How To View Subscriber Info For Your Blog

The Subscribe To Comments 2.0 plugin by Mark Jaquith of txfx.net must be one of the most popular WordPress plugins. One of the current drawbacks of the current version which Mark is trying to fix in his upcoming 2.1 release, is the fact that blog publishers can’t see who has subscribed to their posts.

Although I’ve never been able to see my subscription stats, I’ve always taken it as a given that my readers were using it as I use the same functionality on many other sites to follow discussions even if I don’t actually join the debate.

Now with the View SubscriberInfo plugin you can finally see how many users are subscribing to your posts, and even which articles they’ve subscribed to. I was amazed to see how many users had subscribed to my posts – 225 users had subscribed to 271 different posts. Given that I’ve only written about 300 posts since my move from Blogware, I’m quite happy about this.
Features:

• Easy administration via Admin menu
• Displays all subscribed individuals and the posts they are subscribed to
• Show basic stats wherever you like using a function call
• Optional insertion of subscriber statistics into the Dashboard

Installation is a breeze. Just upload the plugin to your server and activate it. Once activated go to ‘Options/View Subscriber Info’ and decide whether you want summary stats like below displayed in your dashboard:

There is a very small bug in the current version. To get up-to-date stats you have to visit the Options/View Subscriber Info page TWICE.I’m tempted to send a nice email to users who have subscribed to posts, suggesting politely that they subscribe to my RSS feed if they haven’t already done so. Do you think this would be a bit too cheeky and an incorrect use of their email address?

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