HTML vs Send Images to RSS

Converts the default plain-text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin’ HTML emails. Multi-site support (for WordPress 3.0) will be added soon. Notes: Emails are sent with readable plain-text versions for email clients that don’t support HTML emails. Note: they’re somewhat crude because they’re auto-generated. I may decide to add decent-looking plain-text versions in the future, but that’s low priority. Emails have only been tested on Gmail, Gmail on Android, and Outlook, but should work on most email clients (including clients without HTML support). If you’re using a client other than the 3 I’ve listed, I would appreciate an email with info on whether the email looks like it should and works correctly. Send your questions, comments, suggestions via email. Customizing Templates You can fully customize the look of any of the emails by creating your own templates. Emails have two pieces: Email Wrapper (content common across all emails) Email Message (content unique to each email) Custom templates can be created an placed in either your theme directory or your Content directory (/wp-content/ on most sites). See utils.php for a number of useful functions that you can use in your templates. Email Wrapper The Email Wrapper includes elements and markup that are common across all email notifications. It contains your html, head and body tags and any other elements that are shared across emails. To customize the email template, create a file called html_email.php and add it to either your theme or content directory. Note: you must include the following code in the template to work: The Email Wrapper has access to the following variables: $email_title: (string) title of the email $email_subtitle: (string) subtitle of the email $email_data: (array) Associative array of various data passed by the calling function Email Message: New Comment By default, new comment and comment moderation emails share the same template. You can create separate templates for both for each comment type by creating the following files: notify_postauthor_comment.php notify_postauthor_trackback.php notify_postauthor_pingback.php notify_moderator_comment.php notify_moderator_trackback.php notify_moderator_pingback.php If you don’t want to customize the emails by comment type, just create the following two templates: notify_postauthor.php notify_moderator.php If you just want a custom template shared between the two notification types, just create the following: notify_comment.php New Comment email messages have the following data variables available: $comment – (obj) comment object $post – (obj) post object $comment_type – (string) slug for the comment_type $comment_type_text – (string) friendly name for the comment_type $comment_moderate – (bool) Whether the comment needs moderation or not Using HTML Emails in your plugin It’s pretty easy to use. The main call you need to make is htmlize_message() and pass the return into your wp_mail object. Details to come. Credits Blockquote image borrowed from the amazing Wu Wei theme by Jeff Ngan Plain Text conversion script by Jon Abernathy aka Chuggnutt Email styling inspired by WordPress.com Blog Subscription Notifications

Send Images to RSS bridges the gap between large websites and small emails, by replacing images in your feed with smaller, email friendly images, and attempting to add markup which email clients can handle. Between larger monitors, retina screens, and better image optimization, the images we serve up on our websites are larger than they’ve ever been. RSS to email services such as MailChimp, however, are constrained to what email clients can display, which is small, small, small. And although it’s possible to try to style images with a max-width in your emails, not all clients will honor it (I’m looking at you, Outlook). Send Images to RSS makes it easy to create beautiful, email friendly RSS campaigns, with minimal setup required, regardless of your feed setup. Full Text RSS Feeds If your site’s RSS feed is set to Full Text, this plugin makes sure your emails look more like your website: Replace overly large images with email friendly size images. Convert galleries from thumbnails to full width images. Add email friendly styling/alignment to your images. Summary Text Feeds If you’ve used Summaries as your RSS feed settings, this plugin has not been for you. Until now. As of 3.0.0, Send Images to RSS brings the awesome to you, too. Here’s the magic for your Summary feed: Add the post’s featured image to your excerpt. Choose the size and alignment. If no featured image is set, the plugin will use the first image uploaded to the post. Set a custom length for your RSS summary/excerpt. Pick the number of words you want your summary to have, and the plugin will aim for that, but with the added bonus of making sure the final sentence is complete. If you add a manual excerpt to your post, because you like to have full control, the plugin will properly use that instead. Automatically add a custom “read more” link to the end of every post summary, to keep your feed pointed back to your site. Known (non)Issues This plugin should work with any theme. Some themes and plugins do modify the feed for their own purposes. Where possible, I’ve tried to account for them: For summary feeds, the Yoast SEO RSS link is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed). For summary feeds, the excerpt filter added by the Woo Canvas theme is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed). For summary feeds, this plugin will replace the image settings for Display Featured Image for Genesis for versions 2.3.0 and later (because this plugin is smarter). If you’re using Display Featured Image for Genesis 2.2.2 or lower, this plugin will concede graciously. But you should update, please. For full text feeds, this plugin will not duplicate featured images if they are being added by Display Featured Image for Genesis–you will want to disable that feature in Display Featured Image for Genesis. NOTE: it is up to you to check that your feed output is still working, especially in your email system of choice, once it’s installed. I’ve attempted to set it up to handle XHTML or HTML5, and function even if your feed is wonky, but please double check, and let me know if you have issues, and if so, what specifically they are. Props Special thanks to Gretchen Louise for her summary feed contributions. Spanish translation offered by Web Hosting Hub