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1. 358 Anthony 2005-02-19 02:46:31

   Thanks for doing this. Just a couple of questions.
   The link in the confirmation email seems to be wrong - it directs people to www.mysite.com/blog/blog/subscribe.php rather than mysite.com/blog/subscribe.php. Any idea why?
   Also, would it be possible to add a function to not notify for certain categories? I have a kind of "Asides" category that people really don't need to be notified about! Thanks.

2. 370 skippy 2005-02-19 03:44:37

   I'm not sure why the subscribe link is wrong, but I'll look into it. Thanks for the heads-up.

   As for categories, yes I could add an exclusion option. But as soon as I do that, someone else will pop up and say "You know, I really don't want these two categories to trigger email announcements..." and before you know it I'll need a complete list of categories with checkboxes to control which categories do and do not trigger email notifications!

   I'm not opposed to making that interface, mind you; it'll just take a while.

3. 360 indi 2005-02-19 10:29:22

   Looks like an excellent plugin. I'm reporting a bug I had for reference, but it's a plugin conflict, hence not your problem. I have the Subscribe to Comments plugin and it gives the following conflict.

   Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maybe_add_column() (previously declared in REALPATH/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments.php:252) in REALPATH/wp-content/plugins/subscribe2.php on line 169

   Going to deactivate Subscribe to Comments and see

4. 361 indi 2005-02-19 11:56:07

   works if you activate subscribe to comments after this plugin, but subscribe to comments doesn't seem to work on 1.5 anyways

   thanks again for a great plugin

5. 362 skippy 2005-02-19 14:16:29

   Thanks for the notice, Indi. I'll adjust the s2_install() function to check whether upgrade-functions.php has already been included before trying to include it. Basically, change the line
   require_once (ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php');
   to
   if (! function_exists('maybe_add_column')) { require_once (ABSPATH . '/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php'); }

   Anthony:
   The portion of the code that generates the link used in the confirmation email(s) looks like this:
   $link = get_settings('siteurl') . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?x=" . $x;
   which first gets the base URL of your blog, as defined in your Options page. The $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is the name of the currently executing script, inlcuding path. So the quick fix would be to simply edit s2_send_confirmation() to look like this:
   if ('add' == $action) { // send an email with a link to confirm their address $x = "ax" . md5($email) . "x" . $id; $link = get_settings('siteurl') . "subscribe.php?x=" . $x; $body = str_replace("LINK", $link, $message['add_confirm_email']); } elseif ('delete' == $action) { // send an email with a link to confirm their address $x = "dx" . md5($email) . "x" . $id; $link = get_settings('siteurl') . "subscribe.php?x=" . $x; $body = str_replace("LINK", $link, $message['delete_confirm_email']); }
   I had used the variable in case someone wanted to rename the subscribe.php file, for any reason. What I should do is call basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']), to strip the path info.

   Thanks to both of you for the info. I'll fix it up and make a 1.5.2 release this weekend.

6. 364 Anthony 2005-02-19 15:26:53

   Better, but now it leaves out a slash! It directs to mysite.com/blogsubscribe.php
   And now I even have another request for some future release. Would it be possible to have the plugin notify me when somebody subscribes?
   Thanks for the quick response.

7. 365 skippy 2005-02-19 15:29:11

   Just put a forward slash in front of subscribe.php: get_settings('siteurl') doesn't include any trailing slash. Sorry for the oversight.

   Sure, I can add a notification to you, the blog owner, when someone subscribes or unsubscribes. I assume you'd only want it on a confirmed operation, and not just every (un)subscribe request?

8. 366 Anthony 2005-02-19 19:17:22

   Ok, I've installed 1.5.2. I've subscribed, unsubscribed, posted to two different categories I didn't want to send notifications for, and one I did, and everything worked perfectly. Thank you! Well, the permalink used the post id rather than the post slug, but it worked and that's what counts.
   Now if only it were easier to style the subscribe page, maybe integrate it with a theme? But great work - a definite boon. Thanks for updating so quickly!

9. 367 skippy 2005-02-19 19:56:16

   I'm using get_permalink(), which should construct a permalink for you based on your rewrite rules, but I'll double-check that portion soon.

   I still haven't upgraded to WP 1.5, so I'm still fuzzy on theme support. It's definitely on my todo list!

   Thanks again for all your help.

10. 374 Ruby Sinreich 2005-02-27 22:38:18

    I had a problem with this trying and failing to call my sidebar.php (I don't have one defined), but I commented that bit out and it displays fine. Now to see if it works... ;} (Using WP 1.5)

    Thanks for another great plugin, Skippy!

11. 375 Anthony 2005-02-27 23:23:34

    Just upgraded - great theme support! Cheers!

12. 376 skippy 2005-02-27 23:28:40

    Thanks Ruby and Anthony, for the feedback. Themes present a unique challenge, since different themes will use different theme elements (sidebar, header, footer, etc). There's only so much I can do to integrate this with every possible theme.

13. 377 Morgs 2005-02-28 11:56:54

    Thanks Skippy for this plugin.

    Just a couple of questions:

    1. Can I use this plugin to send HTML emails?
    2. I put the subscriber.php file in the main dir (.net.au/subscriber.php) not in the wp-content/themes/default/ folder. Where should I have put it? It works for me in the main directory but I had to lay with things a bit to get my header to show etc. Noticed that this plugin is supposed to support themes. Where should I have put the file and how best/easiest could I have used the file?

14. 378 Morgs 2005-02-28 13:06:08

    Oh, and how do I manage which categories trigger notifications?

    Thanks

15. 379 skippy 2005-02-28 13:39:51

    Morgs:

    1. I personally dislike HTML email, so didn't include it in subscribe2. You can send HTML emails, but you'll need to modify the headers sent by the mail command. Check the PHP mail() documentation, and the user comments for working examples.

    2. subscribe.php should live in your WordPress document root (the directory in which you'll find wp-admin, wp-include, and wp-content).

    3. Theme support is provided. subscribe.php should pick up your active theme from the WordPress database. It then includes header.php, sidebar.php, and footer.php. If you're not using those, or if you've renamed them, you'll need to edit subscribe.php to accomodate your theme.

    4. All categories trigger a notification, by default. You can control this by editing wp-content/plugins/subscribe2.php. Look for the following line:
    // a comma-seperated list of categories that SHOULD NOT generate an email $categories_to_skip = "";
    Provide a comma-seperated list of category IDs you want to exclude. Any new post that is in any of the excluded categories will not trigger an email.

    Feel free to email me, if you still need help!

16. 381 Morgs 2005-03-01 13:05:54

    Thanks Skippy,

    That explains things a bit better for me. I agree with you on the HTML email thing, it's just that I am doing a website for my girlfriends small business, and she well wants the email sent out to look 'Pretty' - women.

    Anyhow, I am going to ask on IRC and the Wordpress forums and see if I can't find someone to give me a hand implementing it. Had a go myself, but my limited PHP knowledge (only up to chapter 3 in my PHP book) didn't get me far.

    I will send you what ever we come up with. Thanks again. Great plugin.

17. 382 Morgs 2005-03-02 11:33:05

    OK, now I have a bug I think. I am using the subscribe.php file and the navbar you might be familiar with from the Binary Bonsai site. My navbar is showing but when I click on a link it tries to go to: http://www.cherryblossom.net.au/subscribe.php?page_id=7 instead of http://www.cherryblossom.net.au/?page_id=7 Any ideas on how to fix this?

18. 383 Morgs 2005-03-03 02:45:41

    Sorry to bother you again buddy. Thanks for all the help so far.

    I am having a problem.

    When I installed the plugin I was using one email address in my WordPress profile as a testing email address. I changed the address in my profile once I was happy with my testing but notifications are still being sent using the old email address. Is this how it is supposed to work, or can I fix/change it somehow?

    Thanks

19. 389 Raena 2005-03-05 17:54:14

    Peskiness: Not everyone owns their own domain names, and even if they do, they might be using some other address to handle this stuff.

    Say that the admin's email address is something that they don't necessarily own, like gmail.com. If another Gmail user comes along and tries to subscribe, they'll get told to bugger off, cause the pattern matching you're using only checks whatever's after the @.

    Here's what I changed to fix this for myself:
    if ( ($youremail == $email) || (preg_match("/" . $pattern . "/", $email)) ) { main('self'); }

    to

    if ((strtolower($youremail)) == (strtolower($email))) { main('self'); }

20. 390 skippy dot net » one and a half 2005-03-06 01:18:51

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21. 396 Jon 2005-03-07 10:10:21

    I've installed it, and it seems to work properly....however, the subscribe.php page (http://www.jonular.net/blog/subscriber.php) is not displaying the footer properly, and it has changed the font.

    I'm using Manji2, which isn't that different from Kubrick (if I understand things properly). Any help?

22. 401 Eirikso 2005-03-08 20:54:23

    I have installed the plugin on one of my blogs. It works fine if I post using the WEB-gui in WP.

    However, I very often update my blog using mail from my mobile phone. When I post to my blog this way the notification does not work. No mails are sent, despite the fact that new posts are succesfully added to the blog using wp-mail.php

23. 402 skippy 2005-03-08 21:00:18

    Eirikso:
    The XMLRPC API does not trigger the publish_post plugins. See bug 967 for details, and share any additional info you can.

24. 403 Eirikso 2005-03-08 22:40:50

    Guess I just have to wait in patience for version 1.5.1 then... Thank you for an excellent plugin!

25. 405 www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » Experimenting with automatic email notifications 2005-03-09 08:47:03

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26. 408 Ruby Sinreich 2005-03-13 03:29:01

    Thank you for the update! I was having some issues with that ugly "from" address. One thing I would dig in a future version is support for sending HTML e-mail since the blog post has HTML content.

27. 410 MetroDevil 2005-03-15 03:26:32

    Hi,

    I'm having 2 issues:

    1) I've added a category that shouldn't generate an email, but when I publish to that catagory it still sends an email.

    2) It seems that I can't subscribe/unsubscribe if my email address has the same domain as the admin account.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    md

28. 412 MetroDevil 2005-03-16 01:13:48

    Skippy has helped resolve my issues ...

    1) I was using the category name and not the ID.

    2) I should have read this comment by Raena a little more closely:
    http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/#comment-1293

    Thanks again ... great script!

    -md

29. 416 CHall 2005-03-20 21:12:37

    I have just downloaded the subscribe2 and i get below error.
    I am using wp 1.5 and I get the error when I press Subscribers in the manage menu.

    Thanks

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare subscribe2() (previously declared in d:\customers\mysite\wwwroot\news\wp-content\plugins\subscribe2.php:94) in d:\customers\mysite\wwwroot\news\wp-content\plugins\subscribe2.php on line 170

30. 449 Ariah Fine 2005-03-29 01:59:52

    Save my life!
    I'm working on a project for school in which Subscribe2 would be perfect to use. BUT I'd like to use it twice, or rather double the number of emails.

    I'm trying to do a sort of tell-a-friend sort of email sign-up. So I'd like folks to put in two emails rather then one (theirs and a friends) and then I would like for it to send out a different email to each of them.

    I figured there are two ways of doing this:
    1) putting two subscribe plugins on my site.
    *I tried this by changing every "2" to a "3" I uploaded it and I get a:
    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare main() (previously declared in /homepages/22/d95365795/htdocs/tithe/subinsert.php:130) in /homepages/22/d95365795/htdocs/tithe/subinsert3.php on line 130
    Any advice?

    2) I can incorporate an extra email field into the current plug-in.
    *I tried to start doing this but I got confused. I was gonna just copy and paste everything into one thing but we'll, I'm lost.
    Anyone willing to do that for me?

    I NEED this by Friday, absolute necessity.

    or something else that works well! let me know.

31. 466 Marco 2005-03-31 13:36:16

    Hello,

    I was successfuly using the subscribe2 on my WP 1.5 blog plugin until last week, but today after publishing a post (via web gui) I'm not receiving any notification anymore. Note that the "Send" interface in the "manage subscriber" gui is still working fine (I just moved all the subscriber to the unconfimed list except me, and made a few exercises posting fake posts...).

    Any idea? Thanks, ciao, Marco

32. 468 Damo 2005-04-01 02:42:42

    I've installed subscribe2 on my WP 1.5 install - I can add users manually using the management tool but when I create a link to the subscribe.php file, it returns a 404 file not found.

    I'm 100% positive the file exists, permissions are correct etc etc.

    This is on IIS 5.0

    Hope someone may have an idea for me, I'm lost!

    Cheers

33. 469 Alex 2005-04-01 15:30:25

    Hi friends,

    It`s the best script i have seen!!! Thanks a lot.

    My question is:

    How can I put the subscribe field on one page. Without a link to new page. Just to add e-mail, not to reload the page.

    Thanks again for best script!!! :)

34. 470 skippy 2005-04-01 15:41:58

    Alex, thanks for the kind words. To display the entry form on any page, use something like the following:
    

    <form method="post" action="/subscribe.php">
    Your email: <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20" /><br />
    <input type="hidden" name="action" value="add" />
    <input type="submit" value="Send!" />
    </form>
    

    Adjust as needed.

35. 471 Alex 2005-04-01 16:23:37

    Thanks skippy for advice the script is working good but when i press send it go to another page with subcribtion form. And there can add the e-mail?

    Why?

36. 481 MetroDevil 2005-04-05 01:46:14

    Hey Skippy ... me again.

    When I use the admin section to send a mass email, why is it that I cannot use an apostrophe? Is there a way around that?

    For example if my email has the word doesn't ... it comes through as doesn't

    Can we remove the slash?

    Thanks again,
    MD

37. 482 skippy 2005-04-05 01:53:23

    Yes, I've just recently discovered that I forgot to call stripslashes() on user-generated mail sent to subscribers.

    I'm putting the final touches on a major update, which I hope to release soon. This new version will only work with WordPress 1.5 and above.

38. 484 MetroDevil 2005-04-05 13:20:31

    Cool ... I'll keep my eyes open for the update!

    Thanks again for a great script!

    -md

39. 495 RaynerApe 2005-04-13 09:15:06

    I am having a small question before I install and test this - so sorry if this is really obvious to people who have already used it - does it mail complete stories to the user or simply mails them a "come here to read the story" message? I would love it if it could mail complete stories - I know a blog has to attract users back on some basis, but I am working with some really lazy people here. ;)

40. 496 skippy 2005-04-13 11:24:36

    Rayner: the current version sends just a notice that a new post exists. I've been sitting on a new version that allows you to send the entire post to subscribers. I keep telling people that I'll release it "shortly", but never do. =) Hopefully I can get it released before this weekend.

41. 490 echo 2005-04-13 21:22:48

    Would like ability for end users to subscribe to individual categories.
    Consider this a feature request, + also a question if you see this possible by configuring multiple installs of the plugin, each configured to exclude all other categories but one (there are only 3). Thanks for this plugin, it looks excellent!

42. 507 skippy 2005-04-14 11:21:44

    Echo: At this time, I don't plan on adding per-category subscription options. In your case, it might succeed with only three categories; but some folks have dozens of categories, which significantly complicates the idea.

    You might want to take a look at my cat2mail plugin, which does per-category email notifications to single email addresses. It was designed for getting blog items cross-posted to mailing lists. It only subscribes one email address; but you could either modify it for your needs, or set up a mailing list for use with it.

43. 511 rawlinson - us Blog Archive Wordpress 1.5 2005-04-15 01:38:42

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44. 516 echo 2005-04-15 20:37:11

    Love subscribe2, thanks!
    I have the subscribe form in the sidebar, and everything works great.
    The only issue I have is I'm using php for a dynamic menu highlight (demo in codex), and the /subscribe.php is triggering the main page menu css (showing it's current page state).

    The dynamic menu highlight uses (is_page()) and I don't know why subscribe.php it's included with my home (also using Page to Front plugin) probably something to do with it is up in the root level of WP.

    Can you tell me how to target when I'm on /subscribe.php in an elseif statement (from header.php)?

45. 536 Dan Milward 2005-04-20 23:20:37

    I have a slight problem with my subscribe page. For some reason the form is being displayed at the bottom of the page and not the top of the page. Can anybody help me? I am using WP 1.5 with the default theme.

    You can see it here:
    http://www.3g.co.nz/subscribe.php

    I also have a feature wish. It would be super cool if you could specify the subject, and do some text formating when sending and email from manage > Subscribers

46. 537 skippy 2005-04-20 23:24:46

    Dan: the problem you're experiencing is that the Kubrick theme calls the sidebar at the end of the page, whereas my subscribe.php file calls it at the beginning. Simply edit subscribe.php and move the line:
    get_sidebar
    from the top to the bottom, just above
    get_footer

    Be sure to enclose it in <?php ?> as needed.

    I'll keep your feature request in mind. Thanks!

47. 538 Dan Milward 2005-04-21 01:12:41

    Thanks skippy! I really appreciate it that you've taken the time to give me a hand :)

    Here's another thought; I think it would be cool if you could add the subscribe form to a page as opposed to a link. In my mind links are more designed to take people away from your site and pages are a part of the site.

    I'll keep coming back to see what your thoughts are. Thanks again.

48. 539 skippy 2005-04-21 15:20:19

    Dan: you can include the form on pretty much any page you want. I include it on my syndicate page. You could include the HTML form in your sidebar, to display on every pageview, if you so wanted.

    You just need to make sure that the form POSTs to subscribe.php. I use a seperate file to handle all subscription activities to make sure that WordPress doesn't try to gobble up the submitted data by accident.

49. 540 Un violon à Paris » Archives du blog » Remerciements / Credits 2005-04-21 17:40:13

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50. 566 MarcoB 2005-04-25 11:14:59

    Hi, Skippy.

    The plugin doesn't seem to install correctly on my "preview" blog. It doesn't create its DB table, nor displays options in the admin panel. The links in the menu bar are there, but the page is empty. The subscription form is displayed correctly, but it throws an error as the table doesn't exist.

    Using WP 1.5...

51. 567 skippy 2005-04-25 11:20:08

    MarcoB: have you fixed bug 902?

52. 568 MarcoB 2005-04-25 11:25:38

    Of course not :)

    I just thought the fact the table didn't exist meant it was another thing!

    Ok, I need to stop thinking and go back to patching, heh...

    It's working now... Thanks... BTW, your site's theme/template is great.

53. 569 MarcoB 2005-04-25 11:28:08

    Oh one last thing!

    Where does the compiled .mo localization file go?

54. 570 skippy 2005-04-25 11:39:07

    MarcoB: thanks for the kind words!

    The .mo should go in your wp-content/plugins directory, according to the instructions on the WordPress codex.

55. 571 MarcoB 2005-04-25 13:36:07

    Hey there, back again with a quashed bug.

    On line 107 of subscribe2.php, string 'excerpt' is misspelled.

    This prevents, at least on my system, the script from correctly adding a post excerpt when the appropriate option and/or the EXCERPT token is used in the message template:

    if ('post' == $s2['s2_excerpt']) { $content = $postdata['Content']; } elseif ('exceprt' == $s2['s2_excerpt']) { $content = $postdata['Excerpt']; } else { $content = ''; }

    I'm also looking into another problem: text-only mail sent by the script do not correctly display non-ASCII chars, such as accented letters.

    Not sure if it's a problem with PHP string manipulation funcs, or with mail();. Any ideas?

56. 572 skippy 2005-04-25 14:12:01

    Thanks, MarcoB, for the bugfix! I'll get a new download posted directly.

    As for non-ASCII in text-only mail: I think the issue is my use of mail() instead of mb_send_mail(); but I'm not sure. If you have any suggestions on the matter, feel free to email directly.

57. 573 Claudio Gusmão 2005-04-25 20:07:46

    Hi!
    When I'd activate this plugin, the link that I get in the menu header is something like that http://localhost/wp/wp-admin/c:%5Cinetpub%5Cwwwroot%5Cwp%5Cwp-content%5Cplugins%5Csubscribe2.php
    Any idea? The plugin don't create any table in MySQL... :(

    Thanx

58. 574 skippy 2005-04-25 20:56:59

    Claudio: I don't have an IIS server with which to test, so I won't be able to help too much, unfortunately. This sounds similar to a complaint I had that the __FILE__ constant doesn't get set properly on Windows servers. You could try replacing the __FILE__ declaration on lines 20 and 21 with "subscribe2.php", and see if that works.

59. 575 jsrdrnr 2005-04-26 08:10:33

    One quick question...what is the "confirmation" link supposed to be? Is there a file that I missed or something? Please advise.

60. 576 skippy 2005-04-26 09:42:53

    jsrdrnr: the "confirmation" link should be a hyperlink pointing to subscribe.php, stored in the root of your WordPress installation.

61. 577 Claudio Gusmão 2005-04-26 11:37:37

    Thanx skippy
    Well, simply I changed the lines replacing the __FILE__ constants with '' and works well.
    I used Windows only tests and config to Wordpress in my Website Host (Linux Plan) the plugin works well too.
    Thank you...
    Claudio

62. 579 jsrdrnr 2005-04-26 14:49:36

    Duh...minor brain freeze there...as you see I posted "terribly early in the morning" and had not yet had sleep. I have it now. Thanks for your help.

63. 581 james 2005-04-27 14:11:29

    Skippy, I just installed your plugin and I am having the problem that for some reason when you go to the subscribe.php the mailing list part is pushed down below my sidebar stuff.

    You can take a look here http://www.americantheatreconnection.org/subscribe.php

    Have you any suggestions or have you ever seen that before?

    Great plugin by the way, very useful. My one suggestion would be for the admin to be able to choose whether to use it to send out an e-mail everytime there is a post or only selected posts as well as the ability to just send a mass e-mail.

64. 580 skippy 2005-04-27 15:33:44

    james: the problem you are experiencing is caused by the location of the get_sidebar() function in subscribe.php. The code looks like this, starting at line 77:
    

    // Display the page
    get_header();
    get_sidebar();
    

    but that doesn't work for Kubrick-based themes. Simply move the get_sidebar(); line down, so that it is called just before get_footer();, on line 104.

    If you want to post without sending the notice to your subscribers, you have two work-arounds:
    

    • De-activate the plugin, make your post, then re-activate your plugin.
    • Define a category to not generate notifications; post your item into that category; then edit your post and re-assign categories as needed. My plugin only executes when posting a new item, not when editing an already-posted item.

    As for mass-mailing, that's already present. Click the Manage menu, select Subscribers and scroll down.

65. 585 james 2005-04-28 12:25:33

    Thanks Skippy! That fixed it. And thanks for the suggestions on the work arounds for sending out everytime. I knew there was a mass e-mail function I guess I just worded my question oddly.

    Thanks again, and again great work on this plugin. One of the most useful wordpress plugins I've seen.

66. 602 Murat KOCUK 2005-04-30 20:54:39

    Thank you...

67. 604 Antonio Rojilla 2005-05-01 03:13:23

    Nice plugin, thanks for the work! But... is there a way to change it so it only sends one e-mail every week or month? I started my WP site just yesterday but being a news blog I plan to write 2 or 3 posts a day (maybe some days more, maybe some days less) so sending e-mails everytime I post a new article can be too much for both my users and my server... I would like to send just one single e-mail every week showing the excerpt of all articles that have been posted during that time... is it possible?

    Anyway, thanks for the plugin and for your time!

68. 606 skippy 2005-05-01 12:43:13

    Antonio: subscribe2 is probably not the solution you need. To introduce a queueing mechanism (or per-user email formats, which is another popular feature request) would significantly complicate this plugin; and would basically involve re-inventing several wheels.

    This plugin is not meant to be a comprehensive mailing list manager; nor is it meant to replace content syndication like RSS or ATOM feeds. It's designed to send new post notifications to people who are not currently using content syndication. It is my hope that users of this plugin make some effort to educate their subscribers about aggregation (using RSS or ATOM), but I'm not in any position to enforce that.

69. 633 Mel 2005-05-04 04:49:47

    This has to be one of the best plugins I've played around with yet. Thanks so much for the hard work you've obviously put into it. :)

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71. 636 Peter 2005-05-04 13:51:33

    Hi great script.

    I have a problem. When i press Send the has reloadet with new form and dont send informatin.

    see link: http://www.lucrat.net/index.php

    Pls help me...

72. 637 Billy 2005-05-04 17:57:00

    I recently added your plug-in to my new WordPress site. I really like the idea behind it and how it works...thanks for the hard work.

    Two Questions:

    1.) Regarding the subscription page: http://www.flavaurth.com/subscribe.php. For some reason the page layout (colors, borders, etc.) are changed when this page loads. You can see how it should look by going to http://www.flavaurth.com/.

    2.) Regarding the e-mail functionaliaty: I was testing the e-mail out and have subscribed myself to my own blog. Then added a new blog entry. The e-mail got sent "TO" my Webmaster e-mail Address and was "From" the same Webmaster Address. Shouldn't it get sent to "TO" all the subscribers? Any help is appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Bill

73. 629 skippy 2005-05-04 18:05:23

    Billy: I think the style problem is due to the location of the get_sidebar() template tag. The subcribe.php file in the archive you downloaded calls the sidebar first, before the main content; whereas a lot of themes (WordPress' default theme, among them) call the sidebar at the end, after the content.

    As for the mail delivery: the plugin is not a full-blown mailing list manager. As such, in order to protect the email addresses of subscribers from one another, my plugin sends the email to the blog admin, and blind carbon copies everyone else.

74. 630 Billy 2005-05-04 19:03:19

    Thanks. I will check on the get_sidebar() template tag.

    As far as the e-mailing functionality goes. I checkecked the e-mail address it should have been blind carpon copied to and have not received it. It was only sent to my webmaster address.

    Any thoughts?

75. 631 Billy 2005-05-04 22:51:33

    Where does the subscribe2.po file need to go? Does it need to be in the directory for this plugin to function correctly?

76. 617 Slawek 2005-05-08 07:24:13

    hello. Is it possible to send message by mail if post is drafted in wordpess? I used subscribe2 but it only informed about posts which are published .If it is possible ,could someone tell me how to do it ?

    Slawek

77. 621 skippy 2005-05-08 11:08:32

    Billy: if you're using English as the language for your WordPress installation, then you don't need the subscribe2.po file at all. If you're not using English, then you can use the .po file to create a .mo file, named subscribe2-xx_YY.mo where xx_YY is the language locale you're using (like de_DE for German, for example). Stick the .mo file into wp-content/plugins/ and the plugin should automatically translate the admin interface according to the language file you're using.
    This page might help explain a bit more.

    Slawek: there is no option for this plugin to send an email when a draft is saved. You could change line 14:

    add_action ('publish_post', 'subscribe2', 8);

    to use save_post instead, perhaps, but that will cause an email to be sent every time a post is saved, regardless of its post status. You'd need some conditional logic to check the status of the post if you only want to send emails on the Save Draft action.
    I think I see where you're going with this. Blog authors could write posts, but only be allowed to save them as drafts. When a drfat is saved, a blog admin is notified by email, and invited to approve the item for posting. That sounds like a great idea! If you get it to work, do please share it with the community!

78. 626 Michael G. Cohen 2005-05-08 15:07:39

    First thank you for your great work...I am trying to get your plug in working, but the options screen comes up completely blank (though I can manage the plugin fine).

    Any thoughts?

79. 619 skippy 2005-05-08 19:22:24

    Michael: most likely, you have not yet addressed WordPress Bug #902.

80. 639 nikki 2005-05-10 17:39:26

    Hi,

    Many thanks for this, but... (!)

    Is there any way to support future posts? For example, if I publish a post now with the timestamp edited to tomorrow, is it possible to have the corresponding email sent out tomorrow rather than now?

    er, does that make sense?!

81. 640 Carey 2005-05-10 19:44:09

    This is such a great plugin. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. After I subscribe, there is an error message that comes up on the page that says the table does not exist in wp. What do you recomment that I do?

82. 641 Carey 2005-05-10 20:47:04

    It's working beautifully now. Thanks!

83. 624 skippy 2005-05-10 21:33:56

    nikki: currently there is no facility to send notifications about future-dated posts at the time they "go live". If you future-date a post, the notification email will be sent as soon as you click "Publish".

    I could (perhaps should) update the plugin to suppress notification on future-dated posts. You could then use the "send email to all subscribers" facility to manually send a notification email to your subscribers.

    In in the interim, simply de-activate the plugin for any posts which you do not want to trigger an email; then re-activate when done, and manually send notifications at the appropriate time.

    I might have a solution brewing for better handling of future-dated posts, but I'm not prepared yet to say anything more than that...

84. 643 Mezz 2005-05-11 02:08:52

    Just wanted to say thanks for a GREAT script AND for the fast reply to my questions. Excellent Work !!!

85. 649 Henrik Gemal 2005-05-11 18:00:25

    you write:
    <a href="/subscribe.php">Sign up for email notifications whenever my blog is updated!</a>

    it should be:
    <a href="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/subscribe.php">Sign up for email notifications whenever my blog is updated!</a>

    to allow for installations that has the blog on other host than the one with Wordpress

86. 647 Nick 2005-05-12 16:30:09

    Hi Skippy -
    Thanks for a great plugin! Much needed.

    One question I have is in regards to how it sends text. When it sends the post or the X number of words from the post, it also includes any <a> tags that are in that section of the post.

    So, for example, you'll be reading along:
    

    Here's a summary of the new post:

    'Give them a hand'
    ------------------------------
    Joe did this today and the company did this to visit the shelter <a href="http://www.yahoo.com">at this location</a>. So if you want to.......
    

    Any way to make it strip the tags or something so that it reads more clearly and people reading the message aren't seeing html tags in plain text?

    Thanks!

87. 648 nikki 2005-05-12 16:31:53

    Looking forward to the potentially-brewed better handling, whatever that might entail! Suppression of notification on future-dated posts also gets my vote.

    Thanks for all your hard work

88. 644 skippy 2005-05-13 19:42:44

    Nikki: another user emailed me recently about the "html tags embedded in plaintext email' issue. The fix for this is embarrasingly simple, and an updated version of the plugin will be available shortly.

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91. 662 MoiMM 2005-05-17 18:35:49

    Hello !

    Sorry, my english is very bbaaaadd !! :p

    I am beginner ! I have installed the plugin, the form work with subscibe and unscribe but my page suscribe don't have the my template ( http://www.vendran.com/subscribe.php ) !? ... Help !! :p :)

92. 668 Mel 2005-05-21 09:51:20

    Hi there,

    I was hoping you could help, I'm getting the following error when someone tries to subscribe:

    WordPress database error:
    [Table 'bedggood_wrdp1.wp_subscribe2' doesn't exist]
    SELECT * FROM wp_subscribe2 WHERE email='test@test.com'

    WordPress database error: [Table 'bedggood_wrdp1.wp_subscribe2' doesn't exist]
    SELECT * FROM wp_subscribe2 WHERE email='test@test.com'

    WordPress database error: [Table 'bedggood_wrdp1.wp_subscribe2' doesn't exist]
    INSERT INTO wp_subscribe2 (email, active) VALUES ('test@test.com', '0')

    WordPress database error: [Table 'bedggood_wrdp1.wp_subscribe2' doesn't exist]
    SELECT id FROM wp_subscribe2 WHERE email = 'test@test.com'

    Do I need to add a table into the database?

93. 665 skippy 2005-05-21 10:57:00

    Mel: if you visit the admin interface for Subscribe2, it should automatically create the database table for you.

94. 672 Karl 2005-05-21 17:14:27

    I've looked at this every which way but i cannot seem to find the plugin in my WP 1.5.1 plugins management screen...I know the correct file is in the correct directory. Any ideas?

95. 673 D 2005-05-21 19:15:38

    Hmm, both download links (.zip and .tar.gz) result in a 404 error... and this after I took the time to fix bug 902.

    I wonder if this other website will have the same problem?
    http://watershedstudio.com/portfolio/software/wp-email-notification.html

96. 674 skippy 2005-05-21 20:53:11

    Karl: please confirm that subscribe2.php lives in /wp-content/plugins/. D: please try the download(s) again. I re-organized my download directory today. Feel free to check here: http://www.skippy.net/download/plugins/subscribe2/

97. 675 Karl 2005-05-21 21:14:17

    Apparently I had some file corruption on transfer, after starting from scratch it works great. You've done an amazing job here, great detail. Thanks so much.

98. 685 Jonathan 2005-05-24 15:29:19

    I have the plugin installed but when I click on the link, my side bar appears on the opposite side of the page. Any ideas:

    http://www.peru-gbc.org/blog/subscribe.php

99. 681 Jonathan 2005-05-24 16:56:35

    Never mind. It is the theme that on all pages after the main are wrong.

100. 687 eduardo 2005-05-25 01:21:45

     Hi,
     here's a suggestion: allow for users to subscribe and unsubscribe to one (or more) categories, selectively. This would make your already nice plugin very flexible!
     Cheers,

101. 689 Wade Emmert 2005-05-25 11:02:11

     This seems to be a great plugin, but I am having a problem. It was working great in testing, but now that I have about 40 subscribers, it is not sending out the notification of a new post. Any ideas about what is wrong? I'm using WP 1.5.1.1.

102. 690 skippy 2005-05-25 11:05:47

     eduardo: several others have asked for this feature, too. It significantly complicates my plugin, and requires a lot of code to support users modifying their subscription settings. If folks want per-category subscriptions, I really think that RSS or ATOM feeds are the way to go.

     Wade: can you give me some more details? Anything in your web server error log? Have you made any other changes? Feel free to contact me via email.

103. 691 Wade Emmert 2005-05-25 11:39:21

     Thanks Skippy. I'm not getting any server errors that I can see. I am constantly making changes, but it stopped working and then I upgraded to WP 1.5.1.1. I also installed, but the uninstalled, the Fuzzy DateTime plugin. I dont recall messing with the plugin itself. I'll be happy to send you email to discuss it, but I can't find your email addy.

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105. 696 toto 2005-05-25 16:17:26

     Hi when i send to users. The sended e-mail contain some extra text.

     X-Host: this mail was sent by Host.bg client
     X-Host: lucrat.net. In case of abuse forward this
     X-Host: mail with all headers included to abuse@host.bg

     How can i remove it from my e-mails???

106. 697 skippy 2005-05-25 16:26:18

     toto: my plugin is not adding those headers. Those are being automatically added by (presumably) your outgoing mail server.

107. 705 c 2005-05-27 12:41:23

     Hi Skippy - great plugin - thanks for taking the time to write it!

     Just a note to let you know that apparently there is a bug related to PHP mail on windows servers that causes Bcc'd recipients are visible in the message headers.

     The only thing I can think of is adding an option to loop through and use CC instead for windows users.

     What do you think?

     Thanks again!

     c

108. 717 Tsevdos John 2005-05-31 10:59:00

     Dear friend,
     Your plug -in is excelent, although I have a small problem.The subscribing form appears too low on my web-page (http://www.tsevdos.com/subscribe.php).Could you please give me a tip?

     Thanks in advance...

109. 716 toto 2005-05-31 15:06:15

     Hi Firneds I found good help to my problem
     Hi when i send to users. The sended e-mail contain some extra text.

     for more see: http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/#comment-2032

     At file subscribe2.php at line 580
     the code is:
     $mailtext = "$subject$mailtext"; $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: ' . get_bloginfo('html_type') . '; charset='. get_bloginfo('charset'); }

     I add some text
     } else { $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/plain; charset='. get_bloginfo('charset'); } $rec = "subscribers@your.host"; mail($rec, $subject, $mailtext, $headers);

     And the changes are:
     $mailtext = "$subject$mailtext"; $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: ' . get_bloginfo('html_type') . '; charset='. get_bloginfo('charset'); } else { $headers .= 'MIME-Version: 1.0' . "\r\n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/plain; charset='. get_bloginfo('charset'); } $rec = "subscribers@your.host"; mail($rec, $subject, $mailtext, $headers);

     Thats prevent from sendig these stupid mail headers!
     If you like the changes you can update you best script...

     Bye

110. 718 Tsevdos John 2005-05-31 16:25:10

     Dear friend,
     Thanks a lot for your instant reply.I follow your guidline, and now the subscribe page is displayed on top, as I wanted. Although the code ruin my sidebar (take a look here http://www.tsevdos.com/subscribe.php).I know that has to do something with the theme but you have an idea how can I fix this?

111. 719 Jack Doyle 2005-06-01 13:34:30

     Seems to work great for me except for two things... the form to (un)subscribe is at the bottom of the page? Also, when I post through xmlrpc.php it does not notify subscribers of the new post.

112. 720 Jack Doyle 2005-06-01 13:48:21

     I saw where xmlrpc.php has been patched (I'm on the latest 1.5.2 I believe) but I don't have commandline access to my server.

     Is there anyone who could email me a patched file? doyle . jack at gmail . com ? Thanks.

113. 721 icone 2005-06-01 13:56:38

     mmm I disagree.
     For casual surfers the email option is far easier to grab.
     A per-category subscription would make your (already great) plugin a complete newsletter plugin for WP which, as far as i know, is missing.

114. 724 Andreas Vind 2005-06-02 17:06:56

     Very nice plugin - amazing!
     I'm from Denmark, so please bear with my mis-spelling. :)
     I use wp-1.5.1 and subscribe2-2.0.5. I have translated it to danish, and technical it's working just fine. But I have problems with the layout. I use the default-theme, but the script is placed wrong on my site. See: http://www.vinds.dk/wordpress/subscribe.php . What can I do to change it?

     But thanks a lot for this fabulous plugin. :)

     /andreasvind

115. 725 Wade Emmert 2005-06-03 02:53:56

     Thanks for all your work on the work around for Dreamhosts limit on the number of recipients. Much appreciated.

116. 729 Danny 2005-06-03 12:02:30

     hey
     neat plugin!
     But maybe a weird question now..how can i put both under options instead 1 under managment and the other one under options. I tried this but only one screen opens. thats the subscribers page. Because a other plugin ruins it i need them both under options, just dunno how.

     thanks in advance

117. 727 Andreas Vind (DEN) 2005-06-03 12:24:45

     Hi again. I suggest that you make a mailinglist for this plugin, so we get noticed when updates/changes are ready. I think it's rather obvious in this case with a mailinglist-plugin. :) Maybe combine it with this blog. Just a proposal... :-)

118. 737 incorporated subversion » Archive » Well it’s about time! Subscribe to a WordPress blog through email plugin 2005-06-07 10:12:06

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119. 738 James Farmer 2005-06-07 10:18:03

     Hi Skippy,

     Absolutely ace, wonderful and spot on... have been searching for this plugin for literally 2 years... thankyou :)

     Naturally in those 2 years I've gotten a little greedy ;D so... any plans for putting in an option to receive a daily digest rather than each post?

     Cheers, James

120. 736 skippy 2005-06-07 10:54:51

     James: I have no plans to create a daily digest at this time. A lot of folks have asked for various bells and whistles to make subscribe2 act more like a full-featured mailing list system. I don't have a lot of motivation to add (additional) complexity to subscribe2 for features that most folks won't use. I also have no interest in re-inventing (nor competing with) GNU Mailman.

     One possible solution: you could create a mailing list yourself, and then subscribe the mailing list address to the blog; and then use the mailing list's facilities for sending daily digests. (Indeed, my cat2email plugin was designed with that in mind!)

121. 735 Ruby 2005-06-07 12:40:43

     OMG this is sucg a VAST omprovement on the old version of Subscribe that I was using. Thanks! All the options are awesome. I can't wait to get it all configured up...

122. 734 Ruby 2005-06-07 12:41:49

     Ooops, forgot to spellcheck. Just so excited...

123. 739 Ruby 2005-06-07 14:34:24

     Oh, I spoke too soon, of course. I've got this up and running perfectly at OrangePolitics (alongside an older mailing list that manually sends a weekly digest).

     However, on lotusmedia.org, where I had an older version of this plug-in, it is not behaving. The Subscriber tab looks OK, but the Subcribe2 options tab appears but has NO content on it, the front-end subscribe page just sits there, and no e-mails are getting sent.

     Is there something left over from an older version that I need to get rid of? Or is this bug #902 or something?

124. 740 skippy 2005-06-07 15:57:58

     Ruby: I see that lotusmedia.org is still running WordPress 1.5. You're almost certainly suffering the effects of Bug #902. Either fix that bug, or upgrade to WordPress 1.5.12, which includes the fix.

125. 741 Epper 2005-06-07 16:00:41

     Great Plugin!!
     Sorry for my english but i'm italian...

     Can I automatically register to the mailing list (your plugin) any new user registered to my blog (By wordpress procedure)?

     It could be very useful

126. 742 skippy 2005-06-07 16:04:43

     Epper: There's no built-in facility for automatically adding users to the mailing list when they register for the blog; but you could probably write a plugin to do this pretty quickly.

     Using the user_register plugin hook, you could automatically add the user's email address to the subscribers list. If you write such a plugin, do please post about and send a trackback (or pingback) to this entry!

127. 746 Ruby 2005-06-08 02:51:10

     Thanks! I've upgraded and it appears to be working fine on the site, although none of the e-mails have come through yet...

128. 748 Toto 2005-06-08 09:57:20

     Hi skippy, perfect work.
     You can improve control of your script more.
     Give the users to put a tags in some fields in options area.
     I suggest this:

     Change the "input type" with "textarea" for all options fields. I will give us to write here more new lines with scroll. And we will can put there a code like this: test.

     Becouse if you put in "input type" a bug has seen.
     It will give a freedom of formating in options area

     Have a nice day.

129. 751 Ericka 2005-06-08 23:56:24

     I can see how a page/post might evolve into something that looks like this, but a simple statement of what subscribe2 IS would be extremely helpful. Preferably at the very top of the page.

130. 755 Epper 2005-06-09 18:00:57

     Skippy, I'm developing the plugin for the autoregistration to the Subscribe2 mail list when a user pass the Wordpress registration process.

     But I've a problem. I've made a plugin and i've to perform a query to update the mail table when the site admin posts an article. I've to do this before your subscribe2 plugin so I've set the priority (3° parameter on add_action) to 10.

     I've noticed that after my script the database is updated but your plugin see only the data before updating.

     Why? Can you help me?

131. 754 skippy 2005-06-09 18:17:48

     Epper: I think you want to use a lower priority for your plugin if it's to execute first. See the Plugin API documentation.

     I'm looking forward to seeing your plugin -- good luck!

132. 752 Epper 2005-06-09 19:50:15

     I've finished the plugin but this was my FIRST one so don't expect nothing special.
     It does simply what i needed.

     Here you can download it and you can find a little presentation in english too (poor english probably: I'm a student ;) )

133. 758 BSoule 2005-06-09 23:42:14

     Hey great plugin! Im a noob at webpage building and PHP, i was finally able to get it in my page but now i cant get it to keep the right format, any suggestions?

134. 750 skippy 2005-06-10 00:22:48

     BSoule: You're using the Minima theme, which is declaring the content <div> inside the header.php file, and my file is re-declaring it. Minima also splits the opening and close controls for the <div>s between files, which broke the output of subscribe.php.

     Around line 84, remove this bit, but keep the rest of the line:
     <div id='content' class='narrowcolumn'>

     At line 101, insert another </div>.

     That should fix you up.

135. 791 Epper 2005-06-10 12:10:17

     Hi again, I've noticed a little bug. When I post a little article the mail arrive and the link is in NICE mode.
     But if i post an article more long the link to the article (in the mail) is in this form: http://blogurl/?p=12

     How can i fix it?

136. 784 George 2005-06-11 02:23:09

     Hello,
     I'm having some trouble getting this plugin to work. I'm using Wordpress 1.5.1.2 and all the subscribe2 functions are working. I've been able subscribe people and also sign up using www.fatpitchfinancials.com/subscribe.php. There are 4 email address on the confirmed list now. I was even notified by email about the new subscriber. However, I can't seem to get emails to be sent out when I make new posts, or even when I try to send out test messages using the Manage->Subscribers view in Wordpress admin.

     Do you have any suggestions?

137. 783 Richard Silverstein 2005-06-11 08:25:55

     I'd like to add the link suggested in yr. Readme file via Links Mgr.:
     Sign up for email notifications whenever my blog is updated!
     I've been trying to do this unsuccessfully. Do you need to fill in the entire blog file path before the "/subscribe.php" protocol above in order to get a working link? When I insert it into my link it doesn't work.

138. 787 skippy 2005-06-11 17:58:18

     George: I'll need to know a little more about your configuration in order to help you. Do you have full control of the server, or are you using a hosting provider (and which one)?

     Richard: in your Links Manager, simply enter a full link to your subscribe file:
     URI: http://www.richardsilverstein.com/subscribe.php
     Link Name: Sign up for email notificaiton!
     Short description: Sign up for email notifications whenever my blog is updated!
     Then simply assign it to a category.

139. 786 George 2005-06-11 18:34:09

     Skippy,
     I'm using a host provider, they are post4hosting.com.

140. 767 cheeky 2005-06-13 08:11:35

     I am having the same problem as George. Subscribe/unsubscribe emails work fine, but no "new post" messages are sent.

     I have my own server, but it's a pretty standard Cpanel configuration. I just downloaded this plugin today. Nothing in the error log that I can see.

141. 773 skippy 2005-06-13 10:02:46

     Everyone who has had trouble, please download version 2.0.8. I found and squished the bugs causing your problems. Thanks for your patience!

142. 797 keaven 2005-06-13 15:29:37

     ... I have version 2.0.8, and WP 1.5.1 ...
     This is very strange. I'm getting the following error:
     

     Fatal error: Cannot redeclare maybe_add_column() (previously declared in /home/kcom/public_html/wp-content/plugins/briansthreadedcomments.php:42) in /home/kcom/public_html/wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php on line 262

     but i can't find "maybe_add_column" in either subscribe.php or subscribe2.php .. ?? .. any ideas on what's going on?

143. 798 skippy 2005-06-13 15:33:04

     keaven: maybe_add_column is defined in /wp-admin/upgrade-functions.php.

     The error message clearly indicates that the problem is not with subscribe2, but with briansthreadedcomments.php.

144. 808 keaven 2005-06-14 01:44:35

     [groan] wow.. please wait while i whipe the egg off my face...
     sorry about that. the error didn't pop up until after i activated subscribe2 .. sorry for jumping to conclusions and not reading [blush]

145. 813 skippy 2005-06-14 21:08:01

     EC: did you edit subscribe.php at all? Looking at the source of your subscribe.php page, it looks as though the header template tag has been omitted.

146. 811 EC 2005-06-14 21:35:06

     No, I haven't. I tried to fix it, unsuccessfully.

     After that, I downloaded the plugin again to make sure I had the original subscribe.php.

147. 817 EC 2005-06-14 21:46:01

     That's what the file reads:

     require_once('./wp-blog-header.php');
     $admin = get_userdata(1);

     $s2 = get_option('s2_options');

     // the database table to use
     $s2_table = $table_prefix . "subscribe2";

148. 823 keaven 2005-06-15 13:26:46

     I would like to change the code so that when someone clicks on the subscribe link, a small window pops up with the subscription form... one that does not include the site's template (i'm having issues with IE pushing the form to the very bottom of the page). what section of the code should i change for this?

149. 826 skippy 2005-06-15 13:56:39

     keaven: you can edit subscribe.php around line 77, if you need to change how it displays. You'll need to use target=_blank in your anchor tag.

150. 829 skippy 2005-06-15 14:24:31

     EC: the Connections theme that you're using is rather non-standard, in that it puts portions of the document header in index.php, instead of keeping all the header elements in header.php.

     I've cobbled together something that should work, but I will not offer any support on this.
     connections-subscribe

151. 830 keaven 2005-06-15 14:35:01

     I tried using the "target=_blank" tag, and it did open a new window, but whatever problem was causing it to be pushed to the bottom in IE is still there... probably a theme issue.

     here's what i ended up doing... i changed the code to just comment out the header, sidebar, and footer calls, then changed the link to the subscribe.php file to this:
     /subscribe.php" onClick="window.open('/subscribe.php','Subscribe','toolbar=no, directories=no, location=no, status=yes, menubar=no, resizable=no, scrollbars=no, width=400, height=250'); return false">CLICK HERE to be notified of new posts!

     that solved all my problems :) i love this plugin. thanks for all your hard work!

152. 842  Daisyhead • Walking on Sunshine 2005-06-16 01:36:50

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153. 840 Daisyhead 2005-06-16 03:18:07

     Great plugin! Thanks for all your help and for the fast update for my request.

154. 847 Brent Colbert 2005-06-17 03:09:09

     I am having the same problems as Keaven where the signup form is pushed down to the bottom of the page. I am using the Default Theme but with two very long blogrolls whcih makes the page very long.

     Is this the reason or am I missing someting, I would like to keep this intregrated within the blog page and would like to avoid the popup.

155. 844 Chris Bunting 2005-06-17 04:16:35

     Skippy,

     This is an unbelievably slick plugin! I want to thank you for putting so much time and effort into this. I do have one comment (in case anyone else stumbles upon this) and one question, though.

     Firstly, I noticed that after activating the plugin, placing the link, and navigating to the subscribe.php file on my site, the form for subscribing/unsubscribing was being placed at the very bottom of the page (I'm using the default Kubrick theme, modded quite a bit). After some investigating, I noticed that the get_sidebar() call was placed above the 'narrowcontent' div, which is the opposite of how the default theme generates a page. I placed the get_sidebar() call right above the get_footer() call in subscribe.php, and it worked wonderfully.

     Now for my question. In perusing the source for my rendered page and your plugin, I happened to stumble upon a minor issue. When the subscribe.php page is loaded, my searchform is broken. The searchform.php that is included when my sidebar loads has an action value of:

     which normally translates to "/blog/index.php". When subscribe.php is loaded for my site, the action value becomes "/blog/subscribe.php". It's minor since it's unlikely someone will suddenly decide to search for something after deciding they wanted to subscribe, but it's still 'broken' nonetheless.

     Any suggestions? (Besides being a lot less wordy...) ;)

156. 853 skippy 2005-06-17 10:10:03

     Brent Colbert: please see here and here regarding the sidebar in subscribe.php.

     Chris Bunting: the Kubrick searchform.php file uses this: action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>", which POSTs to whatever page you're currently veiwing. I consider this to be a flaw in Kubrick. To resolve it, replace that action with /index.php to force the Kubrick search form to POST to the WordPress index.php.

157. 858 Chris Bunting 2005-06-17 14:49:20

     Thanks for the quick response! I took your advice and manually set the action for the search form. I was hoping to not have to explicitly set it, in case I change a setting down the line that would throw that off, but it'll have to do.

     Thanks again!

158. 861 Epper 2005-06-17 17:48:03

     Skippy, in the last version have you fixed the "bug" i've noticed in my last comment too?

     My last comment:
     ---
     Hi again, I’ve noticed a little bug. When I post a little article the mail arrive and the link is in NICE mode.
     But if i post an article more long the link to the article (in the mail) is in this form: http://blogurl/?p=12

     How can i fix it?
     ---

159. 862 Epper 2005-06-17 17:49:16

     ...

160. 859 skippy 2005-06-17 17:59:43

     Epper: the length of your post should have nothing to do with how the permalink gets displayed in your notification email.

     Subscribe2 uses get_permalink() which in turn uses the permalink structure you've defined in Admin -> Options -> Permalinks. The permalink included in the notification emails should always be the same as those used in your blog display. Could you please forward to me a few examples demonstrating the problem?

161. 868 Oliver 2005-06-18 12:13:45

     Hi skippy!

     Thank you for putting all this effort into this great plugin! I got 1.5.5 (earlier) as well as 2.0.9 (now) working nicely with Firefox.

     However, using IE it breaks? I'm at a loss as to why IE shows a "The page cannot be found" message, while Firefox works just fine.

     Apparently someone else noticed this behaviour as well:
     http://wordpress.org/support/topic/28879

     Would you have a guess?

     Thanks, Oliver

162. 866 dave 2005-06-18 20:00:34

     Skippy, Great plugin! I'm trying to get it up and running on my new WP site that I'm still developing. I'm using the Dimension 2k theme and running WP 1.5.1.2.

     Two problems.

     I have a Contact page (http://www.davereed.org/contact/) and I want to put the Subscribe form on a page (http://www.davereed.org/subscribe/) and have it appear inside the post box with the post header and footer. As you can see on the subscribe page the form gets all messy and non-functional.

     Alternatively, I could put it under the contact form on the contact page, but I tried that and it appears inside the contact form post box and is still messy and non-functional.

     My second problem is the search function mentioned above. I tried your work around by inserting [/index.php] in the searchform.php code, but it didn't work. Am I supposed to replace the entire string following [action="], [], with [/index.php], or just the PHP_SELF bit? I tried both and neither worked when I searched for a term I know has several mentions.

     Thanks for any help you can offer. I love the plugin and can't wait to get it working!
     dave

163. 865 skippy 2005-06-18 20:10:25

     dave: Here's the snippet from my syndicate page:
     

     Or sign up to receive an email whenever a new post is made:
     <form method="post" action="/blog/subscribe.php">
     Your email: <input type="text" name="email" value="" size="20" /><br />
     <input type="hidden" name="action" value="add" />
     <input type="submit" value="Send!" />
     </form>
     

     It looks like you're using ” instead of " in your form, which may be your problem. Aside from the quotation mark, everything looks fine.

     I'm not sure what the problem is with searching. From your subscribe page, I search for "test" and got the same set of results as when searching for "test" from any other page.

164. 863 dave 2005-06-18 20:29:58

     Thanks for the quick response Skippy. I'm not sure what the quotation mark problem is you're refering too. I copied and pasted the form code directly from the subscribe.php file. Just to be sure I copied and pasted the code you provided above and set it to post to the correct file path for my situation and I get the same problem.

     As for the search feature, the reason it searches correctly from the subscribe page is because the subscribe form isn't working properly I think. If you go to http://www.davereed.org/subscribe.php and try to search you'll see what I mean.

165. 870 Oliver 2005-06-18 20:50:43

     -bump-

     IExplorer anomaly, has anyone else experience it? ..and perhaps has a solution or tip on how to fix it?

     Thanks!

166. 878 Martin 2005-06-19 04:08:18

     Hi, and thanks for an excellent plugin!

     I made a tiny change to subscribe.php (v2.0.9):

     In your section:
     // Display the page

     You have:
     get_header();
     get_sidebar();

     I found this was adding a bunch of space before the subscrition details, putting it at the bottom of the page (maybe you intended this?). I simply moved the get_sidebar(); call to directly before the get_footer(); and now all is good.

     Thanks again.

167. 883 Oliver 2005-06-19 06:42:12

     ...narrowed it down to the >>get_header();

168. 893 Angsuman Chakraborty 2005-06-19 12:38:31

     Does it send an email per post or say once per day?
     If not, how difficult would it be to configure it to send emails (with all the new post) at most once per day?

169. 890 skippy 2005-06-19 13:44:02

     Angsuman: email notifications are sent out every time a new post is made. If you want to send only one notification email per day, consider something like Bloglet.

170. 888 Ruby 2005-06-19 14:00:49

     I was having the exact on both of my sites. Then I realized I was using version 2.0.7, and Skippy had recommended 2.0.8.

     Now I have the latest version (2.0.9) and all is groovy! Thanks, Skippy!

171. 894 Oliver 2005-06-21 18:12:25

     Hi skippy!

     I saw your response on the wordpress forum. A few observations, that might help:

     (*) What breaks it on IE is the following line that's part of the get_header(); function:
     @import url( );

     If you take it out for testing purposes, it works just fine (for both IE+Firefox), however without any formatting of course.

     (*) I made a few changes and it seems (have no clue why) to have solved the problem for IE:

     get_header();

     needs to be replaces with (the empty lines seem to make a difference):

     ...?>

172. 886 Oliver 2005-06-21 18:21:30

     Sorry for the double post, I overlooked the "code" tags, which are needed.
     [...]
     (*) What breaks it on IE is the following line that’s part of the get_header(); function:
     @import url( );

     If you take it out for testing purposes, it works just fine (for both IE+Firefox), however without any formatting of course.

     (*) I made a few changes and it seems (have no clue why) to have solved the problem for IE:
     get_header();

     needs to be replaces with (the empty lines seem to make a difference):

     ... ?> (*) So this would be usable workaround, but I also noticed another anomalie now with Firefox. The confirmation page (fter clicking the confirmation URL) seems to get loaded two times in a row, since it always comes up with an error message. So the first time it would either add/confirm or delete the subscriber, the second time (with the same parameters) it produces the error message. Any idea, what part of the code would cause it load twice? Thanks very much. Oliver PS: The site is a friends site: http://www.cupocoffee.de, it's all German though.

173. 873 Chris Bunting 2005-06-22 03:41:40

     I've encountered another issue. For some reason, when I publish a new post, the author of that post is being emailed that my site has been updated...twice. The email is being duplicated. The weird thing is I never subscribed that address and it's not in the Subscribers table. I'm actually the only author, and I use a separate account that I created to publish posts, and to do most site maintenance. Separate from the default admin account. Do you know what could be causing the duplication? Thanks!

174. 876 Greg 2005-06-22 07:38:19

     Skippy,

     This is a great plugin -- one family and friends have been demanding!

     Not sure, but it seems text substitution is not working properly in post notification emails (probably pilot error on my part):

     Sierra Faith has posted a new item, ‘’

     You may view the latest post at
     http://sierra-faith.com/index.php/2005/06/22/
     You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted.
     If you no longer wish to receive notifications of new posts then please visit:
     http://sierra-faith.com/subscribe.php
     

     Best regards,
     greg

     1) TITLE is missing.
     2) EXCERPT not published.
     3) Day's archive link, not post link, published.
     4) 'greg' instead of 'Greg'.

     What silly thing have I done?

     Many thanks!

175. 882 skippy 2005-06-23 01:40:41

     Chris Bunting: Did you elect to have the new post notifications come from the blog admin, or the post author? Are you on Dreamhost? Do you have more than 30 subscribers? If you answered yes to all three, that's why you received duplicate messages. If you answered no to any of those, contact me by email so we can investigate.

     Greg: If you elected to replace EXCERPT with an excerpt (instead of blank, or the full post), then you need to manually craft an excerpt for your posts.
     The name used to "sign" post notifications is pulled from the author's profile. Capitalize the name in your profile, and it will be capitalized in the emails.
     I have no idea what would have caused a blank title, though the blank title likely spilled over to the permalink generation which produced the invalid link. Feel free to email me, and we can try to diagnose this.

176. 900 James Farmer 2005-06-23 03:50:14

     Hi Skippy,

     Me again, can't believe the amount of time you put into these comments BTW, good - on - you!

     I'm having the same problem as George had where everything is smooth as clockwork but no new messages are getting sent out: http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/#comment-2164

     I'm with psek.com but don't *think* they do anything dodgy. Also WP1.5.1.2 and have just overwritten the files with the latest 2.1.1

     Thanks for your time, much appreciated! James

177. 901 revolution34 » Blog Archive » Mailing List plugin 2005-06-23 09:11:27

     [...] lugin Another useful plugin I’ve found and am using on the Stupid site is subscribe2, which adds a subscribe/mailing list function to Wordpress. It was dead easy to set [...]

178. 902 revolution34 » Blog Archive » Simple contact form plugin 2005-06-23 09:18:00

     [...] easy to set up - probably took 5 minutes. It unfortunately seems to conflict a little with Subscribe2 - the latter’s option page does not display if the former is activated but tha [...]

179. 903 maira 2005-06-23 10:43:49

     I came here to tell you how much I like your plugin and send you the hard-coded Spanish translation of version 2.0.9. Ok, you just have released 2.1.1, so I have translated the .po. I'll be just too glad to send it to you (.po and .mo) as soon as I get your email, but I have noticed that some strings remain unmarked, like the default values and the buttons.
     As for the buttons, the text on three of them (RESET, send, and subscribe, in suscribe2.php) is used as a value on lines 242, 461 and 463; I changed it also on my hard-coded translation. If you like, I cand send it as well.
     Thanks for this plugin and your support, every question I had was answered here.
     Maira.

180. 906 skippy 2005-06-23 12:28:53

     maira: I'm very interested in receiving a Spanish translation! You can find my email address on my Contact Page.

     I didn't translate the labels on the buttons because I actually use the values of those buttons to determine what action to take. I'll rework the forms to use hidden values to determine the action to take, so that the submit button labels can be translated. Stay tuned for another new version!

181. 918 Shawn 2005-06-24 01:16:26

     Can anyone tell me what this means? I get it when I click on the Blog sign up link. Thanks in advance

     Warning: main(./wp-blog-header.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/churchin/public_html/subscribe.php on line 8

     Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required './wp-blog-header.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/churchin/public_html/subscribe.php on line 8

182. 919 Chris Bunting 2005-06-24 01:59:20

     Skippy: I had the notifications coming from the author, but switching it to the blog admin yields the same result, duplicated emails. Also, I'm not on Dreamhost, and I had switched the Dreamhost variable to 0 after this problem first started, when I peered into the plugin code to see if I could figure out what was going on. Lastly, I'm nowhere near the 30 subscriber mark, the duplication just started when I began testing with one subscriber. ;) I'll be glad to continue this by email (and forward you samples, if needed) if that would be easier for you.

     Thanks for the patience and dedication you show to those using your outstanding plugins.

183. 920 Chris Bunting 2005-06-24 02:06:53

     I knew I had forgotten something. As mentioned above by Greg, I too am seeing my name in all lowercase. In my blog profile, my name is capitalized properly in the 'First name:' and 'Nickname:' fields, but in the email the 'From:' field and body of the email have my name as 'chris'. I have not altered the default settings on the email template at all.

184. 921 Chris Bunting 2005-06-24 03:00:34

     It really is embarassing posting three times in a row...

     I think I figured out the duplication "problem". I compared the headers on the emails (sorry it took me so long to do the obvious) and noticed that one of the emails was delivered to the post author, and the other was delivered to the test subscriber I had setup. I should have expected that there would be 2 emails, the gotcha was that the To: field on both of the messages show the authors email address.

     In other words, in the To: field of the "Site updated!" email, where the recipient's email address should be, it instead displays the author's email.

     I apologize for the flood of messages, and for not doing everything I could to attempt to figure out my problem before troubling you.

185. 922 Maira 2005-06-24 03:09:19

     I'm not sure that my message was sent, so:
     -I have translated .po (and .mo) into Spanish
     -I have a hard-translated version of 2.0.9 that includes some strings not tagged in 2.1.1
     -How can I send them to you?
     Thanks for this plugin,
     Maira

186. 923 Maira 2005-06-24 03:16:03

     Please disregard my previous comment, I'm a bit dense at this moment...
     Maira

187. 924 Chris Bunting 2005-06-24 03:42:27

     Skippy: Also, I think there's some merit to the problem that Epper posted about above. It doesn't appear to have to do with the length of the post, though. Of the 5 items I've published since activating your plugin, 2 of the update emails did not have the nice permalink structure for the link back to the post (they appeared as `http://sample.site/blog/?p=24`. One of the emails was quite lengthy, but one was extremely short. Just FYI.

188. 926 skippy 2005-06-24 10:10:43

     Shawn: the file subscribe.php should live in the root of your WordPress directory. Do you have a link to your site where I can check this?

189. 931 ben.hamilton.id.au » Ignore this post, just testing a plugin 2005-06-25 10:08:19

     [...] in June 25th, 2005 hehe… Just need to test a plugin. Subscribe2 to be precise. Entry Filed under: General 1 Comment Add your own [...]

190. 939 Matt 2005-06-26 09:58:40

     Great plugin!

     One question - If I want to manually unsubscribe someone, how is this done? I see no way in the plug-in control page.

     Or another way to access the subscriber list
     Thanks
     Matt

191. 940 skippy 2005-06-26 12:50:46

     Matt: the list of subscribers is accessible through Manage->Subscribers in your admin interface.

192. 941 Scott 2005-06-26 20:54:50

     I really like this plugin, however I am having the same problem as a few others above (doesn't send out some emails). Really odd. Seems that it only selectively sends them out (like sending to the first person on the subscribe list). I've even edited the sql table so that the id numbers are in sequence, but I still can't find a pattern of why it sends to some and not others...

     Skippy, I'd be willing to help you diagnose this if you'd like. I'm running my own web server and can give you any diagnostic info you'd like. I can even give you access if it would help. For now, I guess I'm going to use a different (ugly) subscriber plugin, but I'd really like to get this fixed.

     Thanks!
     Scott

193. 942 Scott 2005-06-26 20:57:23

     BTW, have you thought about setting up a short FAQ for this plugin? It seems you answer the same questions a couple of times...

194. 943 skippy 2005-06-27 01:15:22

     Scott: The most recurring question is the one about the sidebar. What I ought to do is bow to the pressure and make subscribe.php call get_sidebar() after the content.

     Please contact me by email about the problems you're having, and what we can do to diagnose it.

195. 944 eli 2005-06-27 02:23:40

     A great plugin! Everything seems to work great, except that there is a little theme problem with mine (scanning the earlier comments, i see that themes are a total pain!).

     My page (http://www.ecifc.com/eblog/subscribe.php) breaks the style it should have, adding two extra black bars between the header and sidebar. I am pretty inexperienced with PHP, but I went in to try and fix this. It seems that if I put around get_header and get_sidebar, it fixes some of the problem, but undoes the comment out you have about showing the main page. Many variations of this have not perfected the page. If you get a chance, I would totally appreciate some advise here. the main page should look like http://www.ecifc.com/eblog/

     Thanks in advance!
     -eli

196. 945 skippy 2005-06-27 14:39:43

     eli: It looks to me like there's nothing wrong with your theme. The problem you're experiencing is that the contents of subscribe.php do not consume enough vertical space to push the post (or maybe content) div down to at least the same length as your sidebar.

197. 946 Randy 2005-06-27 16:06:04

     Just wondering about the issue of it not sending any confirmation or notification emails out.

     Has this been fixed yet? I'm using WP 1.5.2 with the latest version of your Subscribe2

     Thanks

     Randy

198. 947 Nate 2005-06-27 19:41:36

     Hey Skippy,
     This looks like an awesome plugin...
     but for some reason every browser says my subscribe.php page does not exist... and it does... in my root directory... and when I put the snipit of code into any other page it all apears as text input boxes... I have put in this code at the bottom of the main page so you can see... very strange can you help me?
     Thanks,
     Nate

199. 949 eli 2005-06-27 22:59:23

     thanks for the prompt reply, skippy!

     how would i go about fixing this. forgive me if its a dumb question, but i tried to add some br / in there, which of course made the page not work.

     how do i push it down?

200. 950 skippy 2005-06-28 02:13:54

     Eli: there are lots of ways you can adjust your theme. You could use a custom div with margins and or padding as necessary; you could use <p>&nbsp;</p> combinations for "empty" lines beneath the form; or you could modify the page to remove the sidebar altogether. Unfortunately, site design is not my strong point, so I won't be able to help too much. I just write plugins! ;)

201. 948 skippy 2005-06-28 03:04:11

     Nate: I see your subscribe page just fine.

     The problem bit at the bottom of your page is mostly caused by incorrect quote marks. The first is slanted, while the second is straight. Replace the slanted quotes, and the form should display properly.

202. 951 Nate 2005-06-28 05:58:55

     Wow... you are truely amazing skippy!
     Thanks for your help... had no clue there was a difference in quote... I didnt even know it mattered! as far as the subscribe.php page... for some odd reason... I still cant see it... wierd eh? but that's ok... must be me!

     Thanks alot man,
     Nate

203. 952 blogtaku42 2005-06-28 09:17:58

     subscribe2-Plugin: Patch und deutsche Übersetzung

     Ich habe gerade das subscribe2-Plugin von skippy hier im Blog aktiviert. Dadurch kann man sich per E-Mail benachrichtigen lassen, wenn es einen neuen Beitrag gibt. Wer möchte, kann sich hier anmelden.
     Weil bisher keine deutsche Übersetzung verfügb...

204. 956 Manu 2005-06-29 00:32:32

     Hi Skippy

     cool plugin! is there a way to let the user to decide wether he wants to be added or not?
     So far looks like only the admin can do it.... Or am I missing something?

     Manu

205. 953 skippy 2005-06-29 00:35:30

     Manu: see my subscribe.php for an example of how a user can subscribe to notifications. subcribe.php is included with the plugin. Did you read the installation instructions?

206. 957 lalin 2005-06-29 03:58:37

     I know you said use a real mailling list manager, but I like yours and all I'd like is an option to not send emails when a new post is posted. You already can exclude certain categories, so I think it'd be cool to be able to exclude all, so if I add new categories I don't have to change the options.

     Thanks,
     lalin.

207. 961 Ralf 2005-06-29 10:22:00

     Hi Skippy,

     thanks for this great plugin! So far it seems to work fine with my configuration except for the missing EXCERPT in the subscriber notification email. As you've advised earlier I edited the excerpt field in the WP interface myself. While everything is displayed correctly in the notofier email the only thing which is missing os the excerpt.

     Plugin Version: latest
     WP Version 1.5.1.3

208. 962 skippy 2005-06-29 10:30:29

     lalin: At this time I'm not going to introduce delayed queuing or any kind of per-post controls. You have two options, basically:
     1) future-date your posts. subscribe2 will recognize that the post is dated in the future and will suppress notification
     2) disable the plugin for day-to-day operation of your blog, and only enable it when you want to send a mass-mailing to your subscribers. subscribe.php will continue to function for users whether the plugin is activated or not.

     Ralf: I'll look into this.

209. 967 manu 2005-06-29 15:52:53

     Yea I read it. So here is my feedback on it.
     IT works but the gui integration needed some fix.

     you should try it with the themes called amserdam. default setup will show you the problem. I have fixed the XHTML by adding a new layer in which it should be contained. Also add to move the call to add_sidebar() after and finally had to change the arount the form, inside the form. Then the page starte to look normal again.

     I can send you the file if you want...

     Otherwise works good.

     Manu

210. 968 skippy 2005-06-29 15:55:23

     manu: Thanks for the heads-up. It would be impossible for me to tweak subscribe.php to work out-of-the-box with every theme available for WordPress. I have neither the skill nor the inclination to provide in-depth support for template-related problems. I'm glad you were able to resolve your situation, and hopefully your description will help others.

211. 976 Ralf 2005-06-30 17:15:09

     Hi skippy,

     thanks for the quick update! Now the author's name is displayed correctly, but the EXCERPT issue remains. Furthermore it seems that the plugin does not recognise if a posting is submitted via a desktop client like w.bloggar. No notification email is sent if a posting is submitted this way.

     You might want to help here as well, hopefully ;-)

     Cheers, Ralf.

212. 978 skippy 2005-06-30 18:30:48

     Ralf: I'll look into the excerpt.

     See here and here for additional details regarding XMLRPC and blog-by-email.

213. 986 Mein Parteibuch » Blog Archive » Neues Feature: Email Benachrichtigung per Email bei neuem Beitrag auf Mein Parteibuch 2005-07-01 21:19:42

     [...] Ab sofort ist es möglich, per Email benachrichtigt zu werden, sobald ein neuer Beitrag auf Mein Parteibuch erschienen ist. Die Funktion benutzt das subscribe2 Plugin. [...]

214. 991 jaymis.com » Blog Archive » subscribe2 : Now With Another Different CMS 2005-07-04 04:02:39

     [...] subscribe2 - newsletter subscription plugin for Wordpress [...]

215. 990 wally 2005-07-04 05:43:04

     Hey, nice plugin! I'm wondering if the subscribe.php page can be made so that the email notification form and content can be moved up to the top of the page. Currently I have to scroll down a whole page when visiting myblog/subscribe.php, since it's not immediately visible, readers might think the page is blank.

     Any ideas on how to how that stuff up? Thanks in advance.

216. 993 skippy 2005-07-04 12:37:47

     wally: See here:
     http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/#comment-1778
     http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/#comment-1845

217. 998 Ansichten eines Clowns » Blog Archive » Technik-Gewitter 2005-07-05 11:43:07

     [...] AlexT.DE hat in den letzten beiden Tagen einige Neuerungen erfahren, einige davon unter der Haube, andere sind neuerdings gut sichtbar. Das Newsletter-Skript (von Skippy) wurde aktualisiert und ist jetzt fähig, die Umlaute darzustellen. Wer sich für den Newsletter eintragen möchte, der kann in der Sidebar nach unten scrollen und dann den Newsletter abonnieren. Weiterhin hat das gesamte Wordpress-Skript eine Aktualisierung auf den aktuellen Versionssprung 1.5.1.3 erfahren. Damit wurden Sicherheitslücken gestopft und einige Möglichkeiten für die Artikelschreibenden hinzugefügt. Außerdem testen wir im Moment die Erweiterung gravatars, ebenfalls von Skippy, mit der wir eine grafische Stütze der Wiedererkennung neben jeden Artikel platzieren. CS wird in Kürze ebenfalls ein Symbol für seine Person einrichten. [...]

218. 1002 Sam 2005-07-06 14:45:31

     I've have noticed that a lot of my readers' email clients are now marking my notifications as spam. Any thoughts on how to work around this without having to make everyone add the sender to their allowed recipient's list?

     Thanks.

219. 1004 Il fiore del cactus » Blog Archive » Wordpress newsletter: subscribe2 2005-07-07 11:23:56

     [...] Oggi ho cambiato il plugin per le newsletter utilizzato in questo blog. Spero che questo risolva i problemi che avevo con il precedente plugin, compreso quello dei caratteri accentati. Se dovessero presentarsi nuovi problemi, gli iscritti sono vivamente pregati di farmelo sapere, per permettermi di correggerli nel minore tempo possibile. Per gli interessati, ho installato questo plugin: http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/ [...]

220. 1009 Adam 2005-07-08 18:18:12

     Skippy,

     I got your response on the wp support forum...

     thanks so much for the plugin...

     I got it working (which is a lot for someone who knows very little about installing/editing scripts) and it is working just fine.

     I do have one quesiton though...Is it possible to have the opt-in in my sidebar (right column of the blog) rather than a link that brings you to another page?

     Thanks again,
     Adam

221. 1010 And She Said » Journal Entries Coming Soon 2005-07-08 18:48:56

     [...] Just a FYI…I’m going to start posting more journal oriented posts here soon and in order to read those posts, you will need to be registered (using the post levels plugin) and logged in to see them otherwise they will be hidden. I have also set up the subscribe 2 plugin only for those posts. If you would like to subscribe to those posts, please sign up here. [...]

222. 1012 skippy 2005-07-08 22:33:09

     Adam: yes, you can place the sign-in form anywhere in your template you want, as long as the HTML form posts to subscribe.php.

223. 1017 Adam 2005-07-09 11:10:10

     Skippy,

     Thanks, I really appreaciate your help...

     I don't mean to sound stupid here...BUT...How do I do that?

     --Adam

224. 1015 skippy 2005-07-09 13:32:01

     Adam: take a look at this comment, for the HTML I use to place the subscription form on a static WordPress Page. You could simply place that into your sidebar.php

225. 1018 Adam 2005-07-09 15:08:34

     skippy,

     Thanks so much...YOU ROCK!!!

     Can I buy you a beer or something?

     --Adam

226. 1023 Ben Buchanan 2005-07-10 08:37:49

     Could I use wpPHPMailer with subscribe2?
     Thanks

227. 1024 zz85 2005-07-10 10:20:38

     Some thoughts.

     Really a cool plugin but wish there were these features.

     1) Send the link as permalink
     2) If in html mode, automatic hyperlink the link
     3) Send as administator but set the Sender's name
     4) Add all registered users to subscription

228. 1026 skippy 2005-07-10 12:52:01

     Buchanan: I haven't tested subscribe2 with wpPHPMailer, but I don't think there'd be any problems. Simply replace all instances of mail() with phpmailer(). Let me know if it works, please!

     zz85: The link will be sent as a permalink in most cases. A bug in WordPress exists that causes problems generating permalinks from posts that were saved as Drafts prior to publishing. This should be fixed in the next version of WordPress. I'm not inclined to work around the bug, because plugins like Permalink Redirect solve the problem just as well.

     If sending HTML email from subscribe2, you can generate a hyperlink in your notification template:
     <a href="PERMALINK">PERMALINK</a>

     I don't have any plans to provide per-message overrides for sender names. Most users seem perfectly content with using either the post author's name or the blog admin name. To permit overrides introduces signficant complexity for very little benefit.

     Someone else wrote a plugin to subscribe all registered users to the subscribe2 update list. Give that a try. I'm hesitant to add this feature (even as an option) at this time.

229. 1029 Ben Buchanan 2005-07-10 15:51:17

     unfortunately wp-phpmailer doesn't seem to work with subscribe2.
     The from field is blank and only I received the notification email, not the subscribers.
     Any suggestions? Reason I was trying this is that some hosts reject notification emails because I have a dynamic ip.

230. 1030 skippy 2005-07-10 18:04:42

     Ben: Sorry, I've no immediate ideas. I haven't used wpPHPMailer, so I can't really troubleshoot it. If I had to guess, I would say it has more to do with the destination MTA than with subscribe2 or wpPHPMailer; but that's just a guess.

231. 1032 bopuc/weblog 2005-07-10 21:29:32

     Wordpress weekend

     OMG! I can write plugins!!! ... ... ... OMG! I HAVE TO write plugins... ;p Yes, I will be releasing two things:a WP plugin that extracts media file URLs from posts, allowing you to link them with a nifty icon...

232. 1034 Colya 2005-07-10 23:36:12

     I installed it under WP 1.5, and it seems to be working like a charm.

     Thanks for the plugin!

233. 1037 David 2005-07-11 05:38:56

     I'm helping a friend with her website and recently added your plugin. Very impressive! I had to make a couple of tweaks to get the layout close, but can't seem to figure out what the finishing touches should be. I compared the HTML source for both the generated subscribe page and a regular page, but can't seem to identify the problem. I was wondering if you could give me a hand. http://www.somelikeithaute.com -- the link is on the RHS menu.

     Thanks!
     David

234. 1036 skippy 2005-07-11 11:19:11

     David: It looks like your header.php includes the <div id="content"> line, which is duplicated in subscribe.php. Try removing that div from subscribe.php, and see if that works.

235. 1042 David 2005-07-11 15:50:09

     Thanks for the prompt reply. I tried that, but it removes the block on which text appears, so now it's text on top of a very busy background. I left it so you can see what I mean. If you have any other suggestions, I'll certainly give 'em a whirl.

     Thanks again!
     David

236. 1043 skippy 2005-07-11 16:12:58

     David: After removing the extra div before the subscribe message details, you'll also need to remove the div labelled like this in your sidebar:
     </div><!-- end CONTENT -->
     This is why I strongly dislike themes that break opening and closing divs between sections of the display.

     get_header() should return only those elements necessary for the header.
     get_sidebar() should return only those elements necessary for the sidebar.

     Because your main content area is split between header and sidebar, it will be harder for you to modify subscribe.php.

237. 1047 David 2005-07-12 03:48:31

     Skippy,

     Thanks for your help -- it's all working and my friend is very pleased! BTW, I realize it wouldn't follow blogging convention, but have you thought about organizing these discussions into a FAQ or Knowledgebase? I think it could save you time.

     Cheers,
     David

238. 1049 skippy 2005-07-12 10:03:32

     David: great, I'm glad it's working!

     I could organize a FAQ, but the same people who fail to read the comments on this thread are the same poeple who would fail to read the FAQ for the most part. So constructing a FAQ would create more work for me with very little benefit.

     I am planning to close comments on this thread, soon. I'm planning some minor organizational changes to my category system, such that each plugin I write gets its own category. Then I'll make new version announcements as new posts in the appropriate category, instead of forever appending to a single post. That might make it easier for new users to see comments pertaining only to the version they download.

239. 1051 Kevin Pratt 2005-07-13 02:29:12

     I am very impressed with your plug-in and I wish I were just leaving a message to say how much I like it. However, I am trying to get your plugin to work with postie so my friend can update while he's traveling and still have his posts sent to his family who don't know rss from their @ass. Is there something I can just add to the postie script to notify subscribe2 that there's a new post?

240. 1052 skippy 2005-07-13 02:59:12

     Hi Kevin.
     I'm not familiar with postie, but I surmise from your message that it's either an XMLRPC posting tool, and a blog-by-email thingie. In either case, see here, here, and here for the details.

     You could edit the core WordPress files to ensure that the publish_post action is executed when new posts arrive via postie. In theory it ought not be hard.

     Another option would be to use a service like Bloglet to convert the RSS feed to email updates.

241. 1115 Jack 2005-07-15 12:35:44

     No longer working on my blog. I changed my theme to "Journalized Sand" and it looks like the subscribe2 plugin is calling sidebar, which doesn't exist in the new theme (a three-column theme).

     Any ideas on how I can get it working again?

242. 1119 Andy 2005-07-15 17:23:04

     Hey Skippy, thanks for a great plug-in. At the risk of sounding dumb, I'm having a problem with the e-mails that S2 sends out: it doesn't maintain the line breaks I've set in my notification and subscription message templates. Everything is just run together in one long paragraph. Any thoughts?

243. 1123 skippy 2005-07-15 21:17:16

     Jack: you could edit subscribe.php and remove the call to get_sidebar(). I cannot offer much more assistance than that. Troubleshooting themes is not my strong-point, and I've already spent way too long helping just a few people fix their broken themes.

     Andy: I've not seen that particular problem before. Can you tell me a little more about your setup? Which version of PHP? What operating system? Does it work correctly if you reset and use the default template?

244. 1126 Tom 2005-07-16 00:22:33

     Perhaps these theme issues could be avoided by removing all styling from the subscribe.php file, leaving it up the the user to wrap the code in the appropriate calls for header / sidebar etc.

     I havn't looked at the code properly yet, so this may not be possible?

245. 1127 skippy 2005-07-16 01:21:36

     Tom: from my point of view, I can't win. Either I support standard themes, and require people using custom themes to tweak subscribe.php; or I remove all theme support and require everyone to style it on their own.

     As such, I'll continue to support reasonably standard themes. If someone needs specific support for their theme, they should first seek assistance from the theme author, if possible. If that fails, the WordPress Support Forums may be able to help.

246. 1137 neon mongrel 2005-07-17 19:06:30

     first off, this is a great plug-in, working extremely well, thank you SO much.

     just want to report that i'm having the same EXCERPT problem as well, using 1.5.2. for EXCERPT, "none" works fine, and "full post" works fine, but "excerpt only" sends instead a big blank space. i reposted several posts, each time including a hand-fashioned excerpt, but nothing in the notification email, only sometimes a single quotation mark followed by a lot of white space, or else just a lot of white space.

     it would be cool (yes, i know, aren't we a bunch of needy people? =) if this plugin could somehow automatically create an excerpt if none exists like wordpress does, though i don't know how hard that would do.

     but: awesome job! thanks again.

247. 1143 Andy 2005-07-18 13:40:39

     Skippy:

     Resetting to the default settings does not fix the problem. I'm running a site hosted by iPowerWeb, and their server is running PHP 4.3.8 on top of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p11, along with WordPress 1.5. I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2, with Firefox as my browser and Outlook as my e-mail client.

248. 1151 Mayur 2005-07-19 14:12:26

     This plugin is absolutely fabulous except for the fact that some of my subscribers are complaining that they get more than one email when I update. I added myself to the list and this is true. The first email contains a link to the new post with a non-permalink link, the second email contains a link to the new post with a permalink. I've tried to investigate but I just can't figure out why the hell it sends out 2 emails instead of just one. Any help would be greatly appreciated. GREAT WORK!

249. 1159 Matthew 2005-07-20 14:05:50

     I have a suggestion. Perhaps add something that manages bouncebacks?

     Love this plugin regardless!

     Thanks for it.

250. 1172 Chris 2005-07-22 05:50:43

     Skippy:

     I've tried the kubrick fix to no avail.. I still get the failed to open errors.

     The plugin is located at: http://blog.driscocity.com/subscribe.php

     Any ideas? Thanks.

251. 1173 Chris Driscoll 2005-07-22 05:58:03

     I still get the failed to open errors on my site after doing the get_sidebar(); tweak.

     http://blog.driscocity.com/subscribe.php

     Any ideas?

252. 1193 tylerwillis 2005-07-22 22:33:44

     Great plugin, I've implemented it with no problems on my site.

     Question: is it feasible to change the email addresses in the To: and From: sections? I've been using a private email for both the admin and blog-author user (I'm the only user), and I'd really prefer not to have that email listed in the email. It'd be great to be able to have both fields read "subscriptions@example.com". Is this a feasible hack? I don't have a problem playing with code, but my experiments just broke the plugin. :(

253. 1192 skippy 2005-07-23 01:01:19

     Matthew: in order to account for bounce-backs or other Delivery Status Notifications, I'd need to make some facility to read incoming mail. That's not easily done with PHP, so it's not something I'm going to pursue.

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255. 1203 Mayur 2005-07-25 20:41:27

     Hey Skippy, any idea about why my subscribers are getting 2 emails every update? (one w/ permalink, one w/ dynamic link)?

256. 1206 OptiNiche Blog 2005-07-26 01:28:14

     The Right Mailing List Script For WordPress

     Whatever your mailing list needs, there should be a plugin that will help you. In this entry we’ll look at 4 possibilities for WordPress and managing an email list or newsletter.

     ...

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258. 1214 Adam 2005-07-26 23:39:33

     Lord almighty, I hope this isn’t related to "the Kubrick fix" if it is, I am incredibly sorry for bringing it up as I see it has been addressed at least 5 times above. I am having problems with the subscribe.php page and "Fail to open stream" messages as well as no look and feel being applied. I tried moving both the get_header() and get_sidebar() calls to the bottom and that didn't work. I also tried moving just the get_sidebar() down or just the get_Header() to no avail. It will move the text (and associated errors) around, but still no look and feel. I am using the "ShadedGrey" theme from WPThemes.info and I have no idea if it is a Kubrick cousin.

     Skippy- I think this is awesome and it will really help as we are using this to get wedding planning stories to my fiance’s family (including her grandparents who just got a new computer) and many of them don't now about RSS.

     The page is http://x.marikaandadam.com/wp/subscribe.php

     Thank you so much for a great plug-in and helping all us newbies!

259. 1205 skippy 2005-07-26 23:53:29

     Mayur: off-hand, no I don't know why your subscribers are getting duplicates. There are probably a few circumstances which could cause this, and I'll need a little more detail to chase down the problem. Feel free to email me with more information.

     Adam: I'm not familiar with the ShadedGrey theme, and I just don't have the time to chase down every possible theme permutation.

     I've been seeing more and more themes that do not use the standard get_header(), get_sidebar(), and get_footer() functions. If ShadedGrey does not use these standard functions, instead lumping all the layout code in index.php, then you'll need to manually copy that layout into subscribe.php in order to make it work.

260. 1199 EC 2005-07-27 05:03:37

     Have you noticed that the post title sent by e-mail is not the one in the published version, but the one on the last saved draft?

261. 1163 skippy 2005-07-27 10:25:50

     EC: No, I hadn't noticed that the post title was using the last saved draft's title.

     A bug has been identified in the way WordPress handles the publish_post plugin hook for drafts. It is this bug that causes draft permalinks to be incorrect in the subscribe2 notifications. I'm pretty sure what you're experiencing is also related.

     The only real fix for me is to force subscribe2 to query the database again for all of the details about the new post. I'm hestitant to do this, because WordPress 1.6 should correct the draft bug, thereby allowing my plugin to correctly use the post cache. I guess WordPress 1.6 is far enough away that I can fix this now, and un-fix it later.

     I'll try to get a new version out soon, but I can't offer any specifics right now.

262. 1330 CosmoGRRL! Extra, Extra, Read All About It! 2005-08-10 11:45:01

     [...] So, like the newspsper, or a magazine, you can now “Subscribe” to Cosmo GRRL! Yep - that’s right - I’ve installed the Subcripe2 plug-in that allows readers to subscribe to Cosmo GRRL! An email will be automatically sent to all subscribed readers whenever I write a new post. Members have, and will be automatically subscribed to Cosmo GRRL - however, you don’t need to be a member to subscribe - you can simply go here. Ahhhhh - I love plug-ins Now I can finish creating Sierra’s blog ~ The Sierra Report! Special thanks for comments posted by: [...]

263. 1340 infOpinions? :: Public Relations » Blog Archive » Blogs as Newsletter Generators 2005-08-12 15:31:03

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264. 1369 But Mom… » Mailing List 2005-08-15 21:12:44

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265. 1371 JTS Learning Center » Mailing List 2005-08-15 21:14:25

     [...] I think I finally found an email list that people can sign up for and recieve posts as I post them. If you would like to join the mailing list please email me for the password. If you would like one for your wordpress blog go to http://skippy.net [...]

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272. 1941 佐仔志-Zuozi’s Weblog™ » 常用的WordPress插件及应用列表 2005-11-18 18:59:37

     [...] 窝子网志|WozLog采用WordPress系统搭建。WP和一些开源的CMS软件一样，都是有个核心系统，另外再加上可选的模板和插件。主题模板和插件是任何会设计和编程的WP爱好者制作的，WP的人气旺，所以这些资源也非常丰富。有了这些安装简单而功能各异的插件，每个WP用户都可将自己的WP站点做得功能强大，且具个性化。可以说，正是无数且不断涌现的插件使WP更有吸引力和竞争力。 为了加强整个站点的功能，更方便作者的管理和读者的阅读及参与，我在安装好自己的WP核心系统之后，花了很多时间到处搜罗适合自己的插件。到目前为止已在自己站点上使用了超过30种形形色色的WP插件。下面简单罗列一下我在使用的这些插件，以和同样使用WP系统的博客交流，并给一些WP新用户提供些参考帮助。 （顺便说一句：花时间详细罗列这些东西，主要目的是整理思路和提供参考，也很欢迎WP新手借鉴使用。不过，鉴于本人时间和能力上的有限，不为以下工具的安装使用提供技术咨询服务。假如你在使用过程中遇到任何技术性问题，建议首先好好阅读帮助文档，一般都可自己解决；不行的话也尽量咨询其他可以帮助的朋友，或者直接咨询原作者。） 现在使用中的WordPress插件： 为更好阅读理解，我将我自己使用的这些插件分为四类：基本功能的插件、扩展功能的插件、服务对接的插件和管理功能的插件。所谓基本功能的插件是我觉得应该集成到WP核心系统中的基本功能；扩展功能的插件则不必集成到核心功能中，但可提供更丰富的功能；服务对接的插件则是将现有的其它网络服务功能集成到WP blog中，如technorati、del.icio.us等。 1、基本功能的插件： Adhesive 功能：帮助将指定的帖子在首页置顶。 示例：本站首页帖子置顶位内容。 Customizable Post Listings 功能：一个功能强大的可显示最近帖子、随机帖子的插件，可按自己意愿定制显示，比如限定显示某个栏目中的若干个帖子，可以让老帖子出来晒晒太阳，等等。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“自荐文章”和“往日帖子”栏目。 Relative Posts for Chinese 功能：给每个单独的帖子中列出相关文章。目前此插件还在初步测试阶段，相关性有待提高。 示例：本站每篇帖子独立页面中的文章末尾处。 Get Recent Comments 功能：可分别列出最近若干个comments和trackbacks。（另外好像WP核心系统中也没有预设置的获取最近若干帖子的功能，我现在使用的这功能是选用模板中自备的。） 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“最新评论”和“最新引用”栏目。 Comment Hacks 功能：可显示评论最多的帖子及读者。 示例：本站主页侧边栏中的“众评帖子”和“最多贡献”栏目。 Page Navigation 功能：在首页上显示帖子分页，方便浏览旧帖子。（比系统默认的更方便些） 示例：本站首页主体部分最底下、页脚上头的pages导航部分。 Twilight AutoSave 功能：安装此插件后，今后在WP中在线写帖子，再也不用担心未保存的文字会丢失了，即使断线或死机！强烈推荐！ 示例：装上后写几个字不保存就关掉，重新写帖子，试试就知道。 Site Statistics 功能：在页面上简单地列出站点上的帖子数、评论数、目录数和最新更新日期。 示例：本站首页上侧边边最下面的“站点信息”。 Edit Comments 功能：评论者在提交评论后可以在设定时间内修改编辑已提交成功的评论。 示例：本站中评论功能。 LMB^Box Comment Quicktags 功能：在评论输入框上添加HTML标签的quicktags，方便撰写简单HTML格式的回复。 示例：本站中评论功能。 Talkback 功能：可建立页面查询每个评论者在WP站点的全部评论历史内容。简单而非常实用的功能。 示例：正在努力部署，但尚未成功：） 2、扩展功能的插件： Jalenack’s Wordspew 功能：是一个基于Ajax技术的Shoutbox，方便读者快速留言，也可作临时IM用。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“快速交流”栏目。 Democracy 功能：投票工具，可直接在管理界面中创建、管理投票事项。是上面Shoutbox同个作者写的插件，比原来的WP-Poll插件容易安装维护。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“投票调查”栏目。 Countdown 功能：一个倒记时工具，在自己的blog上显示最近一些重要日子的提醒。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“过去未来”子栏目。 Subscribe2 功能：通过邮件订阅帖子更新的插件。 示例：本站的邮件订阅页面。 Subscribe To Comments 功能：通过邮件订阅帖子的评论。这样可以方便关心某个话题的读者跟踪和持续参与讨论。 示例：本站的帖子评论表单中。 Category Visibility 功能：可以设置各个分类栏目的公开私隐性。在WP尚不支持一个用户多blog功能的情况下，可以利用这简单功能在blog上给自己提供一点个人的空间。 示例：XXX:） FetchRSS 功能：一个新的新闻聚合器的WP插件，才刚开始未成熟，不过总算有了一个容易使用的WP新闻聚合器了。（目前我安装它只作试用，正式使用NewsGator服务。待此插件成熟后不排除使用它的可能） 示例：到插件页面中看作者自己的示例吧。 dwBliki 功能：一个将DukuWiki整合到Wordpress中，成为一个Bliki的插件。我觉得很有用的插件，不过目前可能是因为配置的原因，我还没安装成功。 示例：未安装成功。 Random Quotes 功能：随机显示引用的精彩段子。 示例：本站首页上置顶位的随机显示引用语句。 Writing Projects 功能：一种在blog中的写作项目管理。还不清楚其实际价值多大，现在装了玩玩看。 示例：在后台，未显示。 Fallen Media Filter 功能：一个提供多媒体播放的WP插件。 示例：…… bstat 功能：一个跟踪整个站点和各个帖子页面点击和搜索来访次数的WP插件，能以图形方式动态显示长期变化。 示例：本站点上相关统计图形和栏目。 Brian’s Threaded Comments 功能：将WP的评论功能变成可以像BBS、Drupal系统、DailyKos网志一样，评论者之间相互回复的线程。这样更便利于网志读者的参与和直接互动。 示例：本站点目前的帖子回复评论功能。 3、服务对接的插件： Technorati Tagging 功能：为帖子加上Tag进行分类管理，还支持标签云显示；当然还支持发布到Technorati的相应tag分类中。 示例可看我首页上置顶位的随机显示。 示例：本站每篇帖子末尾的tags，和首页侧边栏中的“文章标签”栏目。 del.icio.us - Bookmark this! 功能：收藏到del.icio.us的功能，方便读者收藏文章。 示例：本站每篇独立帖子末尾处的“收藏本文到del.icio.us”。 Del.icio.us Integrator 功能：在blog中整合显示某个账户的del.icio.us收藏链接。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“今日网摘”栏目。 Feedburner Feed Replacement 功能：一个blog往往有多个feed可以订阅，使用这个插件，可以将所有这些feed都转换成feedburner的feed，这样让读者自动地订阅单一个feedburner，方便统计。 示例：后台的东西。 Kramer 功能：利用Technorati API，将Technorati所能找到的每个帖子的反向链接都作为帖子评论列在后面。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“最新链接”栏目。 TagsLinks 功能：对帖子中添加的tag链接提供更多的外部tag服务延伸搜索。 示例：鼠标停留在本站每篇帖子结尾处的“延伸阅读”的tag链接上面即可看到。 WP Flickr DHTML Badge 功能：以非flash格式将fllickr图片以Badge方式显示到WP网志中。 示例：本站主页上侧边栏的“图片收藏”子栏目。 FAlbum 功能：将flickr上的图片集成为WP网站上的相册。看起来还不错，不过和我站点上个别插件好像有些冲突，暂时取消运行。 示例：本站相册。目前暂时关闭。 Google Sitemaps 功能：将WP站点制作成sitemap，方便Google搜索引擎索引。 示例：后台。 4、管理功能的插件： Enhanced Post List 功能：在管理界面中可以更多方式排列帖子，方便查找和管理。 示例：后台的东西。 Stattraq 功能：一个功能强大的WP数据统计工具。 示例：后台的东西。 WordPress Database Backup 功能：WP的数据库备份插件，配合下面的Cron插件，可自动每天定时备份数据。 示例：后台的东西。 WP-Cron 功能：WP的自动定时工具，可让它定时执行某个指令。（比如，定时自动备份数据，还有很有用的定时检查Feed更新。后者我很需要，但可惜到现在还不会使用。） 示例：后台的东西。 Spam Karma 2 功能：一个不错的防blog垃圾的插件，管理非常方便。 示例：后台的东西。 Bad Behavior 功能：名声不小的防垃圾插件，听说WordPress.com官方也采用了。不过不像Spam Karma 2那样可在后台管理，所以我都感觉不到它的作用：） 示例：后台的东西。 Search Meter 功能：统计访问者在WP网志上搜索的结果。 示例：后台的东西。 WordPress: Touched 功能：利用Ajax技术让WP站点管理员在外部页面上直接编辑帖子，而不需到管理界面中，也不需刷新页面。 示例：后台的东西。 此外还有一些使用过但现在没用的插件，那些插件要么是觉得不太好、没必要，或者有更好的替代了，在这里就不再列出了。 在下面列出的不是WP插件，而是在本站中整合使用的一些应用程序或网络服务。 本站使用的其它应用： NewsGater 功能：一个著名的RSS阅读器，可将订阅的内容整合到个人网站上作为新闻聚合器使用。 示例：本站新闻聚合器。 DukuWiki 功能：一个PHP语言的wiki工具，不需数据库，轻量级应用，支持UTF-8中文正常显示。另外可整合到WP系统中，成为一个Blili系统。（尚未整合成功） 示例：窝子维基。 Google Group 功能：轻量级网上论坛，可作为blog交流方式的补充工具。 示例：窝子论坛。 Google Adsense 功能：给网站加点广告，虽然根本还没看到Dollar的影子。 示例：本站单个帖子内容和评论间的Google广告。 Feedburner 功能：独立的RSS订阅和统计服务。 示例：本站统一订阅的RSS Feed。 Del.icio.us 功能：收藏不错的网址，可整合到自己的blog上。 示例：窝子的Del.icio.us网摘收藏。 Flickr 功能：网上图片存储、共享的地方，自己blog上图片的仓库。 示例：窝子的网络图片库。 IceRocket 功能：跟踪链接到自己blog帖子的网址。 示例：本站每篇帖子信息栏中的Linking Posts。 Technorati 功能：tag搜索、共享；跟踪有关链接。 示例：本站的Technorati反向链接。 Ys168 功能：方便的网络硬盘存储。（可惜空间有限。） 示例：窝子的共享空间。 Send-a-friend 功能：口碑传播的便利工具。 示例：本站的Tell a friend页面。 StatCounter 功能：站点访问数据统计分析。 示例：本站左下脚处的PageViews统计数字。 QuickSub 功能：方便使用各种在线RSS订阅器的读者一键式订阅站点RSS Feed。 示例：鼠标移到本站侧边栏上的订阅图标。 User Online Counter 功能：一段统计在线用户数量的小程序。 示例：本站页脚中的在线用户统计数。 Creative Commons 功能：Web 2.0时代将广泛应用的内容版权协议。 示例：本站的创作共享版权约定。 [...]

273. 1982 平淡是真 » WP插件及应用列表 2005-11-23 14:30:21

     [...] 功能：一个倒记时工具，在自己的blog上显示最近一些重要日子的提醒。 示例：本站首页侧边栏中的“过去未来”子栏目。Subscribe2 [...]

274. 2001 虎蝠[Blog] » Blog Archive » hoofo.net使用的WP插件及应用列表 2005-11-25 16:22:28

     [...] Subscribe2 [...]

275. 2026 www.eirikso.com » Blog Archive » Essential plugins for WP 2005-11-29 21:24:32

     [...] Subscribe2 Notifies an email list when new entries are posted. [...]

276. 2032 Turbo Charge Your Wordpress With These 10 Plugins » Quantum Biocommunication Technology 2005-11-29 23:50:47

     [...] More Information and Download [...]

277. 2065 Php网站技术资讯收集 » 窝子网志|WozLog采用WordPress插件及应用列表 2005-12-04 21:37:11

     [...] Subscribe2 [...]

278. 2067 Php网站技术资讯收集 » TAO道使用的WP插件及应用列表 2005-12-04 23:16:56

     [...] Subscribe2 [...]

279. 2146 Brightman’s house » WordPress插件集合 2005-12-14 13:21:15

     [...] Subscribe2 [...]

280. 2210 Kirill’s Blog » Blog Archive Advanced mailer using AJAX 2005-12-21 15:11:13

     [...] This work is built on the work that Scott Merrill completed on the Subscribe2 plugin. Thank you Scott for this great idea. We have tried to advance this subscription system. [...]

281. 2207 ballostring knit and crochet blog 2005-12-21 18:32:07

     [...] Thanks to Jomo at Hook And Hype I installed a plugin called Subscribe2. The plugin works with WordPress 1.5 or above. It’s very easy to install. [...]

282. 2218 El Documentalista Enredado » Algunos buenos plugins de Wordpress 2005-12-22 12:52:38

     [...] Subscribe2 - Permite la gesti

283. 2294 Anleitung: Wordpress für Internet Marketer (Schröttle’s Krimskrams…) 2005-12-28 14:14:34

     [...] 14: WordPress email notification plugin oder subscribe2: User können sich per eMail über neue Posts informieren lassen… [...]

284. 2444 RRRrrrr!!! » Blog Archive » [转]wordpress重要插件 2006-01-06 22:00:42

     [...] Subscribe2功能：通过邮件订阅帖子更新的插件。 示例：本站的邮件订阅页面。 [...]

285. 2466 Because I Write » Subscribe2 2006-01-11 15:31:41

     [...] This is a plugin worth investigating by skippy dot net plugin, WP Plugins   [...]

286. 2420 Rich’s Blah Blah Blog » Blog Archive » New Plugins 2006-01-12 06:41:39

     [...] Subscribe2 [...]

287. 2498 Organic Ecology » This is a test post to test the email subscription 2006-01-18 19:12:36

     [...] http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/ [...]

288. 2500 Organic Ecology » Testing the subscribe2 2006-01-18 19:16:20

     [...] http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/ [...]

289. 2488 justaddwater.dk | Blog usability improvements: What we’ll change to make this blog better 2006-01-19 10:35:19

     [...] Maybe a “subscribe to new posts” (plugin) that could target non-technical users that read our blog infrequently. Install plugin and decide later if we’ll use it [...]

290. 2560 te ngeru pango » Updates 2006-01-22 04:07:07

     [...] http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/ [...]

291. 2565 Cosas que faltan en pURB: primer paso antes de subir pARQ at plataforma arquitectura 2006-01-31 13:36:47

     [...] http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/ [...]

292. 2518 SuperTaoer::套子的陋室 » WordPress 的资源列表 2006-02-01 17:00:12

     [...] Subscribe2 功能：通过邮件订阅帖子更新的插件。 [...]

293. 2690 Blog @ RCOnline » WordPress Plugin: Subscriber 2 2006-02-04 15:07:50

     [...] Mit dem Subscriber2-Plugin stellt skippy.net eine tolle Lösung für WordPress 2.0 vor. [...]

294. 2894 看看中文支持 » WordPress插件集合 2006-02-25 19:52:58

     [...] Subscribe2功能：通过邮件订阅帖子更新的插件。 示例：本站的邮件订阅页面。 [...]

295. 2946 Welcome to the new permanent home of How to Blog, now proudly powered by WordPress | How to Blog 2006-03-07 19:28:30

     [...] I can allow people to subscribe to my blog by email using the Subscribe2 plugin, where you can choose how often you want to be notified by email when I create new posts, and you can even specify which categories of posts you want to be notified about [...]

296. 3060 le blog de davidtouvet.com » Blog Archive » WordPress: script PHP pour envoyer les derniers billets à une newsletter 2006-03-23 06:36:39

     [...] Je suis ensuite tombé sur un plugin WordPress très sympa: “subscribe2” de skippy. Deux problèmes de taille: il ne supporte pas une charge d’inscrits très élevée et surtout il envoie un mail à chaque billet posté, ce qui par expérience énerve vite les gens. [...]

297. 3173 WordCast » Blog Archive » links for 2006-04-03 2006-04-03 12:18:49

     [...] skippy dot net » subscribe2 [...]

298. 3224 本站使用的WP插件及应用列表 at Css博客吧 2006-04-08 11:57:35

     [...] Subscribe2       推荐指数：★★★☆功能：通过邮件订阅帖子更新的插件。 示例：已停用。 [...]

299. 3233 Luis Villa’s Blog » rss email followup 2006-04-10 11:39:46

     [...] The lazyweb (via the excellent Boris Anthony) coughed up a wordpress plugin that does exactly what I want, and a service called feedblitz that looks pretty close. Also got email about Feedlinx, another similar but not-quite-what-I-want service. [...]

300. 3246 Wonko The Sane » links for 2006-04-11 2006-04-11 22:21:19

     [...] skippy dot net » subscribe2 wordpress plugin to provide email subscription to the blog (tags: wordpress plugins email) [...]

301. 3254 Vírgula-Imagem :: Marcelo Terça-Nada » Você tem um blogue? Use trackback e viva a discussão! 2006-04-19 16:19:09

     [...] -> Oferecer a opção dos leitores acompanharem os comentários por email (Alguém deixa um comentário, se o comentário for respondido ou outra pessoa comentar, um email é enviado). Há um plugin do Wordpress fazer isso, o Subscribe2, é só instalar e ativar: http://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/ [...]

302. 3264 WordPress plugins Collection WP插件集合 - Oneandhalf Computing Techno-junkies 2006-04-20 14:49:18

     [...] Subscribe2功能：通过邮件订阅帖子更新的插件。 示例：本站的邮件订阅页面。 [...]

303. 3195 Luis Villa’s Blog » another rss->email tool 2006-04-29 02:56:18

     [...] I posted a while back on the ’subscribe to feed as email’ problem. Saw today another solution- squeet. Looks pretty nice, though if you trust your own server/code, the wordpress plugin will probably do most of what you need. [...]

304. 3383 SporTech Matter » New Blog Feature — Subscription 2006-05-12 22:32:33

     [...] In an attempt to give SporTech users the BEST blogging experience on the net, I implemented a subscription feature allowing you to be notified of new posts. Stay up to the minute with SporTech news. The script is called subscribe2. This plugin provides a comprehensive subscription management system for WordPress blogs. Visitors can subscribe and unsubscribe through a convenient web-based form. All requests require confirmation by email. Administators can configure the email template used for new post notifications, as well the messages used for (un)subscription requests. Admins can also subscribe or unsubscribe users, as well as send out an email to all confirmed subscribers. [...]

305. 3354 Derek Weber’s Waste ‘o Web » Blog Archive » New Plugin to this Blog 2006-05-16 01:52:50

     [...] The script I’m using is called subscribe2 and is available here. [...]