Configuring the new comment notifications

If you implemented the "Notify me if someone else comments on this post" checkbox in your comment form, you need to create an email template for the notification message. Navigate to the System/Settings/Email Templates page and create a new email template. Assign it the blog:new_comment_notification code.

In the message template you can use email variables listed under the Blog Variables title. Below is an example content of the notification message. You can click the Edit HTML Source button on the HTML Editor toolbar and paste the following code to the popup window.

<p>Dear {comments_subscriber_name}!</p>
<p>New comment has been added to the blog post {post_name_and_url}:</p>
<p>Author: {comment_author_name}<br />Comment:</p>
<blockquote>{comment_text}</blockquote>
<p>To unsubscribe please click the link: {comments_unsubscribe_link}</p>

Creating the Unsubscribe page

To allow visitors to unsubscribe from new comment email notifications, you need to implement the unsubscribe page. Create a new page and assign it some URL, for example /blog/unsubscribe_new_comments. Select the blog:unsubscribe_new_comments action on the Actions page. This page does not require any PHP coding. You can just thank the subscriber with a simple text message.

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