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How to stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers.
If you have built an email list using any of the popular email marketing software such as MailChimp, Constant Contact, Aweber, etc. then you already know how difficult it can be to manage huge lists and to control how frequently subscribers get updated emails.
There are a few ways you can stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers and or readers who comment on your blog.
1) If you are using a 3rd party email marketing service, go into their software’s settings for your account and either turn off the send emails to a particular subscriber/list.
Or normally there is a function that allows you to set the frequency at which your subscribers receive emails from your WordPress site.
2) If you want to stop WordPress from sending emails to your website’s commenters, or those that sign up to your WordPress website’s mailing list through one of the WordPress “Forms” plugins, then you would need to go into your WordPress Form’s settings for the particular WordPress Form you are using and stop it from sending emails to your subscribers that way.
3) Install plugins that can help stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers who also comment frequently on your blog.
Sometimes you can have subscribers that are on your email lists who are also actively engaged with the content you create on your blog.
Your WordPress site is also designed to send out emails to these subscribers every time they leave a comment or when someone replies to one of their comments.
When you combine the emails they may receive as part of your email subscriber lists along with replies to the comments they leave on your posts, this can seem like email overload, even if unintentional.
So the best way to combat this would also be through one of the plugins below.
In this post we are going to go into more detail on how to stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers.
Bloggers love WordPress because of its ridiculously easy to use content management system.
However, WordPress does not provide any real built-in email list management tools. To make matters worse, the plugins that WordPress does have for emailing blog subscribers can become very annoying because of how frequent they send out emails to your blog subscribers.
Unfortunately, if you have an email list using any standard WordPress subscription widget or form, you can be stuck dealing with how frequently WordPress sends out emails to your subscribers.
When I first started blogging, I made the mistake of not paying attention to how often my blog was sending out emails to my subscribers.
I did not realize how frequently WordPress was sending emails to my subscribers until I started receiving complaints from people who were unsubscribing from my email lists.
Fortunately, because of how popular WordPress has become as a blogging platform, plugins have been built by third-party developers to try to counter how often WordPress sends emails.
Because of how popular these plugins are, I will not recommend all of them because I don’t want you wasting your time trying out something that may or may not work for you.
Below are some common questions regarding WordPress stopping and sending email to subscribers.
Below are some common questions regarding WordPress and controlling emails to subscribers.
Plugins to make WordPress stop sending emails to subscriber options.
One plugin that is becoming increasingly popular is called “Subscribe To Comments Reloaded“.
Though, the name of this plugin is extremely deceiving because this plugin does not stop how often WordPress sends out emails to subscribers.
What this plugin actually does is provide an option for blog commenters to subscribe to receive updates when there are new comments on one of your blog posts.
WP Better Emails and Better Notifications are WordPress plugins that help you to better control the emails you and others send from your website.
They can stop or limit some of those pesky automatic notifications sent by popular plugins like Jetpack, WooCommerce, etc.
But they also give you far more flexible and granular control over all email (and notification) content and behaviour.
WP Better Emails gives you the power to prevent unwanted, unneeded or just plain annoying notifications from being sent out by your website.
Whether they’re triggered automatically as an opt-in to a mailing list, as an automatic ‘thank you’ email for signing up to a website, as a task reminder from a web service or even triggered by a simple typo!
How to stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers. Summary.
Whether you’re using WordPress for your personal blog or a website that handles sensitive information, it can be dangerous to let the platform send emails without an email marketing plugin.
Not only would this put your site at risk of being hacked by spam bots and spammers-it also violates CAN-SPAM laws. Luckily there are a few ways to stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers.
We recommend if you are using a 3rd party email marketing service, to go into their dashboard first to see the functions they may provide for this and follow their instructions that would stop your WordPress site from sending emails to your subscribers.
If you are using a WordPress Form, either independently or in conjunction with one of your email marketing service provider’s then go into the dashboard for that particular Form’s plugin and adjust the settings accordingly.
Finally, if your subscribers are getting a “double whammy” of emails due to them being email subscribers and frequent commenters to your blog, you can always stop WordPress from sending emails to subscribers who are also commenters on your blog as well by installing one of the free plugins.
Emails can play an important role in keeping your Blog’s readers and subscribers engaged, but don’t wear out your welcome, by sending them too many emails.
