Comments on: WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.1.1

By: Chad Holmen

Chad Holmen — Wed, 10 Aug 2005 04:03:15 +0000

The email notification does not appear to send mail. I’m using phpmailer. I’ve tried changing all mail( to phpmailer( in the notification directory under plugins, but no go.

I know phpmailer is working correctly, registration and forgotten passwords are working correctly.

Is anyone else using phpmailer and successfully gotten this to work?

By: OptiNiche Blog

OptiNiche Blog — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:28:20 +0000

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By: Ayu

Ayu — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 13:52:19 +0000

Hi… your programm is awesome…but since a couple of days ago it didn’t work anymore…I’ve posted two posts buat no notification came put. It worked wonderful before…I didn’t change anything. Could you please help me?

By: Joaquin

Joaquin — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:15:01 +0000

Hi Brian- thanks for making your work available to the masses. Unfortunately, you have to field questions from newbies such as myself (but we appreciate it more than you know!). anyway, i install the plugin successfully (i think), but nothing happens when i ‘activate’ it in the WP plugin directory. I get this msg in the dashboard area (can you help?:

WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.1.1 Admin Area

Warning: main(/maillist/wpemn_config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/www.fundindustry.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/index.php on line 19

Warning: main(): Failed opening ‘/maillist/wpemn_config.php’ for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php’) in /var/www/www.fundindustry.info/public_html/wp-content/plugins/index.php on line 19
Import Addresses :: Export Addresses :: Reports :: Email List Subscribers :: Update Settings

By: Eloy Ramirez

Eloy Ramirez — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 21:36:58 +0000

i read through all the posts applied the great knowledge but still getting errors any thoughts? this is what shows when i am in the email notification admin piece and i click on “update settings”. it reads taht the Table entry could not be found.

Could not successfully run query (SELECT * FROM wp_email_list_config WHERE id = ‘1′) from DB: Table ‘eloyram_meusemailnotifications.wp_email_list_config’ doesn’t exist

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:16:40 +0000

sorry, downloaded 2.1.1 and it’s fixed. Rock on!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 03:11:03 +0000

Has anyone got this working with PHP 5?? I am having a prolem with the install.php not populating the wpemn_config.php with the variables while installing. Even when i put them manually into the file, it overwrites them next time i run install.php with blanks.

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user ‘nobody’@'localhost’ (using password: NO) in /www/superkain.com/maillist/install.php on line 198

i get a “nobody” error 10x for differing things. Any ideas?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:26:16 +0000

Is the notification only triggered if the post comes from the web interface to Wordpress? For example, will it send an email if you post to wordpress using the email interface or using a blogging client that connect using XML-RPC?

By: Unpaved Roads » Spanish (Mexico) translation of WordPress Email Notification Plugin

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:29:45 +0000

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By: Felixe

Felixe — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 05:21:38 +0000

Sorry, just figured out how. For the record, I opened /wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notification/index.php and commented out line 19 but uncommented line 22. Now everything is sweet.

Thanks Brian for such a great plugin.

By: Felixe

Felixe — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:46:04 +0000

Everything is working fine except in the admin interface of WP, if I click on any option I get this error:

Could not successfully run query (SELECT * FROM wp_email_list) from DB: No Database Selected

I guess I need to “open” my db when the admin page is loaded but don’t know how.

By: George

George — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 19:30:58 +0000

Thank you for producing the plugin. I was hoping you could help me get it up and running.

When I run the install I get the following error:
Warning: mysql_connect(): Access denied for user: 'fatpitch@localhost' (Using password: YES) in /home/fatpitch/public_html/maillist/install.php on line 200

Warning: mysql_select_db(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/fatpitch/public_html/maillist/install.php on line 201

My WordPress was installed with Fantastico, so I’m not sure of the database details that I need for the install. The Fantastico install says that:
An instance of WordPress was installed on http://fatpitchfinancials.com
Full installation path: /home/fatpitch/public_html
Public URL: http://fatpitchfinancials.com/
Admin URL: http://fatpitchfinancials.com/wp-admin/
Username: fatpitch
Password: PASSWORD
MySQL database: fatpitch_wrdp1
MySQL user: fatpitch_wrdp1

So my guess I should enter the following into the install screen:
Database Name: fatpitch_wrdp1
Database User: fatpitch_wrdp1
Database Password: PASSWORD
Database Host: localhost

I’m not sure if the password part is right. Is the WordPress admin login password the same as the database password? If not, where can I find the database password?

By: Tony Zeoli

Tony Zeoli — Sat, 11 Jun 2005 18:38:34 +0000

Hi, I wrote post number 48 here but did not receive a reply. I see responses to 49 and 50. Can you post an answer for me to help me fix the problem. Thanks.

Tony

By: ranti

ranti — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 19:05:41 +0000

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re: #50
You’d need to pull that info from the DB. This isn’t on the to do list at the moment.
===

Got it. Thanks!

By: Brian Groce

Brian Groce — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 18:14:29 +0000

re: #49

1. Choose text instead of HTML…my guess is that their mail client isn’t rendering HTML.

2. Changing ” post_content ” to ” post_excerpt ” should work.

re: #50

You’d need to pull that info from the DB. This isn’t on the to do list at the moment.

By: ranti

ranti — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 15:00:19 +0000

Hi Brian,

Our blog has more than one content contributors. When an email notification comes in, we don’t know who wrote the content unless we click on the link. We’d like to have the contributor’s name listed as well; something like “Ranti writes:” and then the content of the post below it.

What do I need to do so the poster’s name is listed on the content? Or would this be part of the future release?

thanks,
ranti.

By: Christiaan

Christiaan — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 07:20:31 +0000

I send the full text of my posts with my mailouts and most of my subscribers get raw html? Is there anyway to fix this? Also, a feature I’d like to see is being able to send an excerpt instead of the whole text or nothing. Thanks.

By: Tony Zeoli

Tony Zeoli — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 07:24:21 +0000

Hi,

I installed 2.1.1 tonight on my server and am certain I did everythign correctly. My maillist folder is in my http://www.netmix.com/maillist and the wp-email-notifications folder is located at http://www.netmix.com/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-email-notifications.

The form script resides on the http://www.netmix.com/wordpress page in the sidebar.

When I enter any email address to subscribe, it looks for http://www.netmix.com/maillist/index.php, but I get a “page not found error.”

I changed mod to the wpemn_config.php to 666, entered all my database info correctly and installed and it installed fine. I can see my Options/Email Notification settings fine.

The only thing I can’t do is enter an email address? What gives?

Please let me know…thanks.

Tony Z.

By: Mike Martin

Mike Martin — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:26:16 +0000

Thanks, Brian! I just got it working by changing two lines in your plugin code. I commented out the original, and replaced with the version with post_excerpt:

	    // $query = "SELECT post_title, post_content FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = '$post_ID'"; //
	    $query = "SELECT post_title, post_excerpt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE ID = '$post_ID'";

and

	    // $post_content = stripslashes($row->post_content); //
	    $post_content = stripslashes($row->post_excerpt);

It now sends just the excerpt. Thanks for the quick reply! -Mike

By: Brian Groce

Brian Groce — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:10:54 +0000

Mike,

This isn’t built in at the moment, but…

Changing ” post_content ” to ” post_excerpt ” should work.

Let me know.

Brian