Adding email sucbscription to Wordpress theme

Question

Hi All,

I've developed my own Wordpress theme and I wanted to give users the ability to subscribe to my blog.

I have the typical Post RSS and Comment RSS options that come with Wordpress under the META section of the sidebar, but I also wanted to give my readers an option to just input their email address and press a button to "subscribe".

I know this is possible since I've seen many many blogs that use this, and if needed I can list some here. But I'm not sure if this is a plugin or a widget or what-have-you.

If you know how to implement this functionality into a Wordpress theme please let me know.

Thanks, Amit

Answer 1

There are enough newsletter plugins in the plugin directory. You shouldn't add such code into your theme; this is really a plugin job, and your users may choose another one than yours.