Guest post by Indrek Saarnak, who’s the author of OnlineBlogger.
Have you wondered how to change the layout of the WordPress plugin Subscribe to Comments subscription manager? There’s no easy solution provided by the author of the plugin, so after looking at its core file I found out it’s actually quite easy by using an extremely simple tweak. With this tutorial I’m going to show you how you can also give it a nice custom design.
What actually is “Subscribe to Comments”?
Subscribe to Comments is a robust plugin that enables commenters to sign up for e-mail notification of subsequent entries. The plugin includes a full-featured subscription manager that your commenters can use to unsubscribe from certain posts, block all notifications, or even change their notification e-mail address! It’s an excellent plugin used by so many people, but it was last updated in Dec 2007 with no easy option for changing its layout. That’s the reason for this simple tutorial.
Just how much can I change it?
By default the subscription manager looks like this:
THE LINK FOR DOWNLOAD IS OUT U CAN FIX THIS?
Any idea how to change the font color for the “Notify me of follow up comments” on the comment form.
You’ll need to change the appropriate CSS file.
This is awesome! Thanks for sharing, I’ve been thinking about styling that plugin’s page for ages.
You’re welcome, Paul!
If you come up with a custom design why not share it with the rest of us…
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Sweet! I will try to do that on my site first and then probably on all other sites that have this Plugin. I have one question though. What happens if the Plugin get’s updated? Won’t the hack in the file be lost?
Maybe you can post the links for others to see what you came up with in the end.
You’re right! When the plugin gets updated the hack will be lost. But when you look at the plugins info you’ll see that it was last updated 2007-12-14. So I doubt the original owner will do any updates on it – unless someone takes it over. And if this would be the case you can always replace those few lines again – shouldn’t be too hard (unless you have a whole bunch of sites using this hack).
You should probably mention that if one is using a child theme, then these files will need to be placed in the parent theme’s directory.
Thank you Mark for your comment.
Forgot to mention that since I haven’t used child themes personally.