Subscribe to Blogs – WordPress.com Support

When you subscribe to a blog on WordPress.com, you can follow along with that blog’s posts via email and the Reader. This guide will show you how to add a blog to your subscriptions.

There are several ways to subscribe to a WordPress.com-hosted blog and keep up with its posts via Reader and email notifications.

You can subscribe to a blog via a subscription form if the site owner has added one. The blog owner can design their subscription button however they like. Here is an example of a subscription box:

Most WordPress.com sites include an action bar that you can use to subscribe with using the following steps:

1. Visit the homepage of the website you wish to follow.
2. Click the “Subscribe” button that appears in the bottom right-hand corner:

If you are not logged into a WordPress.com account, clicking the “Subscribe” button will ask for the email address you want to subscribe with instead.

After entering your email address, click on the confirmation link in the email that we sent you to confirm your subscription request and start receiving emails. If your email address isn’t already associated with a WordPress.com account, clicking this confirmation link will set you up with one, which will be used to manage your subscriptions.

To add a blog from Tumblr, Blogger, or any other service to your Reader:

1. Click on the Reader at https://wordpress.com/read.
2. On the right side of the screen, click the “Manage” link next to your existing Subscriptions:

3. Click the “Add a site” button in the upper left corner:

4. In the text box, enter the URL of the site or an or RSS feed link:

5. Click the “Add site” button.

Future posts published on that blog will appear in your Reader.

If you have an OPML file from another feed aggregator service, you can use it to import several subscriptions to Reader at once.

1. Click on the Reader at https://wordpress.com/read.
2. On the right side of the screen, click the “Manage” link next to your existing Subscriptions.
3. Click the ellipses (three dots) next to the “Add a site” button in the upper right corner.
4. Select the “Import” option:

5. Select the OPML file from your computer’s file picker to import the subscriptions contained in that file.

You can also export your blog subscriptions from Reader to another service using the Export option.

To adjust the emails you receive for all sites you have subscribed to in Reader, visit our Notification Settings guide.

If you have subscribed to a blog that uses newsletter categories, you can manage which categories you are subscribed to.