Often there are posts on your blogs that can generate a lot of community discussion or a heated debates which some of your users would like to stay updated with. Now they can subscribe to your comments feed, but most users don’t know about comment feeds. Wouldn’t it be easies if your users can get email alerts for new comments for the articles they like? In this article, we will show you how to allow your users to subscribe to comments in WordPress.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin. Upon activation, you need to visit Settings » Subscribe to Comments to configure the plugin settings.
The plugin’s settings page is divided into different sections. First you need to click on the Comment Form tab to configure the comment form settings.
The default settings should work for most websites. However, you can review the options. You will find a detailed description for each option and what it does. Make changes if necessary and when you are done simply click on the save changes button.
You can now visit your website and you will see a comment subscription checkbox below the comment form.
Note that your users don’t really need to leave a comment in order to subscribe. They can simply click on the Subscribe link to get notifications without leaving a comment.
Managing Comment Subscriptions
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded comes with tools for you and your users to manage subscriptions. As the site administrator you can visit Settings » Subscribe to Comments to manage the subscriptions.
You users can visit the subscription page on the front-end to manage their subscriptions. By default the URL of the subscription page is like:
http://www.example.com/comment-subscriptions/
Replace example.com with your own domain name. Users will recieve this URL in an email when they subscribe to a comment thread. From this page they can manage their subscriptions and cancel them at any time.
You can change the content of the subscription page by visiting Settings » Subscribe to Comments page and then clicking on the Management Page tab.
You can also change the contents of the email notifications by clicking on the Notifications page. This is particularly helpful if you are using WordPress in another language without changing backend language.
Troubleshooting
If your users are unable to receive email notifications, then you need to check out our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.
We hope this article helped you allow your users to subscribe to comments in WordPress. You may also want to check out our guide on how to allow users to subscribe to categories in WordPress.
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Hey,
I had a couple of questions regarding STCR as I uninstalled it a few years ago for a couple of reasons.
1) I use pagination in my comments, when clicking on the email link does it go to the right comment or can it still not handle pagination?
2) I use to have an issue with the urls of the emails. When people would come via clicking the email notification, they would share or somehow get the stcr url scanned by bots. The issue was my 404 logs as well as Search Console logs would have quite a few of the urls people had clicked.
Is there anyway of dealing with this?
Thank you.
Hey guys, I just installed the subscribe to comments reloaded and made some changes. I get a mail when the subscriber opts in and also, the test email was received. However, the process didn’t go through completely – I did not see the email/user in the manage subscription page even after searching pist ID and all. Please, what needs to be done? Must the settings of the site have “anyone can register” turn on?
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Thanks for This Post
Long ago I was looking for a similar solution, very grateful to share.
Thanks for sharing this list.
Only testing the plugin
awesome
Hi,
I was so excited to try this plugin, however I am having trouble whereas the little box and the line “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.” is not showing up. Do you have a suggestion or a link that might help?
Thank you in advance
thank so much
Hey EDITORIAL STAFF,
Thank you for taking the time to share this and to review the plugin.
I am release two wonderful features (one click unsubscribe and a WYSIWYG editor) on the next update so stay tune.
Thanks for writing this useful plugin and sharing it with the WordPress community.
Thank you for spreading the word.
Thanks for this guide – I’m going to give it a try.
Could you suggest how to implement this functionality without plugins? i mean, manually?
Do you have a translation of the plugin in Dutch? And i tried to translate it .po .mo but i did not work when i uploaded it. I use not a standard theme. Where should ik put the .mo .po? Best Regards, Tosty
you need to upload the translated files in the plugin directory.
How can i get this option “Subscribe to WPBeginner Updates (Weekly Email)” with check box like yours.
Any plugin available or any related link you can paste here.
This should answer that:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/blueprint/comments/
Thank you.
Hi. I run a blog that has lots of authors. I want them to be able to get notified when someone comments on their post and replies to their comments. How can I do that?
Try using this plugin:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/cbnet-multi-author-comment-notification/
Anyway to delete the “Subscribe to comments feed” rss icon that appears above the “Notify me of followup comments via email” checkbox?
This appears on my site and I’ve seen it on many others.
Thanks so much!
Mark
That’s part of your theme. You’d have to edit the theme file for that. Look in your comments.php file. Another thing you can do is use display: none in css to hide that link.
There is also a Reloaded version of subscribe to comments, why not use that one?
Because this one does the job just fine.
Really very useful tips. Thank you.
I’d like to test if the subscription for followup comments is working, using Twitter sign-in.
Thanks. Did the reply work?
No, unfortunately it didn’t. I was hoping you solved the problem that Twitter doesn’t provide the user’s email address. Twitter doesn’t seem to understand that it’s technically necessary to have a valid email address to send the followup comments to.
What’s the use of signing in with Twitter in order to comment on a blog post if you can’t subscribe to followup comments via email? Well, you can subscribe, but you won’t ever get an email.
The fake-email which is generated (by the API?) would be fine if Twitter forwarded the email to the real email address. I.e. I’m not interested in the real email-address, I just want to offer subscribing to comments not only for people who signed in with Facebook or their name and email address but also if they signed in with Twitter.
Ah that sucks. Will have to talk to twitter about it then.
actually, i am looking for manually coding it and adding it on my blog… do you have any?
Thank you fro sharing this plugins but it doesn’t have menu where you can use to edit it…how about this?
Very nice feature indeed, but as Johan said, what is the best plugin for preventing spam comments?
Stan
Here is the article you should refer to:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/vital-tips-and-tools-to-combat-comment-spam-in-wordpress/
But what can you do about all those spam comments? CAn you post some tips / advice on which plugins to use to minimise the spam comments?
Will have an article coming up soon about that as per your request
Thanks for this nice tip.