This morning I posted beta-1 of Email Users v4.7.3. This build addresses an out of memory error during plugin activation which was recently reported on the WordPress Support Forum. This error would likely only happen on sites which very large numbers of users, 1500 or more, and is very dependent on the amount of memory the server has access to.
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Email Users 4.7.2 released
Late last week there was a request on the WordPress Support Forum to add a filter to allow control over the HTML which wraps email content (post/page notifications or email to users/groups).
This seemed like a reasonable request so I decided to look into it. Adding a filter was fairly easy. If the mailusers_html_wrapper filter exists, the default, and very basic, HTML wrapper is ignored and the filter is expected to properly construct the necessary HTML to wrap around email content.
This is the result of a email using the example filter now supplied as part of the plugin as viewed on my iPhone.
You can find the update in the WordPress plugin repository or an an update on your Dashboard.
/**
* To customize the look of HTML email or to integrate with other
* plugins which enhance wp_mail() (e.g. WP Better Emails), use this
* hook to wrap the email content with whatever HTML is desired - or
* in some cases, none at all if another plugin will be adding the
* necessary HTML.
*
* This example wraps an "Urgent" message and table around the email
* content so the background can be styled. A table is the best way
* to do this because not all mail clients will recognize styling
* elements such as BODY and DIV like a traditional web page.
*
* Drop this code snippet and modify to suit your needs into your
* theme's functions.php file.
*
* @see https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/
* @see https://litmus.com/blog/background-colors-html-email
*
*/
function mailusers_sample_html_wrapper($subject, $message, $footer)
{
// Wrap the HTML in proper header and body tags
// add some CSS styling to make the email look good.
$mailtext = sprintf('
<html>
<head>
<title>%s</title>
<style>
table { border: 1px solid black; width: 800px; background-color: #c5f6c0; }
td { background-color: #c5f6c0 }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table class="content">
<tr>
<td class="content">
<div class="content">
<h1>This is an Urgent Message from Email Users!</h1>
%s
</div>
<div class="footer">
%s
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>', $subject, $message, $footer) ;
return $mailtext ;
}
add_filter('mailusers_html_wrapper', 'mailusers_sample_html_wrapper', 10, 3) ;
Google Forms v0.77-beta-2
This evening I released beta-2 of Google Forms v0.77. This update addresses the CSS prefix and suffix bug reported in the WordPress Support Forum today.
I suspect this is a lightly used feature as this bug has been present in the plugin for a long, long time.
Google Forms Beta (8820 downloads )More wp-SwimTeam bugs
Swim Team season must be approaching because I’ve had a couple more bugs reports and found two more myself while looking into other issues. A couple these are limited to running under WordPress Multi-Site so most people / teams won’t run into them but there are some issues with report generation as well. I am looking into these and will issue an update as quickly as I can.
wp-SwimTeam v1.44 released
This morning I released a minor update to wp-SwimTeam. Unless you are running under WordPress multi-site, you will not see a difference. Under Multi-Site there was a bug in the database query that pulls the list of users from the WordPress database. Because not all users stored in the user table should be visible to a particular site, the list of users needs to be filtered and limited to just those who have access to the site. It was this filter portion of the query which was wrong.
You can find the update on your Dashboard or in the WordPress plugin repository.
Google Forms v0.75-beta-1 available
This evening I posted beta-1 of Google Forms v0.75. This beta release contains a new option to turn off the HTML filter which has been part of Google Forms since the very early iterations of the plugin. In the early days of the Google Forms plugin, the HTML Google generated was full of unnecessary stuff and as a result, it tended to mess up the rendering of the form within WordPress. Over the years Google has iterated on forms a number of times and the HTML is much cleaner and includes new attributes for things like accessibility.
Based on a user request to support the accessibility attributes I decided to offer an option to turn off filtering completely. The disable HTML filtering option is located on the Advanced Tab of the plugin settings.
Email Users v4.7.1-beta-2 available
This evening I released beta-2 of Email Users v4.7.1. This build addresses a couple of issues and introduces a new filter which allows manipulation of portions of the generated email headers.
The Dashboard Widget can now be disabled. It is on by default but can be turned off with a setting (Dashboard > Settings > Email Users).
There have been several requests to support wpMandrill. It wasn’t until recently that I learned that in addition to overloading wp_mail(), Mandrill requires the recipient addresses to be in the TO header where as Email Users uses the BCC header to send email.
I didn’t want to make it simple to use the TO header instead of the BCC header as I view it as risky. Exposing the recipients of a mass mailing is a no-no. However, Mandrill is widely used and with several requests, I needed a safe yet viable solution.
The new mailusers_manipulate_headers allows the user to modify the headers so they’ll work with Mandrill while not making it too easy to do so. Here is an example of how the headers could/would be modified to have the recipients in the TO header instead of the BCC header.
/**
* wpMandrill needs the recipients in the TO header instead
* of the BCC header which Email Users uses by default. This
* filter will move all of the recipients from the BCC header
* into the TO header and clean up any formatting and then nuke
* the BCC header.
*
*/
function mailusers_mandrill_headers($to, $headers, $bcc)
{
// Copy the BCC headers to the TO header without the "Bcc:" prefix
$to = preg_replace('/^Bcc:\s+/', '', $bcc) ;
// Empty out the BCC header
$bcc = array() ;
return array($to, $headers, $bcc) ;
}
add_filter('mailusers_manipulate_headers', 'mailusers_mandrill_headers', 10, 3) ;
This code would be placed in the functions.php file. More details can found in the ReadMe.txt file. The example above is now included with the plugin, you can find it in the examples directory.
Email Users Beta (5660 downloads )Google Forms v0.73-beta-4
This evening I released beta-4 of Google Forms v0.73. This builds add support for Right to Left (RTL) languages by adding a column order option when using multiple columns. This functionality was requested earlier today on the Support Forum and was very easy to implement as the jQuery Columnizer plugin already supported RTL. The only other change is an update of the language translation files.
Google Forms Beta (8820 downloads )Google Forms v0.73-beta-3 available
This morning I released beta-3 of Google Forms v0.73. This beta build addresses a request recently posted on the WordPress Support Forum to allow the notification email to be sent to multiple email addresses.
This request has been implemented – multiple notification email addresses may be entered, they should be separated by a semicolon character (;).
Unless there is a an issue reported in the next day or so, I plan to release v0.73 shortly.
Google Forms Beta (8820 downloads )Email Users v4.7.1-beta-1 available
This afternoon I posted beta-1 of Email Users v4.7.1. This release addresses a warning related to the max_input_vars setting when the server doesn’t have the configuration variable defined. This happens on some older server configurations, notably, those running PHP 5.3.8 and earlier.
This build also adds support for the WordPress editable_roles filter which was recently requested on the WordPress Support Forum.
Email Users Beta (5660 downloads )