There is a great Wordpress subscription plugin: Subscribe2 (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe2/),
I think it has some great features:

  • 2 classes of subscribers: allowing users to publically subscribe by submitting their email address in an easy to use form or to register with your blog which enables greater flexibility for email content for the subscriber.
    1. general public: the general public may subscribe and unsubscribe (they are not registered). They will receive an email notification whenever a new post is made (unless that post is assigned to one of the excluded categories you defined). The general public will receive a plaintext email with an excerpt of the post: either the excerpt you created when making the post, the portion of text before a tag (if present), or the first 55 words of the post.
    2. registered users: They are similar to what Subscription module does.
  • Send email to all subscribers without having to write a post
  • Send a reminder email to all unconfirmed subscribers
  • A control panel that allow a quick view of: Subscribers, Registered users, Uncofirmed users

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felixsmile commented

+1 for the feature : Send email to all subscribers without having to write a post

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You mean like "spam all subscribers without leaving a trace"?

Please explain a legitimate use case.

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felixsmile commented

Nice reformulation :) It might be, indeed, quite a risk on some sites.

A usecase on our website would be, for instance, to remind subscribed people to attend an event.

As an alternative, I suppose it would be enough to write a comment to that event (because this sends an e-mail to all subscribed users).

Maybe another option might be interesting: to give the option of putting something online WITHOUT sending a subscription mail, but to leave the option to send that e-mail at a later time. Usecase: when I post an event that is going to be in 6 month on our calendar, no one could care less. But I might want to remind it to everyone one week before the event.

Just some ideas, in case someone finds them interesting.

Have a nice day,

Felix.

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I don't think email to your subscriber means spam them, I have a bussiness blog, I only write posts related to bussiness, if I would like to advice my subscriber about some changes in the blog (new features, new subscription features, ...) Should I write a post about it? I don't think so. ;-)

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Thank you for your explanations. I see that there's some value in that, but I think it's too special for a general purpose module like Subscriptions, and it might cause subscribers to question the reliability of the mechanism, when they get email without posts, or see posts without getting notifications.

Maybe an add-on module?

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