Hi sanismalls.
I was looking for an easy way to do this also but found no reliable plugin to set this up. Problem with RSS was that my site requires a password in order to view any content so that RSS was no option.
Now I’m using the “Email users” plugin to notify my specific user groups (https://wordpress.org/plugins/email-users/). This plugin works with UAM. Only “downside” is that you have to manually select the post you want to notify a usergroup about (directly from the post page you select “Notify users”).
Hi,
thanks for your answer.
I’m using something similar (https://wordpress.org/plugins/new-post-notification/) but I’m facing the same issue like you that it’s not pre-selected plus a big problem that all users are getting a mail. The plugin’s author is not active anymore so there’s no way to get a solution unless you can develop in PHP.
I think I will try your plugin. Thanks for the link.
Best,
Sani
P.S.: Could you please verify that this plugin is working correctly i.e. sending only an email to the user when his user group is activated in the blog post?
Plus is it possible that a user chooses categories for which he gets notifications/emails.
The plugin I posted earlier is able to differentiate between the categories.
Cheers
Ok, now I see that it’s not possible to set up automatic notifications. So you always need to manually notify your users about a new blog post.
Or do you know if there is an automatic option?
Hey Sani,
Unfortunately the solution I chose isn’t 100% efficient, but it works… although it’s not automatic but manually from each post page. For me that’s no issue, since I post everything myself and it’s a double check for me too.
In the Email Users plugin FAQ it says it’s compatible with User Access Manager, but you should test if it does recognize your Access Group members and only sends mails to those in that group. Though back when I installed these plugins, this didn’t work for me. So I used another method. Since I also divided my members in 50+ different User Groups (using this plugin: User Role Editor), I select the desired User Group in Email Users to send the notification to.
Furthermore, I use the “WP Better Emails” plugin to style my e-mail layout (picture header, company details in footer, etc.)
All in all alot of plugins to use, but I couldn’t find a better solution for what I needed. Still I don’t think it’d work for anyone. For us it does because our users are our business partners (not alot of changes in the memberships) and I handle all member registrations myself (assigning members to user groups, access groups, post categories, etc.).
Regards,
Richard
Thank you for your answer Richard.
No prob.
Should you find a better solution yourself, please give me a heads up 🙂
Richard
