Subscribing to Stropp’s World Comments Now Available

Posted by Stropp on February 21, 2009

The other day I received a request through the contact form here on Stropp’s World from Brian asking about setting up an RSS feed for comments made on the posts here. 

It was a pretty good idea. One that I hadn’t really considered before, so I went a looking.

It also turns out it’s not that hard to implement. WordPress actually has a PHP function for it, comments_rss_link(),  and all that is needed is to add it to the theme. In my case, I’m just adding it at the end of a single post. It’s a little crude since I don’t have a RSS graphic for it yet, it’s just a link after the comment form.

When I was looking I also found a WordPress plugin for subscribing to comments, and I’ve installed that too. This one however, adds a checkbox after the comment form and when checked it sends out an email notification to the email address you are asked for (optional) when you add a comment to a post.

So there you go. If you’d like to follow the conversation on any particular post, you can now do so.

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