I've got a client with a multi-site installation of Wordpress, who decided they needed to email both newsletters and individual blog posts not only from the main site, but from each sub-site as well.
MailPress seemed like the best choice, so I went with it. Installing and (Network) activating the plugin went fine. Setting up the main site went fine. Activating the customized MailPress theme (which was consistent across all sites) went fine.
But when I went to add users, I just flat-out couldn't. I saw the bulk-add box, but nothing else, even after I bulk added a couple of addresses.
The Cause
For whatever reason, MailPress created it's special tables for the main site, but not for the sub sites. These tables included mailpress_users which (as you might guess) hold the subscribed user names.
A Bit of Background
Wordpress multisite takes all the main tables (wp_options, wp_users, etc) and - for the subsites - adds a number. So your first subsite gets wp_2_options, wp_2_users, etc.
MailPress keeps that going but tagging the site prefix onto it's tables. Instead of mailpress_forms, mailpress_users, etc you get wp_2_mailpress_forms, wp_2_mailpress_users, and so on.
Deep in the heart of the MailPress installation there's a file /wp-content/plugins/mailpress/mp-admin/includes/install/mailpress.php. And in that file it indicates which tables should be created (or upgraded). I couldn't figure out what file is supposed to actually launch install/mailpress.php, but it doesn't matter, the commands to create the required tables were there, so I just pulled them out as you see below.
The Solution
If you are having this problem, open your favorite MySQL query tool (it's probably phpAdmin, and you probably launch it from your hosts control panel. And let's face it - if you don't know what I'm talking about at this point, the better part of valour is to find someone who IS comfortable with MySQL and queries.
I even know this guy I'd recommend - his rates are pretty reasonable.
Use the code below, changing wp_2_ to the number of each of your sites until the table are all created.
CREATE TABLE wp_2_mailpresss_mails (
id bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
status enum('draft', 'unsent', 'sending', 'sent', 'archived', '') NOT NULL,
theme varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
themedir varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
template varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
fromemail varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
fromname varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
toname varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
charset varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
parent bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default 0,
child bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,
subject varchar(255) NOT NULL default '',
created timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
created_user_id bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default 0,
sent timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
sent_user_id bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default 0,
toemail longtext NOT NULL,
plaintext longtext NOT NULL,
html longtext NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY status (status)
);
CREATE TABLE wp_2_mailpresss_mailmeta (
meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
mp_mail_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0',
meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,
meta_value longtext,
PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),
KEY mp_mail_id (mp_mail_id,meta_key)
);
CREATE TABLE wp_2_mailpresss_users (
id bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
email varchar(100) NOT NULL,
name varchar(100) NOT NULL,
status enum('waiting', 'active', 'bounced', 'unsubscribed') NOT NULL,
confkey varchar(100) NOT NULL,
created timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
created_IP varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
created_agent text NOT NULL,
created_user_id bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default 0,
created_country char(2) NOT NULL default 'ZZ',
created_US_state char(2) NOT NULL default 'ZZ',
laststatus timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00',
laststatus_IP varchar(100) NOT NULL default '',
laststatus_agent text NOT NULL,
laststatus_user_id bigint(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL default 0,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
KEY status (status)
);
CREATE TABLE wp_2_mailpresss_usermeta (
meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
mp_user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default '0',
meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,
meta_value longtext,
PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),
KEY mp_user_id (mp_user_id,meta_key)
);
CREATE TABLE wp_2_mailpresss_stats (
sdate date NOT NULL,
stype char(1) NOT NULL,
slib varchar(45) NOT NULL,
scount bigint NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY(stype, sdate, slib)
);
2 comments:
Hi,
From what I read, I assume this worked for you. I've got a question, then:
I did this, and I also created the other two tables (_stats and _usermeta) that MailPress creates for the main site of the MultiSite installation. But I'm still receiving the same error. It looks like the error is out there somewhere in the DB, as the mail is sent (from the form, I guess), but the user is later unrecognized (for there is no value saved in the DB).
Your post has put me in the correct way, I guess, but I still need a little push to get things working. Any ideas?
Thanks for your time :)
Jose: Check the script above. It should create the following tables:
_mails
_mailmeta
_users
_usermeta
_stats
Make sure you are correctly changing the table prefix (it might not be wp_2_. It might be mysite_3_ or something else. It has to match the other tables for THAT multisite install).
Hope that helps.
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