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Honestly, I’m not sure what would be the problem. I tried subbing to your site, and sure enough, I didn’t get a confirmation email. I haven’t hit this snag myself in using subscribe2, so it’s really hard for me to help.

This is an example of why Skippy stopped offering support I think – the variables with your host for mail are so great, that it’s hard to be able to tell what the problem is, without working directly with your server and such. (And even then I’d only barely know what I was doing…)

Sorry I can’t be of more help.

shark – though this probably should have its own thread, I’ll see if I can help.

Are you sure all the email addresses you’ve got subscribed are confirmed? (You either have to click the link in the confirmation email that should have been sent, or make sure they’re in the confirmed column)

Are they subscribed to all categories?

I’m not sure about a PHP script, but this info could be gathered from phpMyAdmin in seconds. Despite your nickname, I don’t know how familiar you are with phpMyAdmin, so I’ll give you some basic instructions. Apologies if I’m erring on either side – if it’s too generic, post back and I’ll see if I can help more. ??

Login to phpMyAdmin and go to the table wp_comments, click the SQL tab at the top, and put in the following query:

SELECT comment_author_email FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_ID = "XXX"

Substituting the XXX for the post ID you’re trying to get the info for. You should then be able to export the results into a CSV file to work with.

Suscribe2 automatically sends a notification (using the template) to anyone who is subscribed as soon as you publish the post. Try subscribing yourself using a couple of other email addresses (get a Yahoo or Gmail one if you don’t already have ’em), then make a test post. (If you don’t have any subscribers, it doesn’t send anything out if I’m remembering correctly.) You should get that email, both to your admin email account and all subscribed email accounts.

The link to send a message to subscribers that you’re clicking on is a separate feature – just a way for you to send a note to all subscribers at once (not a blog post).

Does that make sense? ??

Actually Viper, Skippy has decided to no longer offer personal support for his plugins and in fact directs everyone here. (And seeing the huge number of support requests he gets, I can well understand.)

Not that I actually have the answer to this problem, as I don’t have any subscribers that aren’t subbed to all cats.

Anyone know the answer?

This is actually one that you can modify easily from the Dashboard. Go to Links > Link Categories, then click edit to edit your categories. Look for the dropdown labeled “Sort order” – right now it’s probably set to random. Choose the one you’d like, and there you go. ??

Yup, you just need to add the link without hyperlinking it. Most (if not all) modern email clients automatically recognized https:// and www and convert them to links anyway. ??

If you’re able to get to WP ever – as you said sometimes if you hit refresh it was ok – then you’ve got the correct username, password, and hostname. (If those were wrong, you’d never be able to connect.) So yeah, eliminating those means it pretty much has to be the database server.

Honestly, I have no idea what would be causing the duplications then. I haven’t had that problem myself, so it’s hard for me to even begin to troubleshoot. I would guess it has something to do with the fact that you’re using the digest version (or at least your other post indicated that), and since I don’t use that feature, I can’t really help with that. And Skippy has decided to no longer offer support for his plugins, understandably because he’s been inundated with support requests that he’s not able to solve because of the myriad variables that exist.

Sorry I couldn’t be of more help on that issue.

Using subscribe2, the page where you have them sign up has the option to unsubscribe. (So on your blog, https://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/subscribe2-form/ ) — there are two selections, subscribe or unsubscribe.

I have a line in my sub email that says “If you’d like to unsubscribe, go to [link to my subscribe2 page]”, so that there’s unsub info in every email.

As for the multiple messages – no, I’m not seeing this myself. Are all of your subscribers getting multiple emails? If it’s just you – remember, when it sends mail it’s really sending you a message and then BCCing everyone else, and if you’ve got some subscribers getting HTML and some plain text, it has to send you both of those to get them out. Plus, I think (though I’m not sure of this) there’s a batching function as well, so if you have a LOT of subscribers, it may have to send several rounds (meaning you’d get a lot of emails). I only have about 10 subbers to my blog though, so I don’t know about that part really.

My guess is that your host is having some problems with their database server. That error means exactly what it says it does – WP isn’t able to connect to the database. If you’re able to connect ever, then the username and pwd is right – so it has to be the database itself, which is something your host controls. You might try checking with them about it.

Though there are many differing opinions on the topic at large, I think the Codex entry for Hardening_WordPress (specifically the file permissions section) has most of this covered.

This can be done by adding a new button to quicktags.js in wp-includes/js/ — however, be aware that in doing that, you’re editing a file that will get overwritten in upgrades so you’ll want to make sure you remember that when you upgrade.

So I’ll break here and offer a better solution first – in your CSS, set the spacing for your P tag to something else – add a line like p {padding-bottom: 25px;} and this will automatically insert that extra space for you and be more standards correct than having a bunch of extra line breaks (play with the number to get the spacing you’re looking for). Not only that, you don’t have to click another button every time. ??

If you’re just dead set on having that button though (it’s a lot more work all the way around, so I would really urge you to play with the CSS) — Podz has a good tutorial on how to do it here: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/quicktags/

Usually this is in your index.php file in your Theme. The template tag comments_popup_link is what controls this – just find that line in your index.php, and you can change the parameter for 0 comments to be whatever you like.

Actually, not all of your feeds come back as not found – the ones for Accounting and Customer Service works just fine, and you have articles in those.

The only ones that error out for me are the ones that don’t have any posts associated with them (like Auditing). If there are no articles, there’s no RSS feed.