After another appallingly quiet day on WordPress, where none of my favourite bloggers seem to have posted…again... a quick scroll through the dreaded Reader confirmed my worst fears.
“You have blocked all email notifications.”
Once again, I beg to differ, dear WordPress. You may have blocked all my email notifications… I certainly haven’t. Not in error, not by accident, not at all.
It is, however, an easy fix… and once again my computer will be chirping away with happy little pings and whirrs….until they do it again and I sit there twiddling my thumbs wondering why the place is so quiet.
The irony is that by posting the solution yet again, it will not be available to anyone who relies on email notifications if said notifications have been already been blocked.
If it happens to you:
1. Hover over ‘Reader’ top left to bring up menu and select ‘Manage’.
2. Click right pointing arrow > to access notification settings on any blog you follow.
3. This takes you to where you can choose the delivery type and frequency for each individual blog you follow. If your settings are as you left them, fine. If not, a message will appear saying ‘you have blocked all email notifications’. Follow the link they give and scroll down to Unblock…and Save.
This will correct the problem and your inbox too will once again echo to the patter of notifications.
Till they do it again.
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Total frustration. Thanks for providing an escape for the rest of us Sue.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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I’ve posted it before, David…in just that frustration…. xxx
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Oh man! That’s so frustrating…. again! I’m goring on your behalf… as is my overnight
House guest Alfie the blue staff!!!
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You don’t mess with Staffs 😉
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Oh boy don’t you!!! I’ve just had a wrestle with him and a destroyed ball!!! But he’s gorgeous! I shall post photos later!!!
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They are lovely dogs… and as gentle as they come at heart.
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He is so sweet with the kids… he’s 9 on Tuesday 63 in dog years!!!
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They really are lovely dogs and brilliant with children. Just the wrong shape for me… I grew up with setters so dogs have to be Ani shaped 😉
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That’s fair enough!! His tail wag is so strong!!!
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Even the smallest Staffys are hugely strong. 🙂
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But so lovely!!!
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They are, gorgoeus characters.
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Thanks for the heads up.
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🙂
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Reblogged this on O LADO ESCURO DA LUA.
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Thanks Sue. Lots of gremlins on my site too. Very annoying. 😦
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It seems to be the season for it, Miriam…
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Yes, I think so unfortunately.
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Thanks
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My pleasure.
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Reblogged this on Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog and commented:
In case you’re having this problem too 🐵
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Thanks, Chris!
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Welcome Sue – I’ve noticed a dramatic decrease in email notifications as well 😱😡🤕😰
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When I realised you had ‘stopped’ posting, I knew there was a problem 😉
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Indeed – I’ve scheduled daily posts up to mid December 😱
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And I think I’m doing well when I’ve written a day ahead 😉
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It’s needs must for me Sue – I’m running a four month book promo campaign up to Christmas – September was the start 😰
PLUS, we’re moving next weekend and will be offline for a few days 🐵
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Ah… well, you’re always welcome over here to promote your mother’s book…or anything else you have up that hairy sleeve 😉 Good luck with the move!
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Thanks Sue 👍😃❤️❤️❤️
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🙂
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Why the WP tinkers have to continue tinkering is beyond me. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
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I doubt they would know what to do with themselves if they weren’t playing 😉
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Quite. 🙂
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🙂
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I’m even having problems reading what is there. Grrrr!!!!!! I was just reading a Silent Eye post and thought my laptop was going to blow up. It only does it on WordPress. So annoying.
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The trouble is, WordPress is by far the best blogging platform… with a great community… and they are making it impossibly difficult to live with.
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They sure are 😡
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😦
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It happened to me last month ….
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I’m getting it quite regularly at present and not at all happy about it!
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Thanks. This explains why my emails suddenly got halved.
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It gets annoying…
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It’s very rude. I just assume this is being done by a bored programmer or their cat got on the keyboard.
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I am not a cat person on the whole… Wonder if Ani can help 😉
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More of a dog person, but I do like the wild cats. Though I put red pandas, otters, and pangolins ahead of them all. 😀
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Always been a dog person, though I do like cats. I like most things … except wet worms.
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Spiders creep me out. I also have a strange paranoia about sharks and crocodilians when I go near any natural bodies of water. Think I watched ‘Jaws’ and killer alligator movies as a kid.
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There are more spiders in my place than I can count, but no water except in the aquarium 😉
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Aquariums are fine. I can’t fit in those. 😀
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Mine’s a big one 😉
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What the heck is going on with WP? I’m sorry to hear this happened again, Sue, but thanks for the info on how to unblock. I’m saving this post. Gremlins? Poltergeists? Mice?
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Worse than that, Noelle… Happiness Engineers 😉
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Thank You soooooooooooooooo much!!!! Was wondering what the heck was happening!!!! 😱😱😱😱
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Glad to be of use… it seems to be happening to quite a lot of people!
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Thank you for this information. I am new to the blogging world and pretty new to computers (ha Ha), so I learned a great deal from this post. TY
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Grrrrr.
What can I bring you to calm your nerves? I feel for you.
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Half a dozen Happiness Engineers, neatly trussed, perhaps? 😉
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P.e.r.h.a.p.s. . .o_O
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😀
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Reblogged this on Kate McClelland.
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Thanks, Kate.
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This has happened to me twice, Sue. No reason, other than WordPress seems to have flicked the switch saying I have blocked all emails! As if I’d ever do that?
I was briefly taken hostage by the spam monster again, yesterday. Fortunately, I managed to escape.
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It happens to me a LOT, Hugh and I’m not happy about it…I don’t even turn off notifications when I’m away!
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Well THAT explains a lot! Thanks for the post.
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My pleasure… I take it you’ve been ‘got at’ too…
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So bloody annoying already. 😦 So many are having all kinds of woes.
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It does seem as if everyone is getting their own type of trial at present 😦
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So many! 😦
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Unfortunately…
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Sue, some of us prefer to go in and read blogs others rely on notifications. Thank you for the heads up of why emails go quiet and how to fix it, educational and a handy reminder of what to do when 500 emails per day stop arriving lol xoxo
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Yep… it gets very quiet 😉
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