I have now tested the plugin for two weeks. This is my experience:
- In general the idea of the plugin is very good
- I used a lot of time to edit the templates to my need (to long)
- I used a lot of time to edit the templates for user managing their account (confusing)
- The structure to administer the plugin is not clear and confusing
- The controls give you not really a control over the functions of the plugin (on/off?) or plugins. Where can I stop batch-processing?
- The batch system sends out daily news twice, you have no control
- Users experience, that they could not use the link to manage the settings. If it works, some get a message "user not found" or "user already processed". If I look into the admin->userlist, the user is still there and I had to delete it manually.
- Users experience, that they could not use the link to delete the subscription. Same way.
- There is no really control between HTML/Text - Mails
- There is no way to manage Text-Only - Emails or choice for the user
- I had to install and reinstall all plugins multiple times to make them running
- There is no control/view (log) about what users do and the occurring errors
- There is no control which settings are kept in the option-table and which not after deinstallation
- I have asked some questions in the support google-groups-board and did never got an answer
In general, I think, this plugin should not be used by a normal user of wordpress. There are to many errors or misleading controls to only confuse the user. Only users with a deep understanding of wordpress and mysql can use this version.
gonzales