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16 Responses to cat2email 2.1

1. 2741 Howard Huhn 2006-02-09 21:04:18

   Thanks for the great plug-in!

2. 2929 Paul 2006-03-07 23:05:23

   I have installed this plug-in but am a little confused and can find no instructions.

   It is activated, and I have assigned my own email address to a category by way of a test.

   However, I had (perhaps wrongly) assumed that people would be able to subscribe to categories directly from the blog, if I put some code on the blog. Is this not possible?

   Paul

3. 2928 skippy 2006-03-08 00:33:15

   Paul: cat2email is meant to connect a single category to a mailing list. The address you define in the cat2email options page should be the mailing list address. Then, whenever a new post is made to the specified category, the mailing list will receive it as a new mail message.

   If you want individual users to be able to subscribe to email notifications, check out my subscribe2 plugin.

4. 3272 Gordon 2006-04-18 12:49:39

   I can't find the options page for this plugin. Can you help?

   G

5. 3271 Gordon 2006-04-18 12:52:26

   Nevermind, somehow I had version 1.1

   I think the link here is out of date: http://wp-plugins.net/index.php?id=206

6. 3343 Rck Boatright 2006-05-17 04:46:38

   I have modified cat2email to use the private_to_published hook instead of publish_post,

   We have a series of posts scheduled to be released at future times, and want them mailed "them" -- however, after chaing the hook, it doesn't mail anythingwhen the post goes live... Which seems odd. Any ideas?

7. 3352 skippy 2006-05-17 10:04:36

   The private_to_published event only occurs when a post is changed from "private" to "published" (see line 175 of /wp-includes/functions-post.php). Future-dated posts are not private, they're simply not scheduled for display yet, based on their post date.

   cat2email hasn't been tested with my WP-Cron plugin, but I imagine one could combine the two to resolve your problem.

   Note also that the next version of WordPress will include a built-in scheduler (not based on my WP-Cron plugin) which should function with a little more reliably. cat2email can likely be modified to work with this scheduler, too.

8. 3341 Rick Boatright 2006-05-17 15:25:52

   so, the idea is to save the posts as pending unpublished, and then use wp-cron to PUBLISH them on schedule, and then have cat2email email them as they are published?

   Is there a "publish on a date/time" plugin available I wonder? I'll go look. Thanks for the answer. I stand a tiny bit amazed that there is no hook that fires when a future dated post becomes "live", but now that I understand what that is actually doing, I guess I understand why.

   Thanks. I know you don't really support c2e in the comments thread.

   -_ Rick

9. 3370 Telluride 2006-06-09 19:35:09

   Hi,

   I have a problem where if I edit a post that has already been published, it gets emailed out again. I would like for that not to happen if possible...any ideas?

10. 3397 skippy 2006-06-10 01:20:50

    Telluride: cat2email version 2.1 was released specifically to correct that problem. Are you sure you're using version 2.1?

11. 3357 Telluride 2006-06-10 16:53:39

    Well, I downloaded the version from this page...it still says 2.0 in the plugins page - is that correct, maybe the version number did not get updated?

12. 3288 John Mark Ellsworth 2006-07-02 02:11:57

    skippy,

    I am having the same trouble that Telluride is having. I have downloaded what is billed as cat2email 2.1 (both at the top of the page and in your first response to Telluride). When I open the file, line 6 of the code still says, "Version: 2.0". Is http://www.skippy.net/download/plugins/cat2email/cat2email-2.1.zip really the updated file?

    I LOVE YOUR SCRIPT, and I will be using it to keep interested parents informed about what is going in my classroom. I will be using it regardless of whether I get the true cat2email 2.1, but I sure would like to be able to edit my posts without sending parents the same message.

    Thanks!!!

    =)
    JME

13. 3422 skippy 2006-07-02 14:39:40

    For reasons unknown, the previously published link to cat2email 2.1 was not version 2.1. I apologize for the confusion.

    The link should now contain the real version 2.1. Please download it again.

14. 3425 John Mark Ellsworth 2006-07-02 18:08:03

    I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! Thank you so very much, skippy! It is an absolutely wonderful plugin! I appreciate your willingness to check and update the file!

    Thanks,
    JME

15. 3159 bobalouie 2006-07-04 05:34:26

    great plugin, cant wait till I get it going..I was wondering though, what is the name of the email address that sends the category posts to a mailing list?? I would need to know this because our mailing list is a newsletter, and only 'editors' can post articles. Thanks for the great plugin!

16. 3521 Thirteen Penny Picayune » Blog Archive » An Announcement About Announcements 2006-10-06 03:27:26

    [...] I’ve added the Cat2Email plugin to my Wordpress installation which will send out an email whenever a new post is added to a specific category (in this case my Announcements category). Since this plugin is limited to one email, I’ve set-up a private Google Group to go along with it. Everyone subscribed to this Google Group should then receive each Announcement post. [...]

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