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

You can get the latest version from the plugin page or Wordpress.org..

Hope this version works properly for everyone.

I am still working on some more plugins, this one I created out of necessity, I wanted to have my plugin pages skip the frontpage and stick to their relative category.
So why not use a page? Well the links in my navigation bar are generated by the categories I post in.. and pages don’t have categories.. so there.

Anyway, what this plugin does:

Gives you the ability to have posts skip the frontpage and to stick a post to the top of all it’s relative categories.

Hopefully some more people can find a good use for this

You can change these settings by editing the plugin file (before activating it).. the settings are easily accessible, no knowledge of PHP required.. I will incorporate a configuration page in future versions, for now I wanted to make an initial release that’s down to the complete basics.

I am also working on a couple more usefull plugins which should be coming along soon..

• Post Filters
  Gives you the ability to have posts .. 
  • Skip the Frontpage
  • Act as a sticky on Category pages (and -only- on Category pages)
• Raw Posts
  Will process posts EXACTLY the way you edit them in the wysiwyg editor, it bypasses the wordpress filters completely.
  This will quite definitely create conflict with plugins that rely on Wordpress’ filtering.
• Raw Syntaxhighlighter
  Source code highlighter that works with the Raw Posts plugin

I’m also working on a PDO wrapper to make it’s functionality more accessible, though this is of course not related to Wordpress in any way.

So, keep an eye on my blog, you’ll see loads of snippets, plugins and suggestions coming around, just check the Categories for a preview of what I’m planning to use it for.

If you need to get anything from my old Blog, feel free to access it here. Though note that it might not work properly on all pages.

Edit:

Just thought about my XHTML validation, I totally forgot to walk through it, will do that tomorrow.. so if you read this before then, don’t mind the “valid xhtml” button