Have you wanted a way to stay up to date on the latest news at Grand Bel Manor, without having to regularly visit the front page of the website?
Up until recently, the only real option you had was to use RSS feeds, which are built into WordPress, the publishing tool this site uses. While I personally love RSS feeds and subscribe to them for almost every site I regularly visit, they have yet to be as heavily adopted as e-mail amongst most internet users. The forums, as some of you may already know, did have a newsletter functionality, which easily allowed for me to e-mail all everyone registered with an account, but it didn’t provide quite the same granularity of control, nor did it allow for automatic linkage to posts on the main page.
As a solution I’ve installed MailPress, a WordPress plugin designed to implement mailing lists with WordPress sites. It is currently configured so that anyone who subscribes, using that handy little subscription block at the top of the left side-bar, labeled “Mailing List”, will be able to confirm and by default by signed up to receive and e-mail containing the latest news post at GrandBelManor.com!
Once registered you’ll also have the option of adjusting the frequency of e-mails, but I’d personally suggest you leave it at the default. It’s not like we’re posting hundreds of articles or anything.
If you have any issues subscribing, don’t hesitate to let us know by either posting to the forums, or letting one of us know at the next Board Meeting, or any time you see us in the community.