need way for users to sign up for email notice/digests of all comments

@eflister,

Subscribe2 doesn’t feature emails for comments, there are other plugins that do this, for example ‘Subscribe to Comments Reloaded’.

afaict that plugin requires individually signing up for each post — i want something more like subscribe2 that allows you to sign up for the whole blog at once (or by category/tag filters). why not add this to subscribe2? is there a plugin that already does it? i can’t find one…

@eflister,

I am not aware of a solution that offers exactly what you are asking for, I don’t offer this on my own blogs.

As for why Subscribe2 doesn’t offer it, I can’t answer for the current developers but when I was the sole coder for Subscribe2 it was not something I personally wanted the code to do, it’s not a feature I wanted, and there are technical barriers to implementation as the hooks for comment transitions in WordPress are not as developed and robust as for posts.

A feature request that would make adding this loads easier has been sitting with WordPress untouched for 3 years:
https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/16365

thanks for the info, i really appreciate it! i upvoted the trac issue. ?? current devs: any way you could workaround this? the issue mattyrob linked to includes his small patch that should make it easy. ?? i’ve never looked into wordpress guts, but does the current hook for comments moving from unapproved to approved get called for every new comment atm, even if they’re set to automatically be approved? if so, that would be adequate for the purposes described here, wouldn’t it?