your WordPress blog and start building your email list.

Why You Should Add Subscribe via Email Option to Your Site?

While social media is a great way to interact with your readers, email is the most reliable and direct way of communication. By offering email subscription on your blog, you can build a steady stream of regular visitors for your site.

Email subscription also gives your users yet another way to consume your content as some folks may not be on social media. See our complete guide on why you should start building your email list right away.

Often beginners think that adding email subscription is some complicated process. That’s not true at all.

The WordPress RSS to email subscription setup is quite straight forward, and it will take you less than 30 minutes. Once you set it up, your readers will automatically get daily or weekly emails containing your new content.

Now since there are multiple services and plugins that allow you to setup email subscriptions in WordPress, we will only cover the top 3 email subscription plugins and services.

MailChimp RSS to Email

MailChimp is one of the most popular email marketing service providers. It is a paid service, but they do offer a free option for those with less than 2000 subscribers.

To quickly get started with MailChimp see our guide on using MailChimp and WordPress.

For the sake of this article, we are assuming that you have signed up for MailChimp and created your first email list. The next step is to setup an RSS to Email campaign.

Simply visit Campaigns » Create Campaign to create a new campaign.

MailChimp will now show you different types of campaigns that you can create. You need to click on the RSS Driven Campaign option.

This will bring you to the campaign settings page where you need to provide your WordPress site’s RSS feed link. Your feed URL is yoursite.com/feed/

You will also need to choose the time and frequency of emails. You can choose to send daily, weekly, or monthly emails.

On the next page, you will have to provide campaign info. You will notice that MailChimp has already pre-filled most fields on the page. These settings should work for most blogs, but feel free to change them as needed.

Now you need to click on the next button to select a template for your emails. MailChimp allows you to customize the template by adding your own logo, by-line, and any other elements that you may want to add.

When you are finished customizing, click on the next button and then click on Save and Exit.

That’s all, you have successfully created your WordPress RSS to Email newsletter using MailChimp.

To add the email subscription form to your website, simply visit the Lists page on your MailChimp account and click on the downward arrow icon next to your email list. After that select signup forms from the menu.

MailChimp will then ask you, what kind of signup form you want to create. Select Embedded Forms.

On the next screen, you can customize your email sign up form and generate the embed code. You can then copy and paste this code in a text widget on your WordPress website.

Alternatively, you can use OptinMonster a plugin created by the WPCademy team that will make this process a lot easier and offer you pretty signup forms, floating bars, slide-ins, exit-intent popups, and more.

Aweber RSS to Email

Aweber is another popular email marketing service provider. It’s a paid service, but they offer a 30 day free trial. A lot of bloggers and internet marketers prefer to use AWeber.

If you are just joining Aweber, then you will be directed to create your first email list when you login for the first time.

Once you are logged into your Aweber dashboard, simply visit Messages » Blog Broadcasts.

On the next screen, click on the green button labeled ‘Create a Blog Broadcast’.

This will bring you to the new page where you can setup your RSS to email campaign. First you need to enter the URL of your blog’s RSS feed. After that you need to provide a subject line for the emails.

Scroll down a little, and you can choose a template for your email. Select the one you like and then click on load template.

After choosing your template, scroll further down to configure time and frequency of emails. You can setup to send an email as soon as new item appears in your RSS feed. You can also send daily, weekly, or even monthly email digests.

Once you are done setting up these options, you need to click on Save Blog Broadcast button.

That’s all, you have successfully set up Aweber RSS to email subscription.

If you have not already added the email signup form to your WordPress site, then the next step is to add a signup form to your WordPress sidebar. Simply click on the ‘Signup Forms’ in the Aweber dashboard to design your email signup form.

Follow the on screen instructions and save your form. Finally you will reach the publish section. There you need to click on the ‘I will install my form’ button and copy the form embed code.

Now go to Appearance » Widgets on your WordPress site and paste this code in a text widget.

Using Jetpack Subscriptions

Jetpack is another option for users who want to add email subscriptions to their WordPress site. It is completely free, but the downside is that you don’t control your list.

Jetpack Subscriptions is not a full newsletter. For example, if you wanted to send an email apart from your daily blog posts, then you will not be able to do that using Jetpack Subscriptions. Also, if later you decide to move to a proper email marketing service which most bloggers do, then your users will have to opt-in to the email list again.

Having said that, here is how to add Jetpack email subscriptions to your self hosted WordPress site. First thing you need to do is install and activate the Jetpack plugin. Upon activation, the plugin will add a new menu item labeled Jetpack to your WordPress admin bar. Clicking on it will take you to the plugin’s settings page.

Jetpack plugin requires you to create a WordPress.com account and link your site with it (See our guide on the difference between WordPress.com and self-hosted WordPress.org sites). If you have a WordPress.com account, then you can use that or you can create a free account.

Once you have connected Jetpack to WordPress.com, you need to visit Appearance » Widgets. Drag and drop Blog Subscriptions (Jetpack) widget to a sidebar and then click on Save button store your widget settings.

You can also enable subscription option below your comment form. Visit Settings » Discussion page and scroll down to the Jetpack subscription section. Check the box next to blog subspcription and comment subscription options. Click on the save changes button to store your settings.

That’s all you have successfully set up Jetpack email subscriptions on your WordPress site.

We hope this article helped you add email subscription to your WordPress blog.