At WordCamp Dallas, I learned some new strategies for promoting readership on my blog. Beginning with this post, I’ll highlight how I have applied some of those lessons to Spamboy.com.
One of the first things I implemented was the Subscribe to Comments plugin by Mark Jaquith. On posts where comments are enabled — such as this one — you’ll see a checkbox below the main comment field:
By marking this field before submitting your comment, you will be notified of all future comments through messages sent to your email address.
Once subscribed, you can manage your settings in one of two places:
- Navigate to any post to which you have subscribed, then click the “Manage Subscriptions” link
- Or, click the Manage link in any of the notification emails you receive
Thanks to this plugin, you can easily keep up with activity on my website. I hope it proves to be a useful feature.
Responses to “Subscribe to Comments Plugin”
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Besides this, Wordpress also supports post-specific comments feeds, which I use to keep up with friend’s blogs when they don’t have the email functionality this particular plugin provides.
For example, you could go to http://www.spamboy.com/latest-updates/subscribe-to-comments-plugin/feed/ to get the feed for this particular post. But more on that in a future entry…
April 23rd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
I’m a big fan of the commentluv application myself. Although I’m not a fan of love being spelled “luv”.
Meh.
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
For all you crazy kids in need of luv, here’s the link to Jenny’s plugin:
April 24th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Hello Matt, another thing you may want to implement is the “Share This” function. It was beautifully written by Alex King. You can try it out on my blog if you like. :)
April 24th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
That’s a good plugin, but can it be configured to not show the ShareThis link on certain types of posts?
April 24th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Daynah, I like the ShareThis plugin quite a bit, as well. Its really simple and friendly!
April 30th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Once this tutoring gig ends I’m really counting on the summer to give me time for ramping up my blog. Also…hooking up with Texas bloggers. I think we need some kind of low key gathering.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 am
I’m really liking this idea. I may have to pull this and use it on my blog, even though my commenters are pretty nil at this point. I need to up my readership before I’m too concerned about it (which is why I installed the ShareThis plugin).