Joe’s Subscription Widget

Joe’s Subscription Widget is a WordPress plugin that works with the new Widgets plugin system. The plugin creates a section in your sidebar that contains links to your e-mail and RSS or ATOM subscriptions. Note that you must already have an e-mail subscription service setup, subscribe2 is a great option.

The plugin requires you first install the Widgets plugin and get it working with your theme. Once it’s working, the install of this plugin is easy:

  • Unzip the package and put subscription.php and the directory JoesWidgets in the widgets folder (should be /wp-content/plugins/widgets)
  • Log in into your WordPress account
  • Change to the Plugin Management and activate Joe’s Subscription Widget component
  • Go to the Sidebar Widgets tab on the Presentation Management page and drag ‘subscription’ to your sidebar
  • Click the options button on ‘subscription’ and enter your desired section title, E-Mail description and URL, and RSS/ATOM description and URL

Posted: 06 April 8
Under: Wordpress
Viewed: 5,997 views

15 Responses to “Joe’s Subscription Widget”

  1. Joseph Fieber says:

    Updated to 1.1
    -Changed name of JoesWidgets folder to joessubscription
    -Changed name of plugin file from subscription.php to joessubscription.php
    -Changed registered widget name from subscription to Joes Subscription

  2. Jerry Kolber says:

    The plugin works great over at my site. Thanks!
    Jerry, www.jerrykolber.com

  3. Jamarion says:

    Is there a wordpress widget that would allow me to display my album in the sidebar/with the sidebar widgets/plug ins?
    Thanks!

  4. Joe says:

    Jamarion, what album?

  5. Peng says:

    The Subscription URL is throwing me. Is this a file I need to create? If so, what needs to go on it? I’d really love to be able to allow my readers to get email subscriptions.

  6. Joe says:

    You need to have an e-mail subscription plugin to use this, I use ‘Subscribe2′ (subscribe2.wordpress.com/).

  7. Peng says:

    Thanks. I had some problem with plugins like this is the past due to my server but I’ll give it a try. And while it’s now been brought up so it’s not such a big deal, it would have been nice to find this about three days sooner, when I was first looking at it. I’m just saying.

  8. Gordon says:

    Joe,

    I’ve been using this on a number of non-profit blogs and was pleased to see it updated.

    Does it still support an image? natickfamilynetwork.org

  9. Download link isn’t working.
    But, I found direct link through this… sojoe.info/downloads/JSW.zip

  10. Darin Blue says:

    Hmmm…I am confused. I have the same question as ‘Peng’ with the subscription URL part. I dl’d subscribe2 and installed but I’m not sure where or what URL i’m supposed to plug into your widget???? Please help, currently i’m just a dead link at www.mlmblogcast.com on the sidebar undersubscribe.

    I did get the feed part to work though I think ;)

  11. You can’t actually imagine what delight it provides me to have your web site bookmarked. After all those tedious surfing, it seemed that I have at last located a site which is really worth exploring. I really appreciate the amount of work you may have put on making a website of this nature.

Leave a Reply