Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers Plugin release
By on September 30th, 2007

Update: NUS has been updated to work with the new Google Feedburner Accounts, please check the update page for NUS to get more information about upgrading the plugin.

I was going through my feed subscribers and was startled to see that around 50% of my email subscribers had not confirmed their subscriptions to the Techie Buzz feeds, then I saw how painful it was to send them a friendly message saying that hey I see you have not confirmed yet so why don’t you do that.

That is when the idea to develop this plugin came to my mind, it took two days of my time out of my other work but it was worth it, I can say so because it was never more easier than to have such a functionality inside my WordPress admin panel itself.

Welcome to Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers my 4th plugin yet but a long way from being my last one.

What is Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers?

NUS as I call it is a neat plugin that fetches all the subscribers who have not yet subscribed to your feed verifying themselves by clicking on the verification link in the email FeedBurner sends them.

Many users simply do not verify and thus leaving a lot of readers who do want to read your feeds cannot due to the verification email going unnoticed or landing in the spam folder.

NUS asks you for your FeedBurner username and password and fetches all those unconfirmed subscribers allowing you to send a personalized email to them asking them to verify their subscriptions.

You are asking me for my FeedBurner username and password, What will you do with it?

Relax, ask any expert to go through the code, I am asking username and password so that I can fetch your unconfirmed subscribers. What do I have to do with your username and password??

Will you support other providers other than FeedBurner too?

Well of course you can add a feature request at the NUS feature forum so that I can work on other providers.

Will it be hard for you to do that?

Well no, I created the software such that it is extendable to any number of providers, count me on that I have been in software for almost 7 years now. But remember you have to add your feature requests to NUS feature forum and I cannot promise how long it will take.

What do I need to use Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers?

To be fairly clear your server needs to have cUrl (command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax) with SSL support before you can start using NUS, without cUrl with SSL support it will not work at all and you will see a message that it does not support your blog or some weird errors altogether.

I tried using Snoopy but Snoopy uses standalone cUrl and not the built in cUrl in PHP. So I had to turn over to this. Please give me some time to write the library for supporting every blog am sorry but assure you that I will do it. Your feature requests should be added to the NUS feature forum not in the comments please.

Why do I need cUrl?

I needed cUrl support because the FeedBurner site requires login over a https (SSL protocol) and I did not have enough time to write a library to take care of it. Rest assured future versions of this plugin will work on every site even without cUrl support. Please give me some time to write the library for supporting every blog am sorry but assure you that I will do it. Your feature requests should be added to the NUS feature forum not in the comments please.

Why is it slow?

Come on, I churned out the code in two days flat, give me some time to optimize it :-)

Will it be faster?

Of course it will be much faster in future releases.

Will you provide support for it in the future?

Very much like the other plugins I have created I will provide support till the end, there is just a little change that all support requests should be posted in the NUS support forum and not in the comments.

Does it have bugs?

Of course it does but you can help me make it better. What do you expect out of two days and like I said please post all bugs in the NUS support forum.

What about spamming?

NUS maintains a log of emails to whom a message has already been sent, so you do not have to worry about sending the message to the same user again.

What if I want to do that?

You are spamming.

If I want to spam then?

I can’t do it, you have to do it manually :-).

What if I want to send all my subscribers a message?

You can fetch them manually by logging into your FeedBurner account and downloading your subscribers emails, and then send them a email.

Do I support languages other than English for this?

Not yet, but surely in future. I do not have a non English account, so anyone will to help with a non English account is welcome.

How does it work?

Well now that you asked, here is how Notify Unsubscribed subscribers works. Many users may have more than one feeds in their FeedBurner account and if it is case after step 4 you will get a link to repeat the process from step 2-4. NUS will fetch all the information for all your feeds in step 1 so you do not need to repeat it over and over again, unless you are fetching new unconfirmed subscribers again.

Step 1

Enter your FeedBurner username and password and NUS will fetch all your feeds and their unconfirmed subscribers.

NUS Page

nus_home_page

Authentication failed

nus-login-fail

Step 2

Will fetch all results and ask you to select which one you want to send a message to

nus-fetched-info

Step 3

Add your customized message

nus-prepare-message

Step 4

Done. Repeat it for other feeds.

nus-sent-message

How do I download it?

Please visit the Notify Unconfirmed Subscribers on WordPress extend to download the plugin.

Can I donate to you?

Well you are being so kind, there is a donate button too, below and in the sidebar I would be excited to receive your support. Thanks.

Donate

If you think this software is useful to you, you can make a small donation.


License

All files and their contents are licensed under the General Public License (GPL).

Version Info

0.1 Released October 1st 2007

If you have any problems please use the forums to report about it to me.

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  • http://www.gilsmethod.com gjperera

    Keith – Great plugin, however when it fetches my feeds it tells me I have two – when I have one and that there are no unconfirmed subscribers….I have confirmed and there are. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. I downloaded the latest version of the plugin and I’m running WP 2.71, my feed was transferred from feedburner. Thanks

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  • http://www.beritasemasa.com/ Berita Harian

    I’ve been doing this manually for about years before I found this Plugin.. Thank you very much..

    Keep it up pal, thanks for this one, just bookmarked your blog and will come again later :)

  • http://www.troublefixers.com Rohit

    Gives error that the username and password is not correct, Its correct, looks like some compatibility issue ? Plz help.

  • http://www.pratikbagaria.com Pratik

    This is a great plugin. Thanks for sharing.
    I have a question..

    I have got 1000 unconfirmed subscribers… I can send them a mail using the script. But will all the mails go in one shot or I can pause it. Since I am on a shared hosting my hourly email email is 400 emails.

  • Christopher

    Keith, I'm looking at the comments and I see that a lot of people have not been responded to who had questions. Are you still offering support for this or have you given up on it? I would like to know before downloading the plugin. Thanks.

  • http://www.mindilyons.com Mindi Lyons

    Hi. I have two questions.

    1. What script do you recommend using when sending the customized email asking subscribers to verify?

    2. What if they have already deleted the email that came to them asking them to verify? Do you include a link where they can subscribe again? If so, would this add them to your count twice?

    Thanks. I'm eager to give this a shot.

  • http://techpaparazzi.com Sarvanshu | Techie J

    Hey Keith I have created a mail for this plugin you can add this as a default for Message :

    —————

    Holla !!!

    This is a reminder Mail. You Have subscribed For TechPaparazzi Free Feeds, But You Haven't Verified Your Mail.

    For Getting Started Now Please Follow The link Below And Register your Email And Then You Will Receive Mail From “FeedBurner Email Subscriptions”, Click the link in that mail.

    http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=…

    After This You will Get Free Updates !!!!

    Thanks & Regards

    Sarv007
    http://techpaparazzi.com
    ——————————–

    Please check your inbox for a verification message from “FeedBurner Email Subscriptions”, the service that delivers email subscriptions for TechPaparazzi Dot Com. You will need to click a link listed in this message to activate your subscription.

    PS:Also Check Your Spam Box if its not in your inbox.

  • http://www.techvorm.com Paritosh

    Great plugin! Google should have implemented this function in Feedburner itself. Anyways, very very handy. Thanks :)

  • http://faithfulprovisions.com Kelly Hancock

    Love the plugin! I am having an issue having it read both of my feeds. It found one of my two feeds and said there were XX number of unsubscribed readers. But my larger feed (the one I needed it for) is not being recognized at all.

    Any ideas on how to fix this?

    Thanks!
    Kelly

    • http://keithdsouza.com Keith Dsouza

      @Kelly – not sure why the problem may be occurring, will try and check on the code when I have time.

  • http://azblogtips.com Tinh

    I am surprised when I saw hundreds of them are unverified. Thanks for great one and It helped me reduce from 30% down to less 3%

  • http://www.thuthuatblog.com ThủThuậtBlog.com

    Thanks a lot! This plugin is so helpful.

  • Gus

    Excellent plugin!. Keith what plugin do you use when you put “you might like”? and then appear some pictures belowThanks..

    • http://keithdsouza.com Keith Dsouza

      @Gus – I use a plugin called Outbrain – you can read more about it at http://goo.gl/Q28QN

  • http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net Mark

    Love your plugin, but I’ve got an issue. Paragraph block codes are added to the email message for every line I put in to the message block. For example:


    complete the subscription process.

    Your email address was added to the subscriber list but for some
    reason you did not confirm your subscription when we sent a follow up
    email asking you to do so.

    • http://www.freegovernmentcellphones.net Mark

      I’m getting this error when entering my info to grab subs. Worked before.

      Error Code: E108 – Could not find redirect to Feedburner home page.

  • cosmo

    I am getting error Error Code: E103 – Missing required GALX value.

    Any ideas?

  • http://descargaxporno.com daniel

    your plugin is not working anymore my friend!!

    it´s a pity! :(

  • http://www.cleverhousewife.com Emily

    I have used this plugin several times before, but all of a sudden it stopped working. I have been trying to use it for at least a month now, and get this Error:
    Error Details
    OOPS!!! Something went wrong while fetching the unconfirmed subscribers. Use the error code given below, if you want to submit a support request.

    Error Code: E103 – Missing required GALX value.

    Any idea how to fix this??

    Thanks!

  • Nishana

    Thanks for a wonderful plugin. However, I am getting below error

    “OOPS!!! Something went wrong while fetching the unconfirmed subscribers. Use the error code given below, if you want to submit a support request.

    Error Code: E103 – Missing required GALX value.”

    I am entering the USER name and password correctly. Please help me asap. I’m badly in need of it.

    • Nishana

      Keith, can I have a reply on this please?

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