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Comment Subscribe

Tags: comments, community, discussion, email, notifications, subscription, works with mt4

Comment Subscribe is a plugin for Movable Type which provides similar functionality to the 'Notify me of follow up comments via e-mail' feature on Wordpress. If a user checks a box when posting a comment, they will receive emails every time someone else posts a comment on the same entry. Each email will include a link which the user can use to unsubscribe.

MT-Notifier provides a superset of this functionality, but does not currently work on Movable Type 4, so I wrote this.

Update: maintenence of this plugin has been taken over by Byrne Reese. All links have been updated accordingly.

Requirements

Movable Type 4. Please be sure to read the documentation before installing; otherwise you run the risk of not allowing your users to unsubscribe from notification emails.

26 Comments

Alden Bates

November 1, 2007 9:18 AM | Reply

A user recently reported the following error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare multiblog_mtblogcategorycount() (previously declared in /home/breese/majordojo/web/htdocs/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/MultiBlog/php/init. MultiBlog.php:53) in /home/breese/majordojo/web/htdocs/cgi-bin/mt/php/plugins/init.MultiBlog. php on line 53

Is there a fix for this yet?

https://getopenid.com/itdevelopers/

December 5, 2007 6:52 AM | Reply

Good stuff... I don't see the problem Byrne. For me works fine :) Thx for sharing

Regards

rm_blogger

December 8, 2007 12:42 PM | Reply

I get an error 500, internal server error when anyone tries to unsubscribe, and yes I have made sure that the cgi has 755 permissions.

Jim Walczak

April 30, 2008 8:54 AM | Reply

Seems that there are still several issues in version 1.02

I couldn't get Unsubscribe to work.

And I had to manually fix the address for the unsubscribe (as outlined via commentor on Authors site)

rm_blogger

September 24, 2008 6:45 AM | Reply

I am using Comment Subscribe 1.02 with MT 4.2 and get the following error in my activity log:

Comment Subscribe died with: Can't locate object method "param" via package "MT" at /home/rmiles/public_html/cgi-bin/mt/plugins/C ommentSubscribe/CommentSubscribe.pl line 47.

I was going to leave the comment at the support site but comments are closed. Anyone else seeing this error?

Christian

November 11, 2008 8:41 AM | Reply

It would be nice if the plugin could first send users an e-mail asking them to confirm their e-mail before adding the subscription. There's been some law suits in Germany due to people using the Wordpress "subscribe to comments" function, because theoretically you can just enter anybody's e-mail address and that person would then receive "unsolicited e-mails".

Chad Everett

November 18, 2008 12:48 PM | Reply

Not meaning to hijack this plugin, but it's meant as a simple means for subscribing to comments (hence the name). I suspect the reason that it hasn't been updated for some time is that the author found out what I did some time ago - once in the wild, feature requests rarely stop.

If you want simple, this plugin appears to do the job (though I don't use it, so I can't really say). If you want complex, go with MT-Notifier instead. It's all that - though perhaps not a bag of chips.