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Understanding the difference between cron and wp_cron is important. It is explained in your documentation.

Email import cratered at about 20,000 subscribers. Unable to import more than a few hundred at a time after total reached this number. Plugin became unusable in this condition. Exact number of emails that can be imported vary with network conditions.

Not suited for large lists due to online parsing of email list as opposed to downloading to server before parsing. Creates load of network traffic. Any breaks in between while parsing can cause server timeouts and reset.

Seems as though setting cron job to run more often and setting the number of emails sent per job to less, works. Instead of trying to send 300 per hour, I send 100 every 15 minutes, so far with no problem. The total number of sends is the same or so.

Again, I followed the leads in the documentation but had to adjust to my own setup. For other neophytes like me, follow their documentation’s background reading.

Here is what’s happening:

There are several interacting plugins and scripts.

First the main calendar. It uses a locations table of its own. This table contains names, addresses, business URLs, and other data used by the calendar only. This locations table shares ID number, address, and facility URL, with the main facility table, and needs to be automatically updated when the main facility table is changed. These are the only fields in this table shared with the main facilities table. The other fields are used by the calendar only.

There is a Facility Locator. This is a system that holds facility specific data like ID number, Name, Address, Business URL, and other data used, specific to that business, such as hours and location, not used by the calendar. It gets its data from the main facilities table. Its task is to take the user to the selected facility page, where one can get data for that specific facility, including its event schedule, among other features.

The Event Display system lists events, dates, event URLs, for each facility. It gets its data from the calendar and main facility tables by ID numbers.

The Event Printing system gets its data from the main main calendar locations table and main facility table, and enables a user to print the event data in several formats.

These both tables in ONE database where certain fields in the calendar locations table need to be kept updated with similar fields (named differently) in the calendar locations table, AND when a record is added or deleted in the main facilities table, the same happens in the calendar locations table. The main facilities table is the master. This will do away with making future manual changes to the locations table as well as help minimize human errors.

Ye Ol Wish List

I might be dreaming but here are some things I would like to see and think the plugin could use:

Cron job names same as job sent.
Navigation in Subscribers list and cron job report for individual job. For larger lists, the ability to input desired page number to go would be a nice feature.
Newsletter preview in same window as first preview, instead of new window each time.
Newsletter does not have to be updated in order to see preview.
Number of subscribers in each group and status, when selected.
Items sent list for each subscriber, in order to not to repeat the same newsletter to same email. This one is important.
To be able to separate sent from unsent. This is also important.

Hope these help.

Tried to import an email list of 1000 email addresses. csv file. Result was Server Reset before page loaded. In the Subscribers list, it imported somewhere around 900 before it broke.

Program needs to show number of subscribers in category chosen and in what status – something that helps not to resend the same newsletter to the same person multiple times.

In addition, when a new record is created or deleted in the main database table, the same needs to happen in the locations table. In creating any new location in the locations table, the name has to be appended with the city and state. This happens within the same database, not between two separate databases. There are several fields in several tables that need to always be the same as certain fields in the main table.

This is all done manually now.

Looking for plugin or code that does this automatically.

There are multiple plugins that use some of the information in the main table such that when the data in the main table changes, certain fields need to be updated in the data of each plugin.

While searching for solutions I found this. Seems as though I’m not the only one with this problem.

“I really just want to know how to *set up* an RSS button on my blog. This has been the most challenging thing I have ever encountered in WordPress. There is no basic instruction on this.” — A frustrated user.

So far there still seems to be no instruction set on how to set up and configure RSS on your own site. The videos found are more advertising than help.

I don’t have a “blog”. I want to set this up rss on my website. Need succinct and complete setup instructions. WordPress’ own information is useless.

A lot of feed pages look like this: https://www.bowl.com/rss/Default.aspx. In older versions of WordPress this was the case for my site too.

Upgrades fixed what wasn’t broken and now it is broken!