Fixing Email Subscription Settings in WordPress

A while back, I mentioned that I was trying to fix some problems with email notifications when I send updated blog posts, and after considerable trial and error, I started to realize that part of the issue wasn’t how I wrote the blog posts (though I can always improve), but how I was receiving them in email.

I subscribe to my own WordPress.com blogs over email so I can test things, but I also subscribe to other WordPress.com blogs as well for personal enjoyment. No matter what blog I subscribed to, the text would come in as plain text, which is hard to read since blogs tend to use a lot of rich formatting, links, images and so on. It’s readable, but not a great experience.

Finally, after contact WordPress.com support, I finally found the setting that adjusts this:

if you go to your WordPress.com account settings, you can then adjust Notification Settings, and from there you can choose “Email delivery format”. Once I did that, I finally got HTML emails from blog posts. I can’t tell you how nice it is to finally have readable email updates.

I hope this helps someone!