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As I say I do get the point , it’s a bit of work though in that if it is really an opt-out link then when clicked the email address has to be added to the DB in order to form the basis of a list that can be checked and then in some ways we are starting to create a DB of email addresses apart from those that members knowingly supply.

I can and will run this by one of our directors who is a lawyer and generally worries about this sort of stuff and see what he thinks.

Nicely done @boone

Quick feedback…Is there a way to include some kind of automatic link to the inviter’s profile page?

I’m thinking that a lot of my users are going to want to say “Hey there, come check out my awesome Profile Page at ….. where you can can see my latest blog post, twitter & facebook action, and pretty pics of my kids..”

Ideally, it would be cool to have a checkbox that would insert a link to that member’s profile page: “Check out my ___ Profile”

Thanks again boone.

Quickly upgraded and tested before shutting down, can still send from another users profile, is this correct? checking the table and the record does at least record the inviter_ID as the logged in user which I’m not sure I checked first time round but given that I did note that sent invites list was actually the logged in user and not the ‘Other’ member it must have always recorded the logged in user as the sender regardless of appearances, (stating the obvious really)

Has the new version actually updated the downloader correctly? or have I simply upgraded same version? readme.txt file does state 0.4.1 along with changelog notes.

Thanks for giving us another useful plugin. I just installed it and will test it properly and let you know if I come across any issues.

The 1 minor problem I see immediately is not specific to this plugin but was only noticed because of it. I am using the default buddypress theme and already have the bp-links and ajax chat plugins installed which create links in the profile menu bar. Now with the send invites link, the bar is too long and spilling over to another row.

Ofcourse, this is a limitation with my theme (I made the default theme fixed narrow width) and not with the plugin but I was wondering if anyone knew how I can easily remove 1 or more of the profile menu bar items which are not essential.

your plugin is fantastic!!!!!

Very helpful!!!

Thanks!!!

Obviously I like this plugin a lot. Added it to my test site and everything went really smooth and easy. Just a few comments/bugs:

-It would be a great feature to customize the subject line (similar to the body). Would also likely want to include the name of the person requesting in the subject. As a side note, Facebooks email invite has a subject that says “Check out my photos on Facebook” Interesting way to get people to read the email.

-Email Invite should have the “reply to” from the person that invited them. Maybe it requires some backend server/email configuration to not get caught in the spam filter? The point being that person sent the request, they should get a response to that email if there is one.

-In the invite I sent it had an apostrophe and when it got to the email it shows the apostrophe with \’ in the email. Needs to be filtered/sanitized somehow?

-Would be really nice to have the email field auto-populated. Otherwise, people can sign up with a different email address and then it doesn’t update that the invite was accepted and that person never gets the group/friend invites (I tried). Granted, a lot of people have only one email, but would also save them time if it pulled in the email into the email registration field.

-Personally, I’d prefer it to just add the person to the group and make the requesting person their friend instead of sending them 2 more emails which could be confusing since you’ll get a total of at least 4 emails after activating (New Account, New Blog, Group Request, Friend Request). Maybe this could be an option that can be turned off or on.

Nice work. I love the person’s name on the registration page. I think touches like that could be expanded upon to really increase sign up rates.

Maybe it requires some backend server/email configuration to not get caught in the spam filter? The point being that person sent the request, they should get a response to that email if there is one.

– The Reply To idea is very good. I’m using wp_mail, WP’s built in mail function, which in theory should allow me to feed in some headers. I will give it a try – but no promises on this one, as I’ve had trouble making the WP default reply-to address work correctly in the past and don’t feel like tearing any more hair out over it

This is a nice idea but I would tread carefully. it sounds like a classic SPF issue? my original problem at the start of testing this plugin were not receiving the emails that turned out to be our google business account marking them as spam, which wasn’t happening before but haven’t had a chance to track down what has changed.

Just ran test on 0.5 on live test site.

Ran process from start to finish with all dashboard options in effect and used and all ran perfectly, checked DB and all screens no issues what so ever, congrats on that.

Ran second test but this time testing Opt Out and that equally ran smoothly.

A few things have occurred to me though:

Perfect world it would be nice to have access in admin to textarea to set the text that is displayed on the Opt Out confirmation screens that would ensure we could add any thing we thought necessary for our own particular circumstances.

In a similar vein having allowed users to configure the email message area it occurred to me that I would like one further textarea that admin might use to set a footer to the email for any disclaimers we might think necessary and that we DONT want changing by users.

I have a possible concern over the legal requirements of Opt Outs with respect – in our case – to the UK Data Protection Act and have asked our legal chap to think on it , my concerns may be ill founded but I’ll report back if they are confirmed.

Last little point and which is more an issue I have to resolve but sent invites arrive and are dumped to my spam folder yet registrations and all the attendant confirmation emails arrive correctly.

One question: When you have invited people and they have accepted, could there be a delete button on the sent invite page where you can view all of the invites that you have sent out? This is going to become quite clogged up if you invite many.

I understand not wanting to clutter admin config screen, I was simply thinking out loud trying to second guess potential issues or requirements.

I was pondering a second non technical admin such as our legal chap deciding that in fact he wanted a more detailed explanation of what we would do when user requested opt out, then I’m happy for him to jump in and change it, what he wouldn’t be able to do is edit a .pot file.

This really isn’t a huge matter though, footer area would be time better spent because I think that it’s an issue if one has decided to allow users to edit subject line and message body it could prove dangerous and retaining control over one piece of text in the email that the user couldn’t change becomes wise?

? I’m thinking 0.5 feels pretty stable ?

Anton does make a good point in being able to clear the sent invites list.

Nice work Boone. A few bugs and suggestions.

-When the invite errors (email already exists or bad email address), the custom body message is ending up in the custom subject instead of in the custom body

-When an email has opted out and you try to send an invite to that same email with no groups checked it tries to load this page: /members/admin/invite-anyone/sent-invites/send/ and loads no page. Once I click a group, then the proper error is thrown that they’ve opted out.

-How about having an admin defined header/footer for the email message. Then, the option for the invite sender to put a custom message in between the admin defined header/footer? That way people can do whatever they want with the email message. You could include the “sign up” and “opt out” text as part of the default for the footer. Then, admins can add to it or modify it as they see appropriate.

-Instead of the “clear” function on the Sent Invites screen how about changing Sent Invites tab into multiple tabs: “Pending Invites” “Accepted Invites” “Opt Out Invites” and “Cancelled Invites” (this would require you adding a cancel button to the “Pending Invites” screen). Or if you don’t want separate tabs you could do a filter on the “Sent Invites” tab with these categories, and default it to “Pending Invites”

tested again and an opted out email that I try and send a new invite to results in the message body textarea being added to subject line textarea.

for reference the option to allow user to customise both subject line and message body are checked but the user has not actually added or changed any of the default text displaying.

On a slightly odd note and harking back to my email issues invites were being flagged as spam while all other site emails i.e registration emails were arriving as expected normally , now this has changed despite me having changed nothing!! inviites are correctly being received and not flagged as spam any longer .

*sigh* it’s a black art, server email configuration