You're very welcome Richard, and Thank YOU for letting me know that this helped you. I appreciate that very much.

Hi Trish,

You have always been so helpful to the community. Thank you so much!

Just wanted to update you as well. I have just installed the plugin and I happen to be testing it out in PageSpeed Insights to see the before and after. I am using GPP theme as you may recall.

And it is quite strange for me. After installing the Comment Approved Notifier Extended plugin, my PageSpeed score drops a lot in both mobile and desktop.

Before plugin activation:
Mobile: 81 (which I have other issues to fix)
Desktop: 98

After plugin activation:
Mobile: 50
Desktop: 76

I am not sure if there can be anything else I can do so that I can use this plugin. With the above results, I have to deactivate first, unfortunately.

Any hints on what I can do?

Thank you.

Regards,
Richard

Wow Richard, what an awesome compliment. Thank YOU!

OUCH, on those slower speeds.

Wonder if that is why my mobile speeds are suffering on one of my sites, as I'm using GP on 3 of my sites.

Yet. my desktop speeds are right up there in the 90s. Huh... this IS odd.

Thank YOU for letting me know of this issue. I will nudge the developer about this, as I have no idea why this plugin would cause this.

Did you try those speeds more than once... both before and after?

Reason I'm asking that is SOMETIMES it is the server itself that is causing a site to load slower. The WA servers are using Shared Hosting... so, if too many sites on the same server are being accessed at the same time, that alone will corrupt your speed test.

In the meantime, I couldn't exist without this plugin as it keeps me on my toes so that I do not miss visitor's valuable comments.

Thank YOU for sharing your test results. This should help the developer fix whatever is causing our sites to load slower.

Hi Trish,

I tried activating and deactivating 4 times and test the PageSpeed score. All 4 times, the mobile and desktop speed are affected quite badly like the ones you see above.

But STRANGELY, I have also now gone to Pingdom and GTmetrix to test. It looks fine.

I wonder how Google considers the website ranking. Pagespeed Insights is a google product...

Now THAT is a GOOD question Richard.

Thank YOU for your input. Am passing this valuable info onward.

Thank you Trish. Hope the developer can help on this.

Another issue... I have also tried commenting on my blog post using a different email account to test it out. After I replied to the comment from my Wordpress dashboard and click on Approve and Reply, I don't get a comment notification.

I tried to look at the plugin but there isn't any setting that I can play with to try and solve the problem.

Any idea?

That IS odd Richard.

I received a comment today that I responded to. Now you make me wonder if the new update to WordPress caused this to fail, as it was working previously, perfectly.

Have left the developer a link to this chat of ours so hopefully he/she can understand better with the info here, than I could explain in a few short sentences when submitting my ticket..

Will keep you posted.

Thanks again, you've been awesome by providing this amount of detail.

Hi Trish,

You are welcome Trish. Hopefully, the chats we have here can also help others who may be having the same problem.

I have not upgraded to WP 5.8 yet. Do I need to set up something on my website that can enable email notifications to be sent out?

JUST heard back from yesterday's commenter and NO, he did NOT receive a notification to my responses.

Have also created a ticket to the developer, hoping he can fix BOTH issues. Will keep you posted... promise.

In the meantime, I've been Google searching for an alternative... but... the pickings are not as good as this one WAS. :-(

Check this out too: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-wordpress-not-sending-email-issue/ though, don't think we can use this fix either.

No worries Trish. Let's just monitor and see if the developer can help to provide some insights. :)

You're welcome Andrea!
Hope you get your 'puter issues resolved real soon.

You're welcome Karin!

You're very welcome Phil!
This plugin offers users a great way to keep a conversation going ... and, as Nia stated below, getting them to return to your website too.

You're very welcome Matt!

You are right Nia, that and making the comment more of a conversation.