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Getting started
Download the ZIP from the releases page and upload it under Plugins → Add New → Upload, then activate.
Use the release ZIP rather than GitHub's "Source code" download. The source archive extracts into a folder named after the tag, which becomes the plugin's identity — install it that way and the next update lands beside it instead of replacing it.
There is no build step.
Happy Comments sends mail through wp_mail(), the same way WordPress sends password resets and other stuff. On most hosting that means it goes out over PHP mail() from an address your domain never authorised, and a good share of it lands in spam or is dropped outright.
Install an SMTP or transactional mail plugin before anybody subscribes. Any of the usual ones will do.
Settings → Happy Comments shows what happened to the last email it tried to send, including the From header and any error WordPress reported. Check there first when something is missing.
- Open Settings → Happy Comments and decide what a ticked box means, what the checkbox says, and what the consent sentence reads.
- Post a comment on your own site with the box ticked, and confirm it from your inbox. That takes five minutes and tells you more than any amount of reading.
- Everything after that happens under Comments → Subscriptions.