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 11th, 2009 at 8:23 am
it is real wonderful
January 11th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Great then! At least any one who has commented might be able to receive messages through their emails. Great. Job well done! I must say I must commend WordPress Staff fort his feature. So far, WordPress is the best blogging world for me….!
January 11th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Thanks for adding this, WordPress! I’m always happy when you find new ways to increase my traffic!!
January 11th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Hi Think it’s a great idea. Although I haven’t recieved any comments as yet! I am sure that it would be nice to be notified, if I am out here surfing. I could check it out now instead of as much as a week later.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Great thing! I will still use “my comments”, but it’s great for encouraging more traffic to my blog. SOmeone actually commented on that a few weeks ago, and said that it was “the first shortcome of wordpress vrs blogger that he had run across”.
If you can make blogger comments turn up on my “my comments” it would be great. In the meanwhile I created a blogger account with only one blog post referring people to my wordpress blog. That way I can comment blogger blogs as another blogger and subscribe to comments with my gmail.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:32 am
cool! This will help alot. Ta WP!
January 11th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Doing a little happy dance because this makes life so much easier for anyone who comments on more than one blog a day. =)
In fact, I just posted about my happiness about the added feature.
Thank you, WordPress guys, you rock!
January 11th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
This is great news!
Thank you so much
January 11th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
wow this nice. Great!! thanks
January 11th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I can’t get this feature on my blog, am I understanding right that it should automatically appear when a reader tries to leave a comment?
January 11th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Hi. Yes, that’s right. Please contact Support if you’re having any trouble with comment subscriptions. Thanks!
January 11th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
How long I waited for this! Thank you very much.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I was wondering what’s that check box below my comment! Thanks WordPress Team!
January 11th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
thank you, great feature to blogger
January 11th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
In Albeo theme not show
January 11th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Please contact Support with any specific issues with your blog or account. Thanks!
January 11th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
that is pretty cool! Now i can check any blog for replies and I won’t have to say comment on my blog to let me know! THANKS A LOT WP!!!!!
January 11th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Ah, mish, mira tú. ENGRLISH
January 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
great.
thank you.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Awesome. Thank you.
Craig
January 11th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
Yeah.. Thanks a lot!
What a plugin!
January 12th, 2009 at 2:34 am
i f***ing love it, dude.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:42 am
Thanks to your change than better WordPress, I feel easy to it is hence this my Comment. this matter making gratefull me always to the equipment provided by wordpress. One again thanks Word Press to the done change. You have given a talk on something meaning for me. Thank for all Word Press, I Love WP.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Great Idea! Thanks Donncha…keep up grading!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
This is a great feature, thanks! Looks like there is a bug, though, as one of my readers emailed me and said he’s getting all the comments from my site, not just for the one post he subscribed to. And he couldn’t unsubscribe — he gets an errors that he needs a key to do it. So he’s resorted to temporarily blocking all donotreply@wordpress.com emails.
But hopefully that will be fixed today?
Thanks for all your work, guys. Can’t wait for threaded comments with voting!
January 13th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Yes, that issue should be fixed. If any of your readers continue to have trouble, please ask them to contact Support.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Well I am new to all of this, and to me it sounds like a very good idea. 10 out of 10!
January 12th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Good to know! Thanks
January 12th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
It is a very helpful feature.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Great. This’ll really come in handy. Thanks guys!
January 12th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
Terrific news! Can’t wait until I can try it out.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:05 am
I can’t wait for this button / feature to show on my blog(s) I have several and yet to see this show. Am I being too impatient?
January 13th, 2009 at 5:08 am
Oh, really awesome.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:39 am
that’s great……..
I will enjoy it…
thanks
January 13th, 2009 at 6:27 am
This is extremely nice option.
January 13th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Guess I got into the blogging scene at a very appropriate time huh?
January 13th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Finally…thanks
January 13th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
i’m new. but i think it’s amazing…, thx:)
January 13th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
This is great! Loving the upgrades!
January 13th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
Sweet idea!! this is very handy for someone with a busy blog!!
January 13th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Great idea!!!
January 14th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Cool. Thanks.
January 14th, 2009 at 1:53 am
I can’t wait to see if I recive any more traffic from this clever new idea!
January 14th, 2009 at 4:51 am
that’s great. I always wondered about that
January 14th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I can already subscribe (RSS) to blog comments, can’t I? So this is useful for the one off post that I want to track comments on?
January 14th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
this is another great feature… thanx.
January 14th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Great, keep cool!
January 14th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
It’s all new to me, blogging that is. I’ll have to try this feature. Thanks!
January 15th, 2009 at 7:40 am
speechless
great job!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Are you sure it’s not a time-killer? I budget my time, you know.
January 15th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Happy New Year 2009.
January 15th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
it is very wonderful
January 15th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
So… nice!!
January 15th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
You guys are geniuses!
January 15th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
I appreciate this valuable addition. Thank you
January 15th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Thanks — I have often wondered if there was an easy way of remembering where I have visited a blog and left a comment.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Thanks. You are performers!!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
really useful .. thank you guys
January 15th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Oh, excellent! I can never remember where I’ve left comments … and I hate the thought of people thinking I’m being rude by not answering! Thanks very much indeed!
January 16th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Jst started bloggin wit wp dis january & i can only say ‘U ROCK!’. i lov wat u guys are doin and i really wanna be a part of d success story. im definitely sbscribin to notify me of comments & everythin else u got. cheers!
January 16th, 2009 at 7:07 am
greatest blog is WP
January 16th, 2009 at 9:04 am
what took so long?
January 16th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
I’m still getting familiar to WP! Enlighten me….. LOL!
January 20th, 2009 at 2:13 am
Welcome
Our Support resources are a great place to get started.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Thanks a lot..
Hey guys, give my blog a go
January 16th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Excellent new feature!
January 16th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Great!. I’ve had this plugin on my self-hosted WP blogs for quite a while
January 17th, 2009 at 12:27 am
How about a RSS feed on all comments I make anywhere on WordPress?
I get way too many emails to add any more so I switch all that I can to RSS.
Thanks
Ed
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Interesting. I’m not sure how many people would find a My Comments RSS feed useful, but I will forward your suggestion along to our developers.
January 17th, 2009 at 4:46 am
Excellent for those of us who have little time to check our blog site frequently!
January 17th, 2009 at 5:50 am
Thankks WP!!! Greattt!!
January 17th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Thank You, goodness. Syukron. Matur nuwun
January 18th, 2009 at 12:24 am
impressive and helpful
January 18th, 2009 at 7:24 am
Thank you so much WordPress to have such a beautiful website where we can show the world what we feel thank you once again
January 18th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Thanks for that! Really useful feature!
January 18th, 2009 at 3:22 pm
What an awesome idea. I absolutely am so excited about this new feature. Thanks WP!
January 18th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
i cant believe i missed that. wonderful.
January 18th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
That’s really good idea
January 18th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
good and very siiiiiiiip oke
January 18th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Some time ago there was the ability for “track comments” to show up in feed readers for each post. I have seen it on some WP.com but have it appear on only one of my blogs and then only until some time after July of this year.
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Each theme at WordPress.com is a little different. Some may have a prominently displayed comment feed link, and others may not. You can get the comment feed for any post by adding “feed” to the end of the post URL. For example, the comment feed for this post is http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/subscribe-to-comments/feed/
January 18th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
This great new brainstorm
January 19th, 2009 at 1:13 am
Awesome, thanks a lot!
January 19th, 2009 at 2:05 am
thank u guys.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:55 am
since you started working on comments with this new feature, is there any possibility that in the future you’ll even insert a clickable smilies function in the comments?
you know, most people don’t know about the http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/04/what-smilies-can-i-use/
page and having clickable smilies above the comment window would make it much easier to insert them.
January 19th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Great job done..
Thnks,
January 19th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
I’d like to see the option to respond to someone’s comment, rather than post a comment generally. To have a notification via e-mail when someone responds to a comment I’ve left would be more beneficial to me, than to recieve an e-mail stating a new comment has been added to a post in general.
Perhaps this is a feature already that I’m just not aware of?
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:32 pm
The ability to reply to comments by email is in the works. Watch http://en.blog.wordpress.com/ for updates.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:11 am
Thanks for doing this thing. It works to me, who loves simply thing. Keep the good work guys. GBU.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:30 am
thanx a lot for this feature
January 20th, 2009 at 11:20 am
Did it comes with double opt-in?
February 6th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Users must be logged in and check off the subscription box to subscribe.
January 20th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Good idea. Thank you.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Vivaaaa . . . . . I like thiiiiiis and offer me more facility, Than’k you very much.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Reaaaaaaaaallly Awesome!!!
Thanks, WP!
January 20th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
this is awesome
January 21st, 2009 at 12:51 am
i have no idea y i signed up for this place
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Hopefully for the great features, community, and support!
January 21st, 2009 at 9:24 am
thank you so much, been waiting for this forever!
January 21st, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Is there any possibility of having the subscribe to comments option checked by default?
January 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
That’s pretty unlikely. You must opt in by checking the box.
January 22nd, 2009 at 2:07 am
Brilliant stuff!
January 22nd, 2009 at 7:53 am
I like everything all about info
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:02 am
Brilliant, this will make things so much better for my Blogger friends & make things better for me, too. I love WordPress, Thank you
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:13 pm
i think we have such as this ability in SMF2 (forum)..
it’s not very new and it has not any creativity!
try to make a new thing!;)
January 22nd, 2009 at 1:26 pm
WONDERFUL
January 22nd, 2009 at 3:34 pm
Thank you for all…