Emails when updating existing pages

@nilrog,

The digest emails are based on the date of the post, if you update the content but leave the date the same it currently won’t be included in a digest email. You can work around this by changing the date of the post (but that will change your post order).

Note: I did not refer to posts I was talking about pages.

Is it the same for pages? It will “work” if we change the date?

If we need to do that then it is truly a big limitation of this plugin ??

@nilrog,

Same applies to pages. With pages changing the date is much easier as it won’t impact ordering so much less of a limitation for you.

I’m actually working on a better way but I don’t want to release untested code. Even then the post status needs to be ‘transitioned’. So, on editing the page it needs to be changed to draft and then re-published.

Well, it it less limiting in the sense that it doesn’t reorder them.

But it is still something everyone that is working in this WordPress CMS MUST remember to do.

Is there no way in WordPress to see if a page has been updated without transitioning the state?

@nilrog,

Not that I am aware of. Also consider that some users of Subscribe2 do not want a new notification sent for an update post.

Yes, but for pages, when you use WordPress mostly as a CMS and not a blog, then you do want to be able to be updated whenever a page is modified.

@nilrog,

That may be the case but some people still use WordPress as a blog. I write Subscribe2 so that I can use it on my sites and a good number of it’s features are not used by me, but have been implemented for others for free. While I am happy to extend functionality this is with the proviso that it doesn’t caused unexpected behaviour for other users which will no doubt create a lot of additional support work for me.

Of course. For all functionality there are users that doesn’t want it to behave in a specific manner. That is why most software can be configured…

@nilrog,

… or is open source so you can edit and configure to meet your own needs.

I am also using WordPress as a CMS system and would like to receive emails when a page or post is updated. Couldnt it be solved with a configuration parameter telling what way it should work, eighter on new posts and pages or on new and updated posts and page?

@erikture,

You make it sound so incredibly easy, but until there is a WordPress action that I can hook into for a post update event then any patch would have to rely on transitions and authors remembering to change the post date (or status when I push an update on code I have in alpha).

If you want to submit me some code that implements a better approach I’ll happily review it for merging with the current code.

Unfortunatly I can not supply any code, I am a C# and Java programmer.
I am a totaly novice on PHP and WordPress.

I did get the impression that you know how to do both variants but not both of them at the same time.

@erikture,

I’m flattered you have taken that impression.

I’m not aware of a hook (API) that would allow easy linking to updated posts and while I could attempt it I do t think it would be very successful. Also, since I work 50+ hours per week in healthcare provision and code Subscribe2 as a hobby I could not commit the Tim necessary to a project of that size.