Although this is a new blog there already several posts which have attracted many comments. Some of these are queries which I will always try to answer by leaving a comment.
Therein lies a problem as there is no guarantee that the commenters will know that I have answered the query. They will have to keep coming back to see if there is an answer, but there is no guarantee that I can answer immediately.
The cure is to allow readers to subscribe to the comments on individual posts so that they can look to see if the query has been answered yet. So today I have enabled RSS comment feeds for individual posts.
The first thing to do is to ensure that Post Pages are enabled in Settings>Archiving. This will not work if Post Pages are not enabled.
Next go to Layout>Edit HTML and click Download Full Template to guard against accidental disasters. Select Expand Widget Templates then use your browser’s search/find to locate the following code:
<p><data:post.body/></p>
Immediately under this paste the following code. Then make sure that you replace YOURBLOGNAME with your blog URL. So that it reads either:
- myblogname.blogspot.com/ or
- www.myblogname.com/
<p><a expr:href='"http://YOURBLOGNAME.com/feeds/" + data:post.id + "/comments/default?alt=rss"'>Subscribe to comments for this post</a></p>
You can, of course change “Subscribe to comments for this post” to anything you want, such as “Post comment feed” or “Subscribe to comments”. It is entirely up to you as long as its purpose is clear to your readers.
Next preview the changes to make sure that all is well with the layout. Then if you are satisfied save the template.
Clicking on the template will either take your reader to a page which allows you to subscribe to the individual comment feed:
Or, if they have a desktop feed reader such as FeedDemon, and have set the browser to use this, will open its subscription form.
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