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 9, 2009
- Features, WordPress.com
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Thank goodness, about time. It was WordPress’s only shortcoming!
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ps Thank you, as well as goodness. And Mark Jaquith and Scriptygoddess.
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G.R.E.A.T. !!!
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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!! 😀
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This is cool.
Keep up!
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thank you, but the feature for “my comment” not run in my blog, always goshdarnit..
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There was a bug right after launch, sorry about that.
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Amazing!!! 🙂
Thanks a lot.
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that’s awesome! thanks!
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Wow! This is great. The best. Thanks.
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great! it’s great idea … i haven’t tryed it yet but i can’t wait 🙂 thanks
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There are no switches to pull or buttons to push to switch it on. It’s already enabled on all blogs.
thats even fantastic
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The text of this option looks ugly, it’s not aligned properly with the theme borders (using Regulus). Could you please check?
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Sure we’ll take a look at it.
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I was searching for this very thing today!
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If you add subscribe without leaving a comment feature, it’d be great too
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Yep we’re thinking about how to do that.
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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 😛
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Oh, i love you….i like that you follow my proposal:
https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/next-step-checkbox-to-decide-if-follow-comment-on-a-blog?replies=7
Thanks a lot 🙂 .
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You have good timing!
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Perfect. We would need another comment-related feature, though: the possibility to reply via mail.
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Magic 8 ball says: outlook good.
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Excellent, thanks.
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awesome 🙂
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Great stuff! As per.
Happy New Year – like your picture…aw!
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bloody marvellous!
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Very happy kid you’ve got there. Congratulations! By the way, thank you for this great feature.
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Very glad to hear! Thanks so much
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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.
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Finally!!!! Phew!!!
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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!
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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?
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No but that’s an interesting idea, might happen in the future for blogs that use Intense Debate.
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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!
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I’m a little fuzzy on what the difference is between this and just viewing the “My Comments” page?
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This allows other people to get My Comments-like functionality, even if they’re not registered on WordPress.com.
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Definitely this service by a free provider is now going to help interact all the bloggers way much more.
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This is awesome. I have been waiting for this feature. Thank you!
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great feature. very helpful!
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Thanks!
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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.
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Amazing! This was a greatly needed feature! Thank you very much!
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sweet… this will save me alot of time! Thanks! =D
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Thank god
Finally!!
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Hé! Very sweet picture of you Donncha! 🙂
What’s that boy’s name?
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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.
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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.
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A long last. HORRAYYYYY 😀
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Thanks! Top feature.
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I’ve already seen this check box. It’s fantastic.
Another great idea by wordpress.
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Thank you.
It’s a goog feature. XD
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Bout time……… WordPress just keeps getting better and better, and better!
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Fantastic!
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I’ve just noticed that earlier today,Thanks for the update it’s awesome.
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Completely irrelevant comment… @Donncha: yours’ is the cutest avatar ever!
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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.
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No and probably not.
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Finally catching up to Blogger with this one…
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That’s great! Thanks 🙂
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Nice to have a peek at the age range of WP coders…
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That’s great. Thank you very much 🙂
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YAYYYYY! This was something I’ve been looking forward to. WordPress, you are my only blogging platform… FOR LIFE!
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Wonderful feature…sometimes it is tough to keep up with everything.
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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.
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This is great news! Thank you so much for this new feature!
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When can we expect to see the Intense Debate implementation? Also, is threaded comments comming soon?
Thanks! 🙂
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On the way 🙂 Keep an eye on the news blog for updates!
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You deserve a virtual kiss for this one! Mwah!
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Great work. net Life is Good and becomes comfortable. Thanks for the idea and implementation
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Thank you!!! 🙂
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Thanks and Great Job… WP Team
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That’s awesome!
Thanks 🙂
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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!
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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!
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Oh, great! I was wondering why WordPress didn’t have this very useful feature. Thanks!
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Yes, now I can remember to check out my replies. Thumbs up to WordPress! : )
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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???
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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.
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No wonder where that button popped up, thanks!
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This is an excellent new feature!
Any chance of a preview button soon?
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Keep an eye on the news blog for updates about more comments features.
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I LOVE IT!!!
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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?
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Thanks for your suggestion. We’ll take that into account. Cheers!
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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.
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I don’t have this on my blog but only “You are the author of this post.” 😉
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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 🙂
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Wow! This is great. The best. Thanks.
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Very happy to see this feature! Thanks a lot!
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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.
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That’s not a feature at the moment. Thanks for the suggestion!
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this is a feature I’ve been waiting for for a long long time!
best way to continue the conversation!
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That’s great news! Especially since we can already receive these notifications within our own blogs.
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thank you so much!
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What if you subscribed to a blog and then want to unsubscribe?
I couldn’t find an unsubscribe button.
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You can manage your subscriptions at subscribe.wordpress.com. If you’re still having trouble, please contact Support.
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This is a really useful feature that I missed from long ago. Better late than never.
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@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!
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This is really useful! Thanks!
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At last! This has been the single most anticipated feature from WordPress. Thank you very much, people!
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great! I was wondering why WordPress
Thanks you very much
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i’ve been waiting for this, brillant 🙂 thankyou x
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THANK YOU……BOUT TIME BUT THANK YOU 🙂
I Love you guys.
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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?
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You can manage your subscriptions at subscribe.wordpress.com. Please get in touch with Support if you’re still having trouble.
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always success …
Bravo !
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YAY!
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The best features of wp!! thanks
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Thank U a lot
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