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Checked some settings, tried to install & activate a new plugin to see if that worked (it did), then I tried updating to 2.8.3 again at 12:08 PM my time (that’s roughly 3 1/2 hours after I tried updating the first time) — and the plugin came right back & said “updated.”
Until I turn up something else, I’ll just guess that by coincidence I tried to update the plugin right when my web host or web server had a bad hiccup.
Thanks for responding.

Just now I managed to get the other Safari window in which I was logged into the admin to respond. I deactivated the plugin. Then in the window that was trying to update I clicked deactivate, so I guess that stopped the upgrade. Then I reactivated version 2.8.0.
I’ll do some more research before trying to upgrade to 2.8.3 again.

Update: About an hour & a half after telling the WP plugins page to update to Add Meta Tags 2.8.3,
— In my original Safari window, the plugin it still says “Updating” with the little arrows still chasing each other.
— I opened another Safari window about the time I posted my first support post (i.e., about an hour & 15 min ago). At that time, I could go to the admin plugins page and it displayed that the plugin was on 2.8.0 and needed updated. (I didn’t change anything on that window, I just went back to the dashboard.)
— However, now my other window says, ‘Safari can’t open the page “my site / plugins.php” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding.’ I tried to get to my site using Firefox, and whether I try to navigate to an admin page or to a regular public page, I get the error that the server’s taking too long to respond.
— I tried using Google’s PageSpeed Insights against my homepage, and it got a timeout too.

Wanted to add to my review:
— To sum up, use the feedback in the page analysis intelligently and thoughtfully, not blindly.
— In case people are having trouble with this plugin getting along with other plugins, FYI, the site I use this plugin on also has active: Contact Form 7, WP Sitemap Page, WP Updates Notifier, Limit Login Attempts, and GoDaddy Quick Setup — and that’s all, nothing else super-complicated.

Since WordPress 3.9.1 was available, I just decided to bite the bullet instead of continuing to worry about it. In the short time since I upgraded, I haven’t noticed any problems yet.

Since WordPress 3.9.1 was available, I just decided to bite the bullet instead of continuing to worry about it. In the short time since I upgraded, I haven’t noticed any problems yet. (My sitemap is only displaying my blog posts.)

Correction: about “controlling how links to pages are displayed,” to change how links to pages are displayed, you can add CSS classes. The plugin names the elements it generates.

I would try that if the site weren’t live already. ?? One of my ideas was, as a patch, to make the checkbox on the bottom of the blog comment form invisible, and for a while just subscribe everybody manually — that way we could still use the rest of Subscribe2’s functionality. What file is the “insert the checkbox” code in? Thanks.

@mattyrob: Well, thanks for your time & help. I’ll think hard & brainstorm.

@mattyrob,
Yes, I can add emails on the Subscribers page. I added a couple (both old addresses of mine) as Public Subscribers tab. Then I went to Subscribe2->Send Email and sent “Public Subscribers” and “All Users and Subscribers” email (I tried a couple times). That worked fine too (except that when I would send email to a gmail account, the email would come right away, but when I sent 3 emails to my hotmail account about 3 minutes apart, they all arrived at once about 15 minutes after the first email was sent — which I doubt has much to do with the plugin).

Thanks again for all your time on this.

@mattyrob, the only subscriber the blog has is the email that’s in the admin’s user profile.
I did just try it again with a different email in the unlikely event that just hotmail email addresses were being eaten. Still no subscribers. Thanks anyway,

So if I go (in Firefox) and add a comment to my post, filling in the name & email (using the test hotmail email), and the comment is immediately approved (it appears in WordPress under Comments as approved), then shouldn’t I see that email under Subscribe2 / Subscribers?
But I don’t see my hotmail email (the person who left the comment), either under public or registered subscribers. (It hasn’t appeared in 10 minutes, anyway.)

I do appreciate the time you’re taking to break this down into basics for me, thanks.

Thanks for the quick response, @mattyrob! but I am still not sure what I’m missing.
On our blog post, I add a comment. I put in a name & a test email (an old hotmail.com account of mine), and I check the Subscribe2 checkbox, and click Submit. Then the blog page reloads. That hotmail email does not get an email from my site (and I can see it getting other things, including other emails from my WordPress site, in the Junk folder). I don’t get a message in WordPress that someone wants to subscribe.
Back in WordPress, here are my settings:
On Subscribe2 settings:
— “Send Admins notifications for new:” /Subscriptions/Unsubscriptions/etc. is set to “Both”
— “Subscribe new users registering with your blog:” is set to “Display option on Registration Form”. (Or should it be set to “Automatically” – is that my problem? Tho’, in that case, what does “Display option on Registration Form” do?)
— “Show one-click subscription on profile page:” is set to “Yes” (I’m not sure what this does either)
— “Set default Subscribe2 page as:” is set to the page it’s supposed to be
On WordPress Settings for Discussion:
— “Comment author must fill out name and e-mail” is unchecked (as mentioned, I’ve been filling them in)
— “Users must be registered and logged in to comment” is unchecked
— I do have checked to email me whenever “Anyone posts a comment” and “A comment is held for moderation”, and those functions are working.
— After reading your response & before the tests I just did, I unchecked “Before a comment appears, Comment must be manually approved”. “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” was already unchecked.
On WordPress Settings General, I do have the checkbox “Membership: Anyone can register” unchecked.

So what am I supposed to set or unset so that I know someone is trying to subscribe & so that the email address gets a confirm email? Thanks!