Comment notifications
Once you post a comment to a weblog, you might want to know if anyone responds to what you say. In most cases, you will have to go back to that weblog and check. This is not a big issue if you left the comment on a weblog you visit on a regular basis, but otherwise you might forget to return and check for new comments. This is where a notification feature would come handy: you’d subscribe to an entry and simply get an e-mail when there’s a new comment. Aaron Campbell made the following remark a short while ago: “not having the notification feature is a disappointment and it largely eliminates short, offhand comments from blossoming into deeper discussion.” True.
Well, I’ve just added a Subscribe field to the Tawawa comment form using Chad Everett’s MT-Notifier. When posting a comment, simply enter your e-mail address and you’ll be notified of any further comments. The Subscribe field is optional and your address will neither be posted to the page nor shared with anyone else.
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Welcome back, Pketh — hope you enjoyed your trip.
I’m not sure what exactly you’re interested in, but let me try.
I installed the Notifier a month or two before before I switched it on; it’s version 1.4.1, and more recent versions may have an extended set of features. This version allows readers to subscribe to individual entries, and as administrator I can subscribe readers to individual entries too. I could subscribe a reader to all entries by picking them individually, but I can’t subscribe anyone to entries that don’t exist yet.
If you want to be notified of comments that get posted to your Movable Type weblog, you don’t need a plugin for that; simply make sure there’s a valid e-mail address in your user profile, then tick the “Notify” field under Weblog Config | Preferences.
As for receiving comments in your newsreader — yes, that’s doable; you’ll just need to publish the comments as a separate XML file. Jeremy Antipixel did that (check the sidebar).
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Is it also possible to use the MT-Notifier plugin to subscribe to ALL comments on a site? So that if anyone comments on anything on your site, it’ll pop up in your feedreader instead of having to continually check your own site?
If so, then color me super interested