Title: Quick Question: Auto Subscribe
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Quick Question: Auto Subscribe

 *  [iperez_genius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iperez_genius/)
 * (@iperez_genius)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-auto-subscribe/)
 * I had a situation where i created a new category to test something and for some
   reason out of my 800 subscribers ~120 of them were also subscribed to that category.
 * I assume its because of an autosubscribe option being selected.
    Am i right in
   saying that if in the optoins is select “No” for the
 * Option for Registered Users to auto-subscribe to new categories is checked by
   default:
 * and
 * Registered Users have the option to auto-subscribe to new categories:
 * Any advice here
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/)

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 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-auto-subscribe/#post-6228658)
 * [@iperez_genius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iperez_genius/)
 * It sounds very likely that it was the auto subscribe feature. I would expect 
   that those users that got the email had selected to be auto subscribed to new
   categories.
 *  Thread Starter [iperez_genius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iperez_genius/)
 * (@iperez_genius)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-auto-subscribe/#post-6228815)
 * where is this feature, and how do i turn it off.
 *  [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * (@mattyrob)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-auto-subscribe/#post-6228816)
 * [@iperez_genius](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iperez_genius/)
 * The auto-subscribe features are in Subscribe2->Settings under the Registered 
   Users tab, but also see my answer [here](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-auto-subscribe-to-category)
   for more background as it’s different for per-post and digest emails.

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Matt Robinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattyrob/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/quick-question-auto-subscribe/#post-6228816)
 * Status: not resolved