How to have Comments sent to e-mail subcribers?
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I have a private classroom blog site and all students are subscribed to e-mail. However, they are not getting “comments” made by others to the posts. Is there a way to enable that across the site?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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They have to actually check the “notify me of followup posts via e-mail” box down below the comment box when they make a comment on a new post. Then they will get email notifications up until the time they “unsubscribe” from that comment thread.
There is no way to do it automatically.
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Thanks —
A clarification: Since they receive posts via e-mail, very few actually go to the website — just those who make a comment. As a result, most of the students are missing followup posted to through the Comments option. Any other suggestions? -
Dashboard >> Settings >> Reading >> For each article in a feed, show >> Summery
Then when the email goes out it will have a summery and they need to visit the blog to read the full post –
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Interesting idea. Would work for the last reader(s) …
Still looking for a solution that would notify users of a comment even if all read it a week ago, but a comment was posted recently.
For instance … My post: “can anyone help with a volunteer event on the 5th?” Everyone reads, but the first person to comment might be three days later when all have read original post — and you know how sign ups go … once ONE person signs up, more will follow. Problem is, no one knows one person signed up via a comment.
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There is a “Recent Comments” Widget you could put in the sidebar to let visitors see where the comments had happened –
Dashboard >> Appearance >> Widgets
You could let them subscribe to the Comments RSS feed but your blog is private and that means there is no RSS feed – So I think people will need to visit the site to see the comments – but the Recent Comments Widget would make it easier to see where the comments are.
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Yep — have the Recent Comments Widget … but without students visiting the site (since they receive original post via email), comments are going unnoticed.
Hmmm . . .
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But if you set the Posts to send summery they will have an incentive to visit the site to see the full Post and maybe they will look around.
Many people use the summery mode so they see the traffic and it also helps to cut down of Scrapper blogs using your content (not an issue with you since your site is private) –
And you still have the old adage – you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make them drink – problem
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Thanks for bantering these ideas with me. I like the horse analogy :) Will put the settings on Summary and see where it leads.
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