Grasping for the Wind: New Feature: Subscribe to Comments

July 27, 2007

New Feature: Subscribe to Comments

Tired of having to remember to come back here and check for responses to comments you made on this blog? Use the Comment Feed.

Using and RSS reader you will receive the newest comments for all posts to this blog in your reader. Click on the icon or link below and simply add to your reader.

Grasping for the Wind Comments Feed

If you are a movable type user and want to add this feature to your own blog, just follow these simple instructions.

1. Create a new index template.

2. Insert the following code.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="<$MTPublishCharset$>"?> 
<rss version="2.0"> 
 <channel> 
 <title><$MTBlogName remove_html="1" encode_html="1"$>: Comments</title> 
 <link><$MTBlogURL$></link> 
 <description>Latest comments for <$MTBlogName remove_html="1" encode_html="1"$></description> 
 <language>en-us</language> 
 <lastBuildDate><MTComments lastn="1"><$MTCommentDate language="en" format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S"$> <$MTBlogTimezone no_colon="1"$></MTComments></lastBuildDate> 
 <generator>http://www.movabletype.org/?v=<$MTVersion$></generator> 
 <docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs> 
<MTComments lastn="20" sort_order="descend"> 
 <item> 
 <title>Comment on "<MTCommentEntry><$MTEntryTitle remove_html="1" encode_html="1"$></MTCommentEntry>"</title> 
 <link><MTCommentEntry><$MTEntryPermalink$>#comments</MTCommentEntry></link> 
 <description><$MTCommentBody encode_html="1"$> - <$MTCommentAuthorLink show_email="0" encode_html="1"$></description> 
 <guid isPermaLink="false">comment<$MTCommentID pad="1"$>@<$MTBlogURL$></guid> 
 <pubDate><$MTCommentDate language="en" format="%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S"$> <$MTBlogTimezone no_colon="1"$></pubDate> 
 </item> 
</MTComments> 
 </channel> 
</rss>

3. Name the output file something like "comments.xml".

4. Rebuild. And you are good to go.

Posted by John on July 27, 2007 03:10 PM | Posted to Blogging
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This is amazing! Thanks for finding it. Is there any way that Blogspot users can do this?

Posted by: funke on July 27, 2007 05:18 PM

Also, I was wondering what the code is for your sidebar archives. I like having a pull-down menu for archiving rather than having every category under the sun taking up room in the sidebar...

Posted by: funke on July 27, 2007 05:20 PM

Funke, blogspot requires no work, under site feed hit the advanced mode and make sure comment or per post comment feed is set to full.

Then your site will look soemthing like this.

The URL for the post feed is:

http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/blogID#/posts/full

The URL of the comment feed is:

http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/blogID#/comments/full

The URL of the per-post comment feed is:

http://beta.blogger.com/feeds/blogID#/postID#/comments/full

just make a link on your site to this url, and it should let people subscribe to the feed.

Sorry, I don't do much blogspot. Let me know if this works.

Posted by: John on July 28, 2007 10:36 PM

I'll post the sidebar archives pull down menu html soon.

Posted by: John on July 28, 2007 10:44 PM