IMPORTANT: Before the Subscribe2 plugin can be used, Settings MUST be configured.
Go to Dashboard/Settings/Subscribe2 Notification Settings
Restrict the number of recipients per email to (0 for unlimited): 0 Edit
Your webhost may limit the number of recipients per email. If your emails are not being delivered, check with them and set the limit here.
Send Admins notifications for new: Subscriptions Unsubscriptions Both Neither Set the emails administrators receive for subscribes, unsubscribes, both or neither.
Include theme CSS stylesheet in HTML notifications: Yes No This will create HTML emails that match your WordPress theme.
Send Emails for Pages: Yes No
This will send emails to your list when you create pages.
Send Emails for Password Protected Posts: Yes No Send Emails for Private Posts: Yes No
This sets email preferences for password protected and private posts.
Send Email From: Post Author
This sets the ‚From‛ name in the emails. The names of registered users are included in the dropdown.
Send Emails:
This option will be ignored if the time selected is not in the future in relation to the current time For digest notifications, date order for posts is: Descending Ascending
For each Post – This selection will send the post when published.
Digest Emails
Once Hourly –The first digest is sent one hour later than when published, and then hourly afterward.
Twice Daily – The first digest is sent 12 hours after being published, and then every 12 hours afterward.
Once Daily – The digest is sent at the time selected.
Weekly – The first digest sends a week in the future from the day it is published. So, if you publish for the first time on a Monday, the weekly digest will be sent every Monday in future.
For greater control over when posts are emailed, use WP-Crontrol.
WP Crontrol
To use WP Crontrol with Subscribe2:
1. Install and activate WP Crontrol.
2. Select one of the digest email options in Settings/Subscribe2/Notification Settings. (Anything other than per post) 3. Go to Tools/Crontrol.
4. Locate s2_digest_cron.
5. Click ‘Edit’ to change the email schedule or ‘Do Now’ to send the digest immediately.
Email Templates
New Post email (must not be empty):
Subject Line: [BLOGNAME] TITLE
BLOGNAME has posted a new item, 'TITLE' (The name of your blog and the title of the post.) POST
You may view the latest post at
PERMALINK (The URL WordPress assigns to the blog post.)
You received this e-mail because you asked to be notified when new updates are posted.
Best regards,
MYNAME EMAIL
This is the email template for post mailouts.
Subscribe / Unsubscribe confirmation email:
Subject Line: [BLOGNAME] Please confirm yo
(Please confirm your request)
BLOGNAME has received a request to ACTION for this email address. To complete your request please click on the link below:
LINK (Subscribe / Unsubscribe link)
If you did not request this, please feel free to disregard this notice!
Thank you, MYNAME
This is the email template for subscribes and unsubscribes.
The better email autoresponders like Aweber and MailChimp all require a double opt-in, and so does Subscribe2. The link the user clicks to confirm is the second opt-in.
Reminder email to Unconfirmed Subscribers:
Subject Line: [BLOGNAME] Subscription Rem
(Subscription Reminder)
This email address was subscribed for notifications at BLOGNAME (BLOGLINK) but the subscription remains incomplete.
If you wish to complete your subscription please click on the link below:
LINK
If you do not wish to complete your subscription please ignore this email and your address will be removed from our database.
Regards, MYNAME
This is the email template to send a reminder email to unconfirmed subscribers.
Click here for instructions.
Email Preview
Click here
Send Email Preview
and this message appears: Preview message(s) sent to logged in user
The preview goes to the logged in user’s email address. There will be four emails: one for each email format.
Message substitutions
These are the shortcodes you will use to change the email messages.
BLOGNAME
the excerpt or the entire post (based on the subscriber's preferences) POSTTIME
the excerpt of the post and the time it was posted
a list of post titles followed by links to the atricles (for digest emails only)
PERMALINK
the post's permalink (for per-post emails only) TINYLINK
the post's permalink after conversion by TinyURL (for per-post emails only)
DATE
the date the post was made (for per-post emails only) TIME
the time the post was made (for per-post emails only) MYNAME
the admin or post author's name
the admin or post author's email AUTHORNAME
the post author's name LINK
the generated link to confirm a request (only used in the confirmation email template) ACTION
Action performed by LINK in confirmation email (only used in the confirmation email template)
CATS
the post's assigned categories TAGS
the post's assigned Tags COUNT
the number of posts included in the digest email (for digest emails only)
Excluded Categories
Posts assigned to any Excluded Category do not generate notifications and are not included in digest notifications
Select / Unselect All
S2 Category S2 Category 2
S2 Category 3 S2 Category 4
Allow registered users to subscribe to excluded categories?
(These are categories created for the purpose of writing this book.)
You can exclude certain posts from being emailed by assigning and excluding the category they are in.
You can allow registered blog users access to excluded categories by checking here.
These settings override any other settings selected by users.
Appearance
Set default Subscribe2 page as ID: Subscribe2 Version 6.2
Note: You must create the Subscribe2 signup page first!
Set the number of Subscribers displayed per page: 25 Edit
When you view your subscriber list, this sets how many are on each page.
Show a link to your subscription page in "meta"?
Meta is where you and your users login. Click here for more information. It is controlled at Appearance/Widgets/Meta. Or use the WordPress Customize Meta Widget plugin to create your own.
Show the Subscribe2 button on the Write toolbar?
The Subscribe2 button inserts the signup form shortcode into your post or page.
Enable Subscribe2 Widget?
If you want a signup form in the sidebar widget, this must be checked.
Enable Subscribe2 Counter Widget?
The counter widget shows the number of signups to the blog.
Disable email notifications is checked by default on authoring pages?
If you DON’T want your blog posts to go out each time, check ‚Disable email notifications‛. Then you can decide post-by-post if they go out.
Auto Subscribe
Subscribe new users registering with your blog:
Automatically Display option on Registration Form No
People may register with your blog to comment on posts. The default option – Display option on Registration Form – lets them choose to also receive post emails from you.
Auto-subscribe includes any excluded categories:
Yes No
Another way to decide who receives email from excluded categories.
Registration Form option is checked by default:
Yes No
Auto-subscribe users to receive email as:
HTML - Full HTML - Excerpt Plain Text - Full Plain Text – Excerpt
Remember, Public Subscribers can only receive full HTML emails with the paid HTML version of Subscribe2.
Registered Users have the option to auto-subscribe to new categories:
Yes No New categories are immediately excluded
This sets the permission for Registered Users to receive emails on new categories.
Option for Registered Users to auto-subscribe to new categories is checked by default:
Yes No
This places a check in the auto-subscribe to new categories when Registered Users sign up.
Display checkbox to allow subscriptions from the comment form:
Before the Comment Submit button After the Comment Submit button No
Anyone who comments on your blog can now opt to become a Public Subscriber. Decide if you want this option, and if so, where you want the checkbox to display on the comment form.
Barred Domains
Enter domains to bar from public subscriptions:
(Use a new line for each entry and omit the "@" symbol, for example email.com)
In this field you can block subscribers. If you are getting a lot of spam subscribers from Yahoo and MSN, for example, place this in the text box:
Yahoo.com MSN.com
IMPORTANT: SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND SUBMIT YOUR CHANGES!
Reset Default
Use this to reset all options to their defaults. This will not modify your list of subscribers.
RESET
Is everything a hopeless mess? Click ‚Reset‛ and all defaults will be restored.