WordPress Plugin: Subscribe to comments
Now that's a very neat plugin. Allow your users to be receive an email notification whenever someone adds a new comment to a post they're watching. It's pretty much like a "subscribe to thread" for forums.
And here is another plugin that does the same thing.
Think of it!
This is an extremely powerful tool that makes your users coming back again and again to your blog. Viral. Free. Automated. What more can you ask for?
A must for serious traffic building!
The more I think about it, the more it seems the gap between blogs, forums and regular websites is getting thinner day by day. We want to publish more information, faster, in a more user friendly way and let everyone know about it and interact with us.
What would be an appropriate term for the mega-websites of the future? Information vortals? Hmm…
April 11th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
I want to make a friend with you. Thanks you
May 14th, 2006 at 4:32 am
I checked out Subscribe2 but unless I missed something I do not see that it allows users to subscribe to comments on individual posts. It appears to just allow users to get mails when new posts are published.
What “notify me of followup comments via e-mail” are you using? Any trouble with sending out mass emails with your webhost?
May 14th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Phuong, consider it done
Scott, unless I am missing your point here, that’s exactly what this plugin is supposed to do. You see a post you like, write a comment (or not), and would like to receive automatic notifications each time there’s a new comment added to it.
I’ve never had problems with my webhost, mail or otherwise related. That could be because I have a dedicated server, or it could be because I don’t send mass emails from it
May 15th, 2006 at 8:29 pm
Figured it out. Subscribe2 is for notification of new posts - not really the tool for comment notification on individual posts. Subscribe-to-comments does exactly that - subscribes you to the post for any additional comments. Very much like forum threads.
So far as the mass emails… it’s pretty webhost-centric what they consider spammy. If you get a high volume of subscribers it’s probably worth checking with your webhost to make sure you don’t get blacklisted.
May 16th, 2006 at 9:14 am
Scott, you are of course right regarding the two mail plugins.
And thanks for the heads up regarding large volume of emails. I’ll keep it in mind for future.