Subscribe2 v8.1

Version 8.1 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 3.3.1. It requires at least WordPress 3.1.

Version 8.1 contains the enhancements and bug fixes, mainly for WordPress Multisite, listed below.

If you use this plugin and find it useful please give it some positive feedback! Visit the WordPress.org site and give it a rating, tell me it works in the compatibility section and maybe consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Subscribe2 v8.0

Version 8.0 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 3.3.1. It requires at least WordPress 3.1.

Version 8.0 contains the enhancements and bug fixes listed below.

If you use this plugin and find it useful please give it some positive feedback! Visit the WordPress.org site and give it a rating, tell me it works in the compatibility section and maybe consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Filtering the opt-out Authors

Version 7.0 of Subscribe2 introduced a new feature where Registered Subscribers could opt-out of receiving notifications from specific authors on multi-author sites.

Version 8.0 has improved on this a little by allowing site administrators to use a filter to trim down the list so unused author accounts can be removed from the list. To do this you simply code a small plugin extension something like this:

// 's2_authors' is the names of the new filter
add_filter('s2_authors', 'remove_author');
function remove_author($authors) {
	// our function takes an array of author objects as the input
	// you can then cycle through the array and remove any that you like on either 'ID' or 'display_name'
	$i = 0;
	foreach ( $authors as $author ) {
		// example use an if statement to check if author ID should be removed compared to a known ID
		if ( $author->ID == 1 ) {
			unset($authors[$i]);
		}
		$i++;
	}
	return $authors;
}

Themed User Subscriptions

One of the things I get asked about reasonably frequently is theming the “Your Subscriptions” page for end users.

If someone registers with your blog they can get additional control over their subscription by selecting which categories on your site they want notifications for and also the format of the email notification. It seems that some of you are not happy that this requires access to the WordPress administration menu area and you want to deploy the subscriptions form on the front of your site.

Well, there is good news. A developer has picked up on this request and is offering an extension for Subscribe2 that delivers exactly this functionality. And all they are asking for it is $2!

If this is something you want, go grab it here.

Subscribe2 v7.2

Version 7.2 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 3.3.1. It requires at least WordPress 3.1.

Version 7.2 contains the enhancements and bug fixes listed below.

If you use this plugin and find it useful please give it some positive feedback! Visit the WordPress.org site and give it a rating, tell me it works in the compatibility section and maybe consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Subscribe2 v7.1

Version 7.1 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 3.3.1. It requires at least WordPress 3.1.

Version 7.1 contains the enhancements and bug fixes listed below.

If you use this plugin and find it useful please give it some positive feedback! Visit the WordPress.org site and give it a rating, tell me it works in the compatibility section and maybe consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Subscribe2 v7.0

Version 7.0 Version 7.0.1 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 3.2.1 and 3.3. It requires at least WordPress 3.1.

Version 7.0 Version 7.0.1 contains a critical bug fix from 7.0 as well as all the enhancements and bug fixes listed below.

If you use this plugin visit the WordPress.org site and give it a rating, tell me it works in the compatibility section and consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Subscribe2 v6.5

Version 6.5 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 3.2.1. It requires at least WordPress 2.8 (3.0 for MultiSite installs).

NOTE: This is the last version of Subscribe2 that will support WordPress versions below 3.1. The next version of Subscribe2 will be 7.0 and it will require WordPress 3.1 and above.

Version 6.5 contains the bug fixes and requested feature improvements listed below.

If you use this plugin consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Subscribe2 v6.4

Version 6.4 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version has been tested on WordPress 2.8.6, 3.1.3 and 3.2-RC3. It requires at least WordPress 2.8 (3.0 for MultiSite installs).

Version 6.4 contains the bug fixes and requested feature improvements listed below.

If you use this plugin consider making a donation to support future development!

An HTML version of the plugin that emails an HTML email to Public Subscribers is available here.

Need help or support:
Try the Documentation:

1. Check out the ReadMe installed with the other Subscribe2 files or here.
2. Look through the FAQs on this site
3. Consider buying the guide produced independently by My WP Works LLC. The guide is 40+ pages long and it provides an in depth set of instructions and descriptions of Subscribe2 features.

Need to do some troubleshooting:

1. Try the FAQs and Trouble Shooting categories on this site
2. Try the FAQs on the WordPress.org site
3. Try searching the WordPress.org forum or the getsatisfaction forum

Still no joy? :

If you still really want my direct help then make a donation. My code if free but my time is not.

Subscribe2 and Custom Taxonomy Types

Subscribe2 was recently extended to allow notifications to be sent for Custom Post Types.

This introduction of code also highlighted the ability in WordPress to create Custom Taxonomy Types. Again, this is something done by developers and bloggers with a knowledge of PHP code.

Subscribe2 has now been extended again to allow the addition of custom taxonomies into the ‘categories’ that are used in WordPress by default. To add a custom taxonomy you have already created you need to added the following code into a custom plugin or to the function.php file in your theme.

function my_taxonomy_types($taxonomies) {
	// where 'my_taxonomy_type' is the name of your custom taxonomy
	$taxonomies[] = 'my_taxonomy_type';
	return $taxonomies;
}
add_filter('s2_taxonomies', 'my_taxonomy_types');