samgruskin

Plugin homepage: http://samgruskin.com/programming/blog-update-reminder/
Blog Update Reminder is designed to remind a WordPress blog’s author(s) with an email if they haven’t made a blog post in a set number of days. When this plugin is installed, it automatically finds all authors (users) of the blog, and sets their “interval of days” to zero. The list of authors in Blog Update Reminder’s settings will automatically update with the addition or removal of WordPress blog users. The list of users and their set “interval of days” can be viewed from Blog Update Reminder’s settings panel, found under the WordPress “Settings” menu.
The setting of zero (“0”) means that Blog Update Reminder will be disabled for that user, and that user will not receive any reminder emails. Each user’s interval of days can be set and customized individually so that it will remind an author when a blog post hasn’t been made in a set amount of time. The plugin will email the user once the amount of time since the last blog post has surpassed the set “interval of days”. No emails will be sent while the number of days since the last post remains lower than the set “interval of days”. So, in order for a user to stop receiving email reminders, the user will need to make a blog post or update his/her Blog Update Reminder settings.
By default, this plugin will send email reminders to its users on a daily basis after the interval of days since a blog post has passed. The frequency of the email reminders can be modified on the settings page found in a drop-down menu.
This plugin uses WordPress’ built-in functionality for cron-jobs. This means that in order for this plugin to function properly and send reminder emails to its users, the blog’s website must be accessed by anyone at least once per day. Otherwise, the users will receive their reminder emails the next time someone visits the blog website.
Due to this plugin’s simple and small data structure, all settings are saved in a file called ‘blogreminder.data’ in the same directory as ‘blogreminder.php’. Do not delete this file, otherwise Blog Update Reminder will return user’s settings to the default interval of days, zero (“0”). If there are errors creating or writing to the file, check permissions on the <code>/wp-content/plugins/blog-update-reminder/</code> directory.
<h3>Background and Contact</h3>
A little background story…
I designed this WordPress plugin for a company I worked for, Carma Systems, Inc. (http://www.carmasys.com/). We have an internal company blog to keep our different teams in touch with eachother, and up to date on the work we do. It is important to everyone at the company to keep the blog updated, but it is easy to forget about it when everyone is busy! That’s how Blog Update Reminder was born… the internal blog has many authors, and each author has different requirements for how often they should post, if at all. The system works, because blog authors are sent an email daily (or any specified frequency) until a blog post is made (it’s kind of like, the plugin won’t stop annoying you until you do what you’re supposed to do!). Everyone enjoys the plugin, because authors are happy that they won’t forget about making a post, and our internal blog readers benefit from staying up to date with the latest company news.
I feel that my plugin can work as a solution for many types of blogs. An individual may have a commitment to regularly make posts on his/her personal blog, or a company/group may have several people that need to make posts but some people may need to post more frequently than others. All in all, this plugin can keep a blog from dying, which happens too often (unfortunately) in the real world.
This is my first WordPress plugin, and I had a lot of fun developing it! I hope other people will find it useful too. I appreciate any feedback (such as additional features and bugs), feel free to email me at sam@samgruskin.com. Thanks and enjoy! 🙂
http://samgruskin.com/programming/blog-update-reminder/

Blog Update Reminder

Track one or multiple authors' blog posting frequency and email-notifies these authors if they haven't posted within a set timeframe.

nwjames

Janos Ver

This plugin is an add-on to WP Document Revisions. This supports sending out email notifications about newly published documents to users who are interested to receive notifications either automatically (on publish) or manually.
By default when you send any notification from your blog (including many of the plugins as well) sender is “WordPress” and the sender email address is <a href="mailto:wordpress@yourdomain.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wordpress@yourdomain.com</a>.
This plugin will enable you to
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Let your WordPress users (automatically/manually) receive email notifications of updates to your published documents
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Create lists of email users that can be sent email notifications of updates to your published documents
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Easily customize notification email subject and content templates
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Re-send email notifications manually as well
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You can add a notification-specific message in the email.
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When a notification is resent to a user, then you can include information that it is a resend and when previously sent
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Maintain email logs about sent email notifications.
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Replace default <a href="mailto:wordpress@yourdomain.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wordpress@yourdomain.com</a> to any email address
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Replace default email from “WordPress” name to anything you want
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Administration forms contain significant pulldown Help information.
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For your WordPress users:
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Send notifications about password protected posts as well to those that can read it (password will NOT be included in notification email)
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Users can opt-out if they don’t want to receive emails (they can choose to get all/nothing)
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Bulk subscribe/unsubscribe users to/from email notifications (go to Users->All Users and see bulk actions)
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For your External users:
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The lists will contain the terms which, when matched to the document, will then send the notification to all users in the list
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Matching rule can be set to either match one term or all terms on the list.
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Initial release was based on plugin “WP JV Custom Email Settings” by Janos Ver.

Email Notice for WP Document Revisions

Add-on to WP Document Revisions to notify your users about new documents published or create user email lists to send non-users notifications.

Blog Update Reminder vs Email Notice for WP Document Revisions