the upstair

I recently downloaded a wordpress plugin called WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1 to notify my subscribers for an update, although rss feed also available, but I think I also need this option. WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1 is a good email notification plugin with a complete admin area to import emails, export emails, remove emails, send emails, and updating the email notification plugin’s settings. It also a very easy to set plugin, although it needs to upload an extra directory (maillist directory) to server, unlike other plugins I’ve installed before.

The installation also a bit different, after I uploaded a directory called ‘maillist’ along with its content, I need to run the install.php and write some informations about database name, user name, password etc. After complete installation in ‘maillist’ directory, I may then activate the plugin via wordpress admin panel. And the plugin is active.

But I was a bit dissapointed after I saw that there’s no option to send emails to a smaller amount subscriber, e.g only send email to first 1000 subscribers from total 10000 subscribers in our databases. So I decided to tweak the ‘block_send_email.php’ file that was located in ‘plugins’ directory.

I added a string variable called ’start’ and ‘max’ that will limit the query of ‘wp_email_list’ table. So the query will be something like this: “SELECT * FROM wp_email_list WHERE gets_mail = 1 LIMIT $start, $max” instead of “SELECT * FROM wp_email_list WHERE gets_mail = 1“. Two text box also added into form, a start textbox and a max textbox (it also serve as a constant value) in each query.

The form will be looked like figure below

So now, if I would like to send only a hundred subscribers in Monday and a hundred again in the next day and so forth, I just write ‘0′ in start and ‘100′ in max and click ’submit’, and it will send first 100 subscribers and automatically the form displays the next start value (which is 100) and I just need to click ’submit’ again to send the next 100 subscribers and so forth.

So if you feel not easy to send 10000 email in one time (specially those with slow internet connection speed), give a try to this WordPress Email Notification Plugin tweak.

WordPress Email Notification Plugin v2.3.1 can be downloaded here, replace the ‘block_send_email.php’ file with the tweak file.

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