Devon Ostendorf
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Manually sending notificationsHi mayrk,
Thanks for giving Post Notif a try! I’m sorry, however, to hear that you are running into similar issues as Theo.
I can’t say I have any familiarity with Synology so I am afraid I don’t know how PHP is configured on their boxes.
A root cause for the problem(s) described on this thread has still not been identified though I’d certainly pursue eradicating it if/when it is isolated.
If you are willing to try one more thing, I’d be curious to see what happens if you install version 1.1.5. As in, do your post notifications get sent successfully?
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Formatting widgetHi heatherbodlak,
I hope that, with version 1.3.0’s vastly expanded widget customization opportunities, you have been able to get the widget to look the way you’d like it to (especially since the changes to id and class conventions rendered my previous response out-of-date 🙂 ).
Since it has been a couple of months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark it as resolved.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Category Options Not AvailableHi chrisgarn,
I hope you’ve been able to get things to work with Post Notif or another post notification plugin. Since it has been a couple of months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark it as resolved.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] send_notif_on_publish always no while posting through frontendHi Mathias,
I hope you’ve been able to get things to work in conjunction with the Frontier Post Settings plugin. Since it has been several months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark it as resolved.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Cannot Receive Confirmation Email and Test EmailHi umcms,
I hope you’ve been able to get things to work for you. Since it has been several months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark it as resolved.
Thanks,
DevonHi Bart,
I hope you’ve been able to get things working. Since it has been several months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark it as resolved.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Post Notif and Very Simple Event ListHi Stephen,
I hope you’ve found a suitable replacement that meets your post notification needs in conjunction with your usage of the Very Simple Event List plugin. Since it has been several months since there’s been activity on this thread, I am going to mark it as resolved.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Export contacts.Hi sjoerd89,
I do not know for a fact why this would be happening, as this is the first report I’ve received about an issue with the subscriber export functionality. However, my suspicion is that it relates to PHP timing out mid-process. Which tells me I really need to re-visit the export functionality, particularly in light of the changes I made in v1.2.0 (to account for PHP timeouts in the send post notification functionality). Are you getting any web server errors displayed/logged anywhere that might provide additional context as to the root cause of the problem?
In the meantime, I don’t suppose you have access directly to your database? Preferably via a tool like phpMyAdmin? If so, you can run the following SQL (substituting in your table prefix, if it is not the default ‘wp_’) to dump a list of all of your subscribers and the categories they are subscribed to:
SELECT wpns.id, email_addr, first_name, cat_id FROM wp_post_notif_subscriber wpns JOIN wp_post_notif_sub_cat wpnsc ON (wpnsc.id = wpns.id) order by wpns.id;SELECT cat_id, name from wp_post_notif_sub_cat wpnsc JOIN wp_terms wt ON (wt.term_id = wpnsc.cat_id) order by cat_id;Note that those subscribed to cat_id = 0 are subscribed to “All” categories, rather than individual ones. With some Excel (or similar spreadsheet) tinkering, I hope this will get you what you’re after, until I can get a better idea of why you are only getting a partial set of your subscribers via the export process.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Manually sending notificationsHi Theo,
I’m very sorry to hear that Post Notif is still not working for you. I sincerely appreciate the effort you’ve put in to help me try to get things to work for you but I’m afraid I’m at a loss for how to advise you to proceed. Other than to re-state the obvious, which is [to say] that the way the code is presently written it doesn’t appear to work on your server.
I know a lot of people use MailPoet, Email Subscribers & Newsletters, Better Notifications for WordPress, and Subscribe2 (among others), for post notification, so I’d encourage you to check these out and see if they work for you.
As a last resort, if you cannot find another plugin to provide the functionality you need, you could consider exporting your subscribers from Post Notif, de-activating and deleting Post Notif, and then re-installing an older version of Post Notif (when it worked well for you), re-importing your subscribers, and ignoring the “updates available” messages.
Again, I’m sorry this has been such a pain for you!
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Manually sending notificationsHi Theo (and smix),
Re-reading my last post I see that what I said was confusing.
What I intended to say was that WP Cron IS required for Post Notif to work. I wanted to confirm that you had NOT disabled WP Cron either directly or via another plugin because that (the inability of WP Cron to run) could be the culprit preventing your send process from working.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Reveive notification when someone subscribesHi heatherbodlak,
I’m afraid that functionality is not available in the plugin today, sorry.
I’m not sure if you’re comfortable modifying PHP, but, if so, it wouldn’t be terribly difficult to modify the subscriber_form_ajax_handler() function (located in ../post-notif/public/class-post-notif-public.php) and add some corresponding code to the Post_Notif_Misc class (located in ../post-notif/includes/class-post-notif-misc.php) to do what you’re after.
In any case, I will add this to the list of potential future enhancements.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Manually sending notificationsHi Theo,
I’m sorry things are still not working for you. I can explain the setting changing from “Auto” to “Manual”, however. That is, as designed, to prevent inadvertent re-sending of post notifications for a post that is updated after initial publish.
As I mentioned before, a LOT of code did change, as a part of the version 1.2.0 update, so it is unlikely we’d be able to isolate exactly which change made this stop working in your server environment. One thing I did just think of, though, is whether you have WP Cron disabled? As of 1.2.0 it is required, even for “Send Now”/”Auto” send on publish.
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Sending timeHi sjoerd89,
I would strongly recommend updating Post Notif to a more current version. I just released version 1.3.0, yesterday afternoon, but if you install at least version 1.2.0, you will have a way to identify how far through the subscriber list the process has gone. Also (starting in 1.2.0), you have the ability to pause/restart/cancel individual notification processes and the send process itself is bolstered to prevent PHP timeouts, which should improve things too.
Hope this helps,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Manually sending notificationsHi Theo,
Thanks for the update; I will cross my fingers that things work better for your next post!
Thanks,
DevonForum: Plugins
In reply to: [Post Notif] Notifications stuck on ‘post pending’Hi Theo,
Happy 2018 to you, as well!
I’m sorry you’re having similar issues to Steven.
Yes, version 1.2.0 introduced a significant amount of code change. I am not sure which SQL file you are referring to?
In any case, I hope things work better when you send your next post; please do let me know.
Thanks,
Devon