Wed 24 Aug 2005
I wrote a simple plugin that sends an email notification for new comments posted, but it only emails those users who have already posted comments to the thread. In the case below, Karen, Jerry, Lynn, and myself will all receive email notifications when a new comment is posted. Mason and Jesse (the rest of our user-base… for now) would not receive emails. (Btw, there are new comments posted by Lynn and myself… consider this entry your notification).
Jerry and I both foresee that these email notifications may become annoying and spam-like. In this case, we can assume that we are all actively using the blog and thus should not need reminders to constantly check it. Once (if) we get to that point, we can remove email notifications.
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August 24th, 2005 at 4:34 pm
Also, the WordPress RSS feed will help us keep track of the blog without too much effort. Keep a Safari or Firefox tab open to the RSS feed and it should update automagically.
August 24th, 2005 at 4:35 pm
Good point. That may be worth using instead of these lousy emails.
August 24th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Except that the RSS feed doesn’t show comments, just the original post.
August 24th, 2005 at 6:05 pm
There is a separate comments rss feed. I’ll also check to see if there’s a plugin that combines the two.
August 25th, 2005 at 8:50 am
Right, I didn’t see that at the bottom of the page. I was using Safari’s “Snag the RSS tag” in the address bar to subscribe. The comments RSS works fine, though having the comments combined with the posts RSS feeds would make having a separate browser Tab or Window unnecessary. Thanks.