Thread: ClassiAlerts Plugin - Send Daily, Weekly or Monthly Alerts from ClassiPress

This plugin has some excellent uses. I did some reading on hooks ( think placeholders for widgets, plugins, text, other small codes) here on APP Documentation. At first I thought, wtf? But after a few nights sleep, I read more at WP Codex. And then I just started changing where I wanted plugins to show up. I had no issue with getting the plugin to show up on search results page from advanced search.

I placed this plugin with after_header. And I had to do at least 40 hours of additional work with styling, testings, and setting up email notices with site graphics, ect. It was, as most plugins I find, only a framework. To some, it's all complete. To me, I see where I can take something, and off I go. Afterwards, I realize, I've mostly started with aplugin which is only half done. Consequences of a creative mind, lol.

I can tell you I have thoroughly tested this plugin through about 50 test results for output. To understand it's simplicity, it just takes whatever search query is located in the url locator of your browser. And then writes it to a separate table in the WP DB. I always appreciate coders who know alot better than to use WP CORE tables for dumping data into.

Okay that's the easy part. The really difficult part was the programming put into email auto responders and system notifications to users. One thing that I need, that I don't have yet, it hourly cron jobs. For my industry, sending emails up to a day later, doesn't do much for ads that are gone in less than an hour at times. I'm still waiting for programmer to get back from holidays. The part with email notices, like the CP theme itself, will have yo spending about 80 hours to fully test and configure. You'll need to hard code, because CP Theme is lacking alot in backend panels for system notices. But at the price, I get it. For me, I've been programming and modifying add-on plugins and the CP 3.19 theme for the past 3 1/2 months (at an avg of 50+ hours/wk.). I'll be done in the next 2-4 days. But it depends on what challenges I'll come up to with some three more plugins to install.

Still, all the while worth it. This is no hobby for me, lol. When I'm done, I'll make a post with link to view, and many will not even recognize their own plugins, lol. I thoroughly LOVE WP and APP Themes. Reason: Industry Standards! Yes, I've been to hell and back at $30K over 7 months prior to CP 3.19. It all went into the garbage, except the exceptional hard knocks experience of constantly fixing code and design.

Checkout the sub-forum Wordpress Plugins. Every single plugin I bought, I have read the code line by line, at least five times. I learn a great deal about how to code this way. I always want to know the reason something works, lol. Which is why I'm still here. All the best. Any Q's chime away. I'll do my best to answer back when I can.

Hi ajamm, I'm glad you could sort it. As seoagent said, I am on a holiday currently and have significantly less access to the internet, but I am back next week.

@seoagent, I am really impressed with how thoroughly you are studying each plugin. I have not forgotten about the hourly update, but I am going to have to update this plugin for the upcoming new version of ClassiPress, so I can update the plugin all at once early next week as by then I will have returned from holiday as well as we will have a beta version of ClassiPress 3.2 to work with.

lol, just wrote you back Mohsin. Thanks again!

Hello Mohsin,

Two problems.

- Alerts do not show relisted ads - can this be changed or made optional?

- It does show new pages and posts etc - could this be optional?


Some Suggestions.

- Users can subscribe to lots of different searches... how about a page where they can manage these?

- A CSS mod page would be helpful - Its not much fun trawling through code and adding mods piece by piece; however I'm pretty happy with the result I have acheived.

- Could the 'Call to Action' be incorporated in the category and search section above the ads - rather than creating its own section?

Hi Mohsin,
let say that, i can get a subscriber's e-mail and new ads alerts category selection via another plugin(may be a newsletter plugin).
can i use that data in your plugin manually or automatically? so, your plugin will send alerts, but another plugin provide e-mail and criteria.
via the other plugin, i can request more information from subscribers like name,sex,gsm number(for sms marketing) etc and build a mailing list for marketing.

The manual option is a simple one. When someone signs up via the other plugin, you can just take his email, open the category page and sign him up to ClassiAlerts from there.

Regards,
Mohsin

Hi Mohsin,

thank you for your quick reply.
if i don't use you plugin at fronted, can i do something manually or automatically at backend?

Not at the moment, there is no option to add subscription from the back end, and using the front end will send a notification to the person subscribed about it, which I think is a good thing anyway. I have a couple of questions to be able to understand your requirements.

1) Is it the notification that makes you not want to use the front end?
2) Do you want your users to be able to subscribe via ClassiAlerts at all?

Regards,
Mohsin

Hi,
1)No,having notifications or not, is not a problem.
2)if i can get more info about users, other than email address via classialerts, that may be enough.
i think classialerts do not have a profile page, so i would need a different way to collect other data.
i just want to have more information about users and have them ability to subscribe some categories and get alerts related to that categories as classialerts does.

thank you for your patience, by the way

regards

Hello Mohsin,

Any comments on this?