Gmail Notifications Plugin

  • jmarino715

    (@jmarino715)


    12 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    I am the administrator of a WordPress site where upon login, our users are authenticated via a Google Apps domain. Basically, everyone that uses our website also has their own @ourdomain.com Gmail account and access to a slew of other cloud-based applications that our organization uses on a daily basis. Furthermore, users have access to it all via single sign on (SSO). This is accomplished using James Low’s 3rd Party Authentication plugin. This is great tool and all, but I would like to take it a step further and have the website check for unread email messages upon login.

    Since our users are already authenticated to their Google Apps account upon logging in to the website, I figure this should be a pretty simple thing to accomplish. However, I’ve never written a WordPress plugin before, and I lack the programming knowledge/expertise to make this happen without having to devote a significant amount of time (which I simply do not have) and effort into researching and developing said plugin. Plus, we are a nonprofit organization so investing the money into hiring a programmer to accomplish this task is a non-option as such money would be better spent supporting our cause. Therefore, our only option at this point is to turn to the experience of this community for assistance.

    If there is anyone out there who can develop a simple plugin to accomplish this task, it would be greatly appreciated! Some ideas I have for this plugin are listed below:

    – Upon user login, plugin checks currently authenticated Gmail account for the unread message count and passes that number to a WordPress shortcode for use anywhere on the website.
    – Administrator (and possibly users) have an option to enable/disable a customizable popup notification for unread emails.
    – A widget can be displayed on the website to allow users to read (or perhaps even reply to) email messages without having to leave the website.

    Only the first of these ideas is an absolute requirement. The rest are simply features that would be nice to have. Thank you for your time, and I’m looking forward to seeing these ideas turned into a functional plugin!

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    So, you want someone to create a custom plugin for you absolutely free? Are you aware of the sheer cost in terms of development & time spent that this will take? Try http://jobs.wordpress.net/

    Thread Starter jmarino715

    (@jmarino715)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    Yes, I am aware of that. I am also aware that there are plenty of good samaratins who do this sort of thing all the time. I am actually one myself as I designed the entire website (and have made plans to do more) for free. As I mentioned earlier, this project is for a nonprofit organization (and it’s a youth program at that) so it’s for a good cause. It will also benefit other nonprofit projects I’ve made plans to work on in the future and I’m sure that there are many other folks out there who could also benefit.

    If you can’t wrap your head around it, that’s fine – you’re entitled to believe what you will. However, I ask that you consider the collection of thousands (or is it millions?) of freely developed and distributed WordPress plugins that are out there.

    I am kindly asking that if you do not have anything positive and/or constructive to add to this discussion, please refrain from posting at all. I’m actually quite shocked that a forum moderator such as yourself would make such a negative comment. However, that’s besides the point. The point is that I don’t want a negative comment such as what you just posted detracting from the goal of my original post.

    With that being said… further negative comments will simply be ignored as I don’t have the time and/or patience to carry on with discussing anything that is not on par with turning this idea into a reality. Thanks, and I hope that you have a wonderful day! 🙂

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I ask that you consider the collection of thousands (or is it millions?) of freely developed and distributed WordPress plugins that are out there.

    Having created over 20 free themes and co-developed a free ecommerce plugin with over half a million downloads, I am all too aware of what is available for free from the wider WP community. But that’s very different from creating a bespoke plugin for one site which could involve hundreds of pounds of development time.

    The best place to seek someone who is willing to take this on is still http://jobs.wordpress.net/

    Thread Starter jmarino715

    (@jmarino715)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    I know that I said earlier that I would ignore future negative comments, but I’m not about to allow such a shortsighted line of thought devalue the usefulness of my proposed plugin.

    Do you honestly believe that there is nobody else out there who could use a plugin that interacts with Gmail accounts in the way I have described in my OP? If such a plugin existed, I’m sure it would be downloaded just as much, if not even more than your mentioned ecommerce plugin. Therefore, your point that this is a “bespoke” plugin is null and void.

    Good day!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    12 years, 9 months ago

    The best place to seek someone who is willing to take this on is still http://jobs.wordpress.net/

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