[Plugin: Subscribe To Comments Reloaded] Suggestions for a wonderful plugin

  • stevemagruder

    (@stevemagruder)


    12 years, 5 months ago

    I just discovered this plugin yesterday and have already implemented it on my blog. It’s pretty cool for what it accomplishes.

    That said, I’ve run into a few things:

    • If you’re using the WP Better Emails plugin, I had to set “Enable HTML Emails” in Options to No, as that plugin handles setting up the e-mail as HTML. If this option is set to Yes, it creates an incompatibility that makes the notification look unformatted. It would be nice if there was a note in the option that says to set it No in this case, and for a bonus, don’t even allow the user to set it to Yes if the WP Better Emails plugin is detected.
    • It would be nice if the subscription confirmation could be displayed inline using JavaScript rather than going to a new page.
    • I have “Subscribe authors” in Options set to Yes. At any rate, if I am subscribed to get notifications of comments to a post, and I write a comment (which I get a notification for), then delete the comment, my subscription gets zapped. I had just meant to delete the comment, not my subscription. This could be a bug, or am I not understanding how this is supposed to work?

    Thanks for working on this fantastic plugin and reading my suggestions.

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/

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  • Jason Crouse

    (@coolmann)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Steve,

    thank you for your feedback, I’ll add these requests to my todo list. As for the last item, if you are deleting the LAST comment of that user to that post, then the corresponding subscription will be removed accordingly. I may add a new option to prevent this behavior, which seems pretty natural to me, though.

    Camu

    Thread Starter stevemagruder

    (@stevemagruder)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks Camu for the quick response.

    Let me describe a couple scenarios to help illustrate what I mean by the third suggestion.

    Let’s say that I as an author am automatically subscribed to get notifications for comments to a post I’ve written. And then I write a comment to that post (for which I receive a notification). Then, I, as both the author of that post and administrator of the blog, delete the comment. Did I intend to delete the subscription to comments to the post I had authored? In my view, no.

    Also, let’s say I’m the author of the post but not automatically subscribed, and I subscribe without commenting to receive notifications about comments to the post (which, to me, means to keep sending me comment notifications until I explicitly end the subscription). Then I comment to that post (for which I receive a notification). Then I delete the comment as in the first scenario. In this case, I also didn’t intend to end my subscription.

    I hope these scenarios clear up what I was trying to say.

    Thread Starter stevemagruder

    (@stevemagruder)

    12 years, 5 months ago

    Another suggestion…

    When the subscription area has a checkbox, this plugin gives me a hook to style the paragraph via the Custom HTML field, although I have to use single quote marks around class= or style= attributes (double-quote marks get chopped off when this field is saved).

    When the subscription area doesn’t have a checkbox, I have no styling hooks, unless I’m missing something.

    I’d like to be able to style the subscription area at any rate.

    It doesn’t have to be in the Comment Form options. It could just enclosing the area in a classed element (div, p, etc.) so I can style the class in my .css.

    Thanks for reading.

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