Subscribe to Comments
Have you ever left a comment and forgot to check back later for replies? It would be great if you could track all the comments left by others wouldn’t it?
Now you can. When you leave a comment on a WordPress.com blog, check the Notify me of followup comments via email checkbox before submitting and you will receive an email notification every time someone else leaves a comment on that post.
It’s a great feature for readers as it makes it so easy to be part of the conversation around a post. It’s also a win for blog authors as it encourages people to return and comment. This feature definitely increases traffic to blogs and makes blogs more interactive for visitors.
You can view the posts you’re subscribed to, and do various housekeeping tasks like unsubscribing, blocking notifications, or changing email address (if you’re not logged in) from the “Manage your subscriptions” link. It’s also there in the Dashboard when you’re logged in.
There are no switches to pull or buttons to push to switch it on. It’s already enabled on all blogs.
This feature is based on the excellent Subscribe To Comments plugin by Mark Jaquith (originally by Scriptygoddess) but has been extensively reworked to accommodate the different needs of the multi blog environment on this site. I’ll be in touch with Mark soon about releasing the code, but it might take a week or two.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Thank goodness, about time. It was WordPress’s only shortcoming!
January 9th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
ps Thank you, as well as goodness. And Mark Jaquith and Scriptygoddess.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
G.R.E.A.T. !!!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
This is great!! I was wondering where did that email check box came from when I commented at some blogs just a few seconds ago : ) Now I wont ever miss replies to my comment again!! THX WP!!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
This is cool.
Keep up!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
thank you, but the feature for “my comment” not run in my blog, always goshdarnit..
January 9th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
There was a bug right after launch, sorry about that.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Amazing!!!
Thanks a lot.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
that’s awesome! thanks!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Wow! This is great. The best. Thanks.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
great! it’s great idea … i haven’t tryed it yet but i can’t wait
thanks
January 9th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
There are no switches to pull or buttons to push to switch it on. It’s already enabled on all blogs.
thats even fantastic
January 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
The text of this option looks ugly, it’s not aligned properly with the theme borders (using Regulus). Could you please check?
January 9th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Sure we’ll take a look at it.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
I was searching for this very thing today!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
If you add subscribe without leaving a comment feature, it’d be great too
January 9th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Yep we’re thinking about how to do that.
January 9th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
That sounds a pretty handy tool !!!!!
anyway i’m not planing to test the “notify me” feature in this post.. i don’t want to get flooded with notifications
January 9th, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Oh, i love you….i like that you follow my proposal:
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/next-step-checkbox-to-decide-if-follow-comment-on-a-blog?replies=7
Thanks a lot
.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
You have good timing!
January 9th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Perfect. We would need another comment-related feature, though: the possibility to reply via mail.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Magic 8 ball says: outlook good.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Excellent, thanks.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
awesome
January 9th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Great stuff! As per.
Happy New Year – like your picture…aw!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
bloody marvellous!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Very happy kid you’ve got there. Congratulations! By the way, thank you for this great feature.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Very glad to hear! Thanks so much
January 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Sounds good. I had actually assumed it was already available. Just shows what an idiot I am, but then I only blog. I don’t visit my own blog as a “customer”.
Thank you, WordPress.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Finally!!!! Phew!!!
January 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Donncha, we don’t see ya often enough these days, but since you came by to announce such wonderful news, we’ll forgive you your absence.
Just ticked the box next to the comment box to notify me of followup comments via email. Happy, happy, happy!
January 9th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Will there ever be something similar so that when we leave comments elsewhere (say, on blogspot blogs) with our Open IDs, we’ll be able to check our comments within the ‘My Comments’ section here within our dashboards?
January 9th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
No but that’s an interesting idea, might happen in the future for blogs that use Intense Debate.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
That is a great feature and I didn’t know about it until just now! Thanks for the info…and by the way, cutest picture ever!
January 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I’m a little fuzzy on what the difference is between this and just viewing the “My Comments” page?
January 9th, 2009 at 11:32 pm
This allows other people to get My Comments-like functionality, even if they’re not registered on WordPress.com.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
Definitely this service by a free provider is now going to help interact all the bloggers way much more.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
This is awesome. I have been waiting for this feature. Thank you!
January 9th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
great feature. very helpful!
January 9th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Thanks!
January 9th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
yes, it’s about time! Thank you!!!
It would be great if this could be integrated with Sphere so we can track all our comments across the blogosphere, regardless of the host.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Amazing! This was a greatly needed feature! Thank you very much!
January 9th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
sweet… this will save me alot of time! Thanks! =D
January 9th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Thank god
Finally!!
January 9th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Hé! Very sweet picture of you Donncha!
What’s that boy’s name?
January 9th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Yay! Very cool.
Just a word of warning to people: this works best on low-volume comment threads — the ones that get so few comments it wouldn’t be worth your time to subscribe to the comments feed or manually check back.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Thats an extremly useful feature for blogs where comments are more than “yeahh cool” and “buy me”. For us its the best feature ever. We can use a comment feed now like a forum article.
January 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
A long last. HORRAYYYYY
January 9th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Thanks! Top feature.
January 9th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
I’ve already seen this check box. It’s fantastic.
Another great idea by wordpress.
January 9th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Thank you.
It’s a goog feature. XD
January 9th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Bout time……… WordPress just keeps getting better and better, and better!
January 9th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Fantastic!
January 9th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
I’ve just noticed that earlier today,Thanks for the update it’s awesome.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Completely irrelevant comment… @Donncha: yours’ is the cutest avatar ever!
January 9th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Hello.
What about other blogs that you leave a comment on, i.e: Blogger (blogspot.com or other domain.com)? Is it possible to encrypt (?) a way to track comments on other blog types around the Internet?
Many blogs like these are not tracked by WordPress, therefore, I have a heck of a time keeping up with comments I leave on non-Wordpress blogs.
Also, will it be possible for WordPress to enable (?) Feedit to WordPress blogs? I am speaking of the Feedit where the blog owner (WordPress.com) can see an alert on their blog where a visitor comes from another site, via another blog, or Google, or Ask.com, etc, and it shows that, as well as showing when that visitor leaves the WordPress blog.
This would be a nice addition to WordPress.com blogs.
Sorry if most of my questions may have been off-topic.
Thanks for all you do.
January 9th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
No and probably not.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
Finally catching up to Blogger with this one…
January 9th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
That’s great! Thanks
January 9th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Nice to have a peek at the age range of WP coders…
January 9th, 2009 at 11:36 pm
That’s great. Thank you very much
January 9th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
YAYYYYY! This was something I’ve been looking forward to. WordPress, you are my only blogging platform… FOR LIFE!
January 9th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Wonderful feature…sometimes it is tough to keep up with everything.
January 10th, 2009 at 12:42 am
I have always thought that this was an important missing element in the WordPress format. No longer! Thanks so much, WordPress, for adding this great feature.
January 10th, 2009 at 1:49 am
This is great news! Thank you so much for this new feature!
January 10th, 2009 at 2:41 am
When can we expect to see the Intense Debate implementation? Also, is threaded comments comming soon?
Thanks!
January 10th, 2009 at 4:45 am
On the way
Keep an eye on the news blog for updates!
January 10th, 2009 at 3:13 am
You deserve a virtual kiss for this one! Mwah!
January 10th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Great work. net Life is Good and becomes comfortable. Thanks for the idea and implementation
January 10th, 2009 at 4:47 am
Thank you!!!
January 10th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Thanks and Great Job… WP Team
January 10th, 2009 at 5:22 am
That’s awesome!
Thanks
January 10th, 2009 at 5:32 am
In my previous comment I said it would be great if comments were integrated with “Sphere”, I meant Disqus. Sorry. NyQuil’s been messing with my brain!
January 10th, 2009 at 5:50 am
My 2009 Forecasts says this is a good year for me. The single biggest WordPress reader experience feature finally gets implemented. I’ve waited 2 long years for this … WELL DONE!
January 10th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Oh, great! I was wondering why WordPress didn’t have this very useful feature. Thanks!
January 10th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Yes, now I can remember to check out my replies. Thumbs up to WordPress! : )
January 10th, 2009 at 6:19 am
I rely on ‘My Comments’ mainly for tracking but this is quite useful i believe… But what about beyond WordPress blogs… I’m interested in getting notified about the comments I make on other blog portals mainly using OpenId (WordPress Id)???
Does this feature also allow to unsubscribe too???
January 15th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
I recommend getting an Intense Debate account so you can keep up with comments on sites that have it enabled. We’ll be rolling out some Intense Debate features here on WordPress.com in the coming months. You can unsubscribe to comment notifications at subscribe.wordpress.com.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:32 am
No wonder where that button popped up, thanks!
January 10th, 2009 at 7:42 am
This is an excellent new feature!
Any chance of a preview button soon?
January 13th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Keep an eye on the news blog for updates about more comments features.
January 10th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I LOVE IT!!!
January 10th, 2009 at 9:28 am
this great and importent feature. but.. i would not really like to get notification via email. just here on the site, under this new ‘subscrition’ would do and be better. can it be done?
January 11th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Thanks for your suggestion. We’ll take that into account. Cheers!
January 10th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
This feature (tracking the comments made and replies/actions on the blogs there by email)
is at once the need. Goodway to boost the interaction and connection for sometimes or
more often the users/readers lose the track of the comments made by them and the further
on movements there. This feature now acts as a much needed boon. Thanks.
January 10th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
I don’t have this on my blog but only “You are the author of this post.”
January 11th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
Yes, that’s right. This function isn’t available for posts that you author. The Comments menu in your dashboard is the place for that
January 10th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Wow! This is great. The best. Thanks.
January 10th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Very happy to see this feature! Thanks a lot!
January 10th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Will we be able to translate the note into our own language let’s say as within widgets? Many of my readers don’t speak english.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
That’s not a feature at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion!
January 10th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
this is a feature I’ve been waiting for for a long long time!
best way to continue the conversation!
January 10th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
That’s great news! Especially since we can already receive these notifications within our own blogs.
January 10th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
thank you so much!
January 10th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
What if you subscribed to a blog and then want to unsubscribe?
I couldn’t find an unsubscribe button.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
You can manage your subscriptions at subscribe.wordpress.com. If you’re still having trouble, please contact Support.
January 10th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
This is a really useful feature that I missed from long ago. Better late than never.
January 10th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
@Ann: I use BackType (www.backtype.com) to aggregate my comments from Blogger sites and WordPress sites alike (and Lifehacker too). You might want to try this.
Thank you so much for implementing this feature. I regularly subscribe to comment RSS feeds, so I’m really glad to see that here at long last. Keep up the great work!
January 10th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
This is really useful! Thanks!
January 10th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
At last! This has been the single most anticipated feature from WordPress. Thank you very much, people!
January 10th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
great! I was wondering why WordPress
Thanks you very much
January 10th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
i’ve been waiting for this, brillant
thankyou x
January 10th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
THANK YOU……BOUT TIME BUT THANK YOU
I Love you guys.
January 11th, 2009 at 1:43 am
How do you UNSUBSCRIBE? I somehow got a subscription to the comments at a busy blog. Now I get an &*)&)% email every time someone makes a (O(*&^T)_ comment at this $^^&$^% blog. How do I get unsubscribed?
January 11th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
You can manage your subscriptions at subscribe.wordpress.com. Please get in touch with Support if you’re still having trouble.
January 11th, 2009 at 2:58 am
always success …
Bravo !
January 11th, 2009 at 4:00 am
YAY!
January 11th, 2009 at 4:43 am
The best features of wp!! thanks
January 11th, 2009 at 6:49 am
Thank U a lot