I think this functionality will appear in multiple updates. The first thing I plan to implement are notifications for admins/mods:
– Admin option to allow notifications for all new threads for admins
– Admin option to allow notifications for all new threads for mods
– Admin option to allow notifications for all new posts for admins
– Admin option to allow notifications for all new posts for mods
Subscriber-functionality will be a little bit more tricky because I have to store somewhere that user X has a subscription for topic Y.
I hope this will be okay.
Thaks for this informations 🙂
Okay, some changes …
- Admin notifications on new threads will come later
- I am working on thread-subscriptions now
See this ticket:
https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/issues/22
- A plan is to add some link at the end of each thread
- Only logged-in users with a WordPress-account on the website can see and use it
- After a click they will subscribe to a thread
- When they click the link again, they will unsubscribe
- The new-post e-mail will be sent to the users e-mail which is/was used for the registriation of the user-account on the website
- It is possible to enable/disable thread-subscriptions in the admin-settings
- The functionality will be enabled by default
But the main-problem is: I am not sure yet where to save the subscription-information. Should I use:
- a new database-table (forum_subscriptions) with thread-id/user-id?
- save the file as options in the wp_options-table, something like asgarosforum_subscriptions_THREADID which contains ID of the users?
- save it in the user-meta-table?
Any ideas or suggestions on this?
Good-good.
Since i am not a PHP-developer, i wont tell you witch method to use for saving the subscribe-information. Im happy just when it works – hehe! 🙂 I feel you are the right person to take that choice, @asgaros . 🙂
When they click the link again, they will unsubscribe
Cool, but the link-text changes to “Unsubscribe” if they are subscribed, yes?
And i guess it will be link to the thread on the e-mail notification :-). Looking forward to do the nb_NO translation for this futures! 🙂
Good luck.
Yes, the names of the links will be different. And the link to a forum-topic will be included in the e-mail as well.
When will update come? 🙂
Its almost done. I am a little bit busy at the moment but I will inform you here as soon as I have a version for testing.
Okay,
I just committed a first working version. You can download it here:
https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/archive/master.zip
It would be nice if everyone who needs this subscriber functionality can test it. Any feedback/suggestions/bugreports would be nice! 🙂
It’s working great for me. Thanks!!
My suggestion:
I would love it if users could subscribe to an entire Forum or Subforum, rather than just the individual threads.
Also, it would be great if there were subscriber options, such as:
1) “Email me as soon as a new thread or comment is posted.” vs.
2) “Email me new posts once per day.”
Great plugin. Thanks again!
I can implement subscriptions for (sub)forums in the same way as for topics so users can get an email when someone creates a new thread.
Not sure yet about the “once per day” suggestion because I have to save and analyze a lot of data for it. For example: Time of last mail for each user for each topic. Maybe time of last visit for each user for each topic so he gets a new mail when he saw the new answer, etc … Maybe this is something for a future release.
Please I need this feature too! The forum is awesome.
request: add this to your back burner, on the admin view page have a panel that can be placed there that shows the latest forum posts.
Also, you should put a donation link up, I’d gladly support you, this is awesome plugin you have made!
Hello hypershock,
a testing-version of the notifications-functionality is already available here:
https://github.com/Asgaros/asgaros-forum/archive/master.zip
Maybe you can give it a try. 🙂
