I've been using Mike's subscribe plugin on a site I host for some time now. It works well enough, but it always kind of irked me that it uses a text file to store the list of subscribers, instead of the database. It also irks me that there's no real verification to the subscription or unsubscription process.
So I reworked it! Here is subscribe2, released as 1.0 beta.
To use this, you need to create a link somewhere on your blog to the subscribe.php file. Here users can elect to sign up for updates when you post new entries. Each (un)subscription request sends a confirmation email verifying the legitimacy of the request.
The subscribe2.php plugin file contains an administrative interface to install the database table, and manage your subscription list. You can add subscribers in bulk, as well as individually enable, disable, and delete subscribers. Plus you can send an email to all your subscribers at once.
With WordPress 1.5 just around the corner, the obvious next step for this plugin is to make it integrate into the WordPress admin panel.
There are probably some rough edges here. Please let me know if you find any bugs, but I accept no responsibility if this plugin kills your dog or eats your archives.
WordPress Plugin: Subscribe2
With Subscribe2, users can elect to sign up for updates when you post new entries. Each (un)subscription request sends a confirmation email verifying the legitimacy of the request. Subscribe2 contains an administrative interface to install the database...
The one with the successor to Subscriber
Skippy has gone and updated my subscriber plugin and made it all SQL fancy. Thanks and good luck to him, because the support questions will start rolling in soon.
If you are already using V1 or V2 of my plugin, I suggest you look at trying out Skipp...
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This looks very interesting. Will be good to see it in the 1.5 interface as you suggest. Was so easy to install.
Waiting for the 1.5 interface also and if possible in ZIP ?????
Thanks
Hi Mike ! I installed your WP plugin subcribe2 (subcribe.php to the base directory, subcribe2.php to wp-content/plugins/)
'Send email to all subscribers' works fine, but no one gets a notification, if there's a new post.
Any idea where the problem resides ?
Regards,
Achim, Bischberg/Germany
Hi Achim.
First, are you sure the plugin is activated? Just dropping the subscribe2.php file into /wp-content/plugins/ will not tell WordPress to begin using the plugin.
If the plugin is activated and still not sending email, I can walk you through some simple troubleshooting steps to try to pinpoint the problem.
See the new version here:
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/
I'm using it with WP 1.5, and it's great. No one in my family/friends has any idea what RSS is, so this is the perfect solution.
Only issue (if you can call it that) that I've had so far is that using Flickr's "Blog this" functionality doesn't trigger the Publish event and doesn't send out emails...I had to unpublish and then republish the Flickr photo post and then it sent out the emails.
Mangy Varmit: be sure to use the newest version, available here.
As for posting from flickr, it turns out that the XMLRPC API does not trigger the publish_post plugins. See bug 967 for details, and share any additional info you can.
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If I have Subscribe2 set to mail out all posts to category "News" but not "Events," Subscribe2 will not mail out Events even if they are dual-categorized as News. Is there an easy fix for this?
Dan: There is no immediate fix for the issue you describe short of editing the code. You'd need to modify the
subscribe2function to check all the categories before making a decision as to whether to send the notification.I would be great if subscribers could choose to get a daily digest of new posts (or weekly), and also choose if they only want to know about posts froms specific categories.
Thanks for your plugin. Works great on my site.
I designing a new site and there the pages are listed in the header. I would like to open the subscribe routine by opening a page.
How to proceed?
Thanks
Hi Skippy,
some og my postings will be published in future (timestamp). The mail is send at the creation date. Is it possible to hold up this mails?
Thomas: subscribe 2.1.6 should suppress emails on future-dated posts. There's currently no way to queue the messages for later delivery.
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http://www.skippy.net/download/subscribe2.tar.gz