wendilane

Hi … after looking back this morning on what I wrote yesterday, I wasn’t clear on my first note. My request for restriction by role referenced what a post writer is able to do when creating a post. The restrictions are ok for creating the template, sending out a newsletter, etc, however someone at a contriubtor level has the ability to enable their post to be included in newsletters.

I hope this helps. Let me know if you need me to further clarify.

Kind regards.

Suggested feature $: allow an option to only show an excerpt of the story included in the newsletter with a [read more] link directing the user back to the site. This will help 1) shorten the newsletter and 2) help to drive traffic to the website. This would be very beneficial to those whom have monetized their sites and would be able to use this as a great marketing tool.

I do like the base functionality of this plugin.

Another suggestion for you: in the section to actually write the newsletter and send it off, it would be nice for all the posts to be ln a scrollable framed list with check boxes so one could select the posts relevant for the specific newsletter.

Currently, I would have to go into each post and independently select each post eligible, then go create my newsletter, send it, then go back and remove the selection tick from the same posts by going in to each manually. Having a scrollable list would eliminate this and make the creation of a newsletter that much easier.

One more feature to recommend: the ability to choose to send email to all confirmed members of a site, ranging from Contributor to Administrator. This way, a separate address repository is not required.

Choice 1: Send to all registered users
Choice 2: Send to a specific group email address: [[email protected]]

Well … it appears my response was a little late (I just checked out your site). Will you be willing to share your code for how you were able to accomplish what I am struggling with on fe..3.php and fe..5.php, as described above? You have it exactly how I would like mine to work.

Kind regards,

Lane

Hi … funny you bring this up, as I am dealing with both “featured3.php” and “featured5.php” on another desire.

What you are looking for is on line 8 of the code.

Change this:
<?php if(!isset($featured3howmany) || empty($featured3howmany)){$featured3howmany=1;} ?>

To this:
<?php if(!isset($featured3howmany) || empty($featured3howmany)){$featured3howmany=3;} ?>

This will allow you to display the last three posts. I’ve already modified mine, and you are welcome to check it out at https://superstitiondistrict.net/ (I’m in the process of preparing the site to be revealed at the beginning of Feburary.

The challenge I am working on right now is trying to figure out how to make the thumbnail images for featured3.php and featured5.php to match featured4.php and featured6.php. I can resize the space in the scripts, but can’t figure out how to move them to the left of the posts vs. being on top.

Hope this helps!