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Subscription plugin change request: include topic text & post author in digest

NM Natalya Murphy
Natalya Murphy
Member

We would like to be able to see at least some of the text for each topic included in the digest, as well as the topic author. 

 

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MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

we talked about this when digests were added and decided against it… for busy forums this would could be a resource drain… and would either require more db storage or more queries and resources at email time…

so we chose to keep it lean and mean for performance… but we did give you the option to add it in yourself using our filters… when each digest entry is added to the email, you can hook into and add whatever content you want…

we can consider it in the future, but probably low priority since it can already be done with a filter… do you know how to use filters?

NM Natalya Murphy
Natalya Murphy
Member

Mr Papa said
we talked about this when digests were added and decided against it… for busy forums this would could be a resource drain… and would either require more db storage or more queries and resources at email time… so we chose to keep it lean and mean for performance… but we did give you the option to add it in yourself using our filters… when each digest entry is added to the email, you can hook into and add whatever content you want… we can consider it in the future, but probably low priority since it can already be done with a filter… do you know how to use filters?

Do you mean the filters described at http://codex.simple-press.com/codex/plugins/our-plugins/available-plugins/subscriptions/?  Didn’t realize these were available — thanks!

 

OJ Omar Jordan
Omar Jordan
Member

Hi,

I’m not familiar with how to use filters and I would love to use them to modify the actions of the Subscription plugin. Could you point me in the right direction?

Thanks so much.

MP Mr Papa
Mr Papa
Member

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API

tells you have actions and filter works…

what are you trying to do?  post content for digests is already an option…

OJ Omar Jordan
Omar Jordan
Member

I am trying to implement the following: 

add_filter(‘sph_subs_post_content’, ‘filter_subs_content’,10,2);

 

function filter_subs_content($post_content, $newpost) {

$post_content= ”;

return $post_content;

But I’m not sure how…where to put the filter.

BR Brandon
Brandon
Member

You would put that in the spFunctions.php file of your SP theme.
You should be running a custom theme if you do because any changes to supplied themes will be overwritten on updates.

OJ Omar Jordan
Omar Jordan
Member

Thank you so much.

That’s exactly what I needed to know.