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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Some rea­sons for installing this plu­gin are: Your read­ers can com­mu­ni­cate with you or your other read­ers (by being noti­fied of new com­ments) They get noti­fied when­ever some­one posts a response to their com­ment And it’s a nice fea­ture you can install that takes lit­er­ally sec­onds to do.

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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