douglerner

Thank you very much! So far all I’ve done is tweak the Simple Share Buttons settings as you suggested, removing them from the left side. I set it so they just appear before a post or page, at the top of the post or page, and it works just fine, and makes the top menus work from inside the posts.

I might move them below the posts/pages since they are a bit large and distracting there.

It’s late now, but I’ll look at the other stuff you recommended in the morning. Thank you!

Anybody know of an alternate plugin that can do it? Thanks.

Interesting. I wonder what prevents an auto post to your profile. Like how does it even know if it’s you or a program? Oh well. Thanks.

By the by, I have a question about the basic reason for your plugin. I notice at one other WordPress site I run that there already seems to be a way to indicate you want to receive replies to comments by email. Apparently it comes from JetPack. Do you consider this plugin as an alternative to JetPack?

I like the option to have the “Notify me via e-mail if anyone answers my comment” checked by default.

Thanks.

Just for your information, it was in fact an option hanging there from the Email Subscribers plugin. There was a comment consent option with no text set. I never even noticed it before. Thanks for your responsiveness.

doug

I see. From the name it sounds like it might be coming from the Email Subscribers plugin. I’ll check with them.

Thanks.

Thanks.

doug

I thought it might have been that, but it isn’t. The GDPR consent checkbox wasn’t selected. If I do select it and add a privacy policy URL then that shows up as yet another checkbox. But I’ve deselected it again.

I am new also, but I am seeing the statuses as indicators: green for confirmed, yellow for not yet confirmed.

I think the problem with the widget is that maybe some form has to be selected – like the one I created above – but there doesn’t seem to be a way of selecting the form when setting the widget, so it’s left in an undetermined state.

doug

The subscribe form [email-subscribers-form id=”1″] works ok. I added that to https://lerner.net/subscribe. So I’m removing the widget for now until that mystery can be resolved.

I even checked the box to “disable WordPress cron” but they still go into the queue.

Hi. Thanks, but I decided to move on and try to find another plugin for this. The reason being that Jetpack has no way of inviting email users to subscribe to the blog posts! So I have no way of adding back my list of subscribers and easily getting people to confirm their subscription and sign up again!

The “invite” feature with the “subscriber” role unfortunately is not the same as a subscriber via the subscribe form (as discussed in the other thread) which is, to be honest, incomprehensibly confusing!

Thanks though.

doug

Thanks for your response. But it remains very confusing don’t you think? Subscribers aren’t subscribers. And they look like contributors. And subscribers aren’t defined in the documentation. And there is no way to invite subscribers by email…. Does it seem to actually make sense to you? ??

doug

Hi Lizkarkoski,

The side widget looks fine. I was having problems getting the subscription block or subscription short-code looking nice in the link you mention.

I had been looking from Chrome, but I just tried from FireFox and Safari and it’s the same.

I gave up on the short-code for now and am just concentrating on the subscribe block.

This screenshot shows what it looks like when editing the page:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/1cc77n59aln899n/Subscribe%20Block%20in%20editor.png?dl=0

And as you can see, here is what the subscribe block looks like in both preview and on the page.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/dns0zsaxo5a5yyn/Subscribe%20block%20on%20the%20page.png?dl=0

The nicer formatting and button appearance are lost and it becomes more “vanilla HTML form elements.”

With the short-code instead of the subscribe block it is even worse because multiple blank lines are added between elements, stretching out the form vertically.

My guess is some CSS is being lost somewhere between the editor and preview/save.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

doug