This is my 3rd post for the day, which contradicts what I am saying below:
- I can’t keep up with all the daily posts from all the wonderful bloggers I subscribe to so, from now on, I will discipline myself to look at only one post per day from each blogger – is this okay?
- Similarly, I will, from now on, only post once per day.
Not sure what else to do! I am getting nearly 200 emails per day!
What are your thoughts?
jmgoyder 
You may have missed a recent WordPress change. The little box below the comment form that says” Notify me of follow up comments via email” now is checked by default. You can start getting rid of those emails by unchecking that box when you leave a comment.
If you forget, when you get an email with a comment, click the link at the bottom that says “manage subscriptions”. You’ll land on a page that has “Sites”, “Comments” and “Settings” at the top. Click “Comments”. Put a check mark in the box next to each blog title, choose “Unfollow” from the drop-down menu at the top and click “Apply”.
Easy-peezy! No more emails from those sites. After doing it for a few times, you’ll seriously reduced that email deluge. If you want to get an email for a particular blog, you always can change the settings.
I suspect that’s part of your email issue – if each one of those emails is for a separate post, well – that’s a whole lotta posting going on!
I know about that blasted box and I am now religious at unticking it! I am gonna try your suggestion – thank you!
Oh – about the once-a-day issue…. You know me. I’m little Miss once-a-week or so. 😉
I would stop getting them emailed to you. Just go through the reader on WordPress once (or twice if you have time) a day and read that way. WAY easier.
Okay – I will try that – thanks!
I follow some 38 bloggers at the moment, I’m only just beginning, and on the one day I got nearly 400 emails with all the comments on all the blogs coming to me. I know about the tick box but It is still happening even if I make sure its not marked. with this and nearly 200 emails a day from Street Articles I’m being inundated. One blog a day keeps the doctor away I say.
Julie, 200 emails per day would be way over the limit for me. When do you sleep? For those I follow that post daily I’ve put them on digest. I get all their daily posts bundled up into one email a week. It helps, but there are still a few that I keep coming in as soon as they are posted. 😉
Perhaps this would slow it down some? ~ Lynda
How did you do that ‘digest’ thing?
Julie, from your home page go the the menu bar at the top of the page and click on the WordPress “W” icon.
Find reader and click on it.
When the reader page finishes loading look for “Blogs I Follow” and next to it will be “Edit List.”
Click “Edit List” and all the blogs you follow will be there.
Beside each WordPress blog will be a box with a drop down menu. One of the options will be weekly. 🙂 Easy-Peasy!
Hope this helps you sort it all out… This only works for WP blogs. Too bad, EH? So if you are reading a lot of blogs that are not on WordPress, then you will have to settle for daily, but this should still slow it down a bit.
Oh yes, all the weekly digests will come out on Monday morning, but you can pick a few a day to peruse and save the rest for later in the week.
~ L
I will give this a try but have had yet another idea!
WordPress lets us choose the day we want to get the summary emails, too. Pretty nifty. 😉
Oh, Riba fill us in! Where do we go to set the day? Thanks!
It’s under the “Settings” option. So, the sequence of steps would be:
1) Click on the “Subscription Options” link at the bottom of one of your blog emails.
2) Click on the “Sites” link at the top of the page/left.
3) Select the “Weekly” option for your delivery method.
4) Then click on “Settings” link at top.
(Links run: Sites / Comments / Settings at the top left of the page when you click on the “Subscriptions Options” link at the bottom of any of the blog notification emails.)
If anyone has trouble, I could always email screenshots. 😉
I’m just glad I could find where it was again to tell you! I just knew it was possible from seeing it once before. . . .
Thanks Riba!!
Thank you Riba!
No problem for me dear Julie… but feel free to post your own posts… Comments and emails are really amazing… I don’t know what to do but I go on as always now… Thanks and Love, nia
It’s absolutely the right thing to do. If blogging stops being fun, why do it? You might see a drop in stats but most people understand and won’t hold it against you.
You might want to think about unsubscribing to all the blogs and having a blog roll instead, and you could then visit just as many blogs a day as you feel like, reading several posts from each blogger but visiting only once.
I have just changed the settings on my blog so that I am no longer notified by email when I receive comments on my blog. That has already greatly reduced the number of emails coming in. I spent my time deleting without reading because I read them in the comments section.
Also, are you remembering to unclick the notify box when you comment on a blog? Now that WP has changed that setting, we are all getting unnecessary emails.
I’ve been trying to create that blogroll you suggest but every time I do that the list only includes WordPress tutorial stuff. I will keep trying to do as you suggest but not quite sure how.
I think using the Reader is a good idea. I don’t use mine because I keep forgetting about it, but lots of bloggers swear by it.
If you want a blog roll, go to your Links section on the dashboard and click ‘Add new link’. The page that comes up allows you to create new categories.
WordPress offer easy tutorials on everything (if you can find them).
Just spent arvo doing the blogroll thing – hope this works!
200 emails? I don’t blame you! How many blogs do you follow??? Wow! You’ll be happy to know right now I only post one on Sunday and one on Wednesday!
I wasn’t keeping count but I just checked and I am following 190 so I am a bit stupid! I guess I will have to unsubscribe – how awful! I won’t unsubscribe from yours!
Good idea. If I wrote three posts a day, I wouldn’t have a life outside blogdom. I was warned: Don’t let blogging take over your life. Glad I listened.
Sounds like great time management to me!!!
Ehrrr.
Stop following all those blogs…….
Trouble is that once you start following some new blogs, which ones do you decide to stop (following)?
I found myself spending so much time on answering emails, that I decided to stop posting on my OWN blog for a day or so. This slowed emails down a bit.
You also need enormous self discipline and stop ‘following’ or ‘subscribing’ to every interesting NEW blog you see.
The only other suggestion is to leave the computer turned off for a couple of days and talk to Godfrey all day, or attend to some other totally boring household chore……like the laundry. Some weeks ago, I ran out of clean clothes and ran out of food because I had put off household chores and food shopping to spend time on the computer.
I’m not sure that modern computer technology IS the best thing (since sliced bread). LOL
VERY good suggestions! Thanks!
yikes!!!! 200 e-mails a day???? Awesome. But daunting. I couldn’t do it.
I’d find it a lot to do a blog every day. I can only manage one a week if I’m lucky.
It’s difficult to choose now, who to follow and who not to, because their are some really nice, really interesting blogs. I’m still adding to my list of blogs to follow, but when it starts taking more than four hours to read through them, I’m just not going to be able to add anymore.
I think there is a way to compress the blogs we follow into a blogroll but I am trying to figure out how!
Yes – this is such a dilemma for me too Julie. I usually do only post 1x a day but keeping up with following so many great blogs, as well as comment exchange (which I enjoy) is really time/energy consuming. How do most manage it? I still keep forgetting to check that box and so my inbox gets inundated with soooo many emails with all subsequent comments posts I’ve commented on. Why did WordPress do that? We need a plan 🙂 I hope someone can advise. Thanks for this post!
You write when you have something to share. Don’t restrict yourself to one article a day.
I comend you on viewing one a day! It’s more than I can keep up with too.I haven’t even caught up on your Love Story posts and I really want to. There are so many great blogs out there, it’s like a full time job trying to keep up. I feel bad, I wish I had more time 😦
I completely agree with that sentiment!
Darn, I forgot to uncheck the stupid box so now I’m going to get everyone else’s comment. Can you hear me screaming?
I can hear you screaming!
Not sure if this was covered already, but on that same “Manage Subscriptions” page where you can turn off notification for new comments, you can click on the “Blogs” tag and opt for receiving your notifications of new posts on a weekly basis rather than each time someone posts. You can even choose the day you want to receive the summary email.
I am not in your league here—I only post once a week and often don’t keep up with the handful of blogs I follow, at least not in terms of reading EVERY post. I think this needs to be something we do for pleasure, not out of a sense of duty—and if it is stressing you out, I do urge you to find what works better for you. As far as reading my blog goes, I am just happy that people continue to pop in now and then. (Like I said, I am not in your league! 😉
What league – the stupidity league – hehe.
I know you are teasing, but really—you are so prolific here! And you are spending so much time reading other people’s work! It’s impressive. 🙂
Just made a difficult decision – see latest post!
That new default set by WordPress for comments is extremely annoying!
Annoying is an understatement!
Can we talk… I write one post a day and once in a while I skip a day to take care of family business… I can only handle one post a day from the hundreds of blogs I subscribe to and when more come into my email box, my blood pressure goes up. Okay you broke your rule today or so but plan to go back to one day… and that new comment default is a b***** on wheels. Phew!! Feel better already. 😉
I am no expert in this but if you subscribe to hundreds of blogs it might be a good idea to do what I did and unsubscribe and create a blogroll using the ‘link’ tool – then start again and only subscribe to a handful. The blogroll means you don’t forget your blog buddies – oh, who knows? And yes that rotten comment default is a bummer – I keep having to remember to untick the stupid box – argh!
I have a blogroll page. I have it in my back door not on my blog but it won’t help until I reduce the load… and that’s the rub. Anyway, I enjoyed our chat and do have a great day! 🙂
Yes, it’s okay. Do what makes you happy, not what you think makes others happy. I turned all email notifications off so that I don’t get any at any time.
At my previous blogging site, I had 680 followers, many posting multiple times a day. I couldn’t handle it, so I made up my own system to keep me happy, not them. That’s when I came up with my camping system, and here I am, camping in your blog tonight!
I think your camping system is brilliant – you should patent it!