23 Sep 08 Keep track of your wordpress comments

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Communication is a key to success

I would repeat this over and over again, because it is forever true. When you have a blog, you are most likely to have visitors, in order to gain visitors, i will later publish more information about website submission and promotion.

Back to the topic, communications with your readers/visitors are always important. You create a blog, you are responsible for creating a sense of community, therefore, it is critical to get to know your readers.

This is a courtesy of wordpress and Mark Jaquith

Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe to certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address!

You can download “subscribe to comments” here.

The installation procedure is

Put subscribe-to-comments.php into [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate the plugin
Optional: if your WordPress theme doesn’t have the comment_form hook, or if you would like to manually determine where in your comments form the subscribe checkbox appears, enter this where you would like it: <?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?>
Optional: If you would like to enable users to subscribe to comments without having to first leave a comment, place this somewhere in your template, but make sure it is outside the comments form. A good place would be right after the ending </form> tag for the comments form: <?php show_manual_subscription_form(); ?>

FAQs

How can I tell if it’s working?

Log out of WordPress
Leave a comment on an entry and check the comment subscription box, using an e-mail that is NOT the WP admin e-mail address or the e-mail address of the author of the post.
Leave a second comment using a different e-mail address than the one you used in step 2 (it can be a bogus address).
This should trigger a notification to the first address you used.

I’d like the subscription checkbox to be checked by default. Can I do that?

Not anymore. But the checkbox status will be remembered on a per-user basis.

My subscription checkbox shows up in a strange place. How do I fix it?

Try unchecking the CSS “clear” option. Beyond that, you’re on your own with CSS positioning.

Any comments and suggestions welcome.

Thank you for reading.

23 Sep 08 Keep track of your wordpress comments

I’d like the subscription checkbox to be checked by default. Can I do that?

My subscription checkbox shows up in a strange place. How do I fix it?

Any comments and suggestions welcome.

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