Are you supposed to get email notifications for REPLIES to COMMENTS on WP side?
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I’m running WordPress Stand Alone (not WPMU) with the BuddyPress Plugin
Hi, I get email notifications for everything, signup, private messages, replies to updates.. BUT I don’t get email notifications for replies to COMMENTS on my WordPress Posts. I have WordPress 2.9.2 and the Buddypress Plugin installed and I have every Yes checked in Notifications including :
A member replies to an update or comment you’ve posted is checked yes.
My question is, am I supposed to receive email notifications for COMMENT REPLIES on the WordPress Side? It appears that way, as I am assuming that that is what the option I checked above is.. unless it is referring to comments somewhere else in Buddypress?
I have a plugin installed in the WordPress Side called Comment Reply Notification that DOES give me comment reply emails, but it is a separate plugin and I had it active when I installed BuddyPress, so I am worried that it somehow BROKE BuddyPress and now I can’t get the Comment Replies to work. When I disable that plugin, I receive no email notifications for WordPress Comment Replies. Did that plugin break BuddyPress? If that is the case, how can I fix it?
My site is here; http://www.hotforwords.com
Thanks so much!
Marina – HotForWords
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I’d love to check the site out more to help but it kind of falls under the NSFW classification
What do you have set in http://www.hotforwords.com/wp-admin/options-discussion.php ? Do you have “Email me whenever…Anyone posts a comment” checked?
Hi Marina! Love the show!
Unfortunately a reply to a comment is also considered to a comment, so they’d both get sent to your email. Disabling nested comments would discourage comment replies, but this is likely the opposite of what you want. Sorry!
Thanks everyone for the responses! Now I have a better understanding of how the different components work together!
In order to keep the stickiness of people coming back to my website when someone replies to a comment of theirs on the WordPress Post side.. I reactivated my Comment Reply Notification plugin for WordPress so now people get notified by the BuddyPress stuff as well as the WordPress Stuff!!
Just as a side note, my website has over 168,000 comments on it and I attribute that to my use of the comment reply notification plugin that I’ve used for the past couple years. Glad to see that BuddyPress has those notifications built in!
I’ll most likely add the Forum Reply Plugin that you mention r-a-y as well. Thanks for the useful post! And thank you all for your help!
Next up.. getting my BBpress skinned to look like my site and getting that darned BuddyBar to work
It was just a tongue-in-cheek comment – I was just a bit surprised when the site had a woman in her underwear on the front page
No problem. Apologies for any misunderstanding
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