Adding a signature to your post

Sunday, October 19th, 2008 at 8:55 am

Today’s question:

Hey Mike! I noticed that some bloggers include a link to an opt via e-mail or RSS at the end of their posts – sort of as a constant reminder to your reader to subscribe to your list – With WordPress, is there a way to include a signature at the end of posts with a link to your opt in – rather than manually typing in the same line asking for an opt in at the end of each post?

Good question today. I did a quick search and came up with one plugin that will allow you to add a signature. Found one but it has some drawbacks for some.

Not updated in over a year
Not easy to install for new people
Needs token to make it work

Would not recommend it because of the above unless you are comfortable with renaming things and understand adding a token into your post.

For me if you are that comfortable you can just tweak the theme and add your signature in there. On this blog I use an image to remind people to subscribe that is hard coded into the theme. The banner at the bottom with my resources is also hard coded into the theme.

If you are comfortable with the downsides I mentioned do a quick search and you can find a plugin or just add what you want into the theme code directly.

If you are going to do that remember to pull a copy of the code before you start just in case you make a mistake. Not that I would know from experience .