first impressions / sugestions

Hi @werdpres,
Thanks for letting me know about the screen shots and descriptions – not sure when or how that happened! But thanks, will get that corrected.

Regarding item #2, if this was dynamically generated, how would you control the content that appears on this page? What would be the benefit of doing this?

Regarding item #3, yes I agree and hoping to get some form of this option in an upcoming future release.

Regarding item #4, we would then have to add a name field to the subscribe box. How about I add this to the list of future additions. If I continue to get more requests for this, I will move it the “to do” list.

Let me think on item #7. Would you be using this plugin on a large website?

Thanks for the feedback.
-Chris

hi Chris

Regarding item #2, if this was dynamically generated, how would you control the content that appears on this page? What would be the benefit of doing this?

i don’t know how the content is generated, but i’m sure there’s a way to do this (i’ve seen it done in other plugins) – as for benefit, the user wouldn’t have to create a page … this is a trivial request of course, nothing super important

re #4 – yes, this too is a minor item for me

#7 is the most important to me – i have 117 pages and it’s not feasible to add a shortcode manually in order to exclude a the few pages where i don’t want the plugin to load

Okay got it, I was wondering if the use case was on a site with lots of pages. Sounds like it is! Let me look into this. Thanks again for the feedback.

thanks Chris – i’m hoping this might be trivial to implement in that you can pretty much leave everything as-is and just keep the ‘Show alert me box.’ visible so that the plug can be disabled per-page (when auto-insert is enabled)

Hi @werdpres,
It might be, will have to run some tests. Thanks again for the feedback, its much appreciated.

Screen shot captions have been updated. Thanks again for the heads up on this.

the #7 issue in the OP is no longer important to me – although i have a lot of pages, i realized that i only wanted the form to appear on a small number of them after all, so the manual insert option worked fine for me – that said, i still think it’s a feature that others may find useful

some other issues/suggestions…

A. the settings for Alert Me is a sub-menu of the WP ‘Tools’ menu – this should be moved to ‘Settings’

B. the shortcode doesn’t seem to insert the form in the right place – in my case the form is always inserted above the post/page text even when the shortcode is placed below the text (using 2016 theme)

C. if one uses the shortcode, how does one send an update notice to subscribers if all post type options are disabled in settings?

Hi @werdpres,
Regarding A, on the next update the plan is to move AlertMe! out of “Tools” and as its own sidebar item.

Are you trying to place the subscribe box in the middle of the page, or sidebar?

If using the shortcode and you want to send an update alert to subscriber, just click the “Send update notification.” option, and “Update” the post.

Are you trying to place the subscribe box in the middle of the page, or sidebar?

in a page – if i create a page with the content…

1

[alertme-form-show]

2

the form on the published page will be placed before ‘1’

@werdpres I see. So currently we only have top/bottom placement registered.

@werdpres You could also insert the subscribe box direct into the template and position you prefer using the following code:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[alertme-form-show]'); ?>

Maybe that helps?

that solution won’t really work for me – i think the purpose/advantage of having a short-code is so one can place the signup form wherever they want – i don’t understand why this isn’t working with Alert Me – i wrote a very rudimentary plugin that displays some info about the post/page and that info shows up wherever i place the short-code in the post/page

for me, i’d like the form to display at the top of the page in some instances, but at the bottom in others

If you are using a pagebuilder you can place AlertMe! anywhere on the page. I don’t know enough about your setup, and just guessing at this point. If you want to provide me a login, I can take a look and offer some guidance.

i don’t use pagebuilder – just the classic WP editor and the 2016 theme

Classic editor is great, and you should be able to use the shortcode to place subscribe box anywhere within the content.