This plugin adds three checkboxes to the WordPress profile page allowing you to setup notifications for these events: a comment is added, a comment is held pending approval, a post posted. If you have permission to edit other users, you can also setup notifications for them… so when you go on holiday, you can set a colleague to receive the comment notifications while you’re away.
Users can only receive notifications for comments if they have the authority to moderate comments, and can only receive post publication notifications if they have the authority to publish posts.
Why do I need this?
The current WordPress admin settings are confusing regarding notifications and break down with more than one administrator. Currently there’s two settings in Settings > Discussion, which are titled
Email me whenever:
- Anyone posts a comment
- A comment is held for moderation
This leads the user to believe that they are setting an option on their user account, when in fact they are setting a global option for the blog as a whole. Further, this option triggers notification of only one administrator (whichever is in the admin_email option, which I believe is set on installation). There’s more detail in the WordPress Trac bug ticket 7835.
Plugin initially produced on behalf of Twenty Six.
Is this plugin lacking a feature you want? I’m happy to discuss ideas, or to accept offers of feature sponsorship: contact me and we can have a chat.
Any issues: contact me.
Download
Latest version: Download Email Alerts v1.1 [zip]
Installation
The plugin is simple to install:
- Download the plugin, it will arrive as a zip file
- Unzip it
- Upload
email-alerts.zipdirectory to your WordPress Plugin directory - Go to the plugin management page and enable the plugin
- Give yourself a pat on the back
Changelog
v1.05 2010/10/05
- BUGFIX: Introduced a bug in the last version, this release should fix it.
v1.04 2010/10/04
- LOCALISATION: Added POT file! Woo hoo!
- FIX: Fixed a weird conditional issue around comments held for approval not being notified
- (More code formatting changes to match WP’s function style, with no effect on functionality.)
v1.03 2010/02/24
- FIX: Don’t expect $post to be passed by reference
- (Code formatting also changed to match WP’s function style, with no effect on functionality.)
v1.02 2009/04/09
- FIX: Further tweaks to ensure that spam comments don’t trigger emails. Thanks again to [Henry Work]{http://www.techcrunch.com/author/henry/}.
v1.01 2009/04/09
- FIX: If someone submits a comment that is marked as spam by akismet, alert email is no longer sent. Thanks to [Henry Work]{http://www.techcrunch.com/author/henry/} for the bug report and fix.
v0.92b 2009-01-09
- Seems stable, incremented to v1.0
v0.92b 2009/01/06
- First public beta release
Excellent plugin, exactly what I was looking for
Does it also send the notification if the new post is pending approval?
The original client didn’t require notifications on post pending approval, so currently the plugin doesn’t cover this. I’m open to people (or groups of people) sponsoring development of new features though… if you want to discuss more, please contact me.
Hello Simon, this woks fantastic. But I would like to know if one more checkbox can be added in a future update. I would like to see users being able to subscribe to a post without having to comment. This is useful in post that have run a lot of commentaries and maybe someone out there wants to keep reading future commentaries but without participating. (Like the “Notify me…” below but without having to post.
Can you please update for WP 3.2.1
The plugin should work on WP 3.2.1, please try it and let me know any issues.
Is there a way to include the entire comment text in the email alert instead of, or in addition to, the current notification that only alerts that there has been a comment posted?
I am using your plugin. Its good but I want complete post content in my email. Can it be possible?
Hi Simon,
Big thanks for the plugin.
I’ve translated the included POT file to German. I would like to give the translation files to you, but your contact link is broken.
If you contact me, I can send it to you.
Cheers,
Sven.
Hi there,
I have reworked the coding on your plugin to allow the selection of subscription to certain categories only. So basically you can assign “editors” to certain categories and they won’t be spammed on every new post. I would love to contribute this to your plugin if you’re interested? I only edited the email_alerts.php and user_profile.php files. If you included this code it would also mean I don’t have to switch off the future updates for you excellent plugin!
No need for credit or payment, just happy to add a contribution to what’s already a nice piece of coding.
Excellent article.This is what i was looking for
Many Thanks