[postkatrinastella]

Way past that. Had a semi-pro look at it today that said she is mystified. None of her plugins worked either. Guess I was wrong about being "so close". Something is serious and I need a WordPress specialist. Can you give me the name of someone I can hire to get inside this thing? Or where to go to find someone?
Thanks, Andrea

[postkatrinastella]

Andrea, I stumbled upon the feedburner plugins, which did exactly what I had been asking, but am now having "does not have subscriptions by email enabled" troubles:
Here's what I've tried so far. (It actually worked once and everybody got my posts, but then different tests got jumbled, and now I can't get it back. We're so close Andrea!)
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Downloaded plugin Feedburner Email widget for floating follow button at bottom corner, activated/publicized Feedburner form, created a page to download S2 plugin and also copied code to that page (since sites said I didn't have to access actual source code).
Get two messages:
The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled
Welcome back, [email protected].
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Downloaded Feedburner Follow Me for sidebar. (Unsure of what feed address was, I tried http://postkatrinastella.com, postkatrinastella.com/feed, and feed.feedburner.com/postkatrinastella.com.) Either way I get: The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled
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Downloaded Follow plugin for WP.org without Feedburner, and could not activate, instead getting error message:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class s2class in /home2/postkatr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/follow/follow.php on line 55

Don't give up on me now, Andrea. It's close, I can feel it.
Laura

[postkatrinastella]

Here’s a few, and yes, all did it with a mailing list.
My favorite, and the easiest is WordPress.com’s follow button, bottom right, but “…Grief” is okay too.
I want something that works just like that, no distracting middle steps or competing page visuals like Shorpy

http://www.shorpy.com/ 1) Orange circle RSS symbol titled “Shorpy RSS feed” > 2) button "Get Shorpy Historical Photo Archive – Vintage Fine Art Prints delivered by email", > 3) an email address form
http://whatsyourgrief.com/ “Enter your email address to subscribe … posts by email.” Then a gray subscribe button
http://calhounrising.wordpress.com/ “follow” box, then email address form
http://okellyfamily.wordpress.com/ “follow” box, then email address form

Just to be sure I understand you ... If it worked for you, and you got some form or other that allowed you to get my posts, why did none of my friends get directed anywhere where they could do whatever it was you did. It actually worked for you? You got a post of mine sent to you?

Again, Thanks Andrea

Laura

[postkatrinastella]

Oh, sorry, one more confusion. If it worked for you, and you got some form or other that allowed you to get my posts, why did none of my friends get directed anywhere where they could do whatever it was you did. I actually worked for you? You got a post of mine sent to you?

[postkatrinastella]

Here's a few, and yes, all did it with a mailing list. That's how I want to get notifications. I don't yet grasp how to use the line of multicolored symbols FB, twitter, G+... (is that Simple Social Icons?)
My favorite, and the easiest is WordPress.com's follow button, bottom right, but "...Grief" is okay too.
I want something that works just like that, no distracting middle steps or competing page visuals like Shorpy

http://www.shorpy.com/ 1) Orange circle RSS symbol titled "Shorpy RSS feed" > 2) Get Shorpy Historical Photo Archive - Vintage Fine Art Prints delivered by email, > 3) an email address form
http://whatsyourgrief.com/ "Enter your email address to subscribe ... posts by email." Then a gray subscribe button
http://calhounrising.wordpress.com/ "follow" box, then email address form
http://okellyfamily.wordpress.com/ "follow" box, then email address form

Again, Thank Andrea

Laura

[postkatrinastella]

Thanks for the reassurance, Andrea. You say others would have to have something like Feedly to be able to subscribe to me. But I, a relative newby, have been able to subscribe/follow whatever I want, and I've never heard of Feedly, or downloaded anything for this. Can you tell me how I can make it so that others can access me with the same ease? Just those orange radio-beam quarter-rounds and a single finger-press.
Or did WP provide something like Feedly and I not know it? In which case, wouldn't it have just been easier for WP to leave the subscribe function in that WP.com has instead of taking it out for WP.org. Why would they take it out?
I'm sorry, Andrea. Thanks so much for your patience and help; really!

[postkatrinastella]

This is what I put in my RSS widget: http://postkatrinastella.com/feed/
Have tried so many different tweeks to it, none work, don't see what I'm doing wrong. My friends all say it didn't work. One said it looked like it did work, but they got no email notifications. Some say they got an error message saying "there is no RRS reader installed".
My various accounts and user names on the same machine either get nothing or the page of code with "This XML file does not appear to have any style information" at the top.

Something is very wrong, it's not supposed to be like this. Do I have to hire someone? Thanks so much for helping, Andrea.

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[postkatrinastella]

Rob, maybe you can help me with something else before I go charging into Prose. I should have specified this in the earlier request, something I've had terrible trouble getting anyone to explain to me. What I'm really looking to do with the side margins is get rid of them completely, as in, have the whole screen width for my content and sidebars, the way wordpress' free theme Andrea has done for me on my first blog. Little did I know that I picked the only theme in wordpress that doesn't force you to forfeit those two columns of wasted space at either side of the page. I've looked so hard for another theme that gives me my whole screen back, and asked so many questions, no one's writing me back anymore.
If someone would just say to me, yes, Andrea is the only theme in all of wordpress or studiopress that gives you the whole screen for your page, I'd be incredulous, but then could at least put it to rest and move on. Without that, wouldn't you logically keep looking too? Rob, help me understand why I suddenly feel I've been so unreasonable to want to keep my full-screen usability that I'm now the Studiopress pariah? I'd have already left Studiopress were it not for Genesis. Please access my post to see that Andrea has given me my full screen to work on. calhounrising.wordpress.com
(*dare I hope that Rob will be the one to finally explain this to me, and put this issue, resolved to my satisfaction or not, to rest?*)
Laura

[postkatrinastella]

Great news, Rob. I can't tell if the firebug comment was meant for me. I know nothing of code. I went to my site's dashboard/Genesis/custom css window, but don't see anything in the way of instructions for what to do next. If I plug in Firebug, will I see something different, something that I'll recognize as where to plug in numbers for margin widths?
Should I be doing this? I'm scared to touch anything.
Thanks, Laura

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