Feature request: “notify all” option
I would love the ability (for admins/moderators) to notify everyone of a certain question (via email and as a notification).
For example, in my case, there are certain questions I would like everyone to see and answer on a weekly basis – and it would be great if there was an easy way to notify my whole community (instead of writing an email and manually linking to the question every time).
Just like you go to [more actions] and have these options:
- Edit
- Flag
- Set as featured
- Delete
- Delete permanently
- *Notify all users
You would have the option to “notify all users” that would send the question to all users via email and as a simple Anspress notification (with a certain role maybe?). Another option would be to have something like a wildcard mention [@everyone] that would work for admins only.
This would greatly help with community building and engagement and saves a lot of time when compared to doing it manually.
Lemme know what you think! 🙂
Cool 🙂
I assumed that the email notification plugin would do this. It is really hard to get a new community going if you don’t have this since people don’t just randomly check the site every day. To get a critical mass of users you need email notifications to encourage them to go to the site.
This can be achieved using email digest plugin. Email plugin will be improved more before 3.0.0 release.
Where can I find the email digest plugin?
Please search in wp.org. There are lots of plugin to satisfy your needs.
I’m also looking for the same feature – for all new questions to be sent to all users, so everyone is notified and has the opportunity to answer, not just the admin. I’m not sure what an standard wp plugin for email digest would help, as they do not hook into the anspress ‘new question’ but simply notify users of new blog posts (I use email subscribers plugin for another site)
This request is absurd. Simply for one reason. EMAIL doesn’t SCALE.
I too would like some built-in ability to ‘notify all’ for new questions. In fact, I would like it to be automatic, the same way that the ‘Notify Admin’ is setup. It would be nice to have an additional email that the ‘Notify’ options could be setup for. The main reason for us is that our users (intranet) don’t frequent the site, but if they were emailed about questions that are being submitted I believe that many would login to the site to comment and respond.
At the moment I intend to use the ‘Notify Admin’ to forward to the users, but that limits the options I would enable and then removes notification of other options for me (the admin).
Just a thought.