Subscribe to Comments 2.1
Subscribe to Comments 2.1 is a plugin that allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. It is one of the most popular WordPress plugins out there for the simple reason that it helps foster a community around your blog by encouraging commenters to come back and stay engaged in the dialog.
Features
- Rudimentary security
- Users cannot enter a random e-mail into the subscription manager and modify someone else’s subscriptions
- In order to modify subscriptions, users need to use a special link, given in notification e-mails, and printed in the comments form as long as they have their comment cookie
- Recognition of subscription status
- Unsubscribed users see the “subscribe to comments” checkbox, but subscribed users see a “Manage your subscriptions” link
- The author of the post is recognized by either login or comment cookie and is assumed to be subscribed to the entry (as they will receive notifications through WordPress)
- Themeable subscription manager
- Uses visual style of WordPress interface
- Can be optionally accessed via “Manage” menu in WordPress
- E-mail verification of block requests
- Javascript “invert selection” link to check/uncheck subscriptions for mass deletion
- “Return to the page you were viewing” link that persists at the top of the page, so that users can easily return to the post they were reading once they are done modifying subscriptions
- Ability to let users change notification e-mail address
- In the subscription manager, users can request that their notification address be changed for all their subscriptions
- Special link is sent to the old address for verification
- Once clicked, their e-mail address will be changed instantly for all their comments
- Easy integration into comments form
- No modification of comments form needed for WP 1.5+ (supported themes)
- For users who want custom placement of the checkbox/link to subscription manager, this can be done with one simple function call, placed anywhere in the comment form
- Subscription without leaving a comment
- By popular demand, you can now offer visitors the option of subscribing to comments on an entry without having to leave a comment themselves
- If the reader later decides to join the conversation, their subscription continues without them having to explicitly set it
- Customization
- You can make the Subscription Manager that your users see use your theme’s header, footer and sidebar, using CSS to style it to fit your site
- Internationalization
- I’ve written Subscribe to Comments 2.1 with i18n in mind, making full use of
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- I’ve written Subscribe to Comments 2.1 with i18n in mind, making full use of
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Version 2.1 Update
Version 2.1 of Subscribe to Comments has a feature that people have been begging me to implement for many months: you can view the list of people who are subscribed to posts on your blog, and you can also see a list of the most “subscribed” posts. Also in this version is a new one-file install. You just put subscribe-to-comments.php in your /plugins/ directory, activate, and you’re done. This version will work on WordPress versions from 2.0.6 through 2.3.1 (highest tested).
Versions
- 2.1.2 Fixed a few bugs that’d send bad notifications (thanks Donncha!), cleaned up some code and moved to using proper WP escaping functions
- 2.1.1 WordPress 2.2 compatibility! Also note that support for
attribute_escape()is needed, so if you get errors about that, upgrade to the latest version in your branch - 2.1 big update, fixing a few potential XSS holes, and misc error messages… see above for details
- 2.0.8 XSS security fixes, hopefully fixed “+” symbols in e-mail for good
- 2.0.7 additional “funky e-mail” fixes
- 2.0.6 support for e-mail addresses with “+” symbols, option to disable CSS “clearing”
- 2.0.4 potential security bugs, better WP 2.0 capabilities compat
Feedback/Bugs
Feel free to leave bug reports or feature requests here. Use this entry’s comments to ask support questions or offer general feedback
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Impossible to find where is the list of subscribers. Nothing in the options, nothing in the Comment Manager… ? I have the last versions of WP and the plugin. It makes subscriptions but doens’t send emails… ??? I’m lost. I have reload the file, desactivate reactivate the plugin, search on forum, ask here… I’m lost. If someone can guide me, last hope.
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Gerhard Lehnhoff wrote:
Indeed your suggestion indicated the path to the solution although it didn’t work for me exactly as you described. My subscribe-to-comments-pt_BR.mo file had to be placed within the plugin folder, not externally. And I had to rename it as you suggested.
So, to anyone who is following this thread, here’s what has worked for me:
1. Rename the .mo file adding the proper suffix according to your wp-config.php file, as Gerhard suggested. In my case, the .mo file is now:
subscribe-to-comments-pt_BR.mo
2. Place it together with the php file itself in the same folder — not externally, not in “extras” folder (as the instructions say you to do).
Voilá!
Ah yes, it must be said: I’m using version 2.1.1 with WordPress 2.1.2.
Good luck to you all!
- Marcelo
Hi. I installed it and everything is ok.
But, no followup emails. So, basically it doesn’t sends emails. Can you please provide help on this?
Thanks a lot.
Got exactly the same problem.
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I just can’t get this to work.
A user can click the button to subscribe to a comment, but they do not receive an email saying that they’ve been subscribed nor do they go to any subscriptions options page. In the previous version, I believe this page appeared immediately after subscribing. Also, there used to be a button to click that said, “manage my subscriptions” but I have no idea what the link to that would be so that I can include it in the label.
I’m using the 2.1.1 plugin version on WP 2.2.1.
I don’t know much about sql, but i’ve had a thought that maybe if this plugin is creating tables in the WP database, would it somehow be conflicting with the previous version of this plugin that was running?
Also, when i did my test comment earlier on this site, i got a “fatal error”. bleh.
ok, i’ve just found that i do get the emails when someone comments after me, and in that email is a link for managing your subscriptions. BUT, in the previous version, wasn’t there a way to do this after leaving a comment? I thought there was a link on the site.
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can anybody have a solution
for the fact emails don’t come?
everything else works as expected
but no emails are sent.
It`s my favourite plugin!!!
Respekt man!
people making comments to come back and respond to others comments!
It was acknowledged elsewhere on this post that Subscribe-to-comments v2.1.1 is NOT working on a “fresh install” of WP2.2.1 (versus “upgrade” to wp2.2.1) due to some compatibility issues.
Does any know has this problem been resolved?
Thanks.
yeah, it doesn’t work. it doesn’t send emails. WP 2.2.1
Are there any known problems with this plugin and the new vwersion WP 2.3?
The plugin doesn’t work with the last version of WP. It’s my conclusion. It’s catastrophic but it’s the truth.
I could not get the email notification to work either. I have wordpress 2.2.2 Anyone know of a fix? Thanks!!
Hi, does your plugin support email opt-in?
Regards,
Jo
It seems it doesn’t work with WP 2.1/2.2/2.3
Does someone know if the plugin will be updated or if there is no more work did on it by the author ? To know if I must wait of search something else, less complete but whitch works…
It’s egoist but this plugin is a really “must have” fonctionnality and my site is very less usefull whitout it !
Does anyone know about alternatives?
I agree it’s a must have.
thank you for your work, all works deserves a thank you
Hi Mark,
I’ve installed your plugin ,but I don’t see a way from the WP dashboard to adjust the smtp host settings.
Is there something in the source I need to change?
I’m on a hosting service (webfaction) where there are multiple smtp servers, and it looks like your script is not finding any of them automatically
Mike.
P.s. I just started as a blogger for b5media this week
LOL, ironically I forgot to turn on the ‘notify me ..’ checkbox for my previous comment
Mike
Ok, I looked through your code and it looks like ‘wp_mail’ is what sends the mail .. correct?
So I guess I need to check into how to change my WP installation email settings ?
Mike
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Hi,
The pluggin seems to work alright. I’m using WP 2.2 My only problem is when users click on “Manage” my subscription from the comment from, it won’t show the subscription page.
When I click the link from the email, for example:
http://mysite.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&email=myemailaccount%40gmail.com&key=9311895c4da47f6149035dc88ba5033dthis would work fine. But from the comment from, the code would look like this:
http://mysite.com/?wp-subscription-manager=1&email=myemailaccount%40gmail.com&key=9311895c4da47f6149035dc88ba5033d&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fmysite.com%2F2007%2F10%2F02%2Fbudaya-kerja-manusia-indonesia%2Fthis wouldn’t work.
If change the link to be the same as the one in email, it works fine.
My question is, how can i fix this?
great plugin. Thanks for your hard work.
sorry, I am checking that your comments plugin work here… it didn’t work in my WP 2.3…
hmmm.. it seems that it doesn’t work in my blog because of “bad behaviour”. when I click on “manage your subscriptions” I get an error… I have to look more into this
Hi,
First of all, great plugin!! Thanks!
I was wondering, I just upgraded to WP2.3 and I noticed that the check box was placed in the bottom of the window (I don’t know if it was the same with earlier editions) and not directly under the comment space.
It’s a bit difficult to explain since I don’t know the exact terminology but you can check this on my site.
I was hoping that there is possibility to place the checkbox directly under the comment space.
Thanks
Vincent
Just upgraded to WP 2.3 Users trying to manage their subscription get a page “You may not access this page without a valid key.” This is not the same URL conversion problem as written in the comments May 31-June 3, 2007.