i am really excited to announce that none other than Jeff Star (perishablepress.com) is willing to take over development of Post Notif
i think you have provided the very best in self-hosted content notification plugins and believe me, i looked LONG and HARD for a replacement and came up empty
i suspect/hope that Jeff will have little trouble picking up where you left off given your ability and the great features you coded into this baby, as well as his talent
Jeff sent an email to your website domain, but i’m not sure there’s a website still there – if you want to provide another address privately, you can do at his site or mine (12bytes.org/contact)
]]>After much deliberation, I am moving away from WordPress. There are many reasons for this decision but I won’t bore you with the details. Suffice it to say, this also means I will be ending development and support of my plugins (Post Notif and Local Like And Share). Consequently, I will be requesting their removal from the www.ads-software.com plugin directory sometime shortly after September 1st, unless someone capable and reputable is interested in adopting one or both of them. If you are someone well-versed in WordPress development and are interested, please reach out to me via email (wppluginadoption at [my first name][my last name] dot com). Thank you to all who have sent nice words of encouragement over the past 4+ years. I’ve learned a lot about maintaining open source software and know that my experiences in the WordPress world will continue to influence my future projects.
For those who wish to continue using Post Notif beyond its removal from the directory, you may certainly do so. Just know that there will be neither further updates as WordPress core’s technology continues to evolve nor any security updates if vulnerabilities are discovered. Remember that if you do choose to switch to another post notification plugin, you can export your subscribers, at any time, via the Dashboard (Post Notif >> Manage Subscribers >> Select All checkbox, Export bulk action).
Take care,
Devon
I have installed version 1.3.0. When someone subscribes to receive post notification they never receive the confirmation email. I have tried several of my personal emails and none of them receive notification.
I do show them as an unconfirmed subscriber in my dashboard.
]]>hi Devon – i realize your situation regarding WPv5 and the state of PN, however i’ll post this anyway in the event you have a change of heart and continue development (and i hope you do because after much searching, PN is the only good notify plug i could find – great work!)
WP v5.0.2 – NOT using the “gooberberg” editor!
PN v1.3.0
at first i didn’t understand the full import process and this resulted in the ‘duplicate email’ message in the ‘staged subscribers’ table – ok, so that should have been expected
so then i deleted all the users from both staged and subscriber pages and re-imported them all again, and again i got the duplicate email message for several of them (there were no duplicates) – didn’t matter what i did, i could not import without this problem and the number of imports marked as duplicate was not consistent
only after i disabled and re-enabled the plug did the import work without issue
]]>Hello,
The value for the post_notif_shortcode_atts_set_names option in the wp_options table is extremely large (over 40 MiB) and is causing problems with backup processes that attempt to mysqldump the websites database. (Got packet bigger than ‘max_allowed_packet’ bytes.)
I see the value is read/updated every time the form is rendered by the function render_subscriber_form(), however shouldn’t it be overwriting the values stored and not storing a new attribute set each time?
What is the best way to fix this issue and clean up this value?
]]>Due to other demands on my time, I am going to take a break from working on WordPress-related projects, including development of Post Notif “v2.0”, for the next two months. At year’s end I will be re-evaluating the WordPress landscape and determining what my level of participation, for 2019, will be. This pause will also allow for some of the dust to settle following Gutenberg’s (hasty?) assimilation into core.
With the exception of becoming aware of security vulnerabilities in Post Notif, I am not planning to release any new versions beyond 1.3.0. I encourage anyone who needs functionality (or performance) they are unable to get by using Post Notif, to consider migrating to another one of the fine post notification plugins here in the www.ads-software.com directory. Remember that you can export your subscribers, at any time, via the Dashboard (Post Notif >> Manage Subscribers >> Select All checkbox, Export bulk action).
Thanks,
Devon
Hi, is it possible to manually add a suscriber?
Thank you.
Hi Devon,
Just a short feedback…. I am testing Guttenberg Editor-Plugin to sneak the upcoming changes, as this new Editor will become Standard in next Major Release.
PostNotif 1.5 lost the OptionSwitch to send E-Mails out to the Subscribers automatically or not. It’s not a big deal …. maybe, but as you are rewriting your Plugin it might be interesting that Guttenberg might affect anyhow other Plugin-Settings and/or functions.
]]>Hello,
I am having the follwing issue:
In my html source I have this:
Geen berichten? Afmelden
This results in this in the mail:
Geen berichten? https://www.loozermarsnoord.nl/post_notif/unsubscribe/?email_addr=h****@********.nl&authcode=jsG4jdpa3wlc4TH38gTeMjOFpRzXY3C4″>Afmelden
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance for your reaction.
With kind regards,
Hans
Hi,
Is it possible to disable the ‘all’ option on the page you get where you can subscribe to the different categories? Disabling in the admin doesn’t work.
Regards
]]>Hi there,
I just moved a WP website to my host where the website uses your plugin. But now when we send a notification it says its in progress but the amount of notifications send keeps being stuck on 0 of 0.
Is there anyway to debug this problem?
]]>Do you have any plans to add an ‘Opt-in’ for GDPR compliance?
Thanks
Luketom.com
Hi,
When I click on any link in an email, I am always redirected to the homepage (and it’s keeping the query string).
When it’s for validating an email, the email is validated before the redirection (I can see it OK in the backend).
When it’s for managing the categories, I’m redirected on the homepage. I tried adding some die() in your code, and I can see that create_fake_page is called and that the $posts variable is correct.
Do you have any other clues on what can trigger this?
I have tried another theme (2017) and I have the same result.
Thank you,
]]>If i try to export the contacts it will only have around 900/3800 people in the CSV file. Any idea why this would happen?
]]>Hi,
I was wondering if there was a way to receive a notification when a new user subscribes. (ie, for the Admin to receive an email when that happens)
Thanks
I know several people have customized their CSS to modify the appearance of the subscriber form generated in the Post Notif widget.
With the introduction of the subscriber form-generating shortcode in version 1.3.0, the same generic subscriber form template markup (located in: ../post-notif/public/views/post-notif-public-subscriber-form.php) is used for the widget and any uses of the shortcode (in posts and on pages). Consequently, the HTML element ids that your custom CSS likely targeted, have been renamed. I apologize for any confusion, frustration, and mangled forms this results in, but I am hopeful that the flexibility these changes make possible will more than compensate for the inconvenience of having to modify your CSS.
Please consult the FAQ (search for “shortcode”), as there is a comprehensive explanation of how to use this new functionality whether you intend to continue to use only the widget for subscriber sign up or if you want to delve into supplementing or replacing the widget with forms directly in your posts and/or on your pages.
If you don’t want to delve into using the shortcode right away, but just want to keep your custom widget form styling as-is, I would suggest modifying your custom CSS to target the (new) classes instead of the (old) ids, particularly since you’ll see that the ids now have variable endings (to account for possible multiple shortcode uses on a single page/post + widget).
Thanks,
Devon
Hi there,
a client of mine is using post notif Version: 1.0.5 and tells me that sending the mail to her 3500 people takes forever to send. Is this just the plugin not able to handle these ammounts of people to send to or is there anything else going on? If any information is needed i can provide.
]]>Hello,
When i posted a post the notif keeps getting stuck on the ‘post is pending’ status, i try to resolve this by manually resetting the status in the DB but after that the same keeps happening. This already happened with the last 3 posts.
]]>Hi,
Normally I have the post notif settings on automatically, but in one way or another I had it on manually with my last two posts on my website.
So now there was no notification sent. How can I sent the notifications manually afterwards. The only thing I see at the Manage Post Notifs Sent page is a button “Pause”. So I clicked on this button and now I get the message on this page that both notifications are under consideration (“in behandeling”).
When will the notifications be sent and how can I sent them immediately manually?
Thanks for the support.
Regards,
Theo
]]>Hi,
Great plugin! I am finding it perfect for what I need.
However, I am having a hard time personalizing the design of the widget on the page.
How could I remove the indent that appears to the left of the “Submit” button? And is there any way I can increase the space between the two input fields?
Thank you!
I am able to get the confirmation link as well as confirm myself. When I get the email to choose which categories I am subscribed to, the link just takes me to the home page.
The unsubscribe link works (it does unsubscribe) but I don’t get any notification or confirmation.
Please help!
]]>Hi Devon,
for the creating of posts in the frontend I use the plugin “frontier post settings”.
For every post which has been posted in the frontend no notification mail is send.
In the backend the custom field “send_notif_on_publish” is set to “no” and the post notif is shown as “manually”.
When I create a new post in the backend the custom field “send_notif_on_publish” is set to “yes” and post notif is shown as “auto”.
The parameter for sending is set to “auto” in the settings of post notification.
How could this behaviour be changed to auto for posting in the frontend?
Best Regards,
Mathias
Hi,
I can receive the test email from the plugin “Check Email” (https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/check-email/) but cannot receive the confirmation email and test email from “Post Notif”.
Please help, thanks.
]]>In general this plugin works well. This happens for at least one specific domain, maybe more but I don’t know. Any subscriber with an email in the @bkfoptimum.pl domain gets immediately two emails:
First comes the email confirming the subscription.
Second comes the email asking to click on a link to confirm subscription.
None of the links in the emails work. Subscriber cannot confirm or unsubscribe.
In the Post Notif panel in WordPress Admin page, the subscriber is not in the list.
Users with emails in other Polish domains, GMail, Outlook.com etc. are able to register, but nobody with an email in @bkfoptimum.pl domain is able to subscribe. Very strange.
]]>Subscribers do not receive the confirmation email, please help me.
]]>I uploaded a group of around 500 email addresses without staging
First post notifications have been sent out to ~100 recipients, using manual send, then it stopped at 17% and didn’t want to go any further. After refreshing the post the message “Post notif for this post is already IN PROCESS. Please check back later.” shows up.
2. The same thing happened when the other post was created and scheduled for sending. Stopped sending out when reached around 100 of emails.
3. I turned off and on again the plugin but it didn’t help, it still says it’s IN PROCESS.
Is there a log file that could indicate what was the source of the problem? Do you think it’s gmail related (I use smtp) or maybe Wordfence? Any help with it would be appreciated.
]]>Hi. I’m using the plugin Very Simple Event List, to publish events being held at our local town hall. When I Create a new (normal) post, I get the Post Notif control at the bottom, when I add a new Event, I would like the same facility. Is it possible to allow Post Notif to pick up these Events and notify subscribers please?
Post Notif Version 1.1.4 | By Devon Ostendorf
Very Simple Event List Version 6.4 | By Guido van der Leest
Many thanks,
Stephen
Please see the following for a comprehensive explanation of where things are and where they’re headed.. :
https://devonostendorf.com/2017/07/on-the-state-of-post-notif-v1-1-5-development/
Thanks,
Devon
Hi Devon,
I am trying to make your email notifications respect the HTML of the body of the post. (Right now the notification is just bunched together text with no line breaks etc.) To accomplish this I am trying to use the “Advanced Excerpt” plugin but it seems your plugin (which is great!) does not respect these “custom excerpts”. Is there a tag that will use the plain old WP excerpt (the one this except is modifying?)
I just need the notification email to look nicer. It’s a requirement from my boss ??
Thanks in advance for your help!
]]>Hiya Devon. I’m back.
Latest version of Post Notif has been working flawlessly with auto notification. Thanks again for those changes.
Been tweaking my website for responsive design and am having problems with the Post Notif subscription widget. Take a look at how it displays here:
https://sky-lights.org/subscribe_to_sky_lights/
I’ve been trying to adjust the font style and box size via CSS but can’t seem to find the right selectors to affect those elements. For example, how would I change the fonts size in CSS? And how would I get rid of the space between the widget title and the form?
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