unklee

Hi thanks. Yes you’ve got it! I never would have looked there. But that explains why the code doesn’t appear when I search – it;s in the database, not the files.

Thanks heaps.

I am using the latest version of WordPress, and WP Captcha-Free works perfectly. I can only guess that your problem isn’t the plugin, but something else, or a clash with something else. It may be worth trying deactivating some other plkugins as a trial.

OK thanks for that confirmation.

I am a very small and inexpert user, but something didn’t sound good about my present plugin use being disabled to force me to upgrade. So I went searching and found quite a lot of anti-Jetpack commentary on the web, mostly criticising it for doing pushy things users might expect of Facebook but don’t expect of WordPress. I know WP/Automatic has to pay the bill, but this feels a little wrong.

I’m sure I won’t experience issues if I make the connection, but I’ll actually experience less issues if I delete Jetpack. Not sure which way I’ll go yet.

Thanks for giving me the answer, even if it wasn’t the answer I wanted! ??

Thanks, I just needed to be re-assured.

MattyRob

Feedback for the record, in case anyone else benefits.

Your instructions worked fine and I didn’t need to exclude the pages (the thing I was most unsure about) – I couldn’t see any reason for me to do so. So I:

• Modified the subscribe page to have welcome text but no buttons.
• Set up an unsubscribe page to have ‘farewell’ text plus an unsubscribe button.
• Modified the dashboard widget to have a subscribe button only, plus a link to the unsubscribe page in the Post-content text.
• Put a link to the unsubscribe page in the email text.
• Styled the widget in my theme’s style.css.

The only difficulty was styling. The Pre- and Post-content text does not have any styling (according to Firebug) and any styling I add in the widget boxes doesn’t work (despite a statement in an update – about 6.2 – that it does). So I had to style using div.search, #s2_form_widget-3 form, #s2_form_widget-3 p.s2_message and #s2_form_widget-3 p.s2_error. But once I figured those out (it took a little testing + Firebug) it was easy enough.

So thanks a lot. I now have one click subscription (plus a second click on the subscribe email), two click unsubscribe, separate welcome and departure messages, and a link in the emails which go out after each post. Now all I need are a few more subscribers!

Thanks heaps!

MattyRob,

Thanks so much, that was great and unexpected.

I understand your wish to avoid support requests, and can accept the lack of an unsubscribe link in the outgoing emails more easily now that I can see the way forward for the separate subscribe and unsubscribe pages. In fact I could perhaps put a link in the standard email, not to automatically unsubscribe, but to the unsubscribe page.

That would mean having only the subscribe button in the sidebar widget which links to a subscribe page with a welcome message and no button at all, and a separate sidebar link going to an unsubscribe page with an unsubscribe button and a goodbye message.

So I’ll have to see if I understand what you have said well enough to do it, but I think I can do it.

Thanks heaps. I’ll report back (if not for your benefit then at least for anyone else who finds this page via Google as I did).

G’day, I agree with many of the things markrand said. I think it is a fabulous plugin, and I realise it is being maintained by a volunteer who is kind enough to share their work with the rest of us. So I can’t expect it to have everything I want.

Nevertheless, I would like to record some suggestions just in case you want to take them up:

• Some way of distinguishing between a Subscribe/unsubscribe page which we can get to via the Meta or Subscribe widgets, and the ‘You have successfully subscribed’ and ‘You have successfully unsubscribed’ pages, so there can be different messages on each.
• This would require (I think) either the ability to alter the messages or having three separate pages.
• The ability to unsubscribe directly from a link in the regular email advising of a new post, as most subscriptions allow.

But regardless, thank you for making this available, it is better than Jetpack’s subscribe.

Thanks for taking the trouble. These things are all basic but I just couldn’t quite get them clear in my head.

I think I get it. Are users simply anyone who makes a comment? In which case they cannot be deleted.

Thanks MattyRob, but even after reading that article, I still don’t understand what a registered user is. I must be dumb, but:

• I know how people subscribe (Subscribe2 puts a widget in my blog’s sidebar), and I see them listed in my Tools: Manage Subscribers page,
• and I see users listed under the User tab, but I don’t know how people register as users.

Can you or someone else clarify this for me please? (Sorry, but I’ve searched and searched and everything I’ve read seems to assume I understand these basics.)