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1. tzafrir
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Next Of Kin is the plugin we don't want to install. It handles what happens after we die.

   It monitors your own visits to your wordpress system, and will send you a warning email after a number of weeks (of your choice) without a visit.

   If you fail to visit your blog even after that, the system will send a mail you wrote to whoever you choose.

   This should be used to have someone keep your blog on the air in the unfortunate case of something mishappening to you.

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   I'd love to hear any kind of feedback about this plugin.

   It was only tested on wordpress 2.1.2, but it should work for all versions.

2. timelf123
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   That is a good idea, and could help people to make sure they write a post if they lower the frequency

3. Otto42
   Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This should be used to have someone keep your blog on the air in the unfortunate case of something mishappening to you.

   Heh. It'd be funny if you could set it up to automatically make a new post on expiration (pun absolutely intended).

   I can see the post now:

   Apparently, I'm dead.

   posted March 30 by Zombie Otto

   Well, if you're seeing this post, then I'm dead (and wanting brains). So, here's my thoughts from the afterlife...

4. tzafrir
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You can ask your next of kin to post something, I'm sure it'll come out a whole lot more emotional...

   (btw: I added a download link, which I apparently forgot earlier.)

5. dains
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi, great idea, please consider expanding it to a reminder function for people to go check and post on their blogs? I'd think that three stages are necessary-
   1 short wait (hours to 1-2 days - "ahem, time to punch the clock, buddy"),
   1 after that time has expired to a second email ("hey, this person hasn't checked me in x days")
   and the third one to a third email for the actual "next of kin" function after a couple of weeks ("hey, something isn't right, please call your family member and check on them").

6. tzafrir
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Great suggestions - I picked up the usage of this plugin as a less morbid reminder system from Lorelle - she uses it as such for her photography blog, and is the first to let me know that the plugin actually works.

   I don't know when I'll have the time to go back to developing this plugin further, but it will happen eventually, I hope.

7. dains
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Ok, I'll be the second to let you know - it actually works :) This is definitely worth a donation btw, I'm nearly finished with polishing the site and plugins I'm using so if you have a link up, you can expect a few bucks soon.

   After working with it, I'd suggest perhaps simplifying it to let you just add reminders individually so you can select different time intervals from the last login and add email addresses for each one.

   You could put in a couple of default ones like "notify the backup administrator" and of course "next of kin" to keep people from forgetting those uses.

   Thanks again for coding something so useful!

8. tzafrir
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you!

   I set up a button at http://tzafrir.net/nextofkin/ for donations.

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