dlb's Send-A-Link vs Send

dlb’s Send-A-Link allows visitors to send someone an email containing a link to the post or page. Key features include: Show visitors a link (icon and/or text) to send an email by adding a function call to your templates or a shortcode to your pages/posts. The input form, confirmation page, and email message are all based on easily modifiable HTML templates. Spam protection includes CAPTCHA verification and limiting any given IP address to two messages per minute. Send-A-Link loads fast because code is compact and does not use jQuery. Send-A-Link uses Javascript/AJAX for fast, inobtrusive form handling, but it degrades gracefully to provide full functionality to clients without Javascript. Built and tested on WordPress v3.5.1; although it might work on earlier versions, it has not been tested on them. dlb’s Send-A-Link code is heavily commented, especially regarding WordPress plugin interfaces and AJAX features. This makes it a suitable starting point for novice developers to explore their own programming interests. I have attempted to make the code very understandable. However, I do not claim this to be model code because I am not an experienced developer myself. In fact, I would greatly appreciate constructive criticism. In the future, I plan to release new versions with the following features, in approximately this order: Privacy reassurance that email addresses are not stored, but IP’s are Make the “send another message” link consistently re-display form with fields pre-filled Localize to be ready for translation, including delivery of po and mo files and some instruction on how to use POEDIT to customize the wording, regardless of language. This could especially apply to the error messages. Attempt to use PHP’s DOM handling routines for more robust and reliable formatting of responses when client does not have Javascript available Use a stored procedure to flush log daily to reduce number of times it is done Rewrite using class construction Add admin screens to specify some things now defined in constants and templates Make it easy to turn CAPTCHA off or on Make it easy to use other CAPTCHAs

Did you find this plugin helpful? Please consider leaving a 5-star review. Note: This is a forked version of the now unsupported wpMandrill plugin. The notes below are copied over from the original plugin and will be updated as relevant updates become available. Please help by contributing to the GitHub repository Send Emails With Mandrill on GitHub This plugin uses Mandrill API to send outgoing emails, with or without attachments, from your WordPress installation. It replaces the wp_mail function included with WordPress. Emails are tracked and automatically tagged for statistics within the Mandrill Dashboard. You can also add general tags to every email sent, as well as particular tags based on selected emails defined by your requirements. You can also use your own templates that have been added to your MailChimp account and shared with your Mandrill account. There are a few levels of integrations between your WordPress installation and this plugin: The simplest option: Install it, configure it, and Send Emails with Mandrill will start sending your emails through Mandrill. If you need to fine tune certain emails, you can change any email by creating a filter for the mandrill_payload hook. For further customization, we’ve exposed a function that allows you to send emails from within your plugins, instead of the regular wp_mail function: wpMandrill::mail Enable the connection by entering a valid API key in the settings page or adding the line define('SEWM_API_KEY', '{YOUR_API_KEY}') your site’s wp-config.php file. Spanish translation available. Request If you find that a part of this plugin isn’t working, please don’t simply click the WordPress “It’s broken” button. Let us know what’s broken in its support forum so we can make it better. Our mind-reading device still needs some tweaking. Localizations Send Emails with Mandrill is currently available in the following languages: Albanian (Shqip) Arabic (العربية) Armenian (Հայերեն) Basque (Euskara) Bengali (বাংলা) Bulgarian (Български) Catalan (Català) Chinese Simplified (简体中文) Croatian (Hrvatski) Czech (Čeština) Danish (Dansk) Dutch (Nederlands) Estonian (Eesti) Finnish (Suomi) French (Français) Galician (Galego) Georgian (ქართული) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Hindi (हिन्दी) Hungarian (Magyar) Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) Irish (Gaeilge) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Latvian (Latviešu) Lithuanian (Lietuvių) Macedonian (Македонски) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Persian – Afghanistan (دری) Polish (Polski) Portuguese – Brazil (Português do Brasil) Portuguese – Portugal (Português) Romanian (Română) Russian (Русский) Serbian (Српски) Slovak (Slovenčina) Slovenian (Slovenščina) Spanish (Español) Swedish (Svenska) Tamil (தமிழ்) Thai (ไทย) Turkish (Türkçe) Ukrainian (Українська) Urdu (اردو) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) Welsh (Cymraeg) Known Issues Daily statistics will show data for the first 20 senders (emails) registered. Daily statistics will show data for the first 40 tags registered. If your account has more than 20 senders registered or more than 40 tags used, the detailed daily statisticas might show incompleted data.