In the last two weeks I have noticed my comment back or reply back emails have been in my spam folder. I thought it was some weird error on my part so I ignored them. It wasn’t a lot and I figured it might have been some kind of error that would fix itself. That was until Saturday when everything I replied to on my blog came back to me in my spam folder. What does that mean? That means not one of the people that commented on my blog got an email saying I replied back. They don’t know I replied to their comment. It was making me look like a very bad blogger.
Sunday I noticed it happening again, so I did a little investigating. It seems CommentLuv reply me was bouncing emails back to my spam folder. I sent the creator a message but got a rather sad email saying he was very sick and not troubleshooting anymore. It was up to us to fix it ourselves with his suggestions. They would still have updateds but no help if the plugin has an issue. I pretty much panicked at this point. What was I going to do?
I remembered I am in a Resource blogging group on Facebook that Ashley from Nosegraze is a member. I figured if she wasn’t around maybe one of the other ladies in the group would have a suggestion. Thankfully Ashley was on FB and replied to me right away. I explained to her what was going on and since she is the BESTEST EVER. Had some great info I didn’t know and I was able to fix the problem.
Email (AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, etc) has made some adjustment and it’s causing those emails that tell people that a blogger replied to end up in the bloggers spam folder they consider it SPOOF mail. So the reply back feature isn’t working with CommentLuv. She suggested I turn off CommentLuv and install Comment Reply Notification. I didn’t really want to get rid of CommentLuv so instead I just turned off the ReplyMe part of it and installed what she suggest. IT WORKED!!! The plugin hasn’t had an update in 6 years, which concerns me, but Ashley reassured me that the code was fine and would work. She was right, of course. 🙂
If you are using CommentLuv and don’t check your spam, you might want to, because unless you have another reply option on your blog most of your replies are not being seen by your followers. I have noticed a lot of blogs I have commented on I haven’t gotten a reply back when I usually do. So you might want to check that out and try what I did until CommentLuv comes out with a new update. If they do.
So I promise I am commenting back, you just were not getting them and I apologize for not noticing that sooner but that goodness for Ashley, she always has a way to make me feel less panic and more relaxed. I am so thankful for her help.
Hope you all have an amazing day
and Happy Blogging!
oxox
There seem to be lots of people having issues with comments going to SPAM lately. I’ve had people’s real comments show up in my SPAM and have noticed that my comments on other people’s blogs have been going there too. It’s so frustrating! I hope it all gets sorted out soon. I’ll have to look at your fix and see if it will help my problems as well.
I have no idea what any of that means, but I’m glad you got it fixed. 🙂
Lol 😀
I have been having this same issue with my comments not going through and being found in people’s spam so maybe I should try this and see if that will work for me. 🙂
It might. Seems a lot of people are having issues and since changing over, I am now getting the replies I haven’t gotten from other people. Not sure if what I did worked or something was fixed.
This is such a timely post. I hadn’t been getting WordPress notifications for comments on my blog for the past week or two. I talked to my host and it turned out to be glitch in a WordPress update that should be fixed within the week. It also explained why my comment reply notification hadn’t been working either. I tend to freak out when something goes kaput with my blog as well and am glad it was such an easy fix for you. Also, do you mind if I ask what the Facebook resource blogging group is called, it sounds very helpful!
I know a lot of issues with comments have been happening so I do hope they fix that. The Facebook page is BookBloggers Resource.
I hope it is resolved soon as well. Also, thank you for the information about the Facebook group I really appreciate it.
Whoa. Thanks for passing that on! I wonder if that’s been happening with the few comments I’ve been able to reply to! Remind me and maybe we can chat this weekend so you can help me check and fix it 🙂
I’ve noticed a lot of issues with that too, or even comments not showing up or getting sent to spam. Good to know there are workarounds/ fixes- thanks for sharing.
The spam things seems to be an issue with a plug in not sure which one but I haven’t had it happen so I wont look into it until it does. I hope they fix that for others. This seems rather weird and I don’t know how long it was going on.
Thanks for the info! I haven’t been real good about tackling the more technical blogging aspects yet but it’s good to know that there are blogging resources and I’m sure I’ll have my own panic mode or two!
I am not to technical when it comes to blogging stuff either which is why I panic so hard. It’s a good thing I was in a thinking mood otherwise I would still be freaking out LOL
This is good info! Thank you for sharing Michelle 🙂 Another blogger contacted me last week and said he’d noticed that his comment disappeared after it was submitted. I looked and found a ton of comments from my blogger friends (you included and myself!) that Akismet had flagged as spam. Hoping to figure out the fix for that this week. Plan to look into your suggestions as well with CommentLuv.
I know a lot of people that had that same problem, I am wondering if that had something to do with the WordPress update. That is what I thought was happening to my comments. It might be a matter of making sure every update is done now that wordpress updated.
Thank’s for the info! I use both commentluv and comment reply notification and am about to go test my site now to see if it’s working as it should. We’d all be lost without Ashley! Glad you got it sorted.
I was strange because I wasn’t getting any reply emails from people commenting back to me on their blogs. Once I changed everything a whole bunch popped up in my email.
I never got reply notifications from your blog, I figured you didn’t have a plugin like that installed or that i didn’t clicked the right button. I didn’t even know commentluv had a reply notification as I always used another plugin for that, I think it’s the same you are now using. Glad you managed to fix the issue so fast and that Ashley was so helpful. I always go into panic mode as well when something goes wrong with my blog, but it helps to know someone who knows a lot about it.
btw I still don’t see a receive replies to my comment button on your blog at the moment.
I don’t think you have to click anything. I get replies from you and I didn’t check anything on your blog. I think it has something to do with the comment reply plug in or commentluv.
Neat! I just received an e-mail about your reply, so it must be working :). Guess it’s a different one than the plugin I use then.
Lol I’m glad it worked. Thanks for confirming it for me. I would hate to have people think I am not replying when I am.