More blog tweaking. I’ve added an email subscription option so readers can get news posts from here in their inboxes automagically. Just use the sign up box in the header of the site on desktop, or on mobile the same form is on the contact page.

It uses the Jetpack plugin, which I have always been nervous of – because of bloat – but having played with a few options, it really is the easiest to set up and maintain. I’ve turned off as many of the other features as I can, so hopefully performance isn’t affected too much.

(There’s also a thing for me about Jetpack which makes it slightly contradictory to self-hosting my blog. Jetpack ties you in to the WordPress.com platform – so it makes me wonder what the point is of not hosting there in the first place!)

One thing is that it defaults to sending post individually, which might get annoying. On your first email on subscribing you get a button to press to manage delivery – I suggest you switch to daily! Sadly I can’t amend the default.