Mark Gibson

Email Notifier

Posted on August 3rd, 2006 by mark.
Categories: WordPress.

Overview

wp-email-notification. This is a great little program to send out notification when you publish a new post. Although you can’t set it to autonotify based on a single catagory, you can turn off auto notify and notify on a post by post basis.

Instructions

Download the zipfile.
There are two folders to upload after unzipping the zipfile. The first is the plugin folder labelled "wp-email-notification" to be loaded in to the plugins folder. The second is the mailing list folder labelled "maillist" which needs to be placed in the root of your blog, if your blog is not the root of your site then put the folder in your root, i.e. "yoursite.com/maillist/"
Visit "/maillist/install.php" and install the script filling in the database details.

Activate the plugin then delete the install script.

Put the following form code in your template. I’ve placed it in the sidebar on my forum:

<form method="post" action="maillist/index.php">
      Enter your e-mail address to receive notifications when there are new posts<br /><br />
      <input type="text" name="email" size="12" maxlength="50" />
      <input type="submit" name="submit" value="sign up" />
    </form>

Put the following line in your header template:

  <?php email_notification_future_send(); ?> 

The admin options can be found under Manage > Email Notification.

In the write post page you'll see a notify drop down in the Write area to allow you to select whether you notify for this post.

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