Invite Anyone – invite by email too – please help test
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Hi everyone. I have updated my Invite Anyone plugin to allow invitation by email address. It seems pretty solid, but I would really like to have some other people test it before I make it the stable version.
If you have a non-production site and you wouldn’t mind testing it out, please download the development trunk version at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invite-anyone/download/. If you’re already running a version of Invite Anyone on your site, please make sure to deactivate it before downloading and activating this one. (Note too that you must deactivate and reactivate – if you just replace the files, the necessary db table won’t be created.)
A brief rundown of the new functionality:
– A new subnav item has been added to profile pages, called Send Invites
– Under that item are two pages. The first, Invite New Members, allows you to enter up to five email addresses, a custom message, and select some of the groups you’re a member of.
– The second page is Sent Invites, a list of invitations you’ve already sent.
– When you send the invitation, an email goes to the invitee(s) with the custom message and a link to [your bp install]/register/accept-invitation/[email-address]
– When the user clicks that link, he or she should see the normal register page, with a message above that says “You’ve been invited by [the name(s) of the user(s) who sent invitations]…”
– When the user activates the new account, he or she will receive invitations to all invited groups, as well as friendship requests from all members who sent invitations.
– There is also a new (and ugly!) link on the Group Send Invites page, which takes you to the Send Invites profile page and pre-selects the group you just came from.
– There’s a pretty fair amount of email validation that happens. Try punching in some bad emails (banned on your WPMU install, poorly formed, etc) and see what happens. I should note that right now I’m using WPMU’s native email validation – I haven’t even tried loading it on a single-blog install of WP. I did use if ( function_exists ) so nothing should crash, but it’ll probably allow any old email on single WP.
Phew – I think that’s it.
In the future, things like number of allowed email addresses, the default message, etc will be under the control of the site admin. I’m also going to write some Javascript that does inline validation of form data. But for now I think the key functionality is in place.
Please hammer away at it and leave any bugs/suggestions here.
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Great bug catches. I’ve fixed them. hnla, I think your weird subject bug is the same as techguy’s. 0.5.1 will show up on your Dashboard soon. Sorry for the annoying upgrades
Ha, I did something stupid. I took %%SITENAME%% out of there, as it doesn’t make much sense – it’s not really a wildcard, since it’ll be the same for every member of the site – but I forgot that the filter should still be there for people who have already saved their default messages using the wildcard. I put it back into 0.5.1, but my suggestion is just to write the name of your site manually into the default text box
Assuming you are saying these are not existing members:
It’s not the function of the plugin to add members but originally the plugin solved the issue of only being able to invite people that were already on your friends list by allowing access to all members rather than just ones own friends, later it was extended by Boone Gorges (quite brilliantly I might add
) to include the ability to send email invites to non members.If indeed you need to add new members in bulk or just force add users en mass to groups it might be better to start a new thread and ask the question, someones bound to have an idea but your post might get lost in this thread?
Assuming you are saying these are not existing members:
It’s not the function of the plugin to add members but originally the plugin solved the issue of only being able to invite people that were already on your friends list by allowing access to all members rather than just ones own friends, later it was extended by Boone Gorges (quite brilliantly I might add
) to include the ability to send email invites to non members.If indeed you need to add new members in bulk or just force add users en mass to groups it might be better to start a new thread and ask the question, someones bound to have an idea but your post might get lost in this thread?
@kriski – If you want to add users directly to groups (skipping invitations), try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/. It’s not great for adding in bulk yet, but I plan to add checkboxes in the next version that’ll make it easier.
@Erich73 – Good call on the group creation issue. I think the answer is just to turn off the message for the group creation process. I’m about to check in version 0.5.2, which makes this correction. Email invitation can only be done from the normal Send Invites screen, so the confusion shouldn’t happen. Not sure about your email problem – has your friend checked the spam folder? I’m using the same wp_mail function that the rest of the BP functions use.
@roydeanjr – Very strange about the first errors – almost makes it seem like the plugin was loading before Buddypress was. If it starts happening again, please let me know, and give me as much info about your system setup as you can so I can try to reproduce it. And thanks for the kind compliments
@kriski – If you want to add users directly to groups (skipping invitations), try https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bp-group-management/. It’s not great for adding in bulk yet, but I plan to add checkboxes in the next version that’ll make it easier.
@Erich73 – Good call on the group creation issue. I think the answer is just to turn off the message for the group creation process. I’m about to check in version 0.5.2, which makes this correction. Email invitation can only be done from the normal Send Invites screen, so the confusion shouldn’t happen. Not sure about your email problem – has your friend checked the spam folder? I’m using the same wp_mail function that the rest of the BP functions use.
@roydeanjr – Very strange about the first errors – almost makes it seem like the plugin was loading before Buddypress was. If it starts happening again, please let me know, and give me as much info about your system setup as you can so I can try to reproduce it. And thanks for the kind compliments
I just checked in version 0.5.2. One of the changes I made was to address the in_array error that some of you are seeing. I’m still not sure why the problem is arising for some people but not for others – as hnla says, it has to do with loading order, but I’m not sure where the problem is coming from. But I’m pretty sure that the problem shouldn’t arise anymore with this latest fix. Please let me know how your experience goes
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