Timeline for Allow a user to 'subscribe' to different post categories?
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| Mar 2, 2015 at 11:21 | vote | accept | m.arch | ||
| Mar 2, 2015 at 11:21 | answer | added | m.arch | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 15:03 | comment | added | m.arch | Hi guys, I've just updated my question to hopefully clear it up. But yes, Tom J Nowell, I guess it is trying to use categories as separate blogs. | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 15:02 | history | edited | m.arch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 14:48 | comment | added | Tom J Nowell♦ | You'd need to use user meta to store which categories a user had subscribed to, then you'd need to implement a newsletter of some sort, and pass posts on a per user basis. Building any kind of custom mailing software entails risks and you should use an external service for the actual mailing part. All this implies that this is an XY problem, and you're asking how to fix your solution, not the original problem. Are you trying to use categories as separate blogs? | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 14:32 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 24, 2015 at 14:30 | comment | added | kraftner | Hi m.arch, could you provide more details on what you've tried already (and why it didn't work)? | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 14:29 | history | asked | m.arch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |