WordPress.com Turns On Comment Reply-By-Email Support
WordPress, on their official blog, made a short announcement that Wordpress.com blog owners could now enable reply by email support for comments made to their blog. With a couple of simple configuration changes, blog owners can get the convenience of being able to directly reply to new comments via their preferred email address instead of through the Wordpress admin interface.
Replying to comments by email isn't that new as there are a lot of other comment systems that support it. In fact, there is at least one plugin for stand-alone WordPress blogs that enable this ability as well. But, the key to new features appearing on WordPress.com's free hosting site has always been rigorous usability and load testing first, then a full roll-out of the feature.
The way reply-by-email comment support will work is pretty straightforward. After enabling support for emailing comments, and then turning on the 'Enable sending comment replies via email' option (both found on the Settings > Discussion page), you are set. The next time you get a comment, you will be notified by email, and you can respond simply by replying to the email with your text above the original comment.
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JS-Kit has been doing this for ages :)
I hope they roll that into their WordPress.org offering. I would love this feature but aren't too big on installing unnecessary plugins.
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The "one plugin" that you mention for standalone Wordpress users is not the same. While the new Wordpress capability allows you, the author, to respond to comments via email, those comments are posted to your blog. The "one plugin" simply adds an icon next to the comment posters on your blog so that you can send them an email reply instead of replying in the comments:
[blockquote]Once the plugin has been activated you’ll notice a new icon appearing next to commenter names on your posts. Click on this icon to respond to the comment. When you save the comment, a copy will be emailed to the person who left the comment.[/blockquote]
So much for "Preview"
This seems like a great way to improve people's work flow. I don't have any experience with it yet, but I think I would like it very much.
Great feature! I like how convenient it is.
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IMO, they're clearly feeling the pressure from more convenient blogging platforms such as Posterous. I think Posterous' email focus makes it a clear winner as a free blogging platform.
IMO, they're clearly feeling the pressure from more convenient blogging platforms such as Posterous. I think Posterous' email focus makes it a clear winner as a free blogging platform.
I like Wordpress... I'm considering to migrate my main blog there...
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I have tried to find this option in Settings>Discussion but i do not see where to activate it. COuld someone enlighten a beginner like me.?
I'm using wordpress 2.7
New to wordpress thanks for the info.
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I would love this feature but aren't too big on installing unnecessary plugins.
I am just happy continuous mods are being setup.
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