Carl Hutzler's Blog

So you post something on your blog and someone comes along and comments. Sometimes the comment is just a “Thank you” or something. No big deal. But sometimes it is a comment asking for some follow-up info. I have always wanted to be able to answer the question in the comment area with another comment so that future visitors could see the response (and that I do respond). But I also need to respond to the original commenter via email as they will likely forget to check back most of the time.

Today I found a plugin for Wordpress which accomplishes this fairly nicely called, Subscripe To Comments by Mark Jaquith. When someone is leaving a comment, they have the option of subscribing to that post such that any additional comments will be sent to their email…including my response of course. And they can go back in and manage their subscription to that post later if they do not want the updates any longer.

And an even nicer little twist is that the blog owner can see who is subscribed to commets and on what post by visiting the TOOLS section of their Wordpress Blog and clicking on SUBSCRIPTIONS.