Devon Ostendorf

Hi oekoplatt,

As I look at how long this thread has been open, I am embarrassed that it has taken this long to address your initial concern about canceling post notification sends (and general deliverability improvement via configuration). Though it has been bumped from several versions at this point, I have drawn a hard line as far as including it in version 1.2.0 (here’s the link to the schedule: https://devonostendorf.com/projects/post-notif-1-2-0).

I am going to mark this thread as resolved but you can feel free to open a new one, with justified frustration about the delay 🙂 if I don’t ship it in 1.2.0!

I truly do appreciate your patience as well as your willingness to test and report feedback, as you’ve helped me considerably with other issues in the past months!

Thank you,
Devon

Hi margarit0,

Thanks for giving Post Notif a try!

It sounds like you’re all set now (things are working as expected)?

Thanks,
Devon

Hi wbrzosko,

Thanks for trying out Post Notif. I am sorry to hear you’re running into issues with the send post notification process failing to complete. Both email sending and delivery are black holes of misery, IMHO, so I can’t say with any confidence that it has anything to do with either Gmail or Wordfence. 🙁

I am aware, however, of the inability to (easily) cancel initiated send processes and this is on my “to repair” list. It is actually a part of my overall planned revamping of the send notification’s architecture which will also include allowing admins to more specifically configure their send preferences (to avoid timeouts for large subscriber lists and account for differences in hosting providers’ email send limits).

There is not presently any logging available, but, if you have access to your database directly, with a specific post_id value in hand, you can:

(1) Search for post_notif_count_sent_post_id_[POST ID VALUE] in the [wp_]options table to see exactly how many notifications were sent for this post

(2) Determine the set of subscribers to whom notifications WERE sent to by selecting some/all of the columns in the [wp_]post_notif_subscriber table, including “ORDER BY id”, and LIMIT [INTEGER SHOWN IN ROW FOUND BY (1) ]

(3) Cancel the stuck process by searching for post_notif_count_to_send_post_id_[POST ID VALUE] in wp_options and deleting this row. If you are going to do this, I’d encourage you to delete the row found by (1) as well

I hope this helps alleviate some of the aggravation this has caused you and can potentially tide you over until I can get this fixed. If not, I know there are other highly-regarded post notification plugins here in the ww.wp.xz.cn directory and would encourage you to check them out to see if they better suit your needs.

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Dan,

Thank you for your continued suggestions as you encounter things that are out-of-whack. I appreciate that you are both mellow when reporting issues and creative about finding workarounds to tide you over until I can clean things up in the code!

Thanks,
Devon

Hi David,

I saw your other thread and that you got your excerpt to show up (which is a good first step 🙂 ).

As for formatting, at least one other person has mentioned in the past that Post Notif does not work with the custom excerpts created by the Advanced Excerpts plugin; sorry about that. I am curious, however, what exact HTML tags you have in the excerpt, so I can do some further investigation.

When you have a chance, would you please send me a sample? My email address is my first name at devonostendorf dot com.

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Dan,

Thanks, as always, for your willingness to help out; I really appreciate it!

I will keep in mind what you’ve brought up with regard to the widget configuration.

Sorry about the status message text overlap issue my suggested “fix” introduced.

You can reposition that via:

#id_spnErrorMsg

Thanks,
Devon

Hi Dan,

You missed it because it is not in the documentation. 🙁

Your point is well taken; it sure sounds like it would be more annoying to have to change your template for each post than it is to use the solution you’ve worked out with the other plugin.

In any case, I am glad things are working well (enough) for you now. And, by the way, your images do look great in the notification emails (I noticed them starting last week!).

Thanks,
Devon