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Subscriptions

Comment Subscriptions

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When you leave a comment on a WordPress.com blog that has comment subscriptions enabled, check the Notify me of follow-up comments via email checkbox before submitting. If you do, you will receive an email notification every time someone else leaves a comment on that post.

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Note that subscribers do not need to be registered with WordPress.com. Any subscription made using an email address not associated with a WordPress.com account will be sent details of how to confirm and manage their subscriptions without needing to register at WordPress.com.

Visitors who are logged in to WordPress.com will not need to confirm a subscription, all other visitors will be sent a confirmation email with full instructions on how to activate their subscription.

Configure Comment Subscriptions

To allow users to subscribe to comments you need to to visit the Settings > Discussion dashboard page and ensure that Comment reply via email is enabled and subscribe to comments is not disabled:

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Managing Comment Subscriptions

Full details of managing comment and blog subscriptions can be found from subscriptions support page.

Last modified: November 19, 2009