Post #1091485

2026-03-05 06:46 UTC

Call-out for some technical guidance. My blog is harmony-seeker.com and I would love readers to be able to subscribe and receive an email whenever I publish a new post. At the moment I do not know how to set this up. If anyone here has experience adding email subscriptions to a blog, I would really appreciate your advice. Ideally I’m looking for something straightforward to manage and screen-reader accessible. I&#39;m using WordPress. If you have suggestions, please reply or message me. #Blogging #IndieWeb #Mastodon #WebHelp

Replies (4)

@here_is_wmbk@mastodon.social 2026-03-05 06:56

@HarmonthSeeker@caneandable.social You may need to find a SMTP service like Mailgun.

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@j9t@mas.to 2026-03-05 07:03

@HarmonthSeeker@caneandable.social, if you don’t need anything fancy and the dependency isn’t mission-critical, Feedrabbit is a no-cost low-tech option. See https://feedrabbit.com/subscriptions/new?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmeiert.com%2Ffeed%2F as an example of how I link them for people to get email notifications for new posts, as per the site’s feed.

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@writingslowly@aus.social 2026-03-05 07:40

@HarmonthSeeker@caneandable.social if you want something a bit more powerful, commercial mailing list providers integrate well with Wordpress. For example, with Buttondown you copy a small piece of code into a custom html block, which gives your site a ‘subscribe’ button. https://docs.buttondown.com/wordpress

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@marcfargas@mastodon.social 2026-03-05 21:47

Listmonk works — I self-host it via Pikapods and the embed form drops into WordPress without issues. It's one config screen and you own everything: the list, the data, the sending. Worth the extra 15 minutes of setup over Jetpack.

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