NotifyMe Plugin

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• About
• Version History
• Screenshots
• Download
• Installation
• Upgrade
• Usage
• Template Examples
• Support

About

Adds mailing list functionality to wordpress, allows you to make and manage unlimited mailing lists, design the form however you want and it has a “new blog” notification feature, sending an e-mail to subscribers whenever you blog.

Version History

version 1.04
Made WP 2.5 compatible

version 1.03
Secured queries

version 1.02
Fixed bug where subscribers received mails with all subscribers in the “to” field.

version 1.01
Fixed blog notify where HTML tags did not show up correctly

Screenshots

Download

NotifyMe v1.04 (BETA)
12.8 KiB, 7,643 hits

Installation

1. Upload ‘naatan_notifyme.php’ to your plugins directory
2. Upload “notifyme.php” to your wordpress root directory
3. Enable the plugin in WP Plugin Management
4. That’s it! Access it from the main admin bar

Upgrade

Simply replace the old files with the new ones.

Usage

There are several ways to use this plugin, below I will describe some of them

Using the default form in pages
Imagen you would have a maillist named “Page Updates”,
When your creating a new page you would add the following tag where you want the form to appear..

[notifyme]Page Updates[/notifyme]

This goes for all maillists, just add the tags with the name of the maillist inside them.

Creating a form inside your templates
When your creating a form inside regular templates there are several things you have to do,

• The method of the form should be “POST” and the action should always be: “notifyme.php”
• You should always include the following fields, be it as input box, selection, checkbox.. no matter:
  • maillistid
  • naatan_notifyme_name
  • naatan_notifyme_website
  • naatan_notifyme_email
  • submit_notifyme_subscribe

The maillistid is the ID of the mail list and should definitely be set, you can get your mail list ID
from the main NotifyMe page, where the maillists are listed.

naatan_notifyme_ - name / website / email.. I don’t think I need to explain this

submit_notifyme_subscribe is what the script uses to verify that the form has been submitted and
should always be set, preferrably in the form of a submit button.

For some examples check further below

Maillist Selection list
When your using the template method you can use a selection box to have the user select which maillist
he wants to subscribe to.. this is usefull when you want to use something like a “Notify me of updates for..”
section.
Simply add the following in your template where you want to receive the option variables..

<?php naatan_notifyme_maillistselect(); ?>

Usage Example;

<select name=”maillistid”>
<?php naatan_notifyme_maillistselect(); ?>
</select>

Template Examples

Standard Subscribe me Form

<h2>Subscribe</h2>
<ul>
Subscribe to updates
<form name=”notifymeForm” method=”post” action=”notifyme.php”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”maillistid” value=”1″>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_name” value=”Your Name” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_email” value=”E-Mail Address” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_website” value=”Website URL” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit_notifyme_subscribe” value=”Subscribe” style=”margin-top: 2px;”>
</form>
</ul>

Subscribe me form with Maillist Selection

<h2>Subscribe</h2>
<ul>
Subscribe to updates for..
<form name=”notifymeForm” method=”post” action=”notifyme.php”>
<select name=”maillistid”>
<?php naatan_notifyme_maillistselect(); ?>
</select><br>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_name” value=”Your Name” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_email” value=”E-Mail Address” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_website” value=”Website URL” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit_notifyme_subscribe” value=”Subscribe” style=”margin-top: 2px;”>
</form>
</ul>

Form with only the E-Mail field required

<h2>Subscribe</h2>
<ul>
Subscribe to updates
<form name=”notifymeForm” method=”post” action=”notifyme.php”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”maillistid” value=”1″>
<input type=”hidden” name=”naatan_notifyme_name” value=”Subscriber”><br>
<input type=”hidden” name=”naatan_notifyme_website” value=”Unspecified”><br>
<input type=”text” name=”naatan_notifyme_email” value=”E-Mail Address” size=”20″ onClick=”this.value=”;” style=”margin-top: 2px;”><br>
<input type=”submit” name=”submit_notifyme_subscribe” value=”Subscribe” style=”margin-top: 2px;”>
</form>
</ul>

Support

1. Rating: +1

   
   
   

   When I send an E-Mail every recipient receives all other recipients in CC, what do I do?

   This bug was fixed in the latest version, please download it from the download page.

2. Rating: -1

   
   
   

   Hallo Nathan, not sure wether your a belgian guy who can read dutch, so i try to write in english. thansk for the nice plugin, which i found via the websote of lorelle on plug-ins. I used the well known Subscribe2 before, but it has to many bugs and won’t work nicely with my ISP.
   It would me nice of all the text fields would be changeble fields, so i can create my own dutch version, without changing any line of code. This makes it easier to upgrade to future versions…;-)

   Hi, language support is planned in the next version of NotifyMe, unfortunatly I don’t have a lot of spare time to work on NotifyMe at the moment, so for now I’m affraid you’ll have to dig into the code.

3. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   Hi Nathan, thanks for a wonderful plugin. Whatever I do, I seem to be sending more and more e-mails to everyone whenever someone subscribes.(they get duplicates).

   Any idea how this can be?

   Do you mean one person gets a specific mail multiple times? Also did you get the latest version from my website?

   If the problem consists please contact me so we can work this out.

4. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   ^^ It seems its sending every email with a CC to the same address. Everytime one email gets added, the ‘from’ address in everyones mailbox changes to 2 or 3 or 4 times (depending on how many subscribers) the ‘from’ address i specified.

   Everyone in the mailing list also gets another duplicate with cc’s with everyone on the mailing list in it (so they can see who subscribed as well. I have changed the time between mails from 2 to 5 seconds.

   Is this a problem on my server?

   Please download the latest version from the download page, the CC bug has been fixed in version 1.02 and possibly this will solve your other problem aswell.

5. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   Nathan,
   I had the same problem as the last writer - the cascading CC list. I just installed the plug-in, downloading 1.02. Is it possible this is really 1.0? The code says 1.02… My first subscriber gets one message, my second to them, cc the first; the third to them, cc the second and first, the fourth… I can use a postfix alias list and still get the “new post notification” function, but I like the user-administration features of the plugin. (it would also be nice to optionally get notification of comments).

   It is really 1.02 but I had to re-create it as I lost the original file in the process of a server move and in doing so I changed it to cc rather than bcc.

   To fix this, open up the plugin file and search replace “cc:” with “bcc:”

   I’ll release 1.03 tonight if you prefer not to hack the file.

6. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   Thanks! I did the CC: -> BCC: edit and it hides the cascade of the CC but it still goes out in to N, N-1, N-2… recipients. The additional recipients are in the BCC list now.

   I think you missed a cc field or something because it is absolutely impossible for recipients to see the BCC of an e-mail, feel free to contact me over MSN so I can assist you further.

7. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   Nathan - thanks for the response. the addresses are hidden as expected. What happens is the last (n of n) recipient gets one notification addressed to them (last message sent of n), then n-1 of recipient gets two messages, then n-2 recipient gets 3 messages…. the first recipient gets n messages for each notification.

   I see what you mean, I have released a small update on the downloads page that should fix both problems you’ve been having, let me know if it works (it did for me).

8. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   Nathan, Thanks! It works for me now, 1 notification per subscriber. One last thing though, %blog-author% isn’t getting substituted. Other variables seem to work fine.

   It looks like under
   // replace blog template tags^M
   something like
   “$mail = str_replace(”%blog-author%”,$blog->blog_author,$mail);^M”
   is missing (just a guess on the format).

   Your right, sorry, my misstake.

   I changed it in the latest version on the download page.

9. Rating: +0

   
   
   

   Hi Nathan, i’ve installed the plugin, but when I go to setup the first mailing list it says the mailing list is created, but right below the message I get the following error:

   WordPress database error: [Field 'people' doesn't have a default value]
   INSERT INTO naatan_notifyme (id,name,email) VALUES (NULL,’Sample’,'andy@sample.com’)

   Any ideas?

   Very weird, the people field is unable to even have a default value, you could try adding the table manually to your database, if you have some knowledge about this.

   First delete the naatan_notifyme table from your database

   DROP TABLE `naatan_notifyme`;

   Then add it again manually

   CREATE TABLE `naatan_notifyme` (
   `id` SMALLINT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY ,
   `name` VARCHAR( 50 ) NOT NULL ,
   `people` MEDIUMTEXT NOT NULL ,
   `email` VARCHAR( 100 ) NOT NULL
   ) ENGINE = MYISAM ;

   I’m guessing your database has a none-default setup, but I don’t know enough about MySQL to come up with a possible cause, I suggest you do some debugging of your own.

10. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I have 350 subscribers and just used the compose function, no all people got between 70 and 200 emails?

    I don’t know how many times I have to say this: It’s Beta! Don’t use it on such large scale..

    I’m sorry this happened, the bug you speak of was fixed in the latest version which is available on the download page.

    ALWAYS test before you start using something and be VERY careful using BETA software.

11. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    hello,

    I would love to use your notify me plugin but its a little confusing to me: I udnerstood I can have several mailing lists, so how does your plugin know to which category to subscribe someone? does it send out notifications isntantly? can you explain a little more please? thx

    Hi,

    The exact usage of the plugin is explained in the readme (included with the download).

    Basically what you do is put a small bit of code on a page or in a template referring to a specific mailing list.

    But really there is no limit as to how you can have people sign up.

12. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    hi, is there a limit of entries of this plugin database? 700? 1000?

    m
    

    Everything has a limit as far as computers go, only the limit can be so high that it is impossible to reach it in the manner at which the plugin is being used.

    So basically, no there is no limit.

    However, when sending e-mails there is most definitely a limit, but this is dependant on your webserver, eg. if it takes a LONG time to send all the e-mails, your webserver will at some point reach it’s limit and just quit on you, this is something that I can overcome with the plugin but this is planned in future versions.

13. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    hello

    got a question.
    a database of 700+ entries. when I send an email it sends the mails until:

    Sending Subscriber (klemdia@msn.com)… ????????V?n?6?l??M???8M?T??%??p? uQ?PP-1?H????A??;?C??v?$??? ??$?w????G??7??? ??????????m?2????q=??????k?u?}??-??@?T?? v?Yc??7?2jAP??)?QA?U?,A????*???P??9Nt?a?s??I??
    ”A?> .”) :?hn?!?-???I?t???????B??5?K*C???`?] ]?A;C???t???uD=???;`?T?3H?X ??B?Jq??p???]?6,!???t2?ni?m|?]?????`?=??G/?????Vf??=?F_?”>&?d??=k???)?!????i?I??0d??R[ ??nL??`7`?+???cj???Pmi????{?l?Jd??????l?Y+6O:???t?YT ?U?R??ud?v?U`n?d???/8?CNxK?^?&Q??{Z?[%???2BeI%qm?[1c????o??a+???????>,H?h???Q??$I????k???,*$ ?Y?=?"_?B???(Q????[X? S?Y?p7???j????l?B?6K?pJ?$GO??I??>'????y^??4P?:????t?Hg?h?û??g?Y?X??????.i????b?*?K?{?1?y???>??8?L0>25
    G?k????3bx?on?JIHI&p?g?? b?!4?????oI!? ????XT??_j??j??????6???J??TW?^A???q??4G?f-?7ey??n{(BIr(??EZL?i?PE??Y?NN?{?9M?@??3?V??u
    ???m????t?)?? Z?????? (j??R1??2?MbryGn?gT% RR?S
    )r?^??H??F??`m???w? {?S?_f??k?>z??i?+?[??~?|W?[?????(dNF?????L&??

    it spits something like that and freezees.

    any ideas?

    m

    I've never tested the plugin with a database that large, also the plugin is in a beta stage so it is NOT recommended to be used with a database of that size.

    However, I will definitely release an update that should increase the plugins reliability as far as large user databases goes.. so check my blog daily.

14. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I tried the NotifyMe Plugin but it would not work when I insert the form in my sidebar.

    When I enter my email address and press submit it shows the ’sucess’ message but I noticed that my data is not actually being entered into the database…

    It's a bit hard to help you without any debug information..

    Please provide me with the code you are inserting into your sidebar so I can see what might be the problem.

    Also keep in mind that the plugin at this point has not been developed to support permalinks, so if your using permalinks, that might be an indication as to why it's not working.

15. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Nathan-
    I have installed the plug-in and have inserted the template code as prescribed in the read-me. Everything seems like it it going to work great until I hit the "subscribe" button on the web page. It takes me to a "page not found" page! Any idea what to do?

    Can you show me what code you have inserted in the template, and if possible the page from where the people can subscribe.

    Also are you sure you uploaded notifyme.php to the main wordpress directory.

16. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    how would you go about removing people from the list? is this done in the database or am i missing something?

    Simply click NotifyMe in your admin panel, click edit on the mailing list you wish to edit, a list of subscribers will appear, click the checkboxes for the subscribers you want to delete and then press "Delete Selected Users"

17. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    As others have suggested, you do not provide thorough documentation on this plug-in. If you had, you wouldn't receive so many responses from people saying that they can't get it to work, as is the case with me. Waste of time without proper documentation.

    I don't see a question here?

    Like I've said before, I develop these plugins for myself and I choose to release it for other people so that they may enjoy the functionality as well, the fact that I provide support at all should be enough for you, if I would make an extensive wiki with full documentation, now then that would be really convenient wouldn't it? But at the end of the day I'm the one putting work into this and the people who download it don't come by to say thanks unless there's something wrong, so I really don't see the point in putting too much effort into something that isn't appreciated anyway.

18. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    great plugin, super simple to use, I tried many and so far like yours the best. Do you have any plans to add the feature that will allow the recipients to unsubscribe?

    This feature already exists, an unsubscription link is automatically added to the bottom of every mail.

19. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I get subscribers that use crap emails, like lol@lolhost.com etc...
    is there a way to have them confirm their email before they go in as subscribers?
    Thanks for a great plug in!

    Currently there is no way to prevent this, I'm sorry, it will certainly be included in future versions.

20. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    the emails sent are coming from "unknown sender" instead of the email I entered on the list creation page.
    Any advice?

    That's the first time I've heard this problem.. first off check the mail list settings and see if the e-mail is configured correctly, also make sure you downloaded the latest version.

    Have you modified the plugin files in any way? Or even tweaked the database settings?

21. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hiya, first off, thanks for a great plugin, it's great. The question i have is that once a person subscribes to the notify list, the thankyou page comes up, but it is not centered, and the color of this writing is really dark, where can i change the color? And make it centered? I'm not sure if it is the wordpress files somewhere, or in the notify me files, any help would be great. Thanks.

    the resulting page simply takes the header and footer template from your theme and adds some text to it, it does not set any style attributes.

    So I suggest you check the resulting page html source and see what you can do to improve it (css-wise).

22. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I really can't figure out how to create a second mailing list. Your documentation says "you can get your mail list ID from the main NotifyMe page, where the maillists are listed" but doesn't explain how to go about creating a mail list...

    At the bottom left of the NotifyMe page, just enter the "Name" and the "From E-Mail" and click on Add..

    People tend to expect something complicated when it's all just really simple.

23. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Using the WP 2.3.1, PHP 5.

    From the administrative menu, I cannot find any way to create or edit mailing lists. When I go tot he notify me menu, the only sub-menus are Compose, Import/Export and Configure. Am I missing something?

    You can create a list by entering the name/email in the two text inputs at the bottom of the main NotifyMe page and pressing Add.

    To modify a list click on "Edit" at the total right of the main NotifyMe page..

24. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi Nathan,

    This isn't so much a "support" question as it is just a general question.

    I ADORE your "Notify Me" plugin. LOVE it. However, I have a client right now (non-profit organization) where I'm giving WordPress some *serious* customization so they can use it as a CMS. There are members to this club - right now there's 118 of them. Your plugin is awesome, and I've used it to help them manage their database of members. I haven't had a chance to test it out on a group of this size, so I have to figure out a way to test it without bugging all the members...but that's not what I'm asking you about.

    The thing is, I have a PHP form I've developed over the years and it works *very* well. I *was* going to use that, but then I remembered your plugin and how well it works for "the little things". So I decided to use yours instead, because I need to write to the database. However, I've discovered that you only have certain fields that you allow for this - and the little group I'm doing a site for needs more than this. So right now, I'm hacking up your plugin so I can accomplish this (why reinvent the wheel, right?)

    I've noticed that your plugin doesn't have many checks for the insertion of end-user data. It's pretty much a "trust me" type of form. The form I developed (mentioned before) actually *does* do checks, so I plan to implement my checks of the end-user input to this plugin to make it a little more secure from attacks.

    Now, here is my question: when I get finished with what I'm doing, would you be interested in it? As I said, this is a non-profit organization, and I'm doing all of this for them for free, and I hate hacking up someone else's code like I'm doing to yours and not "giving back" in some way. Since you're still actively working/updating this plugin, I was wondering if you'd be interested in having the code when I'm finished and have tested it all out. I don't know - maybe you'll find a personal use for it, or maybe you can offer it as a new upgrade - whatever. It's just that I'm not so good at the MySQL stuff as I am the PHP stuff, so I thought you might be interested in what I'm doing to change things.

    Anyway, if you're interested, please let me know. I'm more than willing to pass the code on to you, and you can do whatever you like with it - use it for yourself or whatever. I'm *hoping* to be finished with it by the end of this weekend, but I'm not promising anything (as I just started this) - and if I do succeed, and you do want it, I need to remind myself to comment out the important info so you can see what I did.

    Thanks for the great plugin
    ~Shelly

    Hi Shelly, I would indeed be interested in your code.. all of my plugins are completely open-source and I strongly encourage anyone who is interested to modify and enhance my plugins.

    Currently I am very busy with real life and the development of Divia-CMS, so I am not developing NotifyMe actively at the moment.

    The plugin, at this point, is indeed a bit of a 'trust me' application, though it wont allow anyone to run malicious code.
    As stated on the download page, it is still in Beta stage.

25. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi...

    I really like the plugin but I'm having a few questions....

    1) I enter the code on one of my posts
    ERROR: Maillist "register me" not found
    I then went to the Notifyme section of my dashboard. The Register Me list that I created is there and it shows the correct count of subscribers (i entered in some dummy info). However when I go to click edit to see the subscriber info there is no list of people…. I literally logged in and out of wordpress a dozen times and then one day >poof< the list of subscirbers showed up. What's up?

    2) Is there any way to upload many e-mails at once? Via an xls or csv file?

    3) Exporting... when I try to export a list of names/e-mail nothing happens. It says that there was an error on the page at the bottom of my IE.

    4) had a similar problem when importing names one at a time... i imported the names to the aforementioned list and the number of subscribers populated but not the list.

    5) I delete some dummy accounts for a list and it populated the list with them still on.

    6) I sent a test e-mail to one adress and it's been twenty minutes and I still havent received the message. Any idea how long it usually takes?

    Sorry for the long note but I figured it'd be better to get this out
    

    1) Notifyme uses javascript and AJAX to display your entries, I’m guessing either you used another browser, you updated your browser or you changed it’s settings, either way, you need to be able to run javascript and AJAX (XMLHttpRequests) in order to use NotifyMe

    2) Yes, using the “Import” function, I see you’ve already discovered this function.. if the import matches dont match the format of your files you can easily just export your files to txt, in case you have an xls file, just select everything, copy it and then paste it in notepad.. from there you can make the last minor changes with the “replace” function.

    3) I can’t help you with this unless you tell me what error you are getting

    4) I’m not sure what you mean by this, you mean the amount of member displayed on the NotifyMe page increased but there where actually no users imported? If this is the case then you apperantly found a bug, I can fix this for you if you can tell me in what format you were trying to import.

    5) Totally clueless as to what your trying to say here, you deleted accounts and it populated again with those accounts?

    6) Depends on your server, NotifyMe uses the PHP mail function, which in turn uses sendmail to send e-mails.. Also, make sure to check your spambox, you never know.

    As a final notice, please keep in mind that NotifyMe is currently by no means in a stable state, it’s a beta and because of that bugs are to be expected at this point.

26. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi Naatan… I’m posting this here becasue my reply to your e-mail did not work.

    Thanks for the prompt reply and I apologize for any parts of my message that were hard to understand. I had been looking at different mailing plugins all day and was excited to find yours (which actually worked compared to the others). However, in my haste I realized that some of my questions were impossible to figure out. Below I have went through and hopefully explained them better…

    1. I do believe that I have XMLHttpRequests turned on. However you are correct, if I open another browser the list of names is populated. SOLVED.

    2. SOLVED

    3. I’m actually not getting any error in particuler. I am choosing the mail list that I want to export. Once I hit the export button a little yellow sign at the bottom left of my window saying that there was an error (see screen shot attachment of IE). I then tried this in firefox and it seems to work fine. Is there a command to make the export come out one name and one e-mail per line?

    4. When I use the import feature the number of subscribers is updated but the list of names is not updated. I beleive that this is probably the same problem as #1. I will consider it SOLVED.

    5. I deleted subscriber accounts from a mailling list and the number of subscribers was lowered but the subscribers were not taken off the mailing list. Again, I think this is a problem similar to #1. I will consider it SOLVED.

    6. I ended up received the e-mails all at once, roughly 7-10 hours after I sent them (not in the spambox). Personally I dont care if it takes long for them to get sent out since none of my mass mailings are that time sensitive.

    Lastly, yes I do realize that this is a beta, but I do appreciate all the work you have put into it and swift support replies.

    Regards,

    3. The export function uses AJAX as well, as soon as you pick a list to export it will display the results in the textarea below, the button underneath can pretty much be ignored, I simply added it “just in case”
    Unfortunatly you can’t make it come out one e-mail per line, though you could try entering the following format: “%email%,
    “, then copy/paste the result into notepad and save it as “myfile.html”, now open this in your browser and copy paste what you see there..
    I know it’s a bit of a nasty workaround, I’ll work on this when I have time.

    6. Like I said this has nothing to do with the plugin, this is completely related to your server config (sendmail in particular)

27. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hello,
    I am probably doing something incredibly dumb. But when I put the “ERROR: Maillist "Listname" not found” code into my blog sidebar, it merely displays, well, the code.

    It can be seen here: www.misteriosos.org

    What am I doing wrong?

    Thanks so much!

    You can only use that code in pages, not in your sidebar, in your sidebar you can use the HTML templates provided in the readme or make your own..

28. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I have a similar problem to a person above: I can submit an email address, and it takes me to the “Thank you” page for subscribing, but I don’t receive an email (I’m testing right now, so all submissions should come right to me), and the email address is not put into the database.

    No error messages are being displayed, and no errors are showing up in my log files. I’ve also shut off *all* plugins (the *only* one running is NotifyMe), nad I’ve basically copied/pasted the sample code you provided in the readme file into my sidebar (the one associated with “Standard Subscribe Me form”) - I made no changes to that whasoever. It’s exactly as provided in the readme file. I have also shut off my “pretty permalinks” - to no avail.

    I am running WP 2.3 - so I don’t know if this version (the newest download) is compatible with WP 2.3 - is this a possibility? Is there anythign else I can check to see why it’s not functioning as it should?

    Thank you
    

    It’s very hard to analyze your problem without having a look myself, I’ve tested with WP 2.3 and everything seems to be working fine.

    If you have some knowledge of PHP you can try debugging the code by echo’ing and then exiting the code right before the insert query is made, and then to check if all the data is in order (and if not, you go from there)

    If you need any help feel free to contact me so we can arrange something.

29. Rating: +1

    
    
    

    Hiya,

    Just tested your plugin, it works fine.
    I only have a problem with accents (i get those “é”),

    of course i could switch “é” to “&eacute”, but i’d like to stick with the non-html version.

    Does this come from the plugin or should i change something in my database?

    Possibilty a combination of both, there’s no quick way to fix this, you can try using the same Collation as I use for my database, which is: latin1_swedish_ci

    Added this to my todo list for the next version, but that won’t be any time soon, I’m sorry.. I’m far too busy with Divia-CMS.

30. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I am building my test site on xampp, and wanted to set-up and test your plugin with my ISPs settings. Is there a place to put in a different SMTP server? I looked in the actual code, but did not see any place for it (add it at line 444 is the error I get). Thanks.

    NotifyMe uses the php mail() function, which in turn uses the sendmail program, I’m not sure if this also goes for windows though.

    Either way, you can configure this in your php.ini file and the program that PHP uses to send e-mails.

31. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi there,

    I have notifyme.php in my root directory and naatan_notifyme.php in my plugin directory, and I have the plugin activated through wordpress and configured with maillistid in the form code replaced with postupdates and I have tried setting up two test subscriptions with two of my other emails, and I get the Success page, but when I look in my wp-admin dashboard under notifyme, none of the subscriptions, or test subscribers, show up as being subscribed to the postupdates mail list.

    Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

    Thanks,
    Josh
    www.streethelper.com
    www.bipolar-family.com
    www.thestonewailer.com

    I’ve heard of this problem before and sadly I can’t solve this for you unless I can get hands on with the bug, eg. I need to reproduce it.

    If you’d like me to solve this for you please contact me over msn or e-mail (I’ve included my msn/wlm address in a personal mail)

32. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Is there a way to set it up so that only a portion of my post shows up in the email to my subscribers? This way they have to click onto the website to read the full post.

    Not unless you know something about PHP, sadly the plugin still lacks some features, but that’s why it’s beta.

33. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Sorry to bother you twice, but I noticed something that you might want to keep in mind. The plugin allows for one email to sign up more than once (unless I did something wrong?), and if I go into the options to delete one of the duplicate email addresses, it deletes both. I.E. I test signed up twice with my own email address, so it showed that 2 people had signed up. I checked one to delete, and it deleted both.

    Is there a way to set it up so that user cannot sign up twice with the same email?

    nope, as said before the plugin is still in beta.

34. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I can’t put this php code into the form to retrieve the mail list I created:

    Divia CMSNew BlogsNotifyMePageActivityPlugin UpdatesUseronlineWelcome Panel

    The php code is always removed by the HTML editor.

    Please help!

    Thanks

    PN
    

    You have to put the code into a template, not straight into a page,
    if you want to put a subscription link into a page use the following code;

    ERROR: Maillist "Page Updates" not found

    Note: This HAS been covered in the readme!

35. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Naatan;
    For give me for bing ignorant, but where’s the template you mentioned? If I have to create the template myself, where should I put it and how to call the template?

    Also, I would like to give access to some people with “editor” access level, where do I go to change the access level for NotifyMe?

    Thanks

    PN

    You can find your templates under the “Presentation” tab in the wordpress admin panel, you’ll probably want to put it in the sidebar template.

    Notifyme doesn’t have any access levels at this point.

36. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Dear naatan;

    I found this in your naatan_notifyme.php

    // Start the class for all the functions
    $naatan_notifyme = new naatan_notifyme_class();

    // add actions and filters
    add_action(’admin_menu’, array(&$naatan_notifyme,’naatan_notifyme_add_pages’),1);
    add_action(’publish_post’,array(&$naatan_notifyme,’naatan_notifyme_postblog’),1);
    add_filter(’the_content’, array(&$naatan_notifyme, ‘naatan_notifyme_contenthook’));

    I would like to put “NotifyME” menu where editor role can have access. Currently “NotifyMe” is placed in Admin menu and not available for editors to see. below is all the items an editor can see in “site Admin” mode:

    * Dashboard
    * Write
    * Manage
    * Comments
    * Blogroll
    * Plugins
    * Profile

    Your suggestion to put it in the sidebar template. Would this make notifyMe available for non-registered users as well?

    Thanks
    PN

    Have a look at the following bits of code in naatan_notifyme.php:

    // ## ADD LINKS TO ADMIN PANEL ##
    function naatan_notifyme_add_pages() {
    add_menu_page(’NotifyMe Mailing Lists’, ‘NotifyMe’, 8, ‘naatan_notifyme.php’,array(&$this,’naatan_notifyme_lists’));
    add_submenu_page(__FILE__, ‘Write E-Mail’, ‘Compose’, 8, ‘naatan_notifyme_write’,array(&$this,’naatan_notifyme_write’));
    add_submenu_page(__FILE__, ‘Import/Export E-Mails’, ‘Import/Export’, 8, ‘naatan_notifyme_importexport’,array(&$this,’naatan_notifyme_importexport’));
    add_submenu_page(__FILE__, ‘Configure NotifyMe’, ‘Configure’, 8, ‘naatan_notifyme_config’,array(&$this,’naatan_notifyme_config’));
    }

    The number 8 is the access level required to view these pages, the lower the number, the more people can see the pages, for more info check:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/User_Levels

    That should be enough info for you to change who can or cannot see these pages.

37. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I’m getting a 500 Internal Server Error when someone enters an email address. The email itself does go into the database just fine, and everything else seems to work - but when you hit “Submit” to send in the email, it always returns a 500 Internal Server Error. Would you have any ideas as to why this is? Seriously bizarre - *nothing* is showing up in the error logs at all.

    This really doesn’t give me enough information to go on, try analyzing the problem further, have a look at:

    http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E500.html

    Especially look into the server logs.

38. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Naatan,

    First, thanks for developing this plugin. It seems like it’s just what I need.

    However, I’m having a problem using is. I installed it with relative ease, but when I try to test it by entering an email address and pressing Subscribe, I get the following message:

    There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.

    But that’s not true, because I DO have a wp-config.php file.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,

    Warren

    I’m guessing either it’s conflicting with another plugin or you did not place your wordpress & plugin files correctly.

    Either way the error message your getting is not produced by (as in it’s not generated by - this does not mean it’s not “caused” by) my plugin.

    I’m quoting “caused” as if it is due to my plugin that you are getting this error message it is, as I said before, because you miss-placed some files.

39. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Dear Naatan;

    HTML tag is not recognized in the message body template. The resulting email put “” in front and at the end of the URL, making it invalid. For example:
    “…”
    Is there a way to change this to make it linkable?

    Thanks

    PN

    I’m guessing this has something to do with the mail headers I’m using for the script, I’ll see what I can do about this in any future releases.

40. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    hello i tried to post in your forum but i was having problems posting the code..the trouble im having with the notify me plugin is that i have it in my side bar.and if anyone puts in there email address..it says thanks for submitting..et.c but i don’t get anything on my end.. im not sure if i didnt add something to the code…

    my maillist id is 3

    my site is rzilla-online.com

    my maillist is rzilla-online

    please get back tome if you can help..thanks so much….

    It’s hard to find out what’s going wrong without doing some debugging for myself..

    Check if the data is entered into the database when someone subscribes, you can use phpmyadmin to do this.

    One possibility is that the data IS entered into the database but your browser does not support ajax properly.

    If you’re not technical enough to do this for yourself contact me on msn and we’ll see what we can do.

41. Rating: +1

    
    
    

    Hey Nathan, I used your plugin and it worked fine, untill I changed the permalinks to www.website.com/page instead of www.website.com/?page_id=1 etc. I get a 404 error page instead.

    Please download the latest version

42. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Nathan, there is a problem with the plugin not escaping unsafe mysql characters. e.g. someone entered in the email form:

    “if you don`t want to receive this messages email me at abuse@bestlil.info with URL of your site and i’ll take you off the list” as their name.

    See the single quote in “i’ll”. Now when I try to delete it from the list, I can’t do that. because I get an sql error:

    WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'll take you off the list. ;if you don`t want to receive this messages' at line 1]
    UPDATE naatan_notifyme SET people=’if you don`t want to receive this messages email me at abuse@bestlil.info with URL of your site and i’ll take you off the list. ;if you don`t want to receive this messages email me at abuse@bestlil.info with URL of your site and i’ll take you off the list.
    …

    That same spam bot, entered the same phrase in the email fielf of the form and the plugin happily accepted it, w/o any verification that the submitted data wasn’t matching an email format.

    Thank you.

    I’ve secured the mysql queries in the latest version, for more in depth verification please wait for the next version.

    As mentioned many times before, keep in mind that this plugin is in beta!

43. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    i recently upgraded to WordPress 2.5 and it is reporting a fatal error every time I try to activate it.is there anyway you can help?

    Please download version 1.04 from the download page.

44. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Is there a problem with the naatan_notifyme_v1.03c.zip
    file? I downloaded it but it seems to be corrupted. Have tryed redownloading it several times but when opening it always get the message compressed (zipped) folders error the compressed (zipped) folder is invalid or corrupted. Thanks for any help with this I would really like to check this plugin out.
    Jerry

    Please download version 1.04 from the download page.

45. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi Naatan, seems like your download script is not working properly
    Thank you for the nice plugins!
    Victor

    The script was working fine; the zip file got corrupted though.

    I suspect this happened while I was moving my sites to a new host.. anyway.. latest version has a workin zip

46. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    hi naaten - i just found the support area for notify me. i’m excited to try this plug-in out. i am using WP 2.1 at the moment with the sidebar plug-in. when i tried to install notify me iput the two files in the following places:

    notifyme.php was placed in root directory of website (above wp-content folder)

    naatan_notifyme.php was placed in the /wp-content/plugins/ directory

    when trying to install plugin, i received ‘fatal error’ messages indicating that a path could not be found and listing the error on line 26.

    my question - are my file paths right as far as you can tell, or is there a problem with version 2.1 of Wordpress that an upgrade would solve? thank you very much in advance for this.

    Scott L

    I’ve used the latest description on wordpress.org to have the plugin insert the needed sql data.. apperantly this isn’t compatible with older versions though.

    You can still download the older version, which should work fine:

    http://www.naatan.com/wp-content/files/naatan_notifyme_v1.03b.zip

47. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi Naatan,

    Composing in HTML (using Enable HTML) seems to be somewhat random. I am able to set for example font sizes but not an image?

    Are only certain tags allowed? Should I being using full HTML tags (i.e. starting with html and using head and body tags)?

    JD

    The HTML header tags I’m using for HTML mails are a bit insufficient to properly support HTML, I will fix this in the next version.

48. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I have rechecked my install and activation process for the plugin, however, every time I click on the submit button to add an email address I am taken to a BLANK notifyme.php page and no emails ever get sent.

    Any ideas?

    This is a known bug with slugs, I’ll fix this soon.

49. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Zip file is corrupt for naatan_notifyme_v1.04.zip

    Do you have an alternate download?

    Are you using Winrar? I have no problems here.

50. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi Nathan,

    I’d like to download the latest version of your plug-in to update it on my wordpress-page. Unfortunately I always get an 605bytes sized filed that I can’t open with any compression-software. It seems to be corrupted. Do you have an idea what the problem might be?

    Thank you very much. Your plug-in is the only one that just works fine and is easy to administer.

    Yours, Sascha

    Use Winrar for now, I’ll look into it later.. sorry I don’t have a lot of time atm.

51. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Downoad file corrupted…

    Hi. seems that your zip file v1.0.4 is corrupted, somehow due to a malfunction of your download manager plugin, I think. I can’t decompress the downloaded zip (it gives a total 605 Bytes) on a mac. tried several times, but without luck, on a PC and MAc.

    Can you check that, please?

    Thanks!!

    Use Winrar for now, I’ll look into it later.. sorry I don’t have a lot of time atm.

52. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Thanks for this great tool for WP.
    Is there any the chance in the future to send the blog posts to our lists via the write panel and chose which list to send? I’m not sure if it was this plugin that I used 2 years ago on WP 1.5 to send regular newsletters, but there was an option for that bellow the post wysiwyg… and it worked perfectly.

    I’ll keep it in mind for possible future versions.

53. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hello Nathan.
    Thank you for your wonderful plugin. You really saved many sleeples night for me!

    I’m glad you like it

54. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I am getting the following error when the subscribe button is pressed.

    
    Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
    Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    I am using the third example, with required email, in a page template, header and footer, with the same result.

    Any ideas?

    WP 2.6, NotifyMe 1.04, PHP5
    

    Check your system log (usually /var/log/apache/error.log or /var/log/httpd/error.log) to get more info on the error.. if you don’t have root access check your control panel, like cpanel or webmin..

    I really can’t help you with what you’ve given me.

55. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Hi, your plugin is great. I have just one problem: if the fields for subscribing are emty the entry still gets excepted on submit and creates ‘empty’ subscriber in database. How do I make these fields obligatory?
    Thanks
    Ina

    There is no option for this, the current version is Beta and I have not focussed much on validation with it..

56. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Nice Plugin - The only Plugin I found with post-based notification and sending mails manually.
    But a “Double Opt In” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opt_in_e-mail) would be cool in the future. In Germany it is not allow to send advertising mails to a person without the permission of the person. “Double Opt In” is the solution for that problem. Therefore I must use “Post Notification” (http://pn.strübe.de/)…but without sending mails manually

    Thanks for the suggestion, I will consider it.

57. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    > > I can’t see Compose, Import/Export, Configure
    > > what’s wrong?
    > > thanks

    > Hard to say from what you’ve given me.. possibly the plugin didnt get > activated properly..

    the rest of the plugin is visible, so I guess it is activated.
    but I can’t try anything because of the missing menu…
    please, can you tell me what other information do you need me to give?
    thanks

    This is the first time I’ve heard about a bug like this, what wordpress version are you using? And are you using a custom theme or another plugin that might cause this behaviour?

58. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    I can’t see Compose, Import/Export, Configure
    what’s wrong?
    thanks

    Hard to say from what you’ve given me.. possibly the plugin didnt get activated properly..

59. Rating: +0

    
    
    

    Thanks for the plugin, it’s quite cool. One thing I’d like is to know when an email address is bouncing when I sent a message. I expected to get bouncebacks at the address I set in the “from address” field, but I’m not getting them. Does NotifyMe support this, and if so how?

    No, notifyme is very basic in it’s setup, it is by no means a “complete all-in-one solution”.

    Technically you should get bouncebacks on the “from” address though.. I’ll check it out.