lgp171188
Member
Posted 8 months ago #
Hi,
I am using the Subscribe2 plugin to provide the email subscription functionality to my blog readers. The plugin home page says that the full post content by email is available only to the registered users of the blog and not for public subscriptions. I would like to have such a feature and am willing to hack the plugin code to achieve it.
If such a restriction was placed to avoid spam troubles, can't enabling a CAPTCHA for the simple public subscription avoid it? Registering on a blog for subscription purposes is far more laborious than using the simple public subscription.
Thoughts and reasoning behind such a restriction?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/
@lgp171188,
Subscribe2 is designed to drive visitors to your blog rather than simply convert your blog into a mailing list solution. As such it offers to deliver a brief excerpt of post content to encourage readers of the email to visit your site. It also offers more control over the email for people who register on your site. These steps were not taken for any spam reasons.
If you wish to hack the plugin functionality to deliver something slightly different, that's fine - it is open source after all. You need to look at the end of the publish() function where the recipient groups are collected and the relevant email types are sent.
Hi - our school would like a full post newsletter too.
I looked around at other options, but prefer S2 overall.
Sooo....am looking at whether I can achieve it perhaps by extending the class somehow... or begging you to add a filter or option of some kind so school can sty in the upgrade path.
I'll do the code of course... :)
@anmari,
There are already filters in there if you want to do it that way.
's2_html_email' runs on per-post HTML emails.
's2_plain_email' runs on per-post plain text emails.
's2_digest_email' runs on the digest emails.
