One of my daily (hourly) routines is visiting my site to see if there are any new comments posted. Well a thought just dawned on me that why not create a dynamic RSS feed so people can subscribe to whatever post’s comments they would like to follow? Sure there are options out there like emailing people when a new comment has been posted. I had actually coded something up similar to WordPress’ Subscribe To Comments script but I didn’t like it when I was bombarded by emails from the various blogs I’ve subscribed to when I wanted to be updated so I scraped that.
The next logical way of updating people I thought would be with RSS feeds and since I would want it to be dynamic I know PHP would allow me to do so. All I had to do was tell PHP which post’s comments to keep track of and to use the proper file header.
There are two ways this script works. First way is you can subscribe via RSS to a particular blog post and keep track that way. The second way is you can keep up-to-date on all the comments that happen on this site which is limited to 20 at a time.
You can click on the link below the comments of each post to subscribe to that particular feed.
Now I’ve tested them a little bit and they seem to be working. Though if anyone out there has an issue with one of the comment RSS feeds, please either leave a comment or send me some feedback via my Contact page.