- Category rank
- #63 in Email
- Listing audit
- 49/100
Comment Reply Email Notification is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Arno Welzel. With a rating of 4.8★ from 33 reviews, it currently ranks #63 in the Email category.
Comment Reply Email Notification is the #63 ranked Email app on WordPress, with a 4.8 average rating from 33 reviews, as of Sep 11, 2026.
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Comment Reply Email Notification ranks #63 of 718 in Email on WordPress. It holds a 4.8★ average from 33 reviews on WordPress.
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- +4.8★ average across 33 reviews
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- −Only 33 reviews — the average can still move with a few new ratings
How Comment Reply Email Notification works
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This plugin allows visitors to subscribe to get answers to their comments via e-mail.
Warning This plugin uses the “wp_insert_comment” hook, therefore, everytime a comment is created, a notification is likely to be sent. If you are importing comments into your blog, it’s a good idea to disable this plugin.
Sending e-mails does not work? The plugin uses the standard WordPress e-mail function. If you have problems getting e-mails sent, you might try using plugins like https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ to improve sending e-mails from your site.
Customizing the layout of the checkboxes The label next to the checkboxes don’t contain a whitespace. Depending on your theme you might want to add a custom style like this to get a space between the checkbox and the label:
input#cren_subscribe_to_comment, input#cren_gdpr { margin-right: 0.5em; }
The plugin does not add this style be default as it depends on your theme if this is neccessary.
Customizing the email template To customize the email template, copy the “templates” folder to your theme folder (a child theme should be used to avoid losing the custom templates when the theme is updated). The plugin will look for templates on the “/wp-content/themes/[THEME]/templates/cren/” folder; if a custom template is not found, then it will fallback to the default template.
Templates folder on GitHub: https://github.com/arnowelzel/worpdress-comment-reply-email-notification/tree/master/templates
Changing the subscription checkbox label The checkbox label can be changed with the cren_comment_checkbox_label filter. This way you can update the text to your taste and keep the plugin updated.
Changing the GDPR checkbox label The GDPR checkbox label can be changed with the cren_gdpr_checkbox_label filter. This way you can update the text to your taste and keep the plugin updated.