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subscribe2 2.2.1 is now available!

This version fixes several problems from the last release:

  • Pyttsen
    February 4th, 2006 at 9:58pm
    Hi Skippy, You missed to increase the version number.
  • Pyttsen
    February 4th, 2006 at 10:02pm
    Skippy, I just would like to let you know that the problems I had with previous version seems to be solved know. Great work!
  • skippy
    February 4th, 2006 at 10:48pm
    Pyttsen: I'm glad the problems are fixed. I'll update the version number in the zip. Thanks for pointing that out to me.
  • kes
    February 5th, 2006 at 1:24am
    Skippy you're awesome! This release solved my problem! The notifications are now being sent to my testsubscribers. I'll finish the translation to Norwegian that I started on last year and e-mail it to you. Thank you for making such a great plugin. kes
  • J.
    February 5th, 2006 at 2:02am
    Hi, I've re-installed / upgraded this new version. How can I get subscribe2 to re-install the tables in my database? Looks like s2 does this only when you install the plugin the very first time. I always receive errors that wp_subscribe2 table is not there: WordPress database error: [Table 'usr_xxxxx_1.wp_subscribe2' doesn't exist] SELECT COUNT(id) FROM wp_subscribe2 WHERE active='1' Thanks for your help! J
  • J.
    February 5th, 2006 at 2:37am
    Sorry - me again. I really would love to use this great plug-in, but I don't know how to make s2 to create the table in my DB again. I used the Admin-page of s2, but no success... Anyone has a sql file for me or so? Thanks! J.
  • skippy
    February 5th, 2006 at 2:37am
    J: if you have phpMyAdmin, you can just create the table yourself, using the CREATE TABLE command starting at line 141 in subscribe2.php. Another option (easier) option is to delete the s2_version line from your wp_options table: DELETE FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 's2_version' subscribe2 will see that a prior version number isn't recorded, and kick off the installation process.
  • Eric
    February 5th, 2006 at 9:44am
    Skippy, This new version is terrific! It fixes everything! You are the bomb!
  • sunny
    February 5th, 2006 at 12:43pm
    how to show this on sidebar as form? - can u plz specify exact code. and also after a user uses its key.. Subcription confirmed appears 3 times on page! similar is unsubscription. and then in email also i get 3 same mails user has subscribed. Strange!!! I am using wordpress 2.0
  • J
    February 5th, 2006 at 1:37pm
    THANKS SKIPPY! That was the key to get S2 installing the DB table again! Great! I'm happy to use your script now. Have a very nice Sunday! J.
  • Frankie
    February 5th, 2006 at 4:39pm
    Awesome plugin, thanks for the update. It is possible to always set the preference to Text Only / Excerpt Only? I don't want to give option to visitors.
  • skippy
    February 5th, 2006 at 11:30pm
    sunny: If you are using subscribe2 2.2.1, I'm suprised that your users are getting multiple confirmation emails. Do you have a link to your site, so that I can see it? Frankie: the default for non-registered users is for plaintext excerpts.
  • lughdailh
    February 5th, 2006 at 11:40pm
    Hello, your plugin is great and work with my wp2.0.1, but in de Options tab apears: Categories to Exclude Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/lughdailh.com/public_html/wp2/wp-content/plugins/subscribe2.php on line 407 and can not submit the options. Can you help me? thank you... and sorry for my poor english
  • skippy
    February 6th, 2006 at 12:24am
    lughdailh: there is no foreach on line 407 in subscribe2 2.2.1. I suspect you're using an older version. Please upgrade.
  • sunny
    February 6th, 2006 at 6:00am
    the problem is it appear 3 times on the same page. see have look try subcribe, when follw the key its generates, it shows it three times. http://www.sunny-bajaj.com/subscribe-techno-freak/
  • J
    February 6th, 2006 at 9:35am
    Hi, this morning I got a new subscriber. And I received the admin-notification-email three times... maybe same problem like sunny? Have a nice day! J.
  • J.
    February 6th, 2006 at 9:37am
    Yes, I can confirm, when you click on the link in the email-confirmation to confirm your subscription, than the Subscription Confirmation You have successfully subscribed! appeard three times on the webpage... and I receive three emails... HTH, Regards, J.
  • sunny
    February 6th, 2006 at 10:45am
    thanks god j. .. i thought only i was the one to have this strange problem.. I got a partner now.. :P
  • sunny
    February 6th, 2006 at 10:49am
    also my main query.. whats the code to make it appear in the sidebar as form?
  • skippy
    February 6th, 2006 at 1:25pm
    J and sunny: I see where the problem lies. In J.'s case, he's using a post, rather than a static page. The code that generates the emails is called on a filter for the_content, so it's being triggered for every post in the Loop. sunny's form appears to be in a page, not a post, so I'm not sure why this problem is happening there. I've updated the zip file, linked above. Download it again and please give it a try.
  • Georg Ledermann
    February 6th, 2006 at 1:42pm
    Thanks for this release! But there is still a problem with the version number. I have downloaded the zip (02:40pm GMT), and the version number is still "2.2.0". The timestamp of the included subscribe2.php is 2006-02-06 08:24am.
  • sunny
    February 6th, 2006 at 2:30pm
    nopes it doesn't work.. only change,, is the next pages made in my site also appear 3 times.. with the title changed to Subscribe... and yes the email doesn't come 3 times.. But still remaining pages appear. Try my link urself.. see subscribe and then un-subscribe.. Also how to place subscribe form on thr side.. will that fix the problem? Plzzz... fix this man!
  • Laundro
    February 6th, 2006 at 2:52pm
    Excellent! Great update!!!
  • skippy
    February 6th, 2006 at 3:17pm
    sunny: I'm not going to tell you how to place the link on your sidebar. There exist examples of that in the comments on the 2.2 release announcement. As I said there, I do not support that, so you're on your own. Do you have any pages on your site? My guess is that you don't, so when the confirmation request comes in, subscribe2 tries to use a static page, fails, and then WordPress falls back to using your Loop. Simply create a static page for subscribe2, stick the token on that page, and your problems should go away. I'm working on a fix in the code for situations like yours, even though step seven in the documentation provided in the zip file specifically states that you should create a page.
  • sunny
    February 6th, 2006 at 3:26pm
    i have created that code in a page only.. see my homepage.. there are pages for contact , signature generator and then i did create a page for subcribe-techno-freak! The link i gave is a page and not a post! .. do help me plz..!
  • skippy
    February 6th, 2006 at 4:11pm
    sunny: your permalinks don't make it clear what's a page, and what's a post. I tried manually loading "?page_id=1" to see if you have pages, but received a WordPress error. subscribe2 uses the following query to fetch a page: SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status='static' LIMIT 1 So that should return one page. The fact that it's failing suggests that something else may be in effect on your site. If you do in fact have pages (and not posts), feel free to download the zip file again and see if my fix works. If it does not work, edit susbcribe2.php, and define the page ID of your subscribe page at line 42.
  • Jason
    February 6th, 2006 at 5:04pm
    Skippy! Thanks for the hard work. As always there are bugs but your attention to answering our posts and writing great plugins is much appreciated! Thanks very much!
  • sunny
    February 6th, 2006 at 8:15pm
    thanks skippy u help us a lot.. Its fixed now! I reliased that the page order for all was "0" and therefore maybe they were appearing together.. so i changed the order.. This now fixed.! Thanks a lot!
  • J
    February 6th, 2006 at 11:39pm
    Thanks Skippy. Your new code solved the problem! I've also added a static page. I did only announce the new Subscribe feature using a "post". This is great, that you offer so much time supporting us newbies! Thanks a lot for your efforts! Really appreciate it! Have a nice one! J.
  • sunny
    February 7th, 2006 at 11:27am
    ok skippy on more thing.. there is small thing you left in the code. $this->use_profile = __('You may manage your subscription options from your profile.', 'subscribe2') . "Click here to manage your subscription settings.."; That extra .. Which makes it appear: You may manage your subscription options from your profile. Click here to manage your subscription settings.. Incase of any problems/suggestions or feedback use the contact form. not big error.. but worth telling! Regards!
  • tavo!
    February 7th, 2006 at 5:07pm
    Great plugin! Thanks a LOT! Some questions: Do you have a TO DO text for this plugin? Or a features request page? I would like to know what are the features that you want to do on next versions of this plugin. It will be great if the user can select between just a digest for the previous day or a per post email Also is it posible for the admin not to receive all those mails? One more time: Thanks for the plugin, it is wonderfull!
  • sunny
    February 7th, 2006 at 7:39pm
    btw skippy.. html emails are not being generated.. i tried selecting HTML -fullposts.. but email received are in text form only!
  • skippy
    February 8th, 2006 at 2:22am
    tavo: at this stage, I don't have any plans for a new version. subscribe2 does everything I need it to do, so I have little reason to add additional features. I'm not planning on adding per-user digest options. I don't feel like coding the interface or logic necessary to permit users to individually select this. As for receiving all those emails, the easiest solution right now is probably to set a filter in your mail client to automatically discard messages from whichever acocunt sends the notifications whenever there exists a message header of "List-Id: <your blog name>". I may investigate additional options in the future; but for the time being, I want to take a break from s2 development.
  • Mel
    February 8th, 2006 at 5:28am
    Skippy, if I had any money, I'd donate some to you for this tremendous effort! As I don't - I'll just extend the offer of a cheap (but really yummy) dinner if you ever find yourself in the Cleveland area. (Hopefully I'll have enough to do that if you do make it up here!) Just wanted to say thanks. :)
  • Victor
    February 8th, 2006 at 4:04pm
    I`m having problems with the emails notifications, When I post a new item there is no email notification to suscribers.. What could be wrong??.
  • tavo!
    February 8th, 2006 at 6:03pm
    I had finished with the translation to spanish for 2.2.1. But I don't know where do I have to copy the .mo file for the plugin to take effect some help? how do I send it to you?
  • skippy
    February 8th, 2006 at 6:08pm
    tavo: the .mo file belongs in the /wp-content/plugins/susbcrib2/ directory. Feel free to email the file(s) to me. You can get my address from my About page linked above on the left. Victor: simply telling me that it's not working is extremely unlikely to produce meaningful results from me. Are you sure the emails aren't being filtered as spam? Have you contacted your host? Can you determine whether mails are being generated at all (your host can check the mail server logs)? How many subscribers do you have? Have you tested with just one subscriber?
  • Jason
    February 9th, 2006 at 2:39pm
    Great work! Is there any way to disable the ability for people to subscribe when they're not a registered user? I'd like the SUBSCRIBE page to direct people to log in or register without the option to subscribe without doing so.
  • Jason
    February 9th, 2006 at 2:57pm
    Sorry, I guess a better question would be: If someone registers their email address as a GENERAL PUBLIC subscriber, and then registers as a user of my blog with the same email address, will they get two emails every time I post?
  • skippy
    February 9th, 2006 at 4:52pm
    Jason: you could simply not publish the subscription form. If a public subscriber signs up for an account on your blog, that user will be moved from the list of public subscribers to the list of registered subscribers. They will be subscribed to all categories by default. When a new user registers for an account who was not previously a subscriber, they will not be subscribed to any categories. subscribe2 is strictly opt-in.
  • Tim 'avatar' Bartel
    February 9th, 2006 at 9:44pm
    Perhaps it's helpfull for anyone: I created German .mo/.po files for the recent version 2.2.1 and sent them to skippy. You can find them here. Regarding this comment: This won't work with WP 2.0.1. You have to put the .mo/.po files directly under /wp-content/plugins/ Then it works like a charm.
  • Goran
    February 10th, 2006 at 12:40pm
    Hi, everybody Skippy, my congratulations for this beautful plugin. I want to mention on problems i have with plugin. 1. Somethimes, the comfirmation letter doesn't arrived to the subscriber's inbox. The issue are noticed after sign-ins in IE6. 2. Also, for IE6, after clicking on the confirmation link, I got big crash: few posts are listed bellow sentence "You have successfully subscribed!" I have wp2 and subscriber 2.2.1 Please, help
  • Goran
    February 10th, 2006 at 1:12pm
    Ok, it's fault I didn't noticed that I must create second page for subscription puposes.
  • Greg
    February 10th, 2006 at 5:47pm
    Does the plugin also work when a new post is submitted via /xmlrpc.php? I tested it and it does not, but maybe there is a trick, or it can be implemented very easy. :-)
  • skippy
    February 10th, 2006 at 6:21pm
    Greg: subscribe2 is supposed to execute whenever you post a new item, regardless of how that item is posted. There has historically been a lot of problems making XMLRPC posting work just like regular posting. I suspect those bugs are unresolved (or have re-introduced), so your problem is more to do with WordPress itself rather than subscribe2. But I'll look into the matter, to see if I can identify any quick solutions.
  • artistique
    February 12th, 2006 at 3:33am
    Hi... I think I found a bug. I've been testing (with WP latest version 2.0.1), and use Dreamhost, so when I set Dreamhost to true in the config, I find I get an error on the subscription confirmation page (Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /home/..../plugins/subscribe2/subscribe2.php on line 236). When I set it back to false for Dreamhost and retest, the error disappears on the subscription confirmation page and all is well...
  • Ruby Sinreich
    February 12th, 2006 at 3:50am
    I've said it before: you rock, Skippy! What's that tipjar? I just upgraded one of my blogs to WP 2.0.1, and was happy to see you have a new version of subscribe2, a.k.a. my favorite plugin. However, I seem to have lost some of the settings. Messages are being sent in plain text, and I can't find the option to make them HTML. Has that function been removed? In fact, now that I am looking harder at the admin pages, Manage > Subscribers says something about stuff on the left and right, but I only see one list of subscriber. On Options > Subscribe2, I only have one option: "send e-mail from." I am using Firefox 1.0.7 on a Mac.
  • Sam
    February 12th, 2006 at 9:37am
    I think I've fixed it now, but: When I sent our first post annoucement (to ~1000 people) the BCC header was visable to each recipient! I think it was becuase the bcc lines where separated by \r\n, rather than just a comma. The \r\n comes just between the headers, yes; it marks the end of the header? Anyway, just thought I'd mention it.
  • skippy
    February 12th, 2006 at 1:48pm
    Ruby: please read the new documentation, and the release announcement for version 2.2 of subscribe2. The functionality has changed quite a bit. Sam: according to RFC 2822, long header lines can be broken up by CRLFs (\r\n). Your's is the first report I've had of visible BCC headers, so I'm inclined to believe that the problem lies with your mail server (or relay; or perhaps just some recipients).
  • Ruby Sinreich
    February 12th, 2006 at 4:49pm
    Thanks for the explanation. I has totally missed that. If you are sending three versions (plaintext excerpt, plaintext full content, HTML full content) then is there a way to make three different e-mail templates? The HTML-formatted version looks like ass in plain text and vice versa.
  • Ruby Sinreich
    February 12th, 2006 at 6:23pm
    Actually, my previous question is moot as I don't allow users to register onmy personal blog. So I now have less options than before. :( But this is going to ROCK when I upgrade http://OrangePolitics.org to WP 2. :) Thanks!
  • Anthony
    February 12th, 2006 at 9:17pm
    Hi there! I just upgraded to WP 2.01 and re-installed this version of your plugin. But I'm having a problem. The token doesn't seem to work. I created a page (called "Subscribe") and used the Subscribe2 button to add the token. When I navigate to the page it just displays "subscribe2->". I tried manually specifying the page id but that makes no difference. I have Textile 2.6 installed. Could this be the problem? I tried escaping the token, which makes it display in full on the page, but no form. Thanks for your time!
  • Joseph
    February 13th, 2006 at 6:53am
    I am using 2.2.1 and the confirmation web page that comes up after click on link in email lists "all" static pages along with confirmation page. Is there something that I have done wrong? Other than that this is a great script.
  • smdani
    February 13th, 2006 at 2:10pm
    Hi Skippy, I would like to send daily digests at 19 pm, nor at 00:00. Is it possible? How can I do it?
  • skippy
    February 13th, 2006 at 2:17pm
    smdani: edit wp-cron.php and adjust the code that sets the last daily action to occur at midnight.
  • smdani
    February 13th, 2006 at 9:22pm
    THANKS A LOT!!
  • smdani
    February 13th, 2006 at 10:21pm
    I changed this line $daily = mktime(0, 0, 1, $this_month, $this_day, $this_year); into this: $daily = mktime(19, 0, 0, $this_month, $this_day, $this_year); is this correct?
  • Brandon
    February 14th, 2006 at 1:53pm
    Hi Skippy, First of all let me thank you for creating this. I'm not much of a coder and I tend to have one heck of a time dealing with these type of things. I'm a graphic designer by trade and so it is inevitable that I'll have to get my hands dirty with code from time to time. Everything was fine with the plugin until I changed over to version 2.2.2. Let me give you the scenario of a problem I'm having. I have the latest version of WordPress 2.0. I made sure I did before I even started. Last night I was so eager to get an email notifcation system on this new site that I downloaded and installed Subscibe2 version 2.2.1. Everything ran great. I signed up a dummy account and made a few test posts. Everything checked out. Obviously, the only issue I ran in to was the admin editing options. I came back here and found that I needed Subscribe2 2.2.2 to correct the problem. I downloaded and installed, made the page and some other visual tweaks to the page itself with no problems. However, I have attempted to subscribe two more dummy accounts for the purpose of testing 2.2.2 to make sure everything still checks out. I recieved the confirmation emails on both but when I clicked the link to confirm the address' it sent me to my archives page and did not confirm either address. Even in the subscriber options I can select "unconfirmed" and both address' come up. The thing is my first dummy account that I signed up under version 2.2.1 still recieves every post update and my admin account still recieves emails as well except for new subscriber emails because obviously there is a confirmation issue. Whats the issue here? I did not make any changes to php code or anything except the messages that show up on the subscription page during the subscription process. Nothing more. Because, quite frankly, I don't know enough about php and databases to make any changes. ;) I appreciate any help you can offer. Brandon
  • Simon Wheatley
    February 14th, 2006 at 3:53pm
    Is it possible to allow users with the role "editor" to manage the subscriptions?
  • skippy
    February 14th, 2006 at 4:01pm
    Simon: edit subscribe2.php, and change lines 96, 97, and 99 to use whatever capability you want, instead of "manage_options". Brandon: you can try to forcibly define the page to use for confirmations. Edit susbcribe2.php, and on line 42, change the "0" to "24" (the page ID displayed on your subscribe page.
  • Brandon
    February 14th, 2006 at 4:05pm
    Will do Skip. I'll keep you posted. Thanks.
  • Brandon
    February 14th, 2006 at 4:26pm
    Ok Skip. give it a go. I reinstalled from scratch just to get a clean slate. I think i'm set now. Give it a go and see if you get the proper confirmation screen.
  • smdani
    February 14th, 2006 at 4:30pm
    skippy, since I change the hour of daily digest, it doesnt work. is there any log of sent messages? Thks in advance
  • Brandon
    February 14th, 2006 at 4:46pm
    Ok, everything seems to be in order except for one thing... I want the subscription box and button centered. I've placed a tag around my image and the tag, then close the after the tag. What happens to the subscribe info? My image is there but the info is not. If I remove the and put it before the tag it is viewable. If the is creating the problem how would you suggest centering the information in the tag? In the prior version I was able to add a and it all worked out ok. Gah! I hate code. ;)
  • Brandon
    February 14th, 2006 at 5:00pm
    I tinkered a bit and found a method to center it. I'm so excited that it's working. ;) Thank you Skip for this great plug-in. Brandon
  • smdani
    February 14th, 2006 at 5:31pm
    Hi again Skippy, I dont have registered users, and I dont want. is it possible to send HTML digests to all my suscribers? Thks
  • skippy
    February 14th, 2006 at 6:18pm
    smdani: subscribe2 does not support HTML digests. You'll need to edit the code on your own in order to achieve that functionality.
  • smdani
    February 14th, 2006 at 6:29pm
    Ok, thank you Skippy. I keep having problems on sending digests. May you help me? I have WP 2.01 and Wp-Cron 1.4 installed. When I activate wp-cron-reminder the sixty reminder is sent one each 6 seconds. Fifty seems to work fine. And daily digests doesnt work at all. Any help would be great. Sorry for the inconvenience, smdani
  • Anthony
    February 15th, 2006 at 1:57am
    Is my problem really so insoluble? If I just misread something in the Readme please drop me a hint! It's been a great plugin up until now! Anthony
  • skippy
    February 15th, 2006 at 3:08am
    Anthony: try placing carriage returns before and after the <!--subscribe2--> token.
  • Anthony
    February 15th, 2006 at 3:30am
    No, that didn't do it. Could there be some plugin fighting it?
  • skippy
    February 15th, 2006 at 4:09am
    Anthony: this is what I see when I view the source of your subscribe page: <p><!-<del>subscribe2</del>-></p> Try disabling the graphical editor (Users -> Profiles), edit your subscribe page, and fix the token.
  • Anthony
    February 15th, 2006 at 1:48pm
    Hmm, it's already disabled. I tried escaping Textile, but then it displays hashed. If I wrap it in code tags it displays on the page exactly as you saw it in the source. So it's happening as it's saved, not as it's displayed. I tried with the graphical editor on, and the same thing happens. Thanks for taking the time. And I should say that everything else seems to be working fine! Is there something I could do with a page template? I think I saw another comment here that that wouldn't work, though.
  • AndreSC
    February 15th, 2006 at 9:18pm
    Can one configure S2 to send full html posts to public subscribers?
  • Anonymous
    February 15th, 2006 at 9:26pm
    Skippy, I get this, Dreamhost is set to true... Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in /home/.mahela/jmw07140/wordsoftestimony.com/wp-content/plugins/subscribe2/subscribe2.php on line 236 here is line 236: if ( (defined('DREAMHOST') && TRUE === DREAMHOST) && ($count($recipients) > 30) ) { //
  • Max
    February 15th, 2006 at 10:50pm
    I tried putting the S2 token on a page, and it just shows up blank, nothing on the page at all... any idea why?
  • Chris
    February 15th, 2006 at 10:51pm
    Now that I have my token in a page, I'd like to disable the quicktag. It's just cluttering my post page. I have WP-ContactForm installed and it has an option to disable the quicktag. I was hoping this would be possible for this plugin in the future.
  • JMW
    February 15th, 2006 at 11:11pm
    Skippy, Subscribe2 is crashing for Dreamhost users when Dreamhost is set to true... Fatal error: Call to undefined function: () in /home/.mahela/jmw07140/wordsoftestimony.com/wp-content/plugins/subscribe2/subscribe2.php on line 236 Can you help us?
  • skippy
    February 16th, 2006 at 12:16am
    JMW: I see the problem. Edit line 236, and remove the dollar sign before the count. That's a major mistake on my part, and I'll work to get a new version out soon.
  • skippy
    February 16th, 2006 at 1:12am
    subscribe2 2.2.2 is now available. Comments are closed.

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