Proposed changes to "E-mail me whenever" Discussion Options

[markjaquith]

WRT the "E-mail me whenever" options on the Discussion options page:

1. For "a comment is helf for moderation," the "me" is ambiguous. It should specify that it means the blog admin e-mail address.
2. For "anyone posts a comment," again, "me" is ambiguous. In this case "me" means the author of the post. The comment notification setting is personal, and therefore should be set in the profile options (where it can retain the "me"). Some authors may want e-mail notification, others might not.

Currently using this solution to solve:
​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/377874?replies=2

Would be nice if it were part of Core or at least if language was clarified.

Moderation notification for post authors

Patch provides an interim solution of emailing the post author as well as the admin if the author has the proper caps. Ideally these will become individual options.

(In [16223]) Send moderation emails to post author. see #6286

#4979 closed as a near-duplicate.

Moving to 3.1 as there's been a commit here.

Individual notifications

Here's a suggested diff for individual notifications:

• Move notifications from Options > Discussion to user profile/edit page
• Individualised options are, "Email me whenever": "A comment is posted on one of my posts" "A comment on one of my posts is held for moderation" "Any comment is held for moderation"
• New function wp_get_moderation_recipients
• Removed old options from wherever I could see them (whitelists, schema)

N.B. No data migration currently in place to move options in an existing site to the new user_options, also no initial defaults in place for when new sites are set up

Individual notifications (removed stray error log calls)

This is looking like good progress towards a solution that we could implement in 3.2

Not sure if we just move this ticket there or create a new one as we have made some small changes in 3.1

Let's just move.

I would like to encourage this to be completed for 3.2 and if there is anything I can do to help this please let me know.

Related: #7835

Related: #761

Please fix this. It might not be sexy to work on, but it's been an issue for a long time. There are numerous bug entries, and plenty of questions on the forums about how to get comment reply notifications sent to post authors.

Refreshed the patch against trunk - needs testing, a strategy around options, and some UI love probs

Help text update, user-edit options indentation

6286.3 adds a Personal Options help tab with a 'manage email notifications' bullet, also spaces the markup out in user-edit.

Not sure if the the second and the third checkbox should be checked at the same time.

Perhaps we can add a select box like on Discussion Settings where the user can select "any" or "one of my posts".

#7835 was marked as a duplicate.

Replying to ocean90:

Not sure if the the second and the third checkbox should be checked at the same time.

Perhaps we can add a select box like on Discussion Settings where the user can select "any" or "one of my posts".

What do you think about using a checkbox on the first option and either/or radio buttons for the second and third?

This all sounds good but still deals only with comments. Thinking that "E-mail me whenever..." should also include upgrade notifications.

I had this idea for a plugin for some time now (no time to sit down and make it): WordPress should be more "vocal" about upgrades by emailing the admin(s). The reason is that many users don't log in very often, sometimes for weeks or even months.

Thinking this would be quite handy on the Profile page:

E-mail me whenever:

• .....
• WordPress needs upgrading.
• A plugin or a theme needs upgrading.

Replying to DrewAPicture:

What do you think about using a checkbox on the first option and either/or radio buttons for the second and third?

Makes sense to me.

Replying to azaozz:

Thinking that "E-mail me whenever..." should also include upgrade notifications.

That would indeed be handy, but sounds like a separate enhancement to me.

#24383 was marked as a duplicate.