A plugin for textpattern which offers visitors to subscribe to comments via email.
I have now written a plugin for textpattern that let your visitors subscribe to comments. Although the feature is only available for those who write comments.
This started as a remake using the code from GhoCommentTools but much have been removed and almost everything else have been rewritten.
Read more at: http://lab.endnode.se/doku/phq_subscribe
Download from: http://lab.endnode.se/download/
very usefull thanks
This seems very powerful plugin! I’ll definately try this. It really could help to attract those random visitors, who just happen to comment on something, to come back later for more.
I think I have just encountered a problem: first, it does not produce the two forms, second, when I try to test it via the Subscribe tab, it sends the following message: “Restricted area.”
Thanks to Zoltáns comments and further mail conversation I have now stepped up two minor versions of the plugin.
thanks!
eager to try it.
I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. I’ll give it a try next time I have the opportunity.
Would you consider opening up a thread for this on the Textpattern forum? It’s how support for plugins is usually handled, and gives users a chance to share info with each other and the plugin author more easily. Thanks!
Possible bug: my subscription confirmation e-mail said only “You have now been subscribed to”. There seems to be something missing — perhaps an article title and/or URL.
I’ve installed this plugin to one of my websites, but when activated, it will not create any forms. In plugin’s documentation there is mentioned, that forms called phq_subscribe_comment and phq_subscribe_new would be created, but not in my case. Perhaps this has something to do with MySQL user account’s privileges. Could I just create those two forms manually? If so, what tags can I use in them? They both are at least “misc” forms, but that’s pretty much everything I know.
Hi Petri
They are not create at installation as I’m not that familiar with the structure of plugins.
Instead they are created the first time they are used, so after activation write one comment, subscribe to it and write another, then they should be there.
You can also create them yourself, the two new tags, that only works in email templates are <txp:phq_unsubscribe_url /> and <txp:phq_subscribe_url />
In reply to Adam:
Unfortuately I can’t reproduce the bug.
What’s missing is the url to the article.
I have made one modification that might fix it. Released as version 0.1.3.
This also includes comments in my previous comment.
Hello, lets try that plugin!