Testing how to get a notice when a post or comment occurs at PSA.
There’s ways to do it, and contrary to my earlier email to Gary, one apparently can “follow” the site as a whole? Not sure. Anyway, look at the bottom of a post, there should be two checkboxes to activate the email functions. If you do, then you’ll get an email to confirm, and then there’s a place in comments settings to choose what day of the week etc your notice will come.
Supposedly there’s a setting for by day or by week, but I haven’t found that yet.
Then there’s also plugins where one can setup a kind of auto newsletter that goes out to whom we choose, with a autoformatted page of “new posts” for a stated period, like a week or two weeks etc. Haven’t researched or thought that through as yet…
The check boxes are down at the bottom below comment input box… I’m getting the impression that the “new posts” checkbox is more universal than the “comments”…but we need some more iterations to test it out.
I wonder if this can be done better by RSS. Gary seemed to be saying so. Could Gary comment here, and explain a bit which might be better and why?
Well, after Gary helpfully mentioned RSS, I did some research and installed two apps from the apple app store into the applications on my desktop mac.
Those are “News Notifications” which puts new PSA posts and comments from PSA into the notifications window upper right on Mac Desktop.
And “Reeder” which picks up RSS feeds from our PSA site, and connects with Google Reader to get them, which is free, and it’s easy to subscribe. You just type in the web URL of the site you want to subscribe to.
Oh, and one more thing, I added a Safari ‘extension’ which puts a RSS button into the Safari tool bar. Which shows how many RSS feed that you haven’t read yet that are available at the webpage you are reading at that moment.
The “active” window or “tab” in Safari.
Not having used RSS before, which appears to have been a stupid oversight on my part, I now have that capability. The RSS functions at our PSA site work automatically if there’s a RSS reader available on your phone, iPad, or computer.
Still an RSS newbie though, and it’s been around for what 10 years? Shame on me, I guess. Or better later than never.