Make Subscribe to Comments more Usable
February 8, 2009 – 17:38 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 142.Last updated: Monday, February 23, 2009 at 21:11.
Usually, subscribe to comments section, a plugin for WordPress users, placed below submit button. We can make it more usable to put it above the button. Then, the kind of the text Notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail
will be placed directly below the comment box and above submit button.
As an open source, WordPress codes are fully customized:
- Now, login to your dashboard
- Point the cursor to Plugin menu, choose Editor
- Click Subscribe to Comments plugin
- Find this line:
show_subscription_checkbox - Copy the code (save automatically to clipboard or paste to any text editor)
- Point the cursor to the Appearance menu, then click Editor
- Edit
comments.phpfile - Paste the code between comment textarea and submit button section, and make it like below:
<?php show_subscription_checkbox(); ?> - Press Update file button.
Done. Take a look with another browser or log out first.
This blog tips is part of usability of comment form design (Dani Iswara .Net). 
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