Optional post-email notification

  • I’ve found two different plug-ins that will send an email to some sort of notification list. They both appear to send the email out when the post status changes to “publish”, sending an email out for every post.
    What I really want is a notification function like I had on Movable Type (yes, I’m another new “convert” here.) That is, I want to manually click on the “notify” button before anything gets sent out, since I don’t want to send notifications for every post. I also liked the option to put an additional note into the email, but I confess I seldom used it.
    This seems like a larger hack into the WP source than just a plug-in, but I really haven’t looked enough to see if it is doable as a simple plug-in. Does anybody know if this has been done, or could easily be done?

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  • Thread Starter whimsy

    (@whimsy)

    Beniam, I can manage some of the things you ask for on my server. I do it by using a MailMan mailing list, along with the post2email plug-in.
    My web host (123ehost.com) lets me have a few mailing lists with the account, and it will do most of what you want. Just set up post2email to go to the mailing list, and then MailMan lets people subscribe/unsubscribe themselves.
    MailMan also does some digest stuff, but I’m not sure it is what you want.
    MailMan definately lets you write intro text.
    If your blog isn’t hosted somewhere that gives you MailMan access, you may be able to use some other public mailing list server with MailMan or an alternative mailing list package.
    Best of luck to you!

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