Subscribe-Remind: WordPress Plugin to Increase your RSS Subscribers

Subscribe-Remind Premium Version

The premium version of this plugin allows you to quickly and easily make any number of configuration changes.

On its easy-to-use settings page, you can change the text that appears and also change where throughout your blog you want it to show. For added appeal, you can easily use an image instead of text, too. Maybe you don’t want it to appear on your category pages. Easy! Just uncheck that setting. Same with all the other ones, too.

This plugin is now available for purchase online for $25. It will be sent to you electronically immediately after you purchase it.

Why isn’t it free? It is a highly customized solution. It took a long time to develop and you’re also paying for my time.

Now onto the free version:

Introduction

With more and more people using RSS readers to get content, it’s important that your blog’s feed be easily accessible. By increasing your syndication audience, your readers will be exposed to much more of your content.

Description

With the Subscribe-Remind plugin, some text will automatically be placed at the end of each of your posts inviting your readers to subscribe to your RSS feed. It’s an unobtrusive and effective way to turn visitors into subscribers.

Download

You can download the plugin here: subscribe-remind.zip

Installation

Download
Unzip
Upload to the WordPress plugins folder (wp-content/plugins)
Activate via the administration interface

Donate

Do you like this plugin? I spend a lot of time developing these. Please consider donating so I can continue to update this and others.

Support

Support will be given in the comments section within this post.

Demos in Use

Chris Bloczynski made it into a very nice looking graphic at the bottom of each of his posts.

Change Log

Version 1.0 – (March 24, 2007) Initial Creation

109 Comments

Dave March 24th, 2007 at 8:41 am

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best! I installed this plugin with great ease, and look forward to seeing an increase in subscribers soon. Thanks!

Jim March 24th, 2007 at 9:22 am

One thing I would add to this plugin – an options page to let the blog owner select the feed he wants his readers to subscribe to, especially for those of us who port our feeds through FeedBurner. I had to hack the code to change this. Otherwise, a sharp and easy plugin.

Joseph Pisano March 24th, 2007 at 2:44 pm

Trevor,

Wow, great simple plugin, it will make it on my next top 10 wordpress plugin list! Just a couple of quick tips that other users may consider with it. I added a “your comments welcome” to it via the text, as this is something that also needs reminding and is VERY simple to do with the way you wrote the code!

I also changed the URL to point to my feedpass link (very helpful in explaining what rss is to folks), which links to my feedburner link. You can see this on any post on my site if you are interested.

Again Thanks!

Joseph Pisano MUSicTECHnology.net
http://www.mustech.net

Brendan March 24th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

Trevor,

This is great! The only issue that I’m having is that the “subcribe language” is showing after my social bookmarking buttons. I’d like it to immediately follow the post.

Can you provide any feedback?

Thanks!

Trevor Fitzgerald March 24th, 2007 at 3:21 pm

Brendan – You can change the placement of it by editing the very last line where it says “add_filter(’the_content’, ’subscribe_remind’, 999);” Try changing 999 to 9, 10, or 11. One of those values should make it appear where you want.

Joseph & Jim – You both bring up great points. I can make it easier to change the feed URL so those modifications won’t be necessary.

Benoy March 24th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

Thanks! This is always, what I wanted, will implement it on my site

Anghus March 25th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

Nice plugin. WIll test it out. Thanks.

suzie March 27th, 2007 at 8:57 am

hi, i’ve download & uploaded it to my site but why is it kept on prompting “This feed contains code errors.” when you clicked on the ’subsribe to my RSS Feed!’

Trevor Fitzgerald March 27th, 2007 at 8:05 pm

Suzie,

There’s something wrong with your feed. It’s not the plugin.

To try and fix it, you might want to upgrade to the latest version of WordPress. I see you’re using 2.0.5. You should either upgrade to 2.0.9 or 2.1.2.

Trevor

suzie March 27th, 2007 at 11:58 pm

thanks trevor ! apprreciate ur prompt reply. oh gosh! upgrading is what i’m afraid to do coz i might mess up everthing thanks again. cheers!

Mike March 28th, 2007 at 8:44 am

Great plugin… thanks! Is there a way to keep it from posting the tagline in every category though? I have one category that I don’t want it posted to (it’s in a sidebar and makes the layout look odd).

Mike March 31st, 2007 at 12:49 pm

Works like a charm! Thanks, Trevor!

Brendan April 5th, 2007 at 6:36 am

Hi Trevor,

One more question, is there anyway to get the subscribe remind text to show up in my RSS feed? It’s appearing where I want it on the post but not in the RSS feed.

Thanks!

firdaus April 6th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

hi, i really love the plug in.

how to not displaying the rss subscribe on my main page, but it get display on the post…

Trevor Fitzgerald April 6th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

Brendan & Firdaus,

You can remove the conditional “!is_feed()” tag around the code. I put that in because if the person’s viewing your RSS feed, it’s likely they’ve already subscribed.

You can add ” && !is_home()” after checking if it’s a feed if you don’t want it to appear on the homepage.

-Trevor

Shonnie April 14th, 2007 at 9:39 am

Thanks for a great plugin! I’ll be recommending it to others too. You rock!!

Mike May 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 am

Is there a way to keep it from posting the tagline in every category though? I have one category that I don’t want it posted to (it’s in a sidebar and makes the layout look odd).

Marcel May 9th, 2007 at 6:51 am

Im using the plugins: Subscribe Remind and jLanguage and im getting two reminders at the end of the post. Exactly im getting an additional reminder line for every language…

Can you give me a hint/workaround what to do? It would be great if Subscribe Remind would also work with jLanguage so that the Reminder is displayed in the used language…

Marcel

Ulysses Ronquillo May 13th, 2007 at 1:46 am

Great plugin. Many thanks.

Trevor Fitzgerald May 16th, 2007 at 2:15 pm

Mike,

WordPress has some conditional tags that you can use to restrict it from appearing in certain categories.

In your case, you’ll want to use “!is_category(’2′)” or “!is_category(’Uncategorized’)”, where “2″ and “Uncategorized” are the name and ID number of the category.

Jacob Share May 31st, 2007 at 7:49 am

Nice idea, but it’s much more effective if the Subscribe line is tailored to the post it’s ending and not just generic. Which is what I’m doing here:

jobmob.co.il/blog/…-job-horror-stories/

To make this plugin a knockout, you should allow us to define a phrase per category, for example.

James Pegram June 4th, 2007 at 11:22 am

Excellent Plugin Trevor. i was just thinking about building one myself, now I don’t have too. I agree with Jacob though, it would be killer to be able to customize the message via the control panel. Perhaps for a future release.

Nyssa June 5th, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Great plugin. I made some adjustments, and so far it’s working like a charm. Thanks

Shine July 30th, 2007 at 5:02 am

Wow! The installation is so easy and it’s working already!!! Thank you so much!

digigirl August 4th, 2007 at 2:40 pm

Thanks for the great plugin! Easy, and works like a charm. Found a couple of tweaks in your comments to make it work just how I wanted, too. Thanks for sharing!

Peter Smythe August 15th, 2007 at 3:33 pm

Trevor, thanks for the plugin. One question though – what do you edit to have the feed go to Feedburner (I’m clueless on code).

Trevor Fitzgerald August 17th, 2007 at 9:48 am

Peter,

Here are some instructions for you: http://pastebin.ca/661114

I wasn’t able to add them to this comment for some reason so I put them there.

(Of course use your own URL for the second part )

Hope that helps!

PM August 22nd, 2007 at 12:05 pm

Trevor, very nice plug-in. Still playing with it. Is it possible to also point to the “Pages”, not just the posts?

Great job!

Trevor Fitzgerald August 22nd, 2007 at 2:40 pm

PM,

You want the link to appear on pages as well as on posts?

If yes, then it is a simple fix:

Replace:

if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() )

With:

if ( !is_feed() )

Irish August 22nd, 2007 at 6:48 pm

THANKS!! Just what I need to motivate viewers to subscribers! Cheers!

Stefaan August 23rd, 2007 at 11:17 am

Great plugin! Is there a way to only show the message in a single post and not on the homepage?

Trevor Fitzgerald August 23rd, 2007 at 11:35 am

Stefaan,

Yes, that is possible.

Replace:

if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() )

With:

if ( is_post() )

Stefaan August 24th, 2007 at 5:34 am

Hi Trevor, thanks but the replacement doesn’t work. It freezes the homepage.

Stefaan August 24th, 2007 at 5:55 am

It’s me again. I replaced

if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() )

With:

if ( is_home() )

Now it doesn’t show on the homepage but it does show in individual posts and individual pages. To remove it from pages as well, replace it with:

if ( !is_home() && !is_page() )

Tim August 28th, 2007 at 6:26 am

Thanks for the plugin-

Stefaan’s code worked for me to keep link off homepage. One small typo in Stefaan’s comment though:

if ( is_home() )

I believe should be

if ( !is_home() )

At least that’s what worked for me.

Matt Robison September 7th, 2007 at 4:26 pm

I’m trying to change the subscribe_remind_text and adding some text at the end, but it keeps breaking no matter what I do.

It works great if I don’t edit, but the slightest edit, like just adding a letter, breaks the whole thing.

Keeps generating “fatal” errors.

Trevor Fitzgerald September 9th, 2007 at 12:37 am

Matt,

What would you like the text to say? I’ll test it out and figure out what needs to be done.

lifedork September 10th, 2007 at 5:50 pm

great plugin , will be using it rite now

Matthew Loh September 11th, 2007 at 5:46 am

Useful little plugin! Now, for most of my posts, I have reminders for my readers to comment, subscribe to my feed, and share on social sites. I used the Sociable plugin fer the sharing part

Ryan September 16th, 2007 at 9:51 am

Trevor,

Great plugin. How could I change the code to insert my feedburner icon? Here is the html code:

Trevor Fitzgerald September 16th, 2007 at 10:02 am

Ryan,

I assume by icon you meant link? I didn’t see an image file in the code you posted.

Follow these instructions and you should be all set: http://pastebin.ca/699598

Trevor

Patrick September 26th, 2007 at 1:12 pm

Sorry – very ignorant on WP code and such. Can you outline exactly what code I need to add, and where, to make the reminder text not appear on the home page please?

Trevor Fitzgerald September 26th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

Patrick,

No problem…

Replace:
if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() )

With:
if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() && !is_home() )

Patrick September 26th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

Excellent. Thanks so much for the quick reply and the very nice plugin!!!

Jason November 6th, 2007 at 9:25 pm

Cool plug-in for wordpress. Nice and simple the way it should be. Hope I can get some more subscribers with it.

Tomaz December 17th, 2007 at 10:07 am

Hi Trevor,

How do I have the link point to my Feedburner feed? (based on the FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin?)

Trevor Fitzgerald December 17th, 2007 at 1:55 pm

Tomaz:

Replace the following:

‘ . get_bloginfo(’rss2_url’) . ‘

with:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourFeed

*Make sure you replace the single quotes and dots around get_bloginfo(’rss2_url’)

Hope that helps!

Tomaz December 18th, 2007 at 2:37 am

Thanks Trevor,

That worked!

Wayne Gilchrist December 24th, 2007 at 10:37 am

Hi Trevor,

Awesome plugin. I was able to figure out how to change the text and URL. However, I would like to have a link to subscribe via email as well as RSS.

I tried hacking the code, but broke it. I removed my hack and got everything working again.

My curent statement is: “For more helpful articles like this one, please subscribe to my RSS feed.” With “subscribe to my RSS feed” linking to my feedburner RSS feed URL.

However, I would like the text to read: “For more helpful articles like this one, please subscribe to my RSS feed or receive updates via email.”

In the above statement, I would like 2 separate links. The first one will be “subscribe to my RSS feed” and this links to my feedburner RSS feed URL; already working. The second link would be “updates via email” linking to my feedburner email feed.

Is this possible to do with your plugin? If so, how?

Thanks in advance for your help and Merry Christmas.

Wayne Gilchrist December 24th, 2007 at 11:36 pm

Thanks for the script Trevor. I had to review how you wrote the script and it was so simple.

I looked around your blog for a donate button, but I couldn’t find one. I am happy to give you a donation for solving this problem for me.

If you don’t have a donate button, come see me the next time you have an electrical problem; I’ve got your back.

Thanks again for your help and Merry Christmas.

evden eve December 30th, 2007 at 7:36 pm

Thx for This Plugin…

Andrei January 8th, 2008 at 6:14 pm

Fantastic plugin mate! As someone else stated, sometimes the simplest ideas are the best!

Keep up the good work!

Andrei January 8th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

By the way, how can i remove the text from the homepage? I just want it to show up on the single-post page..

thanks

Trevor Fitzgerald January 9th, 2008 at 4:51 pm

Andrei,

Sorry for the slow reply.

Here is what you need to do… (it’s simple, don’t worry!)

Replace:

if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() )

With:

if ( is_single() )

Trevor

eb January 23rd, 2008 at 3:02 am

I put in my plugins folder and activated it but it still does not show. I think I need to put code in somewhere but not sure what and where. Sorry for my ignorance and your help is appreciated. Looks like a great plugin

Trevor Fitzgerald January 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 am

eb,

No changes are necessary to get the plugin working. You don’t have to add any code.

If the plugin is activated, it should show up at the bottom of each post.

Trevor

dave February 1st, 2008 at 6:47 am

i have checked the chris website you have specified in example i want to put the same type of button in my site could you please help me how to add this with all the required modifications

Trevor Fitzgerald February 1st, 2008 at 10:09 am

Dave,

That is not currently supported, however it is fairly easy to do with just a bit of code hacking. You have to create an image you want to use and insert the img tag in the plugin.

Good luck.

B.T. February 12th, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Hi, Trevor! I just want to say Thank You! for the great plugin! I have it working at 1happycorner.com/a…ers-online-resources

I chose to replace the text with an image to fit my website. Thanks again for a simple yet extremely efficient plugin!

Sincerely,
B.T.

olivier February 21st, 2008 at 8:06 am

Hi, the link seems to be broken.

I’ve been looking for the plugin everywhere since I first saw it appear. It is aesome!

Trevor Fitzgerald February 21st, 2008 at 4:40 pm

Olivier,

Thanks for the notice. The link should be fixed now.

Enjoy!

Sohail March 3rd, 2008 at 5:51 pm

Trevor,

Thank you for such a great plugin. I’m trying to add the img tag into the plugin so I can replace the txt with a custom image, however everytime I do so, I get a fatal error! Any way round this? Could you please give a template code so I can substitute my image into the code?

Thanks in advance.

elezend March 21st, 2008 at 11:38 am

Thanks for the plugin! I am using it on my new site ^^

Austin March 27th, 2008 at 4:35 am

Trevor,

Thanks a ton for this cool plugin. Installation was a breeze. You can check it out at http://www.theorangepaper.com

Cheers,
Austin

Matt March 28th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

Very cool plugin. I know very little about coding. How can I make it call an image instead of text?

Thanks!
matt

xytheme April 2nd, 2008 at 11:40 am

Is this plugin still compatible with wp2.5?

Trevor Fitzgerald April 2nd, 2008 at 11:58 am

xytheme,

Yes, it is compatible with WordPress 2.5.

Trevor

xytheme April 2nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm

Thank you trevor.
Gonna try using it on my site.

Mike April 3rd, 2008 at 9:33 am

I am having a problem with this plugin disabling the visual editor. any help would be awesome

morterblog.com

Paul April 8th, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Trevor, I’d like to see this combined with the Subscribe plugin from Add to Any:

wordpress.org/exte…dd-to-any-subscribe/

It lets you add to any feed reader. I love it! Is there any chance you could have it as an option? Like… rollover your graphic and see the menu of services?

Trevor Fitzgerald April 9th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Paul,

That’s a good idea! I’ll see what I can do for the next release.

Thanks!

Lane April 26th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

I tried using this with 2.5. I activated the plugin, but couldn’t locate where the admin info was.

The instructions say “Activate via the administration interface,” but I can not locate the admin interface. I think I’ve looked everywhere. I expected it to be in “Manage” or “Settings” but I couldn’t find it.

Please advise

thanks

Lane

Trevor Fitzgerald April 26th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

Lane,

On the Plugins page, you have to activate the plugin before it starts working.

Lane April 27th, 2008 at 12:43 am

Hi Trevor

Thanks for the quick reply. I had already activated it, but I don’t see any “subscribe” message after each post on my site. Also, once I get it working, is there any way to customize the message?

Lane

Lane April 27th, 2008 at 8:33 am

Hi,

The plugin works — sorry, I’m not sure why I couldn’t get it to work last night

How can I modify the string that it displays?

Lane

Trevor Fitzgerald April 27th, 2008 at 11:03 am

Lane,

You’ll have to manually some of the code in the plugin. Open the file with a text editor and change it to whatever you want.

Faizan April 30th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

nice plug-in. I want to ask can we stop the line appearing in home page so that it only appers in the psot pages

Juan May 11th, 2008 at 8:28 am

Hi Trevor, I would like to know how I can change the text: “If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed!” For any other, beacuse my site is in spanish. Thank you!

Luis May 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Hi, Great plugin! I’m trying to make an image show up like Chris Bloczynksi did. I just need to know what part of the code I need to replace with the img source code, any help please?

ed June 9th, 2008 at 10:59 am

Thanks, used it on my blog and it worked great.

Stefano June 10th, 2008 at 6:28 am

Thanks Trevor for this useful plugin…!!!

CharmingHostess June 14th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Hey Trevor,

Can you email me the code change needed to the php file so that I may insert my own image instead of your text? If it was html I could do it but php, I’m clueless. Many thanks, CharmingHostess

E June 24th, 2008 at 7:04 pm

I changed mine to

if ( is_single() ) {
$content .= ‘‘ . SUBSCRIBE_REMIND_TEXT . ‘‘ . SUBSCRIBE_REMIND_LINK_TEXT . ‘!‘;
return $content;
} else {
return $content;
}

seems to keep the rss out of the excerpts

Trevor Fitzgerald June 26th, 2008 at 11:18 am

E, Great! Thanks, -Trevor

Philix July 23rd, 2008 at 9:16 am

Thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for.

MIke July 25th, 2008 at 10:37 am

Hey Trevor,

I had posted this awhile back. It seems to be interfering with the visual editor. Any ideas?

Mike

Ruby August 7th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

I see on the WordPress site that this version is not compatible with WP version 2.6. Any chance you might be updating?

Thanks!

Photoshop Tips and Tricks August 8th, 2008 at 8:44 pm

Thanks! I was looking this plugin for a long-long-long time ago. But, this morning I found with googling it “how to increase rss reader”

Again, thanks and I’m truly appreciated it!

Regards

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Robin September 21st, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Thanks so much for this.

I modified mine so it only appears on single post pages, according to the instructions you gave Andrie.

Ariel September 26th, 2008 at 1:23 am

Thank you for this plugin!

I’m also grateful for the ability to remove the reminder from the home page and have it only on the single posts. This is the code I used (listed above) to make it work, just in case anyone else is wondering.

Replace:
if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() )

With:
if ( !is_feed() && !is_page() && !is_home() )

Syngenetic October 1st, 2008 at 9:12 pm

Great plugin, loving it!

Kevin October 11th, 2008 at 3:39 pm

Trevor,

Wonderful plugin. I know this is a basic, basic question, but please help: I’d like the words “Subscribe to my RSS feed!” to be bold faced. How can I do this? Is it as simple as putting something like “” after the copy? I know nothing about code and don’t want to mess it up. Thanks.

Kevin

Trevor Fitzgerald October 11th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

Kevin,

Change to and to .

Hope that helps!

Kevin October 12th, 2008 at 11:12 am

Trevor – thanks for your follow-up emails and all the help you provided – it is now EXACTLY what I wanted!

You went WAY out of your way to help me, and I really appreciate it!

Kevin

tweakwindows October 16th, 2008 at 8:46 am

Nice work..Using it on my site now..

Mauricio November 7th, 2008 at 10:19 am

Does this work with WP 2.6.3?

Trevor Fitzgerald November 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am

Mauricio,

Yes. It is compatible with all versions.

Carey November 13th, 2008 at 2:39 pm

I installed the plug-in and it works great but I was reading some comments about how to make some changes but I can’t find anywhere where you can make changes? Is that only for the paid version?

Thanks.

Trevor Fitzgerald January 9th, 2009 at 1:40 am

Carey,

The paid version is intended to make customizations incredibly easy. You are welcome to change the free version any way you like.

Jack January 19th, 2009 at 5:53 am

Thanks
This plugin is very helpful
I’m using for my site
Regards.
Jack

DebtFREEk January 28th, 2009 at 9:34 am

This is a great plugin. I ditched WWSGD and am now using this…thank you.

What is the best way to change the font color (and/or font background color) of the text that appears?

Thanks again,

DebtFREEk!

noone January 28th, 2009 at 10:21 am

Simple yet a very effective plugin. A must have for everyone who is serious on blogging.

Salamat!

p@r@noid January 29th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

Thanks for the plugin . I have written about it on my blog and given you a backlink.

Hey if you can help me customize it to make it more beautiful that will be great.

Peter Pasho February 4th, 2009 at 2:40 pm

I replaced the text with an image and I also have it show-up on only my posts (NOT the home page)! If anyone wishes, you can see it here:

Pasho`s Daily Cartoons! : http://www.peterpasho.com/

Thank you Trevor for this great plugin!!

Cheers!

Peter Pasho

DebtFREEk February 22nd, 2009 at 5:05 pm

@Trevor:

I figured it out. I’m using a picture instead of the text. Check it out at DebtFreeAdventure.com.

Also, the reminder appears before my Adsense on individual posts. To get it to appear after the Adsense block, I tried your advice from above to change 999 to 9, 10, or 11…but none of the four options change the position at all. I don’t have any cache plugin enabled, so the change, if any, would be immediate.

Thanks in advance for your help,

DebtFREEk!