Wordpress comment email notification fixed

Mar 24th, 2007 by blindsquirrel

Here’s how I finally got the comment notification working.

I deactivated the wp-PHPMailer plugin that I installed to help with email issues. Ends up I no longer needed it. What I did need was the realization that Wordpress will not send the Author comments to his/herself! It only sends comments from people that did not write the post, so I went to another browser and commented as someone other than me (the author) and I received email notification of the comment immediately.

I can’t believe I spent so much time searching every forum I could find and it ended up being something this simple. Hope this helps someone fighting this in the future.

Here’s the Support Post that made the little light bulb go off over my head.

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/100849

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