[Plugin: Gwolle-GB] Email notifications not working

Hello Dean,

thanks for your opinion.
Now for the problem you have, I didn’t tested it with multiuser WP. I’m going to do this, just to see what plugin’s are installed and if there’s something that’s not compatible.
Just to make sure: Does the settings page of the guestbook display the checkbox for subscribing to the notification service, or does it say that mail is not enabled?
It’s actually really interesting that you installed WP-Mail-SMTP on your WP, because when developing Gwolle-GB I wondered about SMTP support for the notifications, but then I thought that this would be no problem.
As I said, I’m going to install that on my WP installation (also on Mac OS X ?? and see what I can do to get this work for you.

By saying

I would have expect I could use this page to approve comments awaiting moderation.

do you mean that the guestbook->entries screen is missing a quick link for approving entries, or do I get you wrong here?

You’re welcome!
– Wolfgang

/edit: If the checkbox with the notification enabled, you may try to change the file “frontend/do-saveNewEntry.php”: Modify line 174 where it says mail($subscriber ... and change the mail to wp_mail. This way, the SMTP plugin for WP may be used. I’d like to hear if that does the job for you, as I then would include this change in the next release.

Wolfgang,

I am happy to help you debug for MU. The settings page has check boxes for moderation, notify and notify always. It also says that there is “no subscriber yet” and I see no way to add a subscriber. Presumably this is hy I am not being notified – it is not using the administrator address as a default.

I made the change to do-saveNewEntry.php with no apparent changes. Note that this is line 172 in my version and the code is:
wp_mail($emails[$i], $subject, $mail_body, $header);
$subscriber is $emails in my version.

My question on web based entry approval … I do not see a way to approve pending entries that appear on the GuestBook->Entries tab. Their status s shown and I can click to select them but there is no action button to approve them.

And an aesthetic request … at the bottom of the settings tab you have the SAVE button and then below that the UNINSTALL button. I’d suggest moving the UNINSTALL button to the right of the window or making it a different style or something. I know I am visiting settings a lot right now but it becomes to easy for me to check a box at the top and blindly scroll to the bottom of the window – I always have to pause to make sure I click the right action button. Or perhaps a duplicate SAVE settings button at the top of the window as well.

Thanks for your help – let me know what I can try to help the process.

Dean

Is there a place to manually enter my email address into a WP table so we can remove this aspect of the situation? I do not see anything in sitemeta or usermeta that looks like it belongs to Gwolle-GB.

Dean

Hey Dean,

I am happy to help you debug for MU. The settings page has check boxes for moderation, notify and notify always. It also says that there is “no subscriber yet” and I see no way to add a subscriber.

Every user of your WP installation who wants to be notified has to check that notification-box himself.
The checkboxes you’re talking about have different meanings.
Moderation means that every new entry is instantly visible on your guestbook without the need of your approval.
Notify will send an email to the the address of the account you’re using to check that checkbox. It will always say “no subscriber yet”, because that list won’t include your name. I can make an entry in that list for the existing account too, maybe that’ll make things clearer for people.
Notify always is an option to be notitifed no matter if that new entry was marked as spam or not. If you check that you’ll always get a mail when someone hits the submit button (and, of course, entered the reCAPTCHA (if activated) correctly).

I made the change to do-saveNewEntry.php with no apparent changes. Note that this is line 172 in my version and the code is:
wp_mail($emails[$i], $subject, $mail_body, $header);
$subscriber is $emails in my version.

What is the version number of Gwolle-GB you’re running? I thought if you changed the mail() to wp_mail() the SMTP plugin would work. Have you received any notifications yet? Just to make sure: Log in with your admin account, double check the email address for this account on the profile page, then go to the settings page of Gwolle-GB and check the “Notify me…” option. Save your settings, write an entry via the front page and check your emails. If it still doesn’t work please write me an email to gwolle (at) wolfgangtimme (dot) de and we’ll check on that again; you may also use this forum, but I check my emails more often, so we should be quicker that way.

My question on web based entry approval … I do not see a way to approve pending entries that appear on the GuestBook->Entries tab. Their status s shown and I can click to select them but there is no action button to approve them.

That’s right, I noticed the checkboxes too. I was going to make them work in a future release, but for now you have to go on “Details” and then check “.. unlocked” and apply that change to the entry.

And an aesthetic request … at the bottom of the settings tab you have the SAVE button and then below that the UNINSTALL button. I’d suggest moving the UNINSTALL button to the right of the window or making it a different style or something.

You’re so right. ?? When I recently updated my version of Gwolle-GB, I found myself clicking on that ‘uninstall’ button, at the same moment getting the feeling that this was the wrong one.
In the newest release (it’s not out, though) I integrated a check for this. You’re asked “Do you really want to…” and have to click on “OK” to uninstall it. I’m thinking about a nicer way for this; I don’t want anyone to mistakenly delete their entry table.

Thanks for your help, I really appreciate that.

Greetings from the north of Germany!
Wolfgang

Wolfgang – since my questions are MU realted and seem to be specific to that version let’s take this discussion offline.

I posted a query over in the MU forums as well. But let’s debug this and then close back to say all is well here and there.

Dean

Hello,

I just installed your plugin on a page, and I have 2 questions – First, is there a way to modify the language? Second, I signed to test it and have not received email notification. Thanks for your help!