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 233522 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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  1. [...] Oh, and all the late-night coding has led to some improvements around this site, such as several new WordPress plugins. The most notable of these is the Subscribe To Comments Plugin, which will send you an email alert whenever a comment that you’re subscribed to is replied to. In other words, when you leave a comment, check the “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail” option to be notified of followup comments to your comments via email (uh, duh). [...]

  2. Matteo Raggi says:

    that’s a super idea, but when I click on the download button, I riceive this error:
    404 Not Found
    The resource requested could not be found on this server! Powered By LiteSpeed Web Server
    Lite Speed Technologies is not responsible for administration and contents of this web site!

  3. [...] Subscribe To Comments – Allows commenters to receive the comments left after theirs via e-mail. Easily customizable and managable. [...]

  4. [...] I installed a Subscribe-to-Comments plugin so that when you comment, there is a check-box at the bottom where you can select whether to receive an e-mail whenever someone replies to your comment. Additionally, if you choose not to comment, you can still put your e-mail address in the form at the bottom to receive an e-mail notification whenever someone leaves a comment. For the time being, I put the default with the check-box checked, which means you will automatically receive e-mail notification unless you uncheck it. Let me know if you like this feature, if you would rather I change the default to ‘unchecked’. // Used for showing and hiding user information in the comment form function ShowUtils() { document.getElementById(“authorinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(“showinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(“hideinfo”).style.display = “”; } function HideUtils() { document.getElementById(“authorinfo”).style.display = “none”; document.getElementById(“showinfo”).style.display = “”; document.getElementById(“hideinfo”).style.display = “none”; } [...]

  5. [...] Subscribe to Comments 2.0 [ Tempus Fugit | TxFx.net ] (tags: wordpress plugins subscribe comments) [...]

  6. Dayna says:

    Is this plugin WordPress 2.0 compatible? I would like to use on my version 2.0 :)

  7. Mark says:

    Matteo,
    Sorry about that… the WordPress server was being moved when you tried to download. It’s good now.

    Dayna,
    If you get a notification for this comment that I am leaving, then yes, it works with WordPress 2.0! I’ve not heard any reports of it breaking, and it is a fairly popular plugin.

  8. Dayna says:

    Thank you for your reply. It worked well with WordPress 2.0. :)

  9. Eddie says:

    Hello,

    I used the comment plugin. And it works great, but i have a question. If i loged in Wp and after that i go to the mainpage and place a comment on a article. I get the following message:

    You may not access this page without a valid key.

    How can i fix that?

    greetings,

    Eddie

  10. Eddie says:

    I forget to tell that i get that message “You may not access this page without a valid key.” when i want to manage myne subscriptions…

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  12. Rich Tatum says:

    Hi, I’m using subscribe-to-commens with wp-phpmailer 1.6.1 (http://www.coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/) with WordPress 2.0.1-alpha. I just noticed that attempts to post comments result in the following error:

    Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to mail.tatumweb.com:25 in /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105

    Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to tatumweb.com:25 in /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105

    Warning: fsockopen(): php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known in /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105

    Warning: fsockopen(): unable to connect to smtp.tatumweb.com:25 in /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-phpmailer/class.smtp.php on line 105

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-phpmailer/class.smtp.php:105) in /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php on line 194

    Do you think this is a problem with wp-phpmailer (I’ve left a comment there), with the pluggable functions file, or with subscribe-to-comments?

    Not sure what to fix here … I’m not even sure whether the problem began with version 2.0.

    Odd.

    Rich.

  13. Mark says:

    Definitely a problem with wp-phpmailer.

  14. Rich Tatum says:

    Thanks for the quick response.

    I poked around and found that my ISP is blocking unauthenticated posts via port 25. Nothing I could do would authenticate, so I checked some more and found that I needed to use a totally different port for authentication. Now it works. Thanks, and sorry for the blather.

  15. Eddie says:

    On myne site you see in de commentbox the word Abonneer and then the checkbox.

    In Safari it looks good, but in Firefox and IE the text Abonneer is out of the commentbox and you see also first the checkbox and then the text?

    A have also a question of it is possible to see:

    Abonneer, checkbox and after that also text in one line (in the bleu commentbox).

    I hope someone can help me…

    http://www.applenieuws.nl

    Greetings from the Netherlands,

    Eddie

  16. Mark says:

    You need to move the comment hook up into the fieldset, and remove style="clear: both;" in the opening paragraph tag.

  17. joe sleeper says:

    nice plugin – there is one problem that i have. the way that i have my wp template setup is that the header goes above the content in the code, so the way the subscription manager page looks is that my menus and sidebar are under the content area. how can i change it so that it goes above the content area?

  18. Haplo says:

    Hi!
    It appears that no one has asked this before but:

    1. Where exactly the email addresses of the subscribed/blocked people are saved?
    2. Is there a form for the admin to see a list of all the mails with its subscriptions? It seems a bit of a pain to check mail by mail to see if any has subscriptions.

    Thanks for your time.

  19. Mark says:

    The e-mail addresses can be in one of two places… the comment itself, or the post’s custom fields. It depends on whether they subscribed and commented, or subscribed without commenting.

    There isn’t currently a built-in way for the admin to see all the e-mails and the entries to which they are subscribed.

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  30. Mark Wegner says:

    Hi, I can’t get Subscribe to Comments 2.0/2.02 to send emails. I’ve tested it according to the readme and also have tried generating emails by using the “Change E-mail Address” function in manage->subscriptions. None of these have worked and I’ve checked server logs and they were never generated. What sort of things can I try to get it working?
    I’m using wordpress 1.5.2, and the other email notification plugin I have activated works.

  31. kurt says:

    do you know there is a small compatability issue with wp 2.0? It is even commented on in the WordPress Codex compatability thread here: http://codex.wordpress.org/User:Matt/2.0_Plugin_Compatibility. I love your plugin. Its one of my favorites. That is the only reason I ask! When I visit my admin and hit manage–>subscriptions, I get an error:

    Warning: sg_subscribe_admin(/home/kurtdamr/public_html/wp-subscription-manager.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/kurtdamr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 839

    Warning: sg_subscribe_admin(/home/kurtdamr/public_html/wp-subscription-manager.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/kurtdamr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 839

    Warning: sg_subscribe_admin(): Failed opening ‘/home/kurtdamr/public_html/wp-subscription-manager.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/kurtdamr/public_html/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 839

    Thanks!

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  33. Mark says:

    Kurt, that just means that you didn’t put wp-subscription-manager.php in the WP root folder. You probably deleted it when you upgrade to WP 2.0 (you’re not the only one :-) )

  34. Mark says:

    Mark, what address do you have set as the “From” address? Is it on your domain? Some hosts don’t allow you to set “From” addresses that aren’t on your domain.

  35. kurt says:

    Mark, you were absolutely right. I missed that part! Thanks for being so helpful and for such an excellent plugin. Now, If I could only figure out how to use the gravatar plugin in wp 2.0 with my theme! Its too advanced for me!

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  37. Mark Wegner says:

    Mark,
    I have the from address to be on my domain, other emails that use the same from address domain (with auto-generated wordpress emails and the subscribe2 plugin) are working.

    I can see that people are subscribed post comments, so I know at least that data is being stored.

    Mark, what address do you have set as the “From” address? Is it on your domain? Some hosts don’t allow you to set “From” addresses that aren’t on your domain.

  38. [...] added full support for the great Subscribe-to-Comments-Plugin of of Mark Jaquith and Jennifer [...]

  39. [...] 04.01.06: Subscribe to comments eingebaut. [...]

  40. Rich Tatum says:

    I seem to be having problems with this plugin operating with wp-cache. I love this plugin, and would be loathe to do without, but my page is currently breaking if you return to the page you’ve visited previously, the cache is served up and an error occurs:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: show_manual_subscription_form() in /home/tatumweb/public_html/blog/wp-content/cache/wp-cache-e46539f39668c74157d357836212362a.html on line 685

    I’ve wrapped the functions with an mfunc wrapper, but possibly I’ve done it wrong. This is what I have:

    <!–mfunc show_subscription_checkbox() –>
    <?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?>
    <!–/mfunc–>

    and ….

    <!–mfunc show_manual_subscription_form() –>
    <?php show_manual_subscription_form(); ?>
    <!–/mfunc–>

    This is supposed to force wp and wp-cache to process the functions ofthis plugin before delivering the cached result.

    Any ideas?

    Regards,

    Rich
    BlogRodent

  41. This is a good plugin. The only thing that I’d advise for a future revision would be to allow modification of the emails that are sent out. Although I did this myself by directly editing the PHP, it was a bit of a haul.

    Great work!

  42. Mark says:

    Rich,

    That’s not working because the plugin isn’t loaded when the page is cached. It’s not going to work dynamically while using a cache plugin.

  43. [...] Es tut mir wirklich leid, dass es zur Zeit kaum inhaltsschwere neue Einträge gibt. Nur immer dieses Meta-Geschwafel. Wie jetzt schon wieder: Ich habe gerade das Subscribe to comments-Plugin installiert. via Neues Plugin installiert: Subscribe to Comments. Der Verehrte Leser kann jetzt, nachdem er denn zu einem aktiven Kommentierer geworden ist, sich über weitere Beiträge zu dem von ihm kommentierten Eintrag anmelden. Er bekommt dann eine Nachricht per email. Natürlich gibt es die Möglichkeit die Anmeldungen zu verwalten. [...]

  44. Mark Wegner says:

    Mark, is it possible that PHP settings could cause the plugin not to work? How can I test if the plugin is loaded when a user visits a page? I checked, and PHP is configured with “nocache” so I’m not worried about caching, but is ther anything else?

    Mark,
    I have the from address to be on my domain, other emails that use the same from address domain (with auto-generated wordpress emails and the subscribe2 plugin) are working.

    I can see that people are subscribed post comments, so I know at least that data is being stored.

    Mark, what address do you have set as the “From” address? Is it on your domain? Some hosts don’t allow you to set “From” addresses that aren’t on your domain.

  45. Mark says:

    Mark, try this:

    Edit the plugin. Look for the function send_email(… and within that function put two forward slashes // in front of the two lines that start with $headers.

    Let me know if that works. If not, would you be willing to give me FTP access to that file so I can troubleshoot it? What’s happening is that wp_mail() is returning false, which means that mail() is returning false. I think it may be the headers, for some reason.

  46. Mark Wegner says:

    Mark, hey it works! Thanks a bunch. Without modifying the header I can’t set the from name and address and it defaults to the admin’s email, but that’s ok, since the emails actually send! Thank you so much fo ryour time to help fix this.

    Mark, try this:

    Edit the plugin. Look for the function send_mail(… and within that function put two forward slashes // in front of the two lines that start with $headers.

  47. Hi there,

    Just found this awsome plugin. I just wondered whether, in admin, I should be seeing a list of subscribed users or just the search for subscribed users in admin – manage – subscriptions. I see just the latter.

    Also I have a custom comments form that has a javascript to stop people posting blank emails. I take it users won’t be able to subscribe without comments because of this.

    Keep up the good work.

    Karl

  48. [...] ・Extended Live Archives or Super Archives ・FlickrRSS ・Gravatars ・Favatars ・Conversational Categories ・Time Since ・Related Posts ・Brian’s Latest Comments ・del.icio.us cached ・Subscribe to Comments ・Bunny’s Technorati Tags [...]

  49. Terrin says:

    Hello:

    I wanted to install this plugin for my step fathers site, but for some reason it is not working. I put the two files where they belong. I activated the plugin, I visited the option page for the plugin, and I tested the plugin using multiple email addresses. I am running WordPress 1.5.2, and using the theme Kiwi. Any suggestions?

  50. Terrin says:

    Hello:

    I wanted to install this plugin for my step fathers site, but for some reason it is not working. I put the two files where they belong. I activated the plugin, I visited the option page for the plugin, and I tested the plugin using multiple email addresses. I am running WordPress 1.5.2, and using the theme Kiwi. Any suggestions?

    PS his website is Watchingpolitics.com, if that will help (I am not responsible for the content).

  51. [...] Version 0.9.2 ============= + small changes at several stylesheets + added full support for the great Subscribe-to-Comments-Plugin of Mark Jaquith and Jennifer (http://txfx.net/code/wordpress/subscribe-to-comments/) + added an additional optinal scheme, demonstrating lefthanded sidebar columns [...]

  52. Todd Huss says:

    Has this plugin been updated for wordpress 2.0? Great work!

  53. Mark says:

    Todd,
    The current version works with WordPress 2.0

    Terrin,
    Try the advice I posted in this comment… this will be fixed in a future version.

    Karl,
    No list of subscribed users in admin… although I may add it as it is a popular request. The “subscribe without commenting” feature uses a new form (which is why it must be placed outside of your existing comments form), so your Javascript will probably not interfere.

  54. [...] I’m trying out Mark Jaquith’s subscribe-to-comments WordPress plugin, which allows users to get email updates whenever there is a new comment to a post they also commented on. My limited testing shows it basically works, but if you should have occasion to comment then I would appreciate you test driving it too. [...]

  55. sunny says:

    kindly lemme know how can i see the list of subcribed people in my admin panel!

    Its a imp feature.. buddy plz implement it!

  56. ‘No list of subscribed users in admin’

    OK thanks, I’m not really botthered who has subscribed but it would be nice to see the numbers of who is subscibed.

    All the best
    Karl

  57. Mark says:

    It’s coming. I’m just very busy. I found this rough script kicking around from sometime last year… maybe it’ll hold you over. It’s sorted by e-mail address. Place the script in your WordPress directory and point your browser at it.

  58. sunny says:

    ok dude.. thanks a lot.. lemme try that.. also plz plz work on the new version soon.

    btw.. can you tell what plugin u used that it shows blogauthor and subcribed for others! Also plz include this also in the next version!

  59. Mark says:

    That’s been supported in Subscribe to Comments for over 18 months.

    STC has a comment_subscription_status() function that returns true or false for each comment.

    Example:

    <?php
     if ( $comment->comment_author_email == 'author.email@address.com' ) { ?>
     <span class="blogauthor">
    <?php } elseif ( comment_subscription_status() ) {	 ?>
    <span class="comment-author-subscribed">
    <?php } else { ?>
    <span class="comment-author">
    <?php } ?>
    <?php comment_author_link(); ?></span>
  60. sunny says:

    I tried your rough script placing it in the root folder of wordpress and went to link:

    xyz.com/wp-subscriptions-viewer.php

    it gives the error:

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ***/public_html/wp-subscriptions-viewer.php on line 10

    Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ***/public_html/wp-subscriptions-viewer.php on line 20

  61. Mark says:

    That just means you have no subscriptions. Like I said, it’s rough. ;-)

  62. Sunny, you sure you put it in the root of the wordpress folder as itworked just fine for me, where wp-config sits?

  63. sunny says:

    buddy actually i am very new to php stuff… the image blog author and subcribed automatically appears?

    and where to place the code that you gave me above!

    plz help a little on that.. i am new to php.. don’t mind! :P

  64. sunny says:

    yes karl is put in the root folder.. incase no one has subcribed it, i’l tell my friend to subcribe and see if its works.

    I am using wordpress 2.0

  65. Karl Bedingfield says:

    ‘the image blog author and subcribed automatically appears’

    I think that is a bespoke design by the author. As standard you get a hyperlink saying ‘you are the author’ or ‘you are subscribed to this thread’

    Kick me if I am wrong :)

  66. Sian says:

    I keep getting:

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: is_do_not_mail() in /home/virtual/site60/fst/var/www/html/wp-subscription-manager.php on line 50

    after I type in my e-mail address as requested, so are other commenters who return to either unsubscribe. Any ideas?

  67. koz says:

    Thank you again for that plugin, completely operationnal with WP 2.0.1,and for the info given to put back wp-subscription manager at the root… ;-)

  68. [...] for WordPress, there’s the great “Subscribe to Comments 2.0 ”: it adds a checkbox to the comment post form so the commenter can subscribe for notifications of new postings (an unsubscribe-link is sent in every notification mail, together even with a personalised link  to an interface where the subscriber can then manage the rest of his or her own subscriptions). [...]

  69. Mark says:

    Sian,
    You must be using wp-subscription-manager.php from the old Subscribe to Comments 1.x … please replace with the version in the 2.x version. The is_do_not_mail() function hasn’t been in use since I rewrote the plugin almost a year ago.

  70. [...] I installed the Subscribe to Comments 2 plugin so that one can receive a notification via email when there are new comments on a topic. [...]

  71. Sian says:

    Mark I downloaded the above zip file and everything is now working with no problems. The only question I have is where do I upload the subscribe-to-comments.pot?

  72. Mark says:

    Sian,
    That file is just to assist translators. You don’t have to upload it anywhere.

  73. morpheous says:

    hello!
    indeed thats a great plug in!
    the prob is that i cant translate it… i go to the ubscribe-to-comments.php and change some stuff to see the result and it doesnt changes anything!
    what do i do wrong?

  74. morpheous says:

    im am changing everything on subscribe-to-comments.php (what it concerns text) and only one or two are working!!!

  75. TrustOnlyMulder says:

    Hi, I noticed that the email that goes out to a commenter indicates the who is and IP of the person who commented after them.

    Is there anyway to edit the email formatting to customize the look?

  76. [...] I installed the Wp-Email plugin for “Email this post” as well as Watershed Studio’s “Email notification” plugin and Tempus Fugit’s “Subscribe to comments” plugin. [...]

  77. Christoph says:

    Mark, I installed v. 2.0.2 of your plugin. Everything works fine except the “Manage your subcription” link leads to this:

    Not Found
    The requested URL /fastcgist/php4/wp-subscription-manager.php was not found on this server.

    Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    Apache PH/SH Ext./1.3.33 Server at http://www.efpma.org Port 80

    What’s wrong?

  78. Mark says:

    Christoph, did you put wp-subscription-manager.php in your WordPress directory? It looks like it just can’t find it there.

  79. Christoph says:

    Mark, yes I did. In the meantime I deactivated all my plugins and changed back to the Kubrik theme but the error remained. I also tested .htaccess but that is the same as on my other blog — where your plugin works nicely. So maybe it’s a server thing? I can give you a test account for the site to see the effect yourself if you send me an email.

    To repeat the main facts: The link points to:
    http://www.efpma.org/wp-subscription-manager.php?email=freitag@
    bogk.org&key=3b040a1d498ab7afa12c7216b3313fb9
    &ref=http://www.efpma.org/2006/02/20/noch-n-gedicht/

    (I manually added 2 line breaks) and I have made sure that

    http://www.efpma.org/wp-subscription-manager.php

    exists and has the same file permissions as all the other wp-xyz files.

  80. Mark says:

    Sounds like a server issue.

    http://www.efpma.org/2006/02/20/noch-n-gedicht/

    gives the same error about index.php not existing.

  81. Christoph says:

    Mark, you could not jump to the page linked to above because that post was hidden by the plugin “Category Access”. Anyway that was not the problem. The problem was permalinks. When I reverted to WP default permalink structure everything worked again. Do you have any idea why? It seems to work on your blog. Any suggestion?

  82. [...] Thanks to the cryptically named Subscribe to Comments plugin for the functionality. [...]

  83. Mark says:

    Christoph,

    Looks like you figured it out, because it’s working? What did you do, for future reference?

  84. Christoph says:

    Well, I did not really solve the problem. On my site http://www.efpma.org your plugin only works if I “switch off” permalinks, i.e. set permalink structure to “default”. I first thought this was a bug in WP 2.0 but WP 2.0.1 shows the same behaviour.

    Interestingly a custom permalink structure such as “/%post_id%/%postname%/” does work on my other site (www.parenthese.de) which is hosted at another provider.

    So I will contact my provider on http://www.efpma.org again to solve the issue. In the meantime any help concerning .htaccess rules and mod_rewrite would be appreciated. I have no clue about these.

  85. Christoph says:

    Update: I have tracked the error down (almost). Your plugin calles wp-blog-header.php which in turn calls wp-config.php. This works irrespective of the permalink setting.

    wp-blog-header.php then goes on to call the function wp() which is defined in wp-includes/wp-functions.php. This one in turn has just before been called upon by wp-config.php with the “help” of wp-settings.php.

    The function wp() fails if I set permalink structure to anything else but “default”. Since wp() seems to be involved in creating the URI to pass to the server there must be a problem in the creation of this URI.

    However I am at a loss here because there are just too many functions that build upon each other. I suppose it has to do with a server variable that my provider’s server doesn’t deliver, something like $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] or the like. I am not into Apache so I can’t say which one is the culprit.

    If someone has any idea it would help me pin down my provider and/or find a workaround. I stress again: Your plugin does work on my private blog http://www.parenthese.de.

    Cheers, Christoph

  86. Christoph says:

    Mark, I solved it! It was actually very simple. All I had to do was set the server to use PHP5 instead of PHP4. At last. Googling for the right keywords was the key … ;-) .

    As a side-effect my site responds much faster now, great!

  87. Mark says:

    Wow! That’s probably the first time that moving to PHP5 ever solved a problem! :-D

  88. sahas says:

    how do i view all the subscriptions that have been made? i want to be able to see the email addresses of the people who have signed up to posts on my site. The only way i can see to do it is to enter the email of the person. but since i dont know any of the email address how do i do it so that i can view an entire list.

    please help, thanks

  89. Mark says:

    You can use this script for the time being. This is a very popular request, so this functionality will be going into the plugin eventually.

  90. Martin says:

    Hey Mark,

    regarding your comment in the other post, I just wanted to say this:

    You’re welcome – the plugin is really great and I’m looking forward to the next release.. ;)

    Maybe there’s a chance that you tell me something about a date for the next release? I don’t want something like “March, 8th 2006″, but something like “within 6 or 8 weeks” would be great.. :)

    As a suggestion, I’d like to have another way of the subscription-manager.
    The reason is that my theme (Firefox from hot-screensaver.com) isn’t that much compatible with your plugin.. :(
    I mean, being admin and clicking “Manage subscriptions” results in an error telling me:

    XML Parsing Error: no element found
    Location: http://www.problemzone.net/wp-subscription-manager.php?ref=http://www.
    problemzone.net/2006/02/03/its-time-for-just-a-little-sign/
    Line Number 282, Column 1:
    ^

    (I made a manual line break due to it would break the layout if I wouldn’t do it.. ;) )

    So it would be great if I could define something like at any location of the site to see the subscription-manager.. :)

    But maybe I must dig through the theme-code (its code is sometimes a little bit confusing.. ;) ) to get this working.. :)

    Kindly regards,
    Martin.. :D

  91. [...] By complete fluke (I was replying to “Fed up with Java, switching to a new language” – it’s funny) and discovered a “subscribe” option. A quick Google search later and I found the Subscribe to Comments 2.0 plugin for WordPress. It’s installed now, so all you have to do is select the tick-box (aka checkbox) and comments posted against your comment will be emailed to you! There’s even an option to “unsubscribe” if/when you want to turn this off. [...]

  92. [...] Schon lange wollte das Plugin “Subscribe to Comments” hier im Blog einbauen, hatte es aber immer wieder verschoben. Nachdem Robert nun heute in einem Post mal wieder bemängelte, dass dies bei den meisten Blogs fehle, hab’ ich es nun endlich eingebaut. [...]

  93. [...] Subscribe to Comments (version 2.0.2) [...]

  94. [...] Subscribe To Comments 2.0.2Geef je bezoekers de mogelijkheid via e-mail op de hoogte te blijven van nieuwe reacties. [...]

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