Notifying followers of new gallery

waldhaus1

I am trying to decide how best to notify followers when I add a new gallery to my site. Over time I have developed a list of 250-300 people in the share contacts list section that comes up when I choose share/social/email link on a photo. It is necessary to choose contacts one at a time. Multiple people can be included on each share link.
I find some domains seem to block smugmug notifications. That is particularly true the more names I include in each notification.
That means I generally include 20-30 contacts in each mailing.
I am considering developing a blog with wordpress where followers can choose to be notified of new blog posts. I could then create a post for each new gallery I create and people who want to follow can opt in. I would add a link to the smugmug gallery in the new blog post.

To me one advantage of this is I wouldn’t need to go through the tedium of selecting 200+ contacts whenever it is time to make a new notification. Another advantage is those who tire of notifications could readily opt out.
I am curious what other means others use to notify their followers. People do tell me they enjoy going through the galleries, but of course not everyone takes the time and I am sensitive enough to the issue of spam that I want to give people easy ways to opt in and opt out.
Thanks for suggestions. I am interested in learning how others have solved the problem of notifying people of new galleries and new images that might be of interest to them.

Allen

Check this out.
https://www.sherlockphotography.org/Customisations/Activity-feed

I have it running here. Only shows last 200 photos uploaded but seems to work great.
https://www.photosbyat.com/Recent-Gallery-Changes

waldhaus1

Thanks for sharing. Does this all run under wordpress or part wordpress, part smugmug or even all smugmug? I am guessing you used some of Sherlock’s customizations and. Used them in your smugmug site.
It still isn’t clear to me that they offer visitors the ability to subscribe to updates about your site. Perhaps a failure to understand the code on my part.

waldhaus1

Perhaps you are suggesting the activity feed as a link in a wordpress blog?

Hikin' Mike

@waldhaus1 said:
Thanks for sharing. Does this all run under wordpress or part wordpress, part smugmug or even all smugmug? I am guessing you used some of Sherlock’s customizations and. Used them in your smugmug site.
It still isn’t clear to me that they offer visitors the ability to subscribe to updates about your site. Perhaps a failure to understand the code on my part.

This is strictly a feed that SmugMug uses. If you want a subscription, you need to use something like MailChimp.

Here is how to set up MailChimp in SMugMug: https://gallery.imagesinthebackcountry.com/Smugmug-customization/Adding-a-Mailchimp-Signup-Form