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Blog Comments, Comment Emails, Problem with Blog Comment Notification Emails, WordPress Problems
Strange happenings again around WordPress. At least there are for me. I am getting an email notification for only half (or so) of the comments made on this blog today. I notice the comment alert on the orange button-y notification thing-y. Hmmm….check email, no notice about the comment.
If I miss your comment today, my apologies!
This happening to anyone else? i looked on the WordPress forum but just saw old posts.
Robin Coyle 
Email notifications seem to lag by about four hours or so. The orange notification thingy hasn’t worked right in a couple of weeks now, ever since they changed from a number to all those icons — stars, callouts, etc. I liked the number much better.
Hi Russell! I see you are camping at my place again. How nice to have you back!
I like the number better too. Except for the dialog bubble, I don’t know what the other icons mean. My email notification problem cleared up by the next day. Are you still having problems? I wish WP would quit tinkering~
Hi,
I am one of the avid wordpress commentator since 2009. I noticed just this week I cannot see my comments anymore. When I put on my site I still cannot get to see if my comment has been moderated. Just this month I noticed everything changes even if I post my website here on the box, I am sure you will not notice me. I am very worried, sort of depressed that I cannot figure out why such thing is bugging me.
I have the answer for you! When I had the same problem, I went to this link: http://akismet.com/contact/
There is a box where you type in your problem along with a menu to help narrow down the issue. Within two days, I contacted and someone named Mark didn’t give up until he solved the issue. It took a couple of days but I wanted to kiss him!
Good luck. Will you let me know if they solve your spam issue?
I have that problem! And I thought it was just me, because my entire site went down last weekend for a server migration, and I’m still encountering bugs! 😦
Oh no! My problem is resolved so hopefully your will be too!
I recently disabled the comment notification to my email, in an attempt to control my inbox, so I can’t help there. But the orangey thingy is playing up, so I suspect I’d be having your troubles.
Still no help, but I’m with you in spirit 🙂
It isn’t a problem today, thank goodness. The cheeky folks over at WordPress decided to not torture us any longer.
I’ve been having this problem for a little over a month now. WordPress said it’s my email, but I haven’t changed anything. 😦 that I might be missing stuff.
My problem seems to be resolved. Phew. Good luck with yours!
You have such a hoodoo… My WP works fine at home as I run IE 9 but at work we’re still on 7 until the ever promised but not yet appeared upgrade and WP barely functions but as I’m supposed to be working…
Naughty thing you! Bogging on the company’s time . . .
BTW, what is a hoodoo?
In this context “Bad luck or misfortune” 😉
And, I am getting emails for posts, no problem.
That’s good. I still have blogs dropping from my follow list. Weird.
Hi, Robin. I receive no emails with comments — I bet I changed something when I corrected the “read every comment ever written by humanity” box. I like the notifications box, though!
Ha ha! And humanity has so much to say!
I’ve also noticed that I don’t always get an email when someone starts following my blog. I only catch it when I notice the number of followers changed on my widget.
All such a mystery. They need to quit playing with our heads and diddling around with the stuff.
I noticed some comments in WordPress that I never rec’d an email notification for. There were just 3 or so and they were all from the same person. I wasn’t sure why. But maybe it’s related. Since it was only 3, I moved on. 🙂 Have a nice weekend.
Thanks. You have a nice weekend too. I’ll try to move on too because there isn’t a bloody thing to do about it.
I’m getting e-mails after I already delete them. Yesterday, i opened all my e-mails re posts I’d received, and after reading them, I deleted them. This morning, I have all those e-mails again and then some. Very, very annoying.
Wow. That is a new one. Seems I am finally getting emails about comments but it is HOURS after the person commented.
Check your Reader – blogs I follow – edit list ……. I found that a lot of the blogs I follow had the email notification changed from instantly to never. Also on your notification orange button click on view all should see all your notifications that are white are unread, then lastly check your spam box
How do you do “view all” on the orange button?
I was notified of your post, that really sucks, Robin. Hope your wp stuff gets fully sorted soon, what a pain for you!
From the comments, it sounds like many of us have issues. You are not? Lucky you!
I’m keeping my fingers crossed…
I had a follower state that my new posts weren’t showing up in her email, but they do show up on the reader. My mom told me today that she was getting email notifications, but the post disappeared when she opened it. Weird.
see my comment to Robin
Thanks!
I haven’t read all the comments but have noticed this:
Thanks for sending this! I didn’t notice the notification tab before. How handy!
Yes, I’m experiencing much of the above. It’s all very strange. The other annoyance is now I always have to log back in to WP with my username if I ever leave the site. I didn’t have to do that before.
Same here. And, when I reply to a comment on my post, I get a notice saying “Robin Coyle commented on your post.” Geez, I KNOW I did.
You mean beside getting too much e-mail. Never rains but it pours. (Did you ever get A Soldier of the Great War? I couldn’t get past page 74 for four years. Glad I finally did.)
Aloha,
Doug
I did! Haven’t started it yet but it is on my nightstand. My book group doesn’t meet over the summer so I will have more reading time. What was the snag for you for four years?
At 860 pages, it may take me four years to read it!
The default for following has been changed and now we have to go to the follow page and change them manually to received immediate notification of a post – which i like. Or is it that I love the email. 🙂
I’ve been getting some emails about comments, Robin, but not all of them.
Poltergeists again ~ lurking around the halls of WordPress.
Isn’t all beginning to make sense. We all need to get together with a big “their back.”
That was a great movie. I think I will put it in my Netflix queue because I haven’t watched it since it came out!
me too – you mentioned it to me about my comments so I looked and it is happening to me also
Something goofy going on again i guess. I wish they would quite tinkering.
I am starting to get mine again–or at least some of them
Not me. Damn.
Possibly. I just put up a new post about half an hour ago, and two people have commented on it, I received an email relating to the second person’s comment, but not the first (not yet anyway), but as you say, their comment did show up in the orange thingy at the top.
Another thing I’ve had recently is that within the last couple of weeks I’ve started following 3 or 4 new blogs (not NEW blogs, but new to me!), and I haven’t been receiving email notifications of their new posts when they publish them – they show up in my reader, but I don’t get an email – I still get emails from the old blogs I follow, just not my newer additions.
Hmm…no email about your comment. I noticed it on the orange thing-y. I wonder what that is actually called!
I experienced the other problem you mention. I went to “Blogs I Follow” on the dashboard and had to change the setting next to the new blogs I followed from NEVER to IMMEDIATE where is asked how often you want to receive emails.
That was a new problem but after a few days, it went away and I haven’t had an issue since. I think. I better go check.
Let me know if this explains your situation.
Ah yes, thank you! I think the defaults must have changed because I’ve never had to change the new blog settings before, I didn’t even realise that option to change the setting was there until you said!
I did receive an email a few minutes ago when you went over and commented on my new post, but I haven’t received an email about the first person who commented! All very strange.
I haven’t noticed this, but I have noticed that when people respond to comments via their email, those comments aren’t showing up on the original blog post. They’re going to the commenters’ email address instead. Is weird.
Yeah, I experienced that too. Not every time, but I now check to see what address is in the “TO:” box.
Also, did a notice of this notice of a new post from me hit your email?
Yes, I received email notification of your post. That’s still working. 🙂