So I spent some time upgrading all of my plug-ins last week. I don’t know why. I was bored, it seemed like I should do this periodically, and…I don’t know. Upgrading WP & the plug-ins is really my only beef with Wordpress. You upgrade, and then a week later, it’s time to upgrade something (that works perfectly fine) again.
But anyways…Subscribe-to-Comments is one of my favorite plug-ins. There’s nothing like it to help keep the conversation flowing. I love to enable the “leave subscribe button checked by default” option - they place the subscribe checkbox below the comment box, and it’s easy to miss. So pretty much all of your commentators end up subscribing, and if it pisses them off, it’s easy to unsubscribe.
Until the latest upgrade!!! They just removed that option so that now you can’t enable the “leave subscribe button checked by default.” It’s not there anymore. And that really grinds my gears.
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April 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
If you haven’t be sure to upgrade to WordPress 2.5. They have an outstanding new feature where you can upgrade all of your plug-ins with one click. I didn’t particularly dislike the auto subscription of comments and it kept me included in the conversation that I would have otherwise forgotten about but sometimes it was annoying to get so many emails.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:49 am
Hey Josh - isn’t 2.5 still in beta testing?
April 9th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
No, it is fully released now. The plugin update feature is woth the upgrade by itself. Make sure all your plugins are compatible though before you do it.
April 9th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Yeah - I just upgraded eb.com blog to it a couple of days ago. The interface looks pretty slick - I really like the one click upgrade.