Interaction With Post Notification Plugin

[Bob]

I’m supporting a site that uses both Events Pro and the Subscribe2 email post-notification plugin. We’ve been using Subscribe2 for both Post and Event notification.

A user just scheduled a 10-session class as a recurring event. Subscribe2 dutifully sent 10 emails–one for each session–to everyone on its distribution list. Those emails didn’t receive a particularly good reception.

Any suggestions on handling email notification for recurring Events (using Subscribe2 or otherwise)?

Thanks.

[Geoff]

Hey Bob, thanks for getting in touch!

Oh man, sorry to hear that–I can imagine there were some pretty unhappy people waking up to a full inbox.

I’ve seen the Subscribe2 plugin but haven’t worked with it in depth. Does it offer a setting that saves an email as a draft before it is sent? That would allow you to review emails in advance and delete any that are unnecessary. Another idea might be excluding certain event categories from sending notifications, if the plugin offers those settings as well.

Unfortunately, Events are a type of post and I’m betting that the notification plugin you’re working with treats all posts equally, regardless if they’re set as a recurring event or not. That might be something to suggest to the plugin author, or keeping an eye out for a plugin that offers some more controls.

I hope this helps. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if I can be of further help.

Cheers!
Geoff

[Bob]

Thanks Geoff. I think what we’ve decided to do is switch to using MailChimp’s RSS-driven post notification. Appears to be a lot more flexible.

[Geoff]

Thanks, Bob! That sounds like a solid idea and I hope it solves the multiple notification issue the other plugin couldn’t.

I’m going to go ahead and close this thread, but please feel free to hit us up with a new thread if there’s anything else we can help with.

Have a great day!

Geoff

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