How to increase your blog recurring visitors allowing them to subscribe to the comments of an article, using Wordpress.
Have you ever noticed, adding a comment to a blog post, a little checkbox with some text near it saying "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail"? Well, we're going to use this feature in our blog. When a visitor comments our blog post, we give him the choice to subscribe to it, so that when a new comment is published about that article, an email will be sent to our visitor's e-address.
We'll also add to our system a subscription manager that will enable the visitor to cancel his subscriptions whenever he wants.
This feature is provided by a Wordpress plugin named Subscribe to Comments http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/.
Using this plugin is a simple and immediate way to make sure that a visitor won't forget our address, and gives a boost to the conversation ongoing in the comments of the post.
This way we could transform a casual visitor into a recurring one.
How do you install the plugin? Download it from the official website http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/ and extract it into a folder.
Then upload it to your Wordpress installation on the web server, in the folder wp-content/plugins.
Now we open our web browser and we go to the administrator section of our blog, to activate the plugin and set some preferences.
Activate the plugin in the panel Plugins, then go to the panel Options, and click the tab Subscribe to Comments.
In the new panel, insert your name and email.
If the first checkbox is active, then the checkbox "Notify me of followup comments via e-mail" in the website will be checked by default.
The second checkbox has to be unchecked if the checkbox in the website doesn't look as expected (it does some CSS).
Ok, now click Update Options and you're ready to go!
September 4th, 2008 at 20:47
Awesome!
This was exactly what I was looking for!
Thanks a million!
October 24th, 2008 at 21:49
Looking at all these comments, looks like this plugin works wonders! Thanks..
October 27th, 2008 at 19:02
orry to sound dumb kinda, but did u develop this plugin or did you stumble upon it in the vast web and are telling us about it ?
December 22nd, 2008 at 14:54
Yea~I was looking this trick, but I am using blogspot. Can I modify it in blogspot? Waiting for the reply, thank you ^^
December 22nd, 2008 at 14:58
Hi Jason, I’m sorry I’ve never used blogspot and it’s a different platform.. this will not work!
December 22nd, 2008 at 15:01
Wow, you did a very fast reply. Thank you for sharing, I may try in out in wordpress when I am free
~ Appreciate your works
December 30th, 2008 at 17:25
Yeah, does anyone know of a way I can add this to Blogger? I’m really needing this! Any help?
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:16
Hi I have a few questions regarding this feature, and I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to reply:
1. Does ExpressionEngine have the same functionality?
2. Does the above work in later versions of IE?
3. Does the above work if JavaScript is disabled?
much obliged
Richard
March 24th, 2009 at 15:23
Great Post. Does anyone know if there is a legal way I can display this content on my own website- thanks
March 25th, 2009 at 11:24
I disagree with the above remark. I think in these tough economic times we need to rethink our old ways of thinking.
April 9th, 2009 at 09:37
Really it is an informative and good post. thanks for shareing information.
April 24th, 2009 at 10:48
Yes, I agree here. Please allow anonymous users to get emails whenever any comment is added.
August 8th, 2009 at 07:19
Thanks for sharing this. It was a breeze following your instructions.
December 3rd, 2009 at 17:39
Have you tried this Social Bookmarking Service yet? I would submit this url to them and they will spread it around. This is good info. http://www.thesocialbookmarkingservice.com
December 12th, 2009 at 05:58
thanks buddy i was searching how to set comment folloup and this really helps me. thanks for the info.
December 13th, 2009 at 22:32
A very nice niche blog, and a good design there sparks Simplicity yet complex algorithm of the internet. Thank You
December 15th, 2009 at 12:23
Really good blog, I think it is usefull to notify everybody via e-mail. Blog seems more active
February 28th, 2010 at 03:06
I’ve been looking for this plugin. Very helpful. Thank you.
June 21st, 2010 at 15:11
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July 15th, 2010 at 13:51
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July 29th, 2010 at 10:26
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