Well, not easy to learn a new software framework, even though ‘everybody’ always seems to say that WordPress is so simple. Before it took me quite a while to make my back-end plugin work to send the daily inspiration mail, but lately I’ve been struggling with the front-end plugin so people can subscribe to our e-mails. Of course being a perfectionist the plugin just needs to be ‘installed’, nothing else and the front-end only needs to include an element with a specific id, then it should just work. Well, and it does, so if you want to receive our daily e-mail with an inspirational quote just go to the page subscribe, fill in your e-mail address and click on the confirmation link in the e-mail you will receive shortly after. That’s it, no more. And if you’re interested in the plugin just send an e-mail to guus@inspiration-for-success.com.
The back-end for managing an e-mail list and sending an (html) e-mail without a lot of html knowledge is available on https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/plugins-files/ifs-management.zip. The frontend will be available soon on https://www.inspiration-for-success.com/plugins-files/ifs-frontend.zip.
So what’s inspiring in this post? Well, maybe that I was a bit desperate as the front end plugin worked on my local development system but not on this site. And then it’s hard to find out what’s wrong, if it’s just working in one place and not in the other.
Anyhow, with some patience and persistence I was just able to figure the whole thing out, so yes, patience and persistence are important things to achieve success. So don’t give up if something doesn’t work the first time or doesn’t work as you would expect.