Do you want to notify users only on replies to their WordPress comments? By default, there is no way for users to know if someone replied to their comment on your WordPress website. In this article, we will show you how to easily notify users only on replies to their WordPress comments.
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First thing you need to do is install and activate the Subscribe to Comments Reloaded plugin. For more details, see our step by step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.
Upon activation, you need to visit STCR » Comment Form page to configure plugin settings.
Under the ‘Advanced Subscription’ option you need to click on ‘Yes’ and then select the default subscription type to ‘Replies to this comment’.
Don’t forget to click on the save changes button to store your settings.
You can now visit any post on your website and below the comment form you will see the subscription option.
Subscribe to Comments Reloaded also allows your users to subscribe to all comments on an article with or without leaving a comment. Users can also unsubscribe at any time on their own.
For more details, see our guide on how to allow users to subscribe to comments in WordPress.
If you and your users are not getting email notifications, then take a look at our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.
We hope this article helped you learn how to notify users only on replies to their comments in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to track user engagement in WordPress with Google Analytics.
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How do I remove this “Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.” from the comment section after installing StCr
I installed the Send Email only on Reply to My Comment plugin. Immediately my featured image functionality broke in WordPress. By “broke,” I mean, when I select an image in the Featured Image pane of my edit post view, the image doesn’t display, just the caption. Also, when I publish the post, the image doesn’t display, just the caption. Here’s an example:
Here’s an example of a post where I’d already published the post with a featured image. In this case, the Featured Image pane in my edit post view also doesn’t show the image, just the caption. But the published post still successfully shows the featured image:
I’ve uninstalled the plugin but the issue isn’t resolved. Help!!! I’m on WordPress 4.8.2 running the Twenty Seventeen theme.
OK, it’s not just featured images for unpublished posts now. It’s all images. When I click Preview in unpublished posts, only the image captions display, not the images.
Hi Michelle,
It seems like you resolved the issue successfully.
What I think would work great is a popup or some type of indicator and link in menu (not WPs) that someone has replied to their comment as soon as they login. Otherwise they login and have no idea someone has replied or they don’t on my sites because WP stuff is hidden.
hello dear developer
the new theme – that comes shipped with the wp 4.7 is called 2017
seen here
background here:
question: can you provide some tutorials & manuals for this upcoming theme?
that would be fantastic.
love to hear from you
greetings martin
doesn’t work
If you are having trouble receiving emails then please see our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.
Hi, I just recently found out that all those people who left comments on my blog over the years probably never found out I replied! I’m furious…
Anyway, I got myself this plugin and tried everything to make it work. It’s just not working.
What could be the problem? Is there another plugin that will do the same?
Thanks in advance for your help!
May be WordPress is unable to send email messages. If this is the case then checkout our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.
Thanks for getting back to me. I’ll check it out!
thank you for this article. That’s very helpful for my degree.
Hi ,
We use citrix application and the employees queries are to be replied immediately when an email comes to the Employee Information center in cirtix. there is a lot of delay in replying to those emails as we work on some other chanels as well. Is there a way that we can get these email notifications to outlook ? Please help with the answer.
Hello!
Here’s the problem with my WP comments.
A reader posts a comment/question on blog post. I reply to their question.
A reader does not receive a reply to their email or inbox.
So I just realized one of my posts got 100 comments/questions and I was replying to all but apparently nobody received a reply….!! I just thought the purpose of “reply to comment” button is that the user will receive a reply, no?
Do you know how to fix this? I’m assuming that I will receive a reply to my comment here. The notification will go to my email I input above, correct? So what must I do in order for my blog readers to receive my replies. Thank you in advance.
Well the reply button lets you reply to the comment but a user will not receive it via email or get any notification. In the article above, we have shown how you can notify users only on replies to their WordPress comments. You can also allow users to subscribe to comments. This way, they can subscribe to comments and receive notifications when there is a new comment.
That helped me heaps, guys. Cheers
Thanks, Very useful information
See our guide on how to fix WordPress not sending email issue.
The plugin isn’t sending emails! Anyone know how to fix this?
Hello, can the checklist be automatically checked?
Hi,
I had installed another plugin called “Comment Reply Notification” ( http://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-reply-notification/ ) and today I’ve found out and installed your one that is much, much better ( http://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/ ). I’d like to know how can I add the already existing commenters to StCR?
I was wondering if it is wise to istall a plugin that is a year and a half outdated. What do you think? I know Wordprees doesnt issue a warning untill 2 years.
Is “Send Email only on Reply to My Comment” the only free plugin that has this simple bow to click?
Best wishes , Mary
As long as the plugin works, then there is no need to update it. Often plugin developers don’t update it because it doesn’t need an update.
Thank you for your great articles.
Send Email only on Reply to My Comment- hasn’t been updated for 493 days. this is June 21.
It may be abandoned.
Is there another plugin that will notify a commenter on a reply? I like the easy check box.
I think this is really important, but I am not finding any that are simple and updated.
Also, do you think a captcha is a good idea for comments?
Best wishes and Thanks alot, Mary
nice, I was just looking for this.
What is the plugin you use for the “Subscribe to WPBeginner Updates” checkbox just below?
It’s called Newsletter Signup. You can find it here:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/blueprint/comments/
a very good plugin…i was about to ask the same thing to u guys…but is there any way i can import the subscribers list from subscribe to comments reloaded plugin…i really dont want to make the move and lose all the existing subscribers…
Just the info I was looking for. I emailed a blog owner about it just last week, and they told me it was “Subscribe to Comment reloaded” but I have used that plugin, and I knew they were using something else… also, the emails I received looked different.
I bet this is what they were using instead (or something like it) and they were just confused…. Thanks!
Hey Jeremy,
Glad to see you here, this is Yaw Ansong. Just saying hi, Just installed this plugin on my site. See you later.
Does this work with Disqus or Jetpack?
I’m using Jetpack at the moment for the comment section but I’m planning to use Disqus instead. Does it work with any of them?
Also, I have a problem with the comments in my blog that it’s not related to this post… is there a place where I could ask you guys about it?
Not sure if it works with third party commenting system. Our guest would be no it doesn’t work. Use the contact form to send in questions.