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Friends, welcome! Now you can follow the updates of the Free Webmaster's Blog by subscribing to notifications of new comments to articles. I implemented this feature using the well-known Subscribe to comments plugin. Very often, a subscription just helps out.

Now, for me, the cherished “subscribe” checkbox is an indispensable condition for commenting, because if I leave a comment, then I’m interested in the author’s opinion that he will answer, therefore I prefer to receive notifications by mail.

From a visitor's point of view...

For example, you have a question about an article, you can’t agree with the author, or you just want to talk about this one. You leave a comment and wait for a response.

But there is one BUT. You won't have to wait a minute or two. To prevent the waiting from becoming tedious, the exhausting action can be done easily and simply - use the subscription offered by the plugin Subscribe to Comments.

When new comments appear, you will receive a notification of changes to your email address 😉 If the new comment is small, then all its content will be displayed in the letter. By clicking on the link you can go to the page and read the full text. It becomes possible to manage subscriptions, delete outdated ones, view the full list of topics that you follow.

To do this, you just need to check the box:

From a blogger's point of view...

At your discretion, you can change the appearance of the subscription management page, as well as the appearance of the notification letter. It is possible to use HTML tags and customize everything for yourself.

To insert a checkbox with a suggestion to subscribe, you need to after the closing tag insert line:

There is such a category of visitors that does not enter into a conversation and does not leave comments, but still expresses a desire to follow the topic. They will be able to do this by tweaking your theme's comments.php file. After the closing tag you need to insert the line:

You will get the following:

As a result, visitors will be able to subscribe to change notifications without leaving their comments, and new comments will be sent to e-mail. plugin Subscribe to Comments very interesting and useful, I advise everyone!

In order for the subscription to be checked by default, you need to perform the following steps. We find the main plugin file /wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php and the line in it:

and make sure that it is really checked="checked" and not otherwise.

Good (hopefully) day! Today I will tell you how easy and simple it is to subscribe to comments on any message on LiRu (which, of course, you have the right to read). I understand that you probably already know about this, but I was asked this question last week by two lirush players who, even with a big stretch, cannot be called "beginners".

To begin with, I want to highlight the question of where these questions came from. Previously (before the removal of "extra", or rather, duplicate links from the LiRu interface), there was a "Subscribe to comments" link under each message. But now she's gone. More precisely, it is there, but it is hard to see it. It's under the "Like" link. This link looks like this for the friends feed:

Especially for those who are not personally satisfied with my design, these and all subsequent screenshots are given for standard design.

What, did not find where to subscribe to comments to the message? Well, especially for those who did not find it, I will highlight these links:

Now you can tell how to subscribe to comments on a post.

Method number 1
Click on the link " Subscribe to comments" (red box in the screenshot above). LiRu will reload the page and show you the message:

For those who do not want the page to reload, I suggest Method number 2
Click on the button " Liked" (blue box in the screenshot above). In this case, LiRu will remember that you liked this message and will not reload the page.

How do I unsubscribe from comments on a post?
Having told how to subscribe to receive comments on a post, it would be a little rude not to tell you how to unsubscribe from them. Basically there are 3 or 4 ways to do it. Today I will tell you about one of them. And those who suddenly read this message can write others in the comments 2. At the same time, I’ll check if at least one of those who commented on it read this message.

I'll start with a note.
Note
Attention! If you unsubscribe from all comments on a post, you will still receive some comments on it. Which? The ones that are responses to your comments. You can't unsubscribe from receiving these comments for just one post. You can unsubscribe from receiving all such comments at.

In order to unsubscribe from comments, click on the "Like" link again (see screenshots at the beginning of the message). There we find a link Unsubscribe from comments" (red box in the screenshot below):

Found? Click on it. LiRu will reload the page and inform you with a message:

That's actually all.

Especially for those who are not personally satisfied with my design, these and all subsequent screenshots are given for standard design.

What, did not find where to subscribe to comments to the message? Well, especially for those who did not find it, I will highlight these links:

Now you can tell how to subscribe to comments on a post.

Method number 1
Click on the link " Subscribe to comments" (red box in the screenshot above). LiRu will reload the page and show you the message:

Found? Click on it. LiRu will reload the page and inform you with a message:

That's actually all.

Those who comment on me will immediately understand what I am writing about. After you receive a response to your comment, you receive a notification in the mail (does it come?), They say so and so, a response was received on the site and all that, unless, of course, you left your real email.

Read below about how this is done.

For example, I am a frequent guest on many blogs and actively communicate on them in the comments. And to keep all the threads of conversations, remembering on which blogs and in which topics the correspondence was conducted is unrealistic. Therefore, if I suddenly commented on someone, you answered me, and I, in turn, did not react in any way, then I apologize, but you yourself are to blame - you had to take care of automatic notification by mail, and at the same time increase the commentability of your articles.

And in this case, so everyone's favorite plugin Subscribe to Comments far from the best option, because it makes it possible to subscribe to all new comments on the article. I don’t know about you, but personally it annoys me to clear up rubble at the post office ( per day, and so on, several hundred letters have to be sorted out), when you subscribe to your head like this on some commented blog) Therefore, I almost never use this function, even though I myself have this plugin.

UPD. I was delicately broken off in the comments, reminding that this plugin also has the ability to enable the choice of a subscription option - for all messages or only for replies. However, I didn’t forget about it for a reason, the fact is that I once already tested this feature and thus I didn’t receive email notifications at all. I do not know what was the problem, but I thought that this function does not work normally. By the way, almost no one turns it on or even knows about the existence of such a possibility, so in most cases blogs subscribe only to all comments on the article.

And this is half the trouble - you can say, I signed up, so it’s my own fault, I knew what you were going for, put a tick - rake it now ( or not removed if the default is checked) 🙂

But there are such smart-ass blogs, including among my friends ( I won't point fingers🙂) where site owners check this box by default and then simply remove it from the page.

Those. so by leaving a comment on this site, you automatically become the happy owner of a subscription to all comments on the article (which most don’t care, we are primarily interested in our own person) and part-time, sracha at the post office =)

Well, well, well, nonono! It’s not good to do this and force such a subscription on people - I’m sure many are annoyed by sudden blockages in the mail. For example, I immediately unsubscribe from such a mailing list, and in the future I will think several times whether it is worth leaving comments on such a blog at all, so that later I don’t bother with unnecessary cleaning of soap.

It should be freedom of choice, at least on the Internet, whoever wants it will sign up, if I want to read other people's comments, I will go and read them on the blog myself. I understand that this is also a marketing technique to increase resource traffic, attract users to discussions, etc. however, it seems to me that the reception is very doubtful and can backfire.

I hope my call will be heard - return the tick, down with coercion! 🙂

Comment Reply Notification plugin.

Here he is, this little villain, about which, for some reason, few people know, or know, but do not use. But this is a great way to remind the commenter about your blog, and make him return in the shortest possible time, thereby maintaining the thread of the conversation and improving behavioral factors.

It was suggested to me by my comrade in arms and just a good blogger Eugene fishkalife. All the same, I can’t resist and I’ll sleep - before he also had a forced subscription to comments, which terribly infuriated me 🙂 But then he installed this useful plugin, and commenting on his blog became much more pleasant, especially since there is something to comment on =)

The purpose of his work is simple.- as soon as you receive a response to your comment, you will receive a notification letter in the mail, and only when the answer to your message personally is called feel the difference with the buggy Subscribe to Comments 🙂 As a result, everything is in order in the mail, and the mission is completed - the visitor is pleased that they are talking to him and even politely reminding him of this, so that he would not strain once again to keep everything in memory.

I won’t describe the plugin settings in detail, I think they’re not small anymore, they are elementary there - they chose in which cases to inform about the response, set up the text of the notification letter ( it is desirable to do everything in Russian, of course) and that's it, enjoy the increased blog commentability) If someone still has problems - write in the comments.

Update: It didn’t work out for free) By popular demand, I’ll briefly write how to translate the line in this plugin that displays the checkbox with a subscription to the answer.

It appears after installing the plugin, go to its settings and turn on Commenter choose to do so (default checked) in the settings, if we want to give the visitor the right to choose whether he wants to receive a response to his comment by mail ( although here you can safely select "If the answer is from the author of the post or administrator" or "Always inform")

Under the comment form, there will be such an inscription “Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail”, which it would be desirable to translate. This is done directly in the plugin file. comment-reply-notification.php.

Just open it in a text editor, find the phrase through the search Notify me of follow-up comments via email and in 2 places we replace it with the one we need, for example Notify me of a reply to my comment by e-mail. Close, save, you're done)

By the way, I myself do not have this plugin installed separately, but such a function is built into another - the tree-like comments plugin WordPress Thread Comment- it's like in advertising, 2 in 1, a universal solution for those whose templates do not support the possibility of tree-like comments and who want to set up email reply notifications.

By the way, you probably noticed that even with this plugin, I give a person the right to choose whether he wants to receive notifications by mail.

Although it’s not so scary here, if this opportunity is removed, at least there will be no blockages in the mail for sure.

What plugin do you use to notify your commenters?

Read below about how this is done.

UPD. I was delicately broken off in the comments, reminding that this plugin also has the ability to enable the choice of the subscription option - for all messages or only for replies. However, I didn’t forget about it for a reason, the fact is that I once already tested this feature and thus I didn’t receive email notifications at all. I do not know what was the problem, but I thought that this function does not work normally. By the way, almost no one turns it on or even knows about the existence of such a possibility, so in most cases blogs subscribe only to all comments on the article.

And this is half the trouble - you can say, I signed up, so it’s my own fault, I knew what you were going for, put a tick - rake it now ( or not removed if the default is checked) 🙂

But there are such smart-ass blogs, including among my friends ( I won't point fingers🙂) where site owners check this box by default and then simply remove it from the page.

It should be freedom of choice, at least on the Internet, whoever wants to will sign up, if I want to read other people's comments, I will go and read them on the blog myself. I understand that this is also a marketing technique to increase resource traffic, attract users to discussions, etc. however, it seems to me that the reception is very doubtful and can backfire.

I hope my call will be heard - return the tick, down with coercion! 🙂

Comment Reply Notification plugin.

The meaning of his work is simple - as soon as you receive a response to your comment, then you receive a notification letter in the mail, and only when the answer is personally to your message - it is called feel the difference with the buggy Subscribe to Comments 🙂 As a result, the mail is in order, and the mission is completed - the visitor is pleased that they are talking to him and even politely reminding him of this, so that he would not strain once again to keep everything in memory.

I won’t describe the plugin settings in detail, I think they’re not small anymore, they are elementary there - they chose in which cases to inform about the response, set up the text of the notification letter ( it is desirable to do everything in Russian, of course) and that's all, enjoy the increased blog commentability) If someone still has problems - write in the comments.

Update: It didn’t work out for free) By popular demand, I’ll briefly write how to translate the line in this plugin that displays the checkbox with a subscription to the answer.

By the way, you probably noticed that even with this plugin, I give a person the right to choose whether he wants to receive notifications by mail.

Although it’s not so scary here, if this opportunity is removed, at least there will be no blockages in the mail for sure.

What plugin do you use to notify your commenters?

Especially for those who are not personally satisfied with my design, these and all subsequent screenshots are given for standard design.

What, did not find where to subscribe to comments to the message? Well, especially for those who did not find it, I will highlight these links:

Now you can tell how to subscribe to comments on a post.

Method number 1
Click on the link " Subscribe to comments" (red box in the screenshot above). LiRu will reload the page and show you the message:

Found? Click on it. LiRu will reload the page and inform you with a message:

That's actually all.

The importance of email subscription on new comments to articles on the blog is hard to overestimate. Subscribe to comments helps to keep and increase the audience of your resource. Let's look at it purely from a practical point of view: the average "resident" of Runet, and even more so a blogger, leaves a lot of comments on various resources every day. Comments can contain both an assessment of the material read on the page, and an attitude to the commented topic, or some kind of question to the author of the article.

Let's say you left a comment on the site but no button found "Subscribe to comments". What are you doing? As practice shows, in most cases - nothing, you fly on about your business and after half an hour completely forget that you commented on some site. As a result, the site loses a potential visitor and reader in your person, and you, perhaps, lose sight of an interesting and useful resource forever. And all that is missing is one small button.

Of course, no one forbids bookmarking an article, but, as a rule, users do not do this. Otherwise, your bookmarks bar threatens to turn into a voluminous encyclopedia.

In such a simple way, your blog can lose a lot of targeted visitors. But to subscribe to comments by e-mail in WordPress takes no more than 3 minutes.

But it's a completely different matter. if subscription to comments is implemented on your blog. Then each subscriber receives a message about the appearance of a new comment and will probably want to read it. Even if not all, let some part of the signatories visit your resource again, maybe join the discussion, and maybe become regular readers. It is foolish to refuse such an opportunity.

Visually, the subscription to comments looks like a line with an invitation to subscribe and a checkbox below the text entry form.

By the way, I advise you to make a forced subscription per comment for all commentators. That is, for each commentator, a checkmark will be in the checkbox by default. Inhumane? - do not think. If you comment on an article or even more so ask some question, but don’t want to know what they answered you and what other users and the owner of the resource think about your comment, then you are just a spammer who came to leave a link to your site and the attitude towards you is appropriate. In addition, each message about the appearance of a new comment includes a link to manage the subscription, through which it can be easily canceled.

How to Subscribe to Comments in WordPress?

It is unlikely that it will be possible to implement such a function without plugins, but a lot of plugins have been written for this matter. I did not pervert and put the most common one - Subscribe To Comments. It can be found both from the WP admin panel through the search for plugins, and independently. The version of the plugin, which is located through the admin panel and presented on the official website, comes without translation, and it’s not even in the script settings interface, everything is clear there anyway, but in the fact that messages about new comments are also completely in English, which is not for all acceptable and comfortable.

I downloaded the Russian version of the plugin from Mywordpress.ru. This is a Russified version of the plugin (green "Download" button at the top right). The instruction is also given there, I will duplicate it just in case:

Download the archive by clicking the button. Unzip
We take two files: subscribe-to-comments.php and subscribe-to-comments-ru_RU.mo(other files are not needed) and upload them to the wp-content/plugins/ folder of your blog.
Activate the plugin in the WordPress admin (plugins - activate Subscribe To Comments)

That's all. The subscription should already work. Check. To configure the plugin (optional), go to the WP admin panel along the path: "Parameters" -. I have it set up like this:

On this, the main part of the work is completed, the little things remain.

To allow you to subscribe for those who do not want to leave comments, you need to add the following entry to the comment.php file of your theme right after the tag:

Now you also have a form for subscribing to comments without the need for commenting. I did not do this on my blog, in my opinion this is already some kind of perversion.

If you want a tick in the subscription field was set to comments by default, you need to open for editing the subscribe-to-comments.php file we uploaded earlier, which is located in the wp-content/plugins/ folder, and replace this piece of code in it (when editing in notepad ++, I have it on line 26):

php if ($checked_status) echo "checked="checked" " ;?>

to this code:

Checked="checked"

Now the checkbox in the "Subscribe" field will be by default and everyone who does not uncheck it will be subscribed. Reverse manipulation will remove the checkbox from the field.

Summing up, we can say that subscribing to comments is a good tool for attracting visitors to your blog audience and a method of keeping them in it.

Rand Fishkin on the benefits of Google+

Hello everyone!
Today I will talk about such an important moment as subscribe to comments. And to be more precise, about how to make your blog visitors subscribe to update comments in WordPress.
First, let's figure out why this is needed at all. Let's say a visitor wrote a comment on your blog, and how does he know if someone has replied to it? Of course, he can go every day (or maybe more often) to the desired page and check, but thanks to the subscription to comments, this can be much easier.
There are two ways:

I. Subscribe to notification of all new comments to the article.

That is, it means that the subscribed visitor will receive notifications by e-mail about all new comments to the article, regardless of whether this comment is an answer. In my opinion, this is not very convenient. Agree, you, for example, just want to get an answer to your question, and instead (or along with it) you get a bunch of unnecessary notifications in the mail. But still, I see such a subscription on many blogs, so I'll tell you how to do it. Maybe in some cases it's not so bad...
1. So, we need the Subscribe To Comments plugin. Installation is standard:
a) Download
b) Unpack and upload to the hosting in the directory …/wp-content/plugins,
c) Activate it in the WordPress admin panel in the "Plugins" section.
2. Next, go to "Options" --> "Subscribe to Comments".
And we correct the stanzas “Not subscribed”, “Subscribed”, “Entry Author” into Russian (or whatever you want) language, and, accordingly, save the settings.

For example, it looked like this for me:

3. We have not finished translating yet, we have to do it again - Go back to the "Plugins" section, look for our Subscribe To Comments plugin and click "Edit".
In order not to search for the desired line for a long time, press Ctrl + F (search) and enter There is - this is how the notification letter begins. We see this code:

And fix it like this:

Click "Update File".
In general, there are other points that should be translated, for example, “Subscription Management”, but these are already themselves.

II. Email notification of a reply to a comment.

I think everything is clear here: the visitor writes a comment and in case of an answer to it, he receives an e-mail notification. I like this option more, and I use it.
1. So, this requires another plugin - WordPress Thread Comment .
After the standard installation, go to "Options" --> Tree-like comments and in the "Inform commentator about new comments" column, check the box "Always inform" or "If the answer is from the author of the post or administrator", I personally chose the first option -- > "Save settings".
If you thought that with this plugin, unlike the first one, there would be no trouble, you were mistaken.
2. Firstly, you will also have to do a little translation: go to "Plugins", find WordPress Thread Comment, click "Edit" --> Ctrl + f, copy "Your comment is awaiting moderation" into the search and replace it in the code to "Your comment is pending review" or something like that. Next, go to "Options" --> Tree-like comments and in the "Settings for the type of responses" stanza, replace "Reply" with "answers".
3. Secondly, an extra “reply” button will appear (At least, I have one, I don’t know about you). To remove it, you need to uncheck the “Allow tree-like (nested) comments depth".

I hope you will not be frightened off by small difficulties, and you will put one of the plugins on your blog. 😉

In fact, for owners of VKontakte groups, this is a very urgent problem. I confess that I, until recently, considered the impossibility to learn about all the events that take place in groups in a timely manner, a big minus. I even wrote to the technical support of VKontakte, and asked the question:

“When will it be possible to receive notifications about comments in a group?”

I did not receive an answer, but somehow, quite by accident, I found a solution to this problem on the Internet. Yes, I agree that this is not a very convenient way, but for lack of a better one, I consider it the most working today.