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