Add Subscribe To Comments To Your Blog

Learn how to fos­ter a com­mu­nity and give your read­ers a rea­son to com­ment on your blog.  In this arti­cle I’m going to show­case the Sub­scribe To Com­ments Plu­gin by Mark Jacquith, that I think is one of the most impor­tant plu­g­ins you should have run­ning on your blog.

This plu­gin should always be one of the first plu­g­ins you install when you setup your blog.

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There are sev­eral rea­sons for installing the sub­scribe to com­ments plu­gin to your blog.  How­ever the main rea­son is to help build a com­mu­nity around your blog.  With this plu­gin installed your read­ers will be able to leave a com­ment, and get an email let­ting them know when some­one responds.  This does sev­eral things:

1) You get them back on your blog again.  (Pretty cool Huh?)

2) You build a com­mu­nity and start engag­ing your read­ers.  They learn that you care, and they know that if some­one answers, they’ll be noti­fied.  Why post a com­ment on a blog if you won’t know when some­one responds?  Expect them to just keep check­ing every day? Haha,  Sorry.  No.  Not gonna happen.

3) The final rea­son is, installing this plu­gin takes sec­onds… maybe 5 total.  So I encour­age you, take 5 sec­onds out of your day, fol­low this arti­cle, and get your read­ers engaged and com­ment­ing on your blog.  This is the stuff of leg­end.  Don’t be with­out it.

How To Install The Plugin

Visit Your Dash­board, Under Plu­g­ins click add new, from here type in Sub­scribe To Com­ments and click enter. You will see an out­put sim­i­lar to the following:

You want the plu­gin by Mark Jacquith aptly named “Sub­scribe to com­ments”. Click Install, then acti­vate and your fin­ished. If you find this process con­fus­ing, I have a video and arti­cle that cov­ers the instal­la­tion process in detail called How To Install Word­Press Plugins

Video Overview of Installing Sub­scribe To Comments

Con­clu­sion

In this arti­cle / video I went over how to install the Sub­scribe To Com­ments plu­gin.  I talked about why this plu­gin is so impor­tant (giv­ing your read­ers a rea­son to com­ment, and allow­ing them to be noti­fied when­ever you or some­one else posts a reply to their comment).

I hope that one day this plu­gin will be inte­grated by default for the wordpress.org instal­la­tion, but until then you should really con­sider installing this plu­gin and using it right away.

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