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A show-stopper bug has been identified with subscribe2 2.2.1, completely breaking the plugin when used with the DREAMHOST setting enabled.

subscribe2 2.2.2 is now available.

• Fixed operation with the DREAMHOST configuration
• Added a toggle to enable or disable display of the subscribe2 button on the Write screen's toolbar
• Tidied up the display of the form for better XHTML compliance

Please report any problems in the comments.

vhost 1.5 is now available!

This is a minor update to my vhost plugin, making it compatible with WordPress 2.0.

I've been using my Non-Numeric Names plugin for some time, and it's worked extremely well. All of the spam comments submitted with only numerals for the name have been flagged as spam. I then use Chris' excellent Spam Nuker to delete all the spam comments with a single mouse click.

Recently, though, I've been getting annoyed having to click that button to delete the spam. Quite literally, all of the comments that have been posted with only numerals for a name have been spam. So why am I bothering to store them in my database until I delete them?

Non-Numeric Names 1.1 is now available. It silently discards any incoming comment that uses all numerals for the name.

subscribe2 2.2.1 is now available!

This version fixes several problems from the last release:

• Notification emails are generated even if you first save the post as a draft.
• The Submit button on the Mail Subscribers screen is fixed for Internet Explorer users.
• Multiple confirmation emails should no longer be sent.
• You can now specify the page to use for subscription confirmations. Edit subscribe2.php and define the page ID on line 42.

In addition, subscribe2 2.2.1 should now send notification emails for future-dated posts! This requires the use of my WP-Cron plugin. If you have WP-Cron activated, subscribe2 2.2.1 will detect it, and automatically send notification emails to your subscribers roughly an hour after the post(s) become visible. Better still, subscribe2 2.2.1 offers support for daily digests of all new posts from the previous day. Again, this feature requires WP-Cron. To enable this feature, simply edit line 46 in subscribe2.php and change the FALSE to TRUE. At the start of each new day, your subscribers will receive a summary of new posts from the previous day, in the following format:

Post Title Post Link Post Summary <blank line>

The POST token in the notification template will be replaced with the list of new posts. Important note: WordPress 2.0 has a minor problem with the default caching mechanism. In order for future-dated posts and daily digests to work properly, you must use WordPress 2.01 or later. Any support requests for these features from users of WordPress 2.0 will be completely ignored.

cat2email version 2.1 is now available. This version no longer sends notifications when you edit a post. It also allows you to assign a recipient to categories with no posts yet -- version 2.0 would not let you do this (Thanks to Cory for the fix!).