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Some netizens left comments under the article on this site, and I usually reply after receiving the email notice. Yesterday, some netizens reported that they could not receive email notification after their comments were replied. It was tested that this was indeed a problem with WordPress. Today we use the WordPress plugin Comment Reply Email Notification. Visitors will receive an Email Notification when a Comment is replied.

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Disadvantages of WordPress’s comment system

WordPress is a fully functional and powerful blogging system that allows site visitors to leave comments at the bottom of posts by filling in their nicknames and email addresses, and bloggers to respond to comments in the background. The WordPress comment system provides a way for visitors and bloggers to interact with each other, which is a great feature.

But there is one big drawback to the WordPress comment system: you can’t notify visitors when they have new comments. WordPress background configuration of email sending function, when there is a new message on the website, the blogger can receive email notification; But when a blogger replies to a visitor, WordPress doesn’t send an email; Visitors may never know that the blogger has replied to the message until they open the page again.

Notifying visitors about new comments not only greatly improves their experience, but also enhances the interaction between the blogger and the visitor, which is beneficial to both sides.

This article shares the use of the Comment Reply Email Notification plug-in to remedy this shortcoming of WordPress.

WordPress Comment Reply Email Notification

First, you need to configure email delivery in the background of WordPress. At present, most VPS merchants do not allow hosts to send Mail directly to the outside, I recommend using WP Mail SMTP plug-in to send Mail. WP Mail SMTP is simple to configure and supports QQ, 163, Gmail, Mailgun and other Mail services.

Then, I searched and installed Comment Reply Email Notification plug-in on the plugin page in the background of WordPress and enabled it. At the same time, it is suggested to tick “Select Subscription Reply by Default” on the plugin setting page:

Next, open an article at random and you’ll see a new option box in the comment form:

The fly in the ointment of the Comment Reply Email Notification plugin is that the phrase “Notify me via E-mail if anyone answers my Comment.” is not translated into Chinese.

The method of adding Chinese translation is also very simple. There are mainly two kinds:

  1. The first way is to download the translated files from this site:https://tlanyan.pp.ua/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/comment-reply-email-notification-zh_CN.mo”And then uploaded it to your websitewp-content/plugins/comment-reply-email-notification/languagesDirectory;

  2. The second method is to translate and convert mo files by yourself: Open the plug-in’s Chinese translation PO file (the file path is Site directory/wp – the content/plugins/comment – reply – email notification/languages/comment – reply – email – notification – zh_CN. Po), Add the following three lines at the end of the document:

    : comment-reply-email-notification.php:363

    Msgid “Notify me via email if anyone answers my comment.” msgid “Notify me via email if anyone answers my comment.”

    “Email me when there is a reply” can be replaced with your own translation.

    This is then converted to a mo file: msgfmt-o comment-reply-email-notification -zh_cn. mo comment-reply-email-notification -zh_cn. Po

Choose one of these methods, refresh the post page, and you’ll see something similar to the comments section of this site:

At this point, visitors will receive a notification email when their message is commented on or replied to:

conclusion

It is highly recommended for WordPress bloggers to install and use Comment Reply Email Notification as a prompt Email Notification when a message is replied to can greatly enhance the visitor experience and enhance the interaction between the blogger and the visitor.

reference

1. WordPress Comment Reply Email Notification

2. PHP sends email

3. Three ways to translate PO files and convert them to MO files