[Plugin: Subscribe To Comments Reloaded] Enable double check

  • anonymized-7970383

    (@anonymized-7970383)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    Hi camu, thanks for coding this great plugin.

    Unfortunately I stumble on so issues I like to share, maybe you can give me some feedback.

    1) When I installed the plugin I got
    <p><label for=
    In the comment form Custom HTML field. After I altered something on the page and saved it, it rendered my subscribe form invisible. It took me a while before I realized that I had to clean the field all together to get things back in working state. So I guess this is a small bug. I got the same when I installed the plugin in a other blog.

    2) I am struggling with the: Enable double check feature.
    I expected that I would send a e-mail to the filed e-mail address. With a conformation link and a “Ignore this if you didn’t ask for this” note. That’s usally the way opt-in is handled over here in The Netherlands and it satisfies all.

    It took me a while to figure out that I 1st have to klick a link to go to a management page. 2nd click to send the management e-mail 3rd check my mail and go to webpage 4rd figure out how to enable my subscription on this page. Which was even to me not obvious at first glance.

    This illustrates that the double opt-in option as it is now is very complicated and user unfriendly, technical user could find there way, but non technical users of my blogs will get lost in the process.

    I think a good double opt-in function does the following.

    send a e-mail after hitting the comment button
    if
    the message is not tagged as spam e.g. by aksimet
    directly after the comment is submitted, so no wait for approval by admin.

    Please share your thoughts
    Thanks, Bart

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  • > It took me a while to figure out that I 1st have to klick a link
    > to go to a management page.

    I guess you mean the text and link:
    “Your subscription to this post needs to be confirmed. Manage your subscriptions.”

    The thing is: You don’t need to click the link. Your problem possibly is that you have comment moderation turned on.
    As soon as you approve the comment, the user is subscribed to the comments.

    The process of the plugin “subcribe to comments reloaded” is only cumbersome if you have comment moderation turned on:
    comment moderation + couble check-in = no real double-opt-in-mail is being sent.

    So you are right:
    – Also if comment moderation is turned on, the confirmation-e-mail should be sent.
    – The text “Your subscription to this post needs to be confirmed.” confuses more than it helps. It should be removed.

    I sent a fix to Camu for review.

    McBart, can you tell more about your fix for your first problem?

    I am also trying to configure this plug in and I have a visibility issue:
    the text next to the subscription checkbox is not visible. I would think this is because I have a black background but the other text (name, e-mail, subject, etc) are visible.

    I had created a post on this long time ago but with no response.
    Any ideas?

    Thread Starter anonymized-7970383

    (@anonymized-7970383)

    @incagraphy

    Thanks for posting. It’s a long time ago I worked with the plugin so I can’t remember what exactly I did, sorry for that.

    For simple sites I switched to Jetpack I has newsletter for new posts and a subscribe to comment. Just activate Jet pack with your WordPress.com account and it works ??

    Only drawback. The database with e-mail addresses is not on your server, but on a WordPress.com server. However you can make a copy of the addresses, that are subscribed on your blogs newsletter (doesn’t work for the subscribe to comments part )

    For small non commercial blogs this is now my preferred way. For bigger blogs I don’t have a solution yet. I just want a nice and easy way people can subscribe to comments without double op-tin without fuss. Just a automated e-mail. And a unsubscribe link in every mail. Maybe I look into this in the next period. So bug me in a few months and possible I have found a good solution.

    @mcBart, thanks for a very fast response.
    I’ll have to bug you in a few months ?? I had tried Jetpack in the beginning to learn that it is not really a practical solution for the theme I chose.

    I still tried it again after your suggestion. It looks like the problem is with my theme, because even with Jetpack’s subscribe widget, the text next to the checkbox is not visible. I’ll contact the developers too.

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