Subscribe to comments is one of the best plugins, every wordpress user must have on their blogs in order to build interactivity. You can download the plugin from here.
Earlier, there was an option to permanently keep the subscription checkbox checked, but it is not available any more. With simple modification to the plugins code, you can get this feature back.
There are fair number of people who support keeping the checkbox checked permanently by default and then those who think its a bad idea to keep the checkbox checked permanently.
Tip for those who do not want to keep the checkbox checked always :
Under normal conditions, if you call the plugin hook after the comment box, the subscribe checkbox may go unnoticed as it is placed after the message text box. To avoid this, you can place the subscription checkbox after the website box and before message text area, this will the user an opportunity to decide if he wants to be subscribed to that post or not.
Here’s how you can achieve it :
1> Go to comments.php
2> Find this line
<label for=”url”><small>Website</small></label>
or something similar if you are using any custom comments plugin
3> Call the subscription checkbox hook right after it
<p> <?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?> </p>
Now the subscription option will be available right after the website option like this :
Here’s how you can have the subscribe to comments checkbox checked aways :
1> Go to plugin editor and open subscribe to comments plugin
2> Find the line :
<input type=”checkbox” name=”subscribe” id=”subscribe” value=”subscribe” style=”width: auto;” <?php if ( $checked_status ) echo ‘checked=”checked” ‘; ?>/>
3> Replace it with
<input type=”checkbox” name=”subscribe” id=”subscribe” value=”subscribe” style=”width: auto;” checked=”checked” />
4> Save the changes and your checkbox will always be checked.
This is nice, but beware: if you update this plugin, this code change will be gone and you have to do it again.
didnt work for me. 🙁 i tried viewing it via incognito window. 🙁
http://thelifestyleavenue.com/love-forecast-for-2015/#comments look. 🙁
WOW ! Worked for me 🙂 Thanks a lot.
The code works on the latest version. Just be sure to retype the quotation marks in the new code after you copy and paste this code. Works like a charm!
Thanks for the tuto, it works well now
Replacing code isnt working for the latest release 🙁
@Rajesh – Hmm I need to look into it. I guess in thesis there is a bit of difference .. like we need to make changes in the function file. May be will look in to it later n let u. Not possible at the moment as I’m travelling.
hey buddy it didnt worked for me.. does it require any additional settings for thesis??
It worked fine… Thanks for the code..
this is new test mail
this is test mail
Thanks mate, I too was looking for the same, actually i didnt even notice when it was set to unchecked, i had set it to checked in past but seems that the upgrade to plugin changed the settings. It did effect the site visitors.
Thanks
Thanks a lot for that. Worked like a charm. I’d thought I’d sidestepped the whole issue by never upgrading to 2.1.2, but upon checking, found the tickbox was still not checked by default.
Just a quick FYI re. your post – people (like me 🙂 ) may get confused when searching for the required lines to edit – your blog changed normal quote marks to smart quotes. So if you just copy’n’paste directly from your blog, the text won’t easily be found.
Thanks again.