If you’ve previously used my NotifyMe plugin, you’ll probably be excited to hear that I’ve finally started development on NotifyMe2, even though the initial NotifyMe plugin never reached a final version. The reason that I’m going straight to version 2 is that I am starting from scratch again, seeing as I’ve gained a lot more experience since initially starting NotifyMe, I want to apply that experience as best I can.
Following are my ideas about the project, what exactly I want to achieve by making yet another mailing list plugin for Wordpress.. and while I’m at that subject I would like to point out that I was originally not planning to develop NotifyMe any further, since there are loads of alternatives.. but I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from people who loved the simplicity of the plugin and would prefer not to reach out to alternatives.
Therefore, my goals on this project are;
- To yet again, create a very simplistic (yet advanced, but not bloated) mailing list plugin
- To have it integrate with Wordpress as best I can
- By this I mean I want it to match the wordpress style in every aspect.
- I have removed any Naatan.com abbreviations, this would break the integration from my point of view.
- Initially I want to release a basic plugin that does exactly what it needs to do and nothing more, from there I will continue to extend it, though as I said, I do not want it to become bloated.
- To develop a better way to notify users of new blog items, a way that would not break other plugin hooks and filters.
- Cron job support for these type of notifications
Those are basically the goals I have at the moment, once I’ve reached them I will continue to add functionality to the plugin, I currently have some ideas about adding category/tag specific notifications for mailing lists, but I consider this an extra functionality which will not be required in the initial release.
Well that’s about it, I hope the people that have been e-mailing me asking for a new version have not given up hoping, if it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be doing this 
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Could you start a NotifyMe mailing list for those of us who’d like to know when the new version is ready?
Thanks!
Ok, I’ve create a temporary mailing list to which you can subscribe at
http://phplist.naatan.com/?p=subscribe&id=2
It’s just a quick deploy of phplist which I’ll use for the bare essentials until NotifyMe2 is at a decent stage.
Hi Naatan,
while waiting Notifyme2 to be out, I’d like to get the original notifyme plugin but I can’t download it anywhere.. Is thre any way to obtain it?
Thanks
Suggestion: Add an option to send a digest of posts, on certain days and certain times, like Subscribe2
Any update on how this is comming along? I am waiting patiently and look forward to making a small donation for your efforts
Adam
Hi,
just wanted to say that your pluging is great ( I think I already told you that before ), I that I am also looking forward to see this new version.
Best,
TM
Anxiously awaiting this. NotifyMe is the only decent, non bloated, easy to understand and use mailing list plugin for wordpress. Seriously, the rest are all crap, or they were designed for something other than simply collecting and maintaining a mailing list.