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Current Version: 2.5
Released 19th March 2008
WordPress: Version 2.1 and above
Version 2.2.2 corrects a problem with deleting user/emails subscribed to All updates
Version 2.5 adds the necessary support for WordPres 2.5
This plugin has a very simple task. It allows you to place an email address field and a ’subscribe’ button to any WordPress Post or Page so that users can optionally be notified whenever you update the content.
I am using it below on this very page in fact!
Users can subscribe and unsubscribe. And when you do make a change to one of the posts or pages, you also have the choice on whether to send out notification emails.
For the first time in version 2.2, you can now also use this plugin on Posts. The admin page and method of operation has been completely re-written. As you can see from the screen shot, the choice to send out notifications is now made in the Post and Page ‘Write/Edit’ screen
Please Note:
I offer support for my plugins via the Support Forum only. I will NOT respond to support queries left in the comment section below and, in most cases, will also not publish them. Of course, if you’d like to say something nice or helpful, then feel free to leave a comment! I do prune them from time to time.
Good day, and thanks for the great plugin.
I was wondering if there is an easy way to add this to my page.php file for uniformity?
Thanks again!
@Scott: I guess you mean by this that you would like it to appear on every page and always in the same location without having to enter it in the editing window. If so, no - there is no template tag for this but it is very easy to add one. Let me know if that’s what you want and I can do one for you.
That would be great! I have a main category of ’software’ and then sub pages of programs, so it owuld be cool to jave it on every page.
Scott - take a look at v1.1 and see if that does what you need…
That’s PERFECT! I’m actually in the process of making a new page template for my software (as opposed to just page.php) and this will be ideal for that kind of page.
Thanks VERY much!
No problem Scott - I hope it works out OK.
First I want to say thank you for the plugin. I seem to be having an issue though. Everything looks as if it should be working, the table in mysql is there as it should be, but when i throw a few email addresses in there they will not show up in the admin menu. I used the tag to call it on the sidebar.php. Thank you!
Brandon
@Brandon:
Sorry Brandon, but this is only ever going to work in a WP Page as it is stands. It wont work in sidebar.php. What did you want to use it for? Maybe I can help…
I just wanted my readers to be able to get an email when I post. Perhaps I am going about it completely wrong?
@Brandon:
If you mean ANY post then yes - this is not the plugin for you. This ONLY works on a static page and is therefore pretty specific. There are other plugins that can send an email to subscribed users when ANY post is made although I have never tried any of them. This one for example has a good rep I believe, plus I would trust anything from skippy:
Subscribe2 by skippy
Hope that helps.
cool plug in! once again- thanks!
I was wondering if there was a way or a plugin to add a little icon that says new or updated for pages. I don’t mean for people to get emails, but just in the menu. For example >> http://www.blossom.nu/x/you/
Sarah wrote:
I have not heard of one but there may be something like it out there. It wouldn’t really be a task for this plugin - no association. It wouldn’t be that hard to write, maybe with a timeout to disappear X many days after an update. Worth googling for I would think - or looking in the plugins database site.
Hello,
I just installed you page notification plugin on my gallery page on my site. Problem is my gallery plugin generates folders with photos inside automatically when I ftp upload new pictures. How do I get your plugin to work on this type of page so my members will be able to get email when new photos are added?
Hope you can help…
BILLY
The question is does the plugin create wordpress ‘pages’ using one of your page templates? If not then I can’t help you. If it does then you can use the template tag to place the notification form in the wp ‘loop’ wherever you want it to appear. Just edit the ‘page’ template and place the tag as described in the read me file of the plugin.
Very cool! Works great with a ‘live’ background-info page at a site I’m working on.
Thanks Andy, you rock.
Glad it’s helpful. 2.0 is much improved and the result of one of those little coding frenzies of yesterday…
hi there,
I have one question, on a blog of friends they have a page called travelogue, that only contains this code:
so this travelogue page contains a list of all travelogues, whenever they publish a new one, it simply appears on the travelogues page,… but it seems the the notification plugin can’t work its magic here… I do not need the notification inside the contained pages, as those do not change after publication…
can I somehow get your plugin to work with this structure?
thx
ovidiu
also they have another page that contains categories of pictures, this is done with a picture template. the pictures page does contain nothing, here is the excerpt of the template:
can I also get this to work somehow? the problem as belo, the page content itsself does not change,..
The problem here is that the page that the update notification is monitoring does not, itself, get changed - and that’s what it needs to trigger a notification. It is unable to monitor other pages and uses the ‘edit page’ hook to work. Sorry.
I like the plugin very much!
It would be nice to have a check box on the subscribe form to allow one to subscribe to ALL pages on a site. I have 75 pages and it would be tedious for anyone to have to submit the subscribe form 75 times.
Could you consider adding this feature in a future version?
Thanks!
Interesting thought.
It’s first item on the list!
Andy,
I have followd your instructions for Page Update Notification Version 2.0 but can’t seemd to get it to work.
I have the register tag on my page using the “” located on index.php. I can see it when I veiw the page.
I’m having a problem with registering an email for when I click onto the “subscribe” it brings me to a page can’t be displayed eror.
Also, in your instructions you state if one wants the subscribetion on every page to insert this tag in the loop of the page.php. I ahve pasted this tag everywhere in the page.php only to never see it when viewing the web site. Can you please lead me in the right direction for I’m splitting hairs for the past two days on this.
Your help is greatly appreciated and thank you,
tony
Your code example got wiped out by the filters! But I’m not sure what you mean by ‘located opn index.php’? This is only aimed at WP ‘Pages’ created with the ‘Write Page’ menu option.
I have sent you an email with some ideas.
At the bottom of the Manage > Notifications page, I see an error message
WordPress database error: [Table 'blogfugedb1.wp_3_punmail' doesn't exist]
SELECT post_id, COUNT(post_id) AS cnt FROM wp_3_punmail GROUP BY post_id;
Can you let me know how I can fix this?
I got the same problem, and neither could I insert the tables manually in phpmyadmin
regards, KC
There appears to be an epidemic on this one. I’ll check it isn’t me akthough I dnlt believe I have disturbed anything. C an you tell me which version of WP you are using please?
I’m using WP 2.1
Hi,
I began to translate Page Update Notification into French, but I have to do this in the code. Would it be possible that you use PoEdit files ?
I just installed the plugin. But, you know, some French people are angry with English
Thanks in advance!
Whoops! I’m in trouble
You know when I wrote that I knew nothing about po files and translations! Now I do. It is my intention to support localisation on ALL my plugins as and when I make an update. Sadly there is also the time constraint of making the necessary code changes and at this very moment, what with me about to leave on vacation for three weeks - this is not the best time!
However, if you want to send me all the strings I will build the file when it’s turn comes along.
Sorry about that - I’m really not an arrogant Englishman.. well - I might be of course, but not on purpose…
Hi,
I tranlated the plugin Page Update Notification into French (without Poedit file
The French version is here http://liseweb.fr/BLOG/?page_id=160
Lise
Interesting plugin, does it support opt-in mails ?
‘opt-in mails’? Meaning…?
I translated Post/Page Update Notification into French, but only the user interface!
The French version is available here http://liseweb.fr/BLOG/?page_id=160.
I hope, you’ll find time to make a poedit file ;-)
Hi,The plugin works very fine with Camino and Firefox, but is not displayed correctly under Safari, Shiira, Opera.
@Lise
I can try and check that out next week all being well but it should be just a matter of altering the CSS. I thought I tested out Opera!
So hard to get good CSS that works with all browsers!
I have also the problem with opera, it is displayed not 100% correctly, but it works.
Hi Andy,
I just installed Post/Page Update Notification 2.2.2, and I’ve the same problem with Opera and Safari under Mac OS. It works fine, but it’s not displayed correctly.
And as I translated the 2.2.1 into French, I came back to the old version
it is just a matter of doing some work with the CSS that is supplied. As usual, IE is the difficult one and I guess I made it work in IE and Firefox but missed all the others.
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