I have a small list of hacks that I make to MailPress every time I upgrade. It’s been shrinking as some of the issues have been addressed in the plugin, but I thought I’d share my local modifications with you:
Remove “[Blog Name] New post” from Subjects
I’d rather have the Subject line of my newsletters read like a personal email than an automatically generated one, so I change:
mp-content/advanced/newsletters/new_post.xml:
<mail><subject>
Strip ‘[%1$s] New post : ‘
mp-content/advanced/newsletters/categories/categories.xml:
<mail><Template>singlecat</Template><subject>
Strip ‘[%1$s] New post in {{the_category}} : ‘
Friendlier Messages
I like messages that are clear to non-MailPress users, so I change:
mp-content/languages/MailPress.pot:4149 &
mp-includes/class/MP_Widget.class.php:104:
Change “Waiting for your confirmation” to “Check your inbox and confirm your email address”
mp-content/languages/MailPress.pot:4133 &
mp-includes/class/MP_Widget.class.php:99:
Change “Loading…” to “Processing…”
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Thanks a bunch for these; I've been looking for how to change my subject line to something a bit more personal for a while now. I'll definitely be employing that trick at every opportunity.
These hacks are definitely what I'm looking for. No way I can come up with them myself so thanks for sharing. I just hope I don't need to reapply them after each upgrade.
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Unfortunately yes, you will have to apply them after every upgrade.
Great tip Graham. I am a little hesitant with this one because you have to reapply this hack after every upgrade. It would be nice if they built these options into the admin interface. Of course I could just apply the hack and not upgrade. What do you think?
-Joe
Twitter: BuildYourBlogN
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Yes, I'd like to see all these hacks in core one day. Send a donation to the developer... it tends to get him motivated.
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This is an awesome hack, thanks for sharing! Thank god for smart people, because there's no way I could have come up with this.
Thanks alot my friend. these hacks are awesome...i am definitely going to give them a shot...Thanks
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Thanks for the hack, Graham - very useful! I will definitely use this.
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nice hack, saves me a lot of time. Thanks for sharing
thanks for the information ...only small mistakes creates a big problem and thus how your article states ...will be careful
Great post. Thank you for posting this article. It is very helpful to hack.
great little hack, i like how simple it is and that it actually makes a great difference in terms of marketing
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