Notify the commentor when I reply to his comment

  • i know that there’s a plugin which allows replying to comments. I think it’s called threaded comments.
    It isn’t exactly what i want.
    Is there a hack or plugin which does this?
    Notify the commentor that i have replied to his comment providing that the commentor had given his email address in the email field.

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  • That’s subscribe to comments.
    Check the wiki ??
    https://wiki.www.ads-software.com/index.php/HomePage

    podz,
    I’m not sure about the original poster, but I want something that fits this description and works regardless of whether or not someone has subscribed to comments.
    Basically, I want something that allows me to specifically notify one or more commentors–possibly by checking their name, possibly by replying to their comment (if it works as an adjunct to threaded comments, which is fine)–that someone has replied to their comment and provide them with a link back to that post and its comments.
    Don’t bother telling me to put it on the wishlist. I already had, but when I went to take a look again, I found it’s been deleted by someone who either agrees with you about it being the same as subscribing to comments or believes it’s not worth bothering with.
    If somebody with enough pull to keep it from being deleted wants to put it on the wishlist, I’d be grateful.

    I’m with you on this, zaecus. I know LiveJournal has this feature so I know it can be done. I’d love to see this feature on WP too!

    Zaecus
    I think I can probably see how this could be done – however, what happens if the person you want to reply to didn’t leave a valid email? How do you think it should function?
    (feel free to email me directly as well: scripty at scriptygoddess dot com)

    In that event, invalid or deliberately broken email address, I’d assume the person has deliberately opted out of being notified when someone responds to their comment.
    Thinking about it, it might be best if the original commentor is reminded that they will not be notified of responses unless they leave a valid email address (which won’t be seen by anyone/harvested by robots as standard now, right?).
    If the don’t leave a valid email address, then it should fail harmlessly. If it works that you can notify more than one person that you are ‘responding’ to their comment, then one bad email address shouldn’t kill the process for the rest.
    In any case, the comment should be left as normal.
    Thank you for the interest. ??

    are you talking about this hack?

    Yeah, basically. ??

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