Content Notify 1.15

This release allows you to create users at the same time as subscriptions, tidies up the display of subscriber info, and has a few other improvements and bug fixes.

Create New Users with New Subscriptions

A highly requested feature – this release allows a user to be created at the same time as they create a subscription.
The setting can be found on the right of the screen when creating/editing a form using the form builder. Simply toggle this on and users will be created using their first name, last name, and email address (which will also be their username). Once they have verified their subscription (not just created it), their account will be created and the default WordPress ‘new user registration’ email will be sent to them, allowing them to create their own password.

Better Admin Search for Subscriptions

Until now the search on the All Subscriptions screen hadn’t been particularly useful. With this release, you can now search for an email address, first name, or last name, and the relevant subscriptions will show.
Additionally, clicking a user’s email address on this screen will now act like the ‘Edit’ link just below. Previously, clicking the email address did nothing.

Subscription Information and Improved Statuses

The All Subscriptions screen was getting a little crowded so the ‘Verified On’ and ‘Subscription Paused’ columns have been consolidated into a new ‘Status’ column with colour coding. This shows, at a glance, if the subscription is Verified, Unverified, or Paused.
This is also shown when editing a subscription in the new ‘Subscription Info’ metabox, which shows on the right of the page. It also shows the user and a link to their account (if available), or if they weren’t registered, it’ll show as ‘Guest’. Content Notify will try and detect if a user exists with the same email address as the subscription so even if the user hasn’t been created with the subscription (using the new option, mentioned above), it will still link to the relevant user. Additionally, the ‘Registered On’ and ‘Verified On’ dates and times are also shown.

Compatibility with WP All Import

With this release, Content Notify will also correctly trigger alerts on matching subscriptions for content imported using the WP All Import plugin.

Minor Improvements

• There is a new ‘Form Info’ metabox shown on the right of the page when editing a form with, currently, a single button. Clicking this button will show all the subscriptions created using that form on the All Subscriptions screen.
• The $post object is now available to email templates allowing easier access to things like the post excerpt, or showing custom fields associated with the post in an email alert.
• The title of the post/page/custom post type is now shown by default in the subject of the email.
• All translation warnings on the .pot file have now been fixed.

What’s Next

The next release will be a bit of a mish-mash of different things. Mostly, these will be improvements to existing features, as well as some work on email templating. Not very interesting, but essential. The subsequent release will be more exiciting.

Until next time.