SubMe

There is indeed no function that auto adds new registered users emails to the subscribers list. It was actually a design decision to keep user registration and subscriptions seperated.

I look forward to seeing some of your custom created plugins, and maybe some of them will end up in the plugin 🙂

@iamonlythird,

Thank you for your remarks and suggestions. Hopefully, my answers to your questions are of any use to you.

1. This is a good question which has been asked before. In the FAQ you can find the solution. Eventually, this will be updated in a manner that is more suitable for everybody and should solve this problem.

2. By the default the settings are only available to the admin of your site. However, in some situations you may want other WordPress users of your site to be able to configure certain parts of this plugin. Therefore, you can delegate some of these rights to them.

3. By default, WordPress uses the following email address: [email protected]. This setting allows you to override the default value.

4. The WP-cron feature does indeed depent on visitors, or the hoster of your website may have configured something on the system that triggers the WP-cron. The number of subscribers should not be an issue. If the ‘Cron jobs enabled’ option is set to ‘yes’, then an email is prepared for every subscriber and placed in queue. Later, when the WP-cron kicks in it will check if the number of minutes configured in ‘How often does the cron jon run’ has passed. When it has, the number of ‘Maximum number of emails allowed to send per burst’ are sent from the queue.

It is important to think of how long it may take to send all emails in the queue. For example, if your hoster only allows you to send 1,000 emails per hour, then it will take at least 50 hours to send all 50,000 emails.

5. The Return-Path is a more advanced setting. To keep things simple, the Return-Path is used to send bounce messages to (e.g. when a mail is not accepted by a mail server). This is not always the same as the From address. Not all hosters allow you to change this setting, but if you are allowed to do so, then it is best to set the Return-Path address to the same value as that of the From address. Some mail providers or mail clients use the Return-Path value to guess if an email is spam.

6. When the widget is enabled in the plugin, it still needs to be moved to a location on your website. WordPress allows you to do this by going to Appearance -> Widgets. When the widget is enabled in the SubMe plugin, then you should see it between the other widgets.

7. Good suggestion. Currently, there are no plans on making larger changes, but this is a feature I would consider for future work.