A Comment Notification can be sent to up to 10 email addresses whenever a comment is posted to your blog. This allows you (and up to nine others) to follow the comments posted to your blog without having to actively check a web page.
To add email addresses for Comment Notification
| 1. | Click the Settings and Security tab, and on the Publishing Defaults page, click the General link. |
| 2. | On the General page, navigate to the Comment Notifications section. By default the email address you included in your profile when you set up your blog account is displayed: |
| 3. | Type the email address(es) to which you want comment notifications sent. Type one address per line. You can add up to 10 email addresses. |
To activate Comment Notification when you are creating a new blog entry
| 1. | Click the Post tab on the Publisher Control Panel, and click the link for the type of blog entry you want to create (for example Article). The Post page for the blog entry opens. |
| 2. | Complete the information for your blog entry. |
| 3. | In the Advanced Options area of the page, in the Notifications section, click the Send Comment Notifications check box. |
| 4. | Save and publish your blog entry. |
For details on posting a blog entry, see Posting items to a blog.
To activate Comment Notification for an existing blog entry
| 1. | Locate the article, review, or photo for which you want to activate comment notification and open its Edit page. |
| 2. | In the Advanced Options area of the page, in the Notifications section, click the Send Comment Notifications check box. |
| 3. | Save and publish your blog entry. |
To set Comment Notification as the default for all blog entries
| 1. | Click the Settings and Security tab. |
| 2. | On the Publishing Defaults page, click the Posts link. The Posting Defaults page opens. |
| 3. | In the Options area on the right side of the page, click the Notify publisher when comments are posted check box. The comment notification option will be activated by default for all future blog entries. |
| 4. | Click the Save Settings button. |
To receive comment notification via email
Once the Comment Notification feature is activated, comment notifications sent by email are similar to the example shown below:
From: comment-notice@blog.com
Subject: Comment notification for Exempli Gratia
Date: February 5, 2004 9:55AM PST
To: Example User
A comment was received for "First Post!"
on Wed Jan 21 21:09:37 PST 2004.
Comment details:
=================
Poster's IP Address: [ IP address goes here ]
Article URL: [Article URL goes here ]
Author: Joey deVilla
Title: Re: Re: First Post!
Body:
I concur, a <em>very</em> nice blog indeed! Soon you shall join
the ranks of blogs like <a href="http://boingboing.net">BoingBoing</a>!
**********
!!NOTICE!!
**********
To permanently delete this comment, please click here:
[ URL to delete the comment goes here ]
WARNING: Deleted comments cannot be recovered. They will be permanently
lost.
The Comment Notification contains the following information:
| • | The name of the blog where the comment was posted |
| • | The name of the article for which the comment was posted |
| • | The URL of the article |
The URL provided takes you to the individual page for that article. Many email programs allow you to click this link, which opens a new browser window to that URL.
| • | The title of the comment |
| • | The name of the comment's author, if known |
If the author of the comment logged in, the author's name is displayed.
| • | If the author of the comment did not log in, or was logged in but chose to comment anonymously, Anonymous is displayed instead of an author's name. |
| • | The IP address of the computer on which the comment was made |
| • | The body of the comment |
The body contains everything in the comment. If the author used HTML formatting, the body of your article shows all the HTML tags, rather than the display version of the text. For example, if the comment looks like this in your blog:
I concur, a very nice blog indeed! Soon you shall join the ranks of blogs like BoingBoing!
It looks like this in your Comment Notification:
I concur, a <em>very</em> nice blog indeed! Soon you shall join
the ranks of blogs like <a href="http://boingboing.net">BoingBoing</a>!
| • | A link for deleting the comment |
If you click this link, the comment is deleted.
