For a few years now we’ve been using a plugin on this website to provide a variety of features and functions. One of those functions has been collecting addresses of people who want to be notified of new posts. These have been collected by WordPress.com (not to be confused with WordPress.org) and not by the Clary Lake Association. Sadly, this plugin has become bloated and annoying, and some of the features we’ve been most interested in are going to become value-added in the near future meaning we’ll need to pay for them if we want to keep them. I’m disinclined to pay for something when reasonable (and free!) alternatives exist. Therefore, we’re getting ready to ditch this plugin and make other arrangements to implement the parts we like.

Right off we’re going to implement Post Notifications with list software we already have. This means it will be really easy to manage all your subscriptions to our lists. Any email you receive from us will have “Unsubscribe” and “Manage Your Subscription” links at the bottom. If you click on “Manage Your Subscriptions” you’ll be able to subscribe or unsubscribe to all of our available lists.

If you’ve previously subscribed to post notifications using WordPress.com (the old system), you’ll now be receiving them using our new system. If you subscribed to notifications on comments on specific posts, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. If I can implement that feature in the future, I will do so.

You’ll find a blue form on the sidebar you can use to signup for post notifications, or you can use this one:

When I get a chance I’ll put up a page where you can review and signup for all our lists.

Happy New Year!