Kommentare zu: mailto:staff

Von: Dirk Schürjohann

Dirk Schürjohann — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:45:17 +0000

Thank you, Tech-A! I’ve attached the javascript info.

Von: Tech-A of Kwassl.net

Tech-A of Kwassl.net — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 21:59:05 +0000

Hi,
at first, I was disapointed, as I did not get the link on the dashboard. Then I checked the source of the page and saw, this plugin needs JavaScript. Is that somewhere described? Maybe it would be helpfull to include some part, which tells, some function of the plugin is missing.

Greets Tech-A

Von: Dirk Schürjohann

Dirk Schürjohann — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:54:10 +0000

kaigou, unfortunately RM’s changes are persistent, which means that if you deactivate it all settings stay active. Did you reselect the WordPress native roles for your staff when you dumped RM?

Could you try once again to set yourself back to a regular WP admin and have a look what our plugin does. Still no mailto links to the complete staff means you were definitely right with RM not being the bad guy.

Von: kaigou

kaigou — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:19:38 +0000

Apparently the problem isn’t RM — I checked the assigned #s, which were all correct, and eventually I gave up and deactivated RM. No fix, so I’m guessing RM isn’t the source of the conflict. Any other ideas for where I could look, to troubleshoot?

(You’re right about RM’s defaults, since when I re-activated it, everyone got set to zero, including me — even when WP itself had everyone listed at appropriate levels. Whoosh, there went my entire admin dashboard, and it wouldn’t come back no matter how much I prodded RM. Lovely.)

Thanks again!

Von: Dirk Schürjohann

Dirk Schürjohann — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:37:17 +0000

Thanks for your feedback, kaigou!

Role Manager shouldn’t be a problem, but can you check the user levels it uses for your staff: by default role manager uses 0 when setting up new roles. I guess you’re admin with 0 level and therefore act as a subscriber (from the plugin’s point of view).

So you should set the user levels in role manager to the wordpress defaults in order to make the plugin (and other plugins tracking the user level) work:

admins 8-10 (default 10)
editors 5-7 (default 7)
authors 2-4 (default 2)
contributors 1
subscribers 0

Von: kaigou

kaigou — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 21:29:34 +0000

Hey. Great plugin! …so I’m sure this error must be mine, if I could just figure it out. I’m one of the admins (of 3); I have one editor, 22 authors, and 7 contributors on the site. When I installed the plugin, all I get is the option to mail-to the admins. There’s nothing showing up for any of the other groups (which is actually the most useful part of this plugin’s concept, for me — 22 people is an awful lot to email at once, manually).

I’m also using Role Manager, but otherwise I’ve made no adjustments to users, nor have I messed with the admin interface at all. Is there some other setting I need to make sure is switched to the ‘on’ position to see the other groups as email options?

Thanks!

Von: Dirk Schürjohann

Dirk Schürjohann — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:48:53 +0000

Álvaro, thanks for your feedback! Concerning your second comment: Where the mailto link occurs is easy to manage. WordPress provides a bunch of »hooks«, and you could use a different one than the current activity box hook. Line 24 in mailto-staff.php: This one would be for the profile page of any user:

// actions
add_action('profile_personal_options', 'mailto');

This one would be the WP header:

// actions
add_action('admin_head', 'mailto');

And this one would be the WP footer:

// actions
add_action('admin_footer', 'mailto');

Concerning your first comment: If you want to contact subscribers only, you should remove lines 47-50 (admins) or even better lines 47-62 (admins, editors, authors, contributors). Second, as you need a simple link without user options, you may want to modifiy the HTML structure and dismiss the checkboxes. It's lines 103-122.

Von: Álvaro Degives-Más

Álvaro Degives-Más — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:17:53 +0000

It just occurred to me that, perhaps, a simpler solution is to have your plugin reached via the Users settings as that is always visible (e.g. profile, notification subscriptions, etc.) instead of on the "main" Dashboard?

Von: Álvaro Degives-Más

Álvaro Degives-Más — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:13:55 +0000

Hi Dirk, your plugin is a highly effective solution for "internal" or "member" communication! However… I have a somewhat strange environment; I think it’s helpful to explain that, so as to help you understand what I’d like to be able to do with the plugin. Essentially, I use WP as a CMS, on a "members-only" site (although it has much out in the open, registration is closed). So, "regular" members essentially have subscriber roles, and I have a separate role (via the Roles & Capabilities plugin) for Board members. I have also disable most of the Dashboard for all members (subscribers and Board) with the WP Hide Dashboard plugin, as they don’t deal with creating or editing posts (or pages).

What I’d like to do is to have a restricted page – accessible only to members of the Board group – where an instance of that link appears, instead of on the Dashboard which, after all, is invisible to them.

So… What’s the PHP call to your plugin I should use (on a separate page based off a specially crafted template page)? Ideally, I’d have two links: one for Subscribers, and another for Everyone (except the admin – I hate to get even more email!).

Sorry the long commentary!

Von: Dirk Schürjohann

Dirk Schürjohann — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:46:48 +0000

I-MAN, you could do the following: 1. click on the mailto link and copy all e-mail addresses from the recipients field of your mail client. 2. use the users to csv plugin for an user export.