Subscribe to Comments

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!

Download

Latest version: Download Subscribe to Comments v2.1.2 [zip]

This plugin has been downloaded 191156 times.

Installation

  1. Put subscribe-to-comments.php into [wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/
  2. Go into the WordPress admin interface and activate the plugin
  3. 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(); ?>
  4. 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(); ?>

FAQ

Q. How can I tell if it’s working?
A.

  1. Log out of WordPress
  2. 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.
  3. Leave a second comment using a different e-mail address than the one you used in step 2 (it can be a bogus address).
  4. This should trigger a notification to the first address you used.

Q. I’d like the subscription checkbox to be checked by default. Can I do that?
A. Not anymore. But the checkbox status will be remembered on a per-user basis.

Q. My subscription checkbox shows up in a strange place. How do I fix it?
A. Try unchecking the CSS “clear” option. Beyond that, you’re on your own with CSS positioning.

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5,061 Responses to “Subscribe to Comments”

  1. Ivan says:

    If you are replying to another commenter, click the “Reply to button under their comment to help the conversation have a better flow!

  2. NightWalker says:

    Rather cool site you’ve got here. Thanx for it. I like such topics and anything connected to this matter. BTW, why don’t you change design :) .

  3. I use it on my site. It comes thosond of traffic. I suggest to everybody ;)

  4. Thanx for it. I like such topics and anything connected to this matter. BTW, why don’t you change design

  5. Pedro Cruz (subscribed) says:

    I translated your plugin to Brazilian Portuguese via .pot file. But I don’t know how to activate this transalatio, the plugin keep showing up as in the original, english. Could you help me?

    If you want, I may disponibilize the translation to you. :)

    • Aldo (subscribed) says:

      In the plugin’s file, change this line (826 in this moment)

      load_plugin_textdomain('subscribe-to-comments');

      into this

      load_plugin_textdomain('subscribe-to-comments', false, dirname( plugin_basename( __FILE__ ) ) );

      Then put your language file (for example, subscribe-to-comments-it_IT.mo) in the root directory of the plugin ([wordpress_dir]/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments) and not in extras directory.

  6. eitan (subscribed) says:

    Hello,

    It is a great plugin, but when using WP 2.9.1 and upgrading this plugin from version 2.1 to 2.1.2 – the upgrade is OK, but the access to both pages of the plugin in the admin section is resutling an error of “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
    Do you have a fix for this?

  7. bswfeb25 (subscribed) says:

    Is this plugin compatible with WP 2.9.1???

  8. mirc inidr (subscribed) says:

    [...] Subscribe To Comments This plugin lets readers subscribe to certain comments if they choose. When a reader subscribes they get notification of new comments sent to their inbox. You can also take this plugin and email the readers who have subscribed. Download this plugin here. [...]

  9. I just wanted to stop in and tell you that I really enjoyed this post. It was full of useful information and creativity, both of which we always can use more of.

  10. Desmond says:

    Hi!

    First of all, your plugin rocks! It’s very useful and it just saved me a lot of hours of work ’cause I’m developing a website with WordPress and my client needed something like your plugin do.

    Well, I was wondering if there’s any way to display the top subscribed posts in a page, you know, to create a top section.

    Thanks in advance,

    Regards,
    Desmond.

  11. Just getting into blogging and wordpress so installed this on my wite – Thanks!

  12. Lika (subscribed) says:

    Is this plugin compatible with WP 2.9.1???

  13. Love this Blog and I am using this Plugin
    on my wordpress now. Thank you.

  14. Bernardo Ramirez (subscribed) says:

    I would like to localize it to portuguese. Can you explain what I need to do?

  15. HAB (subscribed) says:

    Feature suggestion:

    There are many members of a couple of my blogs who would like to be auto-subscribed to comments from ALL posts.

    Although I use the “Subscribe to comments” plugin, it still requires them to remember to check off the “subscribe” box for each and every post. They find it annoying to have to remember and would like to be auto-subscribed.

    Would it be difficult to add that feature? Regardless, I love your plug-in. Thx!

  16. Maxence says:

    Hello guys, as my mate, I just wanted to stop in and tell you that I really enjoyed this post. It was full of useful information and creativity, both of which we always can use more of. Thanks ;)

  17. Ray Ebersole (subscribed) says:

    When I try to activate it I get the error: Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

  18. nice knowledge thanks for writing, hope you had a good new year.

  19. JP says:

    Thank you the plug in is working perfectly so far. So easy to install! Thanks again!!!

  20. kevinhu (subscribed) says:

    good plugin

  21. I find it a delight to return by here and find you active. Love to read your most recent posts.

  22. oyun says:

    Thank you the plug in is working perfectly so far. So easy to install! Thanks again!!!

  23. ghott7 (subscribed) says:

    thanksss

    but PLS how to activate

  24. tech (subscribed) says:

    hi. im using your plugin and i have a problem. the checkbox and the text are not in the same line.

    is this because of css? please advise. thank you

  25. marco trezzini (subscribed) says:

    hi,
    sorry to bother you,
    but I’m using WP 2.9.1, and I have a problem.
    when not login, by making comment and subscribing to followups I get a meesage “you are looking for something that isn’t there” the link is blogurl/first-comment

    when there’s already a comment and I?m login it works fine, but when not login it doesn’t write the message.

    Could you please be so kind to give me a hint?
    thank you,
    all the best
    yours
    marco trezzini

  26. bonnie says:

    The plug-in has a glitch.
    I am unable to remove subscriptions.

    I follow the procedure, checking the boxes of the posts someone is subscribed to, and nothing happens. The person remains subscribed to the post.

    Have you fixed this glitch?

  27. Mac (subscribed) says:

    Great comment tool!

    Quick questions if anyone has the time and answer:

    Is there anyway to remove the Blog’s Title from the Subject line of emails?

    I found the “New Comment On:” line 606, but can’t seem to identify how the blog title is being inserted into the subject line of the email notification.

    I’d only like to have it say “New Comment On: ”

    Thanks in advance for the assistance.

    Mac

  28. Jordi says:

    I wish comments could automatically be subscribed to with a normal rss feed.

  29. Gemma Wild says:

    I am using Wordpress 2.9.1.

    I ticked the ‘Do a CSS “clear” on the subscription checkbox/message (uncheck this if the checkbox/message appears in a strange location in your theme)’ to see what it would look like in my theme. It put the tick box on a different line to the text so I have unticked the box and saved. Only trouble is, it remains permanently ticked now! I have tried several times to untick it and save, refreshed the page and hey presto, still ticked!

    So now my theme looks wrong, please could you fix this glitch and submit an update?

    Thanks!

  30. Anna Hayward says:

    I just saw your plugin on a site and spontaneously planned to install it and I’m sure in another 2 days, It’s gonna be online Coz right now I’m out of city

    thanks for making such a useful plugin :)

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