Version 4.17 of the Plugin is now available for download.

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

Version 4.17 is for 2.6.x, 2.7.x and 2.8.x users. (Although it should work with WordPress 2.5 too!) This version has been tested on WordPress 2.8 and 2.8.1beta2.

Users of WordPress 2.0.x should download Version 2.22 of Subscribe2. Users of WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x should download Version 3.8.

This version contains the following improvements:

• Tested for compatibility with WordPress 2.8.x
• Added TAGS and CATS keyword for per-post notification templates
• Fixed bug where confirmation emails may have an empty sender field if notifications come from post author
• Fixed a bug in WPMU CSS
• Added option to exclude new categories by default
• Fixed a bug where emails may not be sent to subscribers when a user subscribes or unsubscribes
• Improved accessing of ‘Admin’ level users on blogs where user_level is set below 10
• Added ability to send email previews to currently logged in user from Settings->Subscribe2
• Styled admin menu form buttons to fit with WordPress theme
• Improved handling of confirmation sending to reduce errors

There are currently no known issues affecting this version

To install correctly use the WordPress Auto Upgrade feature or:

1. Deactivate your exisiting Subscribe2 Plugin
2. Use FTP software to delete the old plugin folder and upload the new version
3. Ensure that the complete subscribe2 folder is uploaded
4. Activate the new version of the plugin

I’m not going to be around for the next two weeks because I’m going on holiday with my family. I’m unplugging from the ‘net for the duration of my holiday and won’t be looking in on this site or checking my emails.

So, if you have a problem please search this site thoroughly, use google and try the WordPress forums. Also, read the documentation that comes with the plugin and play around with the settings. If you still can’t find an answer to your problem and feel the need to post on here to ask for help bear in mind that I’ll be catching up on my return so please be patient.

Subscribe2 attempts to check that emails have been successfully sent by reporting the callback returned by the WordPress wp_mail() function.

In your server or WordPress install are not correctly configured this can result in error message despite successful sending of emails.

To overcome these issues access the PHPMailer files directly, locate a language error file and uploaded to your WordPress site (wp-content/languages/ for example).

Next, get yourself a Mailer plugin like the one suggested here and put the following line in the code.

$phpmailer->setLanguage( 'en', '../wp-content/languages/' );

This will ensure that you don’t get:

Language string failed to load: instantiate

Version 4.16 of the Plugin is now available for download.

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

Version 4.16 is for 2.6.x and 2.7.x users. (Although it should work with WordPress 2.5 too!) This version has been tested on WordPress 2.7.1.

Users of WordPress 2.0.x should download Version 2.22 of Subscribe2. Users of WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x should download Version 3.8.

This version contains the following improvements:

• Correct minor layout issue in Settings->Subscribe2
• Allow users to define the div class name for the widget for styling purposes
• Select from a greater number of notification senders via dropdown list in Settings
• Improved efficiency of newly added WordPressMU code
• Added ability to manage across-blog subscriptions when using WordPressMU
• Fixed bug whereby Public Subscribers may not have got notification emails for posts if Private Posts were blocked
• Added ability to define email Subject contents in Settings->Subscribe2
• Sanity checks of email subject and body templates to ensure they are not empty
• Introduced s2_html_email and s2_plain_email filters to allow manipulation of email messages after construction
• Amended handling of database entries to simplify code and database needs
• Improved the layout of the Subscriber drop down menu
• Added bullet points to the TABLE of posts
• Ensure database remains clean when categories are deleted
• Added new option to manage how auto-subscribe handles excluded categories

There are currently no known issues affecting this version

To install correctly use the WordPress Auto Upgrade feature or:

1. Deactivate your exisiting Subscribe2 Plugin
2. Use FTP software to delete the old plugin folder and upload the new version
3. Ensure that the complete subscribe2 folder is uploaded
4. Activate the new version of the plugin

Ben Forchhammer has just released a new plugin called Mail Debug.

This plugin could be of great assistance in finding out why emails are not being sent when using Subscribe2. The documentation states:

This plugin when activated automatically redirects all email sent through wp_mail/phpmailer to the user currently logged in.

The redirected email contains information about where the original email would have been sent to.

Use this plugin if you want to test email-sending features without actually sending emails our to anyone but yourself. I wrote this plugin to ease debugging with subscribe2.

So, if you are having problems with Subscribe2 then give this plugin a try.

Version 4.15 of the Plugin is now available for download. This version hopefully fixes the 3 issues that arose with the release of 4.14.

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

Version 4.15 is for 2.6.x and 2.7.x users. (Although it should work with WordPress 2.5 too!) This version has been tested on WordPress 2.7.1.

Users of WordPress 2.0.x should download Version 2.22 of Subscribe2. Users of WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x should download Version 3.8.

This version contains the following improvements:

• Fixed E_DEPRECATE warning caused by a variable being passed by reference to the ksort() function
• Fixed called to undefined function caused by typo
• Fixed a syntax error in the SQL code constructors affecting some users [Only occurred on PHP4 servers]

There are currently no known issues affecting this version

To install correctly use the WordPress Auto Upgrade feature or:

1. Deactivate your exisiting Subscribe2 Plugin
2. Use FTP software to delete the old plugin and upload the new version
3. Ensure that the complete subscribe2 folder is uploaded
4. Activate the new version of the plugin

Version 4.14 of the Plugin is now available for download.

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

Version 4.14 is for 2.6.x and 2.7.x users. (Although it should work with WordPress 2.5 too!) This version has been tested on WordPress 2.7.1.

Users of WordPress 2.0.x should download Version 2.22 of Subscribe2. Users of WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x should download Version 3.8.

This version contains the following improvements:

• Reordered some functions to improve grouping
• Stop s2mail custom variable being added if empty
• Localised ‘Send Digest Notification at’ string
• Add support for template tags in Post->Mail Subscribers emails
• Improve handling of translation files for more recent version of WordPress
• Implemented tags in the admin pages so text descriptors are click enabled
• Improved subscription preferences for WordPress MU (Huge thanks to Benedikt Forchhammer)
• Added TINYLINK tag to allow TinyURL insertion in place of PERMALINK
• Improved layout of Tools->Subscriber page (Thanks to Anne-Marie Redpath)
• Enhancements to Subscription form layout (Thanks to Anne-Marie Redpath and Drew Steinmark)
• Sender details now uses current user information from Write->Mail Subscribers
• Introduced ’s2_template_filter’ to allow other plugins to amend the email template on-the-fly

There are currently no known issues affecting this version

To install correctly use the WordPress Auto Upgrade feature or:

1. Deactivate your exisiting Subscribe2 Plugin
2. Use FTP software to delete the old plugin and upload the new version
3. Ensure that the complete subscribe2 folder is uploaded
4. Activate the new version of the plugin

The poll for how the form should look in the next version has been up for just over 2 weeks now so time to count those votes!

• 5% of the votes asked for a totally different look without bothering to post a comment telling me what they had in mind!
• 23% voted for an option for both of the alternatives given
• 24% voted to retain the current form
• 48% voted for the new two-button form

So, the clear winner is the two-button form! Look for it in the next version due soon… And thanks to all who voted.

The next version of Subscribe 2 is coming along nicely. There are no massive changes in the function of the plugin but briefly these are the improvements so far:

• Much improved compatibility with WordPress MU (thanks to Ben)
• Use of <label> tags throughout the admin menus so you can now click on text too!
• Maybe – a slight redesign of the Subscriptions form

That last point there is a maybe – because now is your chance to decide how the plugin moves forward in terms of the form. Get voting below for your favoured choice of form. (And I bet some of you want to know what it looks like so see below the poll!)

[Poll Now Closed]

Option 1 (above):

Option 2 (above):

Version 4.13 of the Plugin is now available for download.

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

Version 4.13 is for 2.6.x and 2.7.x users. (Although it should work with WordPress 2.5 too!) This version has been tested on WordPress 2.7.

Users of WordPress 2.0.x should download Version 2.22 of Subscribe2. Users of WordPress 2.1.x and 2.2.x should download Version 3.8.

This version contains the following improvements:

• Update weekly description
• Improve layout in the Subscribe2 form
• Fixed bug where registering users would not be subscribed to categories if using the checkbox on the registration page
• Improved buttonsnap function checking to reduce PHP notices
• Fixed typo when including CSS information in HTML emails
• Fix ‘edit’ links in the Tools->Subscribers page for blogs where the WordPress files are not in root
• Improved Tools->Subscribers page layout by hiding some buttons when they are not needed
• Fixed glitch in default options settings file
• Added option to include or exclude a link back to the blog theme CSS information within the HTML emails
• Improve per-post exceptions to sending emails by introducing a separate meta-box rather than relying on a custom field
• Fix for Gallery code in emails sending entire media library
• Updated screen shots

There are currently no known issues affecting this version

To install correctly use the WordPress Auto Upgrade feature or:

1. Deactivate your exisiting Subscribe2 Plugin
2. Use FTP software to delete the old plugin and upload the new version
3. Ensure that the complete subscribe2 folder is uploaded
4. Activate the new version of the plugin