Allowing email notification for new blog comments

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  • December 8, 2013 at 4:30 pm #9396
    mponzi
    Customer

      Hi:

      I recently went live w/ my new Epik site. I have allowed readers to enter threaded comments after blog posts. However, I noticed 2 things:

      1) There is no checkbox enabling users to receive email notifications of follow-up replies. Is this to be turned on within WP or the theme? Or do I need a plug-in? If I need a plug-in, can you please recommend one?

      2) Below the blog posts is a box describing HTML tags that can be included in posts. How can I turn this off? I’m afraid it will turn off non-technical readers. Here’s a like to a post to show what I mean. http://inboundinfocus.com/e-mail-marketing-lists/

      Thank you for the help. Loving the Epik theme!!

      Marshall Ponzi

      December 8, 2013 at 10:53 pm #9403
      Eric
      Customer

        Yeah all of that comes from WordPress itself and not the Child theme. You would have to check in your settings to see if there is an option for that…..I know what you’re talking about because I’ve seen it before, just can’t remember how it was setup. If there are no settings then I would check and see if there is a plugin for it.

        Add this code to your css for the HTML tags – 

        .form-allowed-tags {
    display:none;
}

That should remove them from showing.

        I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

        December 9, 2013 at 8:08 am #9408
        mponzi
        Customer

          Thanks Eric,

          From what I learned last night, it looks like Epik’s blog comment form may be the standard Genesis 2 (HTML 5). So far, I haven’t found a switch in the WordPress settings to turn it off and on. Most of the commenting settings are in the WP dashboard under Settings>Discussion. But nothing for email replies.

          I found a plug-in called “Comment Notifier.” It creates a checkbox, but also has lots of other comment settings I don’t need. I was hoping to do this without an additional plug-ins.

          Best,

          Marshall

          December 9, 2013 at 9:23 am #9409
          mponzi
          Customer

            I received a suggestion from CopyBlogger support for removing the HTML tags. It worked fine. They suggested adding the following filter to the functions.php file:

            //* Remove comment form allowed tags
            add_filter( ‘comment_form_defaults’, ‘sp_remove_comment_form_allowed_tags’ );
            function sp_remove_comment_form_allowed_tags( $defaults ) {

            $defaults[‘comment_notes_after’] = ”;
            return $defaults;
            }

            December 9, 2013 at 11:14 pm #9420
            Eric
            Customer

              Thanks for posting! I’ll reference this for anyone else that needs it.

              I create awesome sites for awesome people! Contact me if interested – ericsanchez1585@gmail.com

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