Comments on: Increase RSS Subscribers With WordPress Conditional Tags

By: Oncle Tom

Oncle Tom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:28:51 +0000

He he. If you need a french translation just mail me.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:15:30 +0000

That is a good idea for a plugin!

By: Oncle Tom

Oncle Tom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:10:49 +0000

Ian, I definitely agree on this usage.

Maybe all this could be done through Wordpress filter hooks ? If yes, it’s a good idea for a plugin and a simple admin configuration like that :
[ ] promote feeds on posts
[*] promote feeds on paged results
[ ] promote feeds on search results etc.

By: fxbodin

fxbodin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:01:17 +0000

I implemented the trick on Chroniques de l’Iboga. It works (waiting for new subscribers, now)

Actually you may make your blog act so whatever your (supposed new) reader internal link clicks: tag, category, contextual link…

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:00:44 +0000

Thanks, fxbodin and Oncle. I changed the code. You’re both right, the div should have been within the statement.

Oncle, a subscribe-call-to-action works great on single post pages too. I was sorta just pointing out an untapped use of WordPress tags and typically unused spot in WordPress themes. Hope that helps get into my thinking.

By: Oncle Tom

Oncle Tom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:52:14 +0000

OK I had the point but if you read an article you may not have subscribed to the blog too.

By: fxbodin

fxbodin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:45:44 +0000

Hum… not to used to read code, actualy the “if” is within the “div”, the fact is it could be better around the “div”, instead.

By: fxbodin

fxbodin — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:40:18 +0000

As Oncle Tom noticed it, the condition should embrace the div, otherwise causing some disturbing display effects. Shouldn’t it?

The interest of conditionning the invite to paged display is explained within the above post: it suppose that your reader asks for next page, that (most probably) signifies that he’s not yet read previous posts and thus not yet subscribed to tour blog. Despite the fact you promote your RSS feeds in many places of your blog
Thanks to this contextual invite, the reader may be receptive and click to subscribe.

That’s How I understood.

By: Oncle Tom

Oncle Tom — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:19:13 +0000

I’m wondering why you put your PHP if (is_paged()) BETWEEN the and not wrapping the div. If the div is customized with with padding and background it could be horrible to see.

And actually I don’t understand why on paged content : why not on single post or pages ? I can’t get the point of the increase just through paginated content.

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:10:10 +0000

Glad to be helpful, Ptah. And different from the crowd: for better or worse—and mostly by accident—I usually follow my own path.