I am using Disqus, and I'm trying to find a way for commenters to receive notifications of replies to their comments (or new comments) without registering with disquis. If using native wordpress comments people can check the little box that says "receive notifications" and receive messages when there is a new comment. However, when using disqus people have to register to receive those notifications. Many commenters don't want to register for another service, so people aren't getting notified. Is there any way to make it easier for people to get notifications?
After researching and talking with disqus, this can not be done. As a free service they want to direct users back to their site to set up an account in order to get features such as comment replies. I've decided to go back to wordpress native comments.
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I am working on a symfony 2 project where the user should be able to use payments via PayPal and Sofort.com.
Yet i have implemented paypal payments which i managed successfully.
But i am stuck with sofort.com. I have searched the web for tutorials but i can hardly find anything.
I've read through their API and integrated their PHP SDK. But i dont get how get on.Maybe someone here has worked with it, and can help me out what to do next.
That would be really cool
Can somebody help me point in the right direction with it? i would be really thankful.
You have to download the Sofort SDK from their website which is here.
Then in their example folder you'll find two files: example.sofortueberweisung.php and example.transaction.php.
The example.sofortueberweisung.php shows you how redirect the user with specific values to the payment page.
The example.transaction.php shows what to do in the notify action.
After the payment is completed the user will be send to the success link.
Sofort sends transaction data to the notify action which you can process.
If the user aborts the payment he or she will be forwarded to the abort link.
Its so super easy to implement it, i think imo its much easier then paypal.
Hope it helps people out.
You can try to use Omnipay library from ThePHPLeague, which provides a common interface to easily create a custom gateways. Also there is a symfony2 bundle which provides a wrapper for that library.
My website uses Wordpress and we use a plugin called profile builder for registering new users who can access some more pages than non-registered ones. We have e-mail confirmation feature and do not auto-generate passwords. Lately we are seeing a lot of spam user ids being created. They never access the site. I wanted to know what possible benefit they might be getting by registering on our site and if we should delete off such ids. Is there any way to prevent it from happening.
In my experience, comment spammers generally sign up for the sole purpose of posting comments that ostensibly contain generic comments about the post (such mundane remarks as "wow this is really interesting"), but the real purpose is for them to post links to their websites in the hope of boosting their search engine ranking. If they're registering but not returning it could be some bot that's trying to perform automatic registrations in the hope that it can go on to automatically post comment spam.
To prevent it from happening, you could try adding a Captcha to your registration process, if that plugin will allow it.
If you find yourself getting comment spam then there's always the askismet plugin.
You have to install stop spammers plugin. If you didn't like it then you can choose one of these, Sabre, Growmap, wangguard. :)
I would like to know how many of my clients open the automatic emails my website sents (ex Order Received etc).
Is there any detailed guide for newbies out there? I found several tutorials but they are really old. I use GA Universal Tracking.
Nice post, I have tried something similar but it did not work out very well for myself so I then started using ContactMonkey & have been very happy with the service they provide.
The recipient of your email doesn't need to acknowledge the read receipt. The tracking just happens in the background.
You can check out ContactMonkey by visiting their site
Hope that helps!
I have an asp.net autoresponder that sends emails to millions of subscribers. I want to track if a person mark my emails as spam. is there any way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
No, there isn't. After your mail has been sent to your receiver's SMTP server, there's no way to track it down anymore.
I know what you're thinking: how can some mail-clients track down wether an email has been read or not (e.g. in Outlook). They can do this by adding a little img-tag to their mails (html). When a user opens the mail, it'll open the path specified in the img's src-attribute. Since that's a script (like PHP or something), it can automatically sets a flag to 'seen' when a mail has been opened.
Of course, there are some other ways to track this down, but I think this is the most popular one.
However, this can't be done to check whether a mail has been rejected, deleted or moved to the spam-folder.
I would recommend http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ as an example of sites to use for checking if your server/sending IP is blacklisted.
You can also sign up for feedback loop services with major or relevant email providers for your list(s) to be informed when messages are reported as spam. Feedback loops are probably the best mechanism for the information you are trying to gather.
Example of a feedback loop and how to subscribe to it:
http://postmaster.aol.com/Postmaster.FeedbackLoop.php
I can't post more than 2 links but if you Google "feedback loop" and the name of the email provider you are likely to find what you need to sign up for their alerts.
Hope that helps.
Google-checkout has a wizard that creates the html code for the button, but how do I have my website get confirmation that the transaction has been completed (or that it wasn't)?
EDIT: I have already seen pages such as https://developers.google.com/checkout/developer/Google_Checkout_HTML_API_Notification_API#Receiving_and_Processing_Notifications and the like. But I don't know how to implement them. For example: what is "HTTP Basic Authentication" , "HTTP request headers" , "HTTP 200 response code" , "POST" , etc.
So what I need is a simple (!) example with minimum code.
You would have to implement Google's Notification API. You can read about it here: Implementing the Notification HTML API.
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Thanks. But unfortunately I don't know enough web developing to know
how to apply what is written there.
I'll be honest with you. Simple is relative and if you aren't familiar with some of the fundamental concepts as POST and request headers, it's likely you will never get a simple response.
Having said that, I believe the simplest solution for you is to manually confirm the transaction upon receipt of the confirmation email.
I envision that you would have some sort of management screen that displays a list of all 'pending' transactions. When you receive your confirmation email from Google, you would simply mark the corresponding transaction as having been completed. This is not entirely uncommon. In fact, since you are using single-item purchases using the Google button, this is probably the best option for you.
A more complex scenario (again not a simple solution), would be to create a service that will parse your emails and using some voodoo to map those emails to the corresponding transaction in your web app. This, though, is probably as advanced as implementing the Notification API.