Can't install Subscribe2

@lakjin,

Have you got a lot of Registered Users on your site already? That will probably be the reason, Subscribe2 needs to cycle through them to install correctly.

@mattrob: Yep, I have over 60,000. Any way to stop this behavior or some how install Subscribe2?

I’m looking to replace MailChimp (which is asking me to pay too much) and want to see if Subscribe2 fits the bill.

@lakjin,

Before you try moving speak with your hosting provider. Subscribe2 will be attempting to send potentially 60,000 email all at once and that is a sure way get your domain flagged as a spammer to your hosting provider and for them to blocker your emails or maybe entire site.

For that volume of emails MailChimp may be the only solution.

Matt,

I plan on using Mandrill or Amazon SES via SMTP with Subscribe2; that should cut my hosting provider out of the loop right? I will still talk to them, though.

MailChimp wants over $1,000 a month ?? I can’t afford that.

Nonetheless, I’d still prefer to at least see if Subscribe2 fits my needs and potentially buy the paid version.

Quick questions. With Subscribe2 can:

1) Insert the title of the latest post as the subject line?
2) Use a list of new posts only in a digest and then show a list of older posts below it?
3) Use single opt in to subscribe people who submit a form and add all new emails but don’t add people who have manually unsubscribed already?

Thanks!

@lakjin,

If your hosting provider have no concerns then we can look at using PHPMyAdmin for the install.

In answer to your questions:

1/ Yes, for per-post emails.
2/ No. It will just contain new posts.
3/ No, the double opt for Public Subscribers is a requirement of many providers and is pretty much hard coded. For newly Registering Users they can be subscribed be default to all categories.

Thanks!

How can we use PHPMyAdmin to install?

@lakjin,

Well, the plugin just uses database tables and entries, we’d need to manually carry out the install process by duplicating the commands in PHPMyAdmin. I’ll need to think if there is a way to bulk apply the changes rather than having to process each individual user though.

Matty,

Sure, if you can tell me what to do, I’ll do it ??

Your plugin actually doesn’t do everything I need it to, but I’m confident I can modify it myself to make it do what I want.

@lakjin,

Basically, if this is a new install, the code that is running is in the install() function in the classes/class-s2-core.php file. It creates a table and then cycles through all registered users creating the correct database entries and finally primes some settings.

I think now the best way to do this is to skip the bit where the code cycles through all registered users and then we need to write a little code to allow you to manually do that in batches. Try commenting out the loop part and see if you can now activate the code without is killing your server! ??