Announcing the release of MT-Notifier version 2.4.2.
Special thanks go out to the astute comments of Bob and Iki.
Through their notes, I became aware of an issue with the display of the site-wide configuration - specifically in setting the type of notifications to be sent. The value would be set correctly, but the display would not reflect that setting. It's fixed in version 2.4.2, available now.
Comments (9)
Superb timing - I was having problems with exactly this (A ton of e-mail saying they didn't want comments - I thought I had set it to entries only...) and so I have popped back to ask for an improvement and you have already done it! Excellent!
I've installed the plug-in but it doesn't seem to have changed anything, or even allow people to subscribe to blog posts, let alone comments. Am I doing something hideously wrong? :)
I visited the site you provided, and I didn't see a sign of MT-Notifier anywhere. You're going to need to create a subscription form, or add a subscribe checkbox to the existing form. If you've done this at a different URL, please provide it so that I can check it out. Thanks!
I've just upgraded to this version hoping that it would correct the problem I've been having, but, to no avail. In particular, even though I've selected "Only Send New Entries" in the "Configuration" section *and* the "Manage" section (under my blog), I'm still getting new notifications (to a test address I subscribed myself) every time I save an existing post.
Any ideas?
Thanks for your words of wisdom. I managed to add a notification form using the instructions at movabletype.org, but MT-Notifier doesn't seem to have picked up this and isn't sending out emails to the addresses that MT has "subbed"...
Is there a dumb users' guide? :)
Andrew
Hi Andrew -
The first thing that you'll need to do is stop reading instructions at the movabletype.org site. These are for Movable Type notifications, and these are something different entirely than MT-Notifier notifications.
The second thing to do is read the documentation that comes with MT-Notifier. It's in the archive, and is called mt-notifier.txt. This has an example of a subscription form that you should be able to use to create your own.
Dean, I can't say for certain, but it sounds like there is a problem with that setting. Take a look at the PluginData table. You should see several related entries, but two specifically are important here. One is for 0:0, which is the site-wide setting, and the other is for the blog at x:0, with x being the blog number. Make sure that the correct setting is being written there.
Hi-
I'm trying to install MT-Notifier. Everything seems to be in the right place with the right permissions, but when I try to configure, I get this error message:
I'm using MT 3.121 on a Unix platform. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Andrew
Hi Andrew - This is the message that you will see if you do not have the Storable Perl module installed. This module is required for the operation of Notifier. You should contact your host to see if they can install Storable for you (it cannot simply be added to the extlib in MT).