Send New Topic Email Notifications to Every User for Mingle Forum Plugin v 1.0.33

Mingle Forum is very useful WordPress Plugin that allows you to quickly put a Forum on your WordPress site/blog.

Email notifications in Mingle Forums is one area which needs improvement. Earlier for a previous version, I had posted a hack so that every member could get email notifications for any new topic started by any user here. Since then, plugin has been updated and old hack no longer works for the Plugin ver 1.0.33.

For the current Mingle Forum Plugin ver 1.0.33, I made few changes in the wpf.php file made it to work like this:

Open wp-content/plugins/mingle-forum/wpf.php

Find:

function notify_forum_subscribers($thread_id, $subject, $content, $date, $forum_id)
	{
		global $user_ID;
		$submitter_name = (!$user_ID)?"Guest":$this->get_userdata($user_ID, $this->options['forum_display_name']);
		$submitter_email = (!$user_ID)?"guest@nosite.com":$this->get_userdata($user_ID, 'user_email');
		$sender = get_bloginfo("name");
		$to = get_option("mf_forum_subscribers_".$forum_id, array());
		$subject =	__("Forum post - ", "mingleforum").$subject;
		$message =	__("DETAILS:", "mingleforum")."

".
					__("Name:", "mingleforum")." ".$submitter_name."
".
//					__("Email:", "mingleforum")." ".$submitter_email."
".
					__("Date:", "mingleforum")." ".$this->format_date($date)."
".
					__("Reply Content:", "mingleforum")."
".$content."

".
					__("View Post Here:", "mingleforum")." ".$this->get_threadlink($thread_id);
		$headers =	"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n".
					"From: ".$sender." "."<".get_bloginfo("admin_email").">\r\n".
					"Content-Type: text/HTML; charset=\"".get_option('blog_charset')."\"\r\n".
					"BCC: ".implode(",", $to)."\r\n";
			if(!empty($to))
				wp_mail("", $subject, make_clickable(convert_smilies(wpautop($this->output_filter(stripslashes($message))))), $headers);
	}

Replace with following:

function notify_forum_subscribers($thread_id, $subject, $content, $date, $forum_id)
	{
		global $user_ID, $wpdb;
		$submitter_name = (!$user_ID)?"Guest":$this->get_userdata($user_ID, $this->options['forum_display_name']);
		$submitter_email = (!$user_ID)?"guest@nosite.com":$this->get_userdata($user_ID, 'user_email');
		$sender = get_bloginfo("name");
		$users = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_email FROM {$wpdb->users} ORDER BY user_login ASC");
		foreach($users as $u) $to[] = $u->user_email;
		$subject =	__("Forum post - ", "mingleforum").$subject;
		$message =	__("DETAILS:", "mingleforum")."

".
					__("Name:", "mingleforum")." ".$submitter_name."
".
//					__("Email:", "mingleforum")." ".$submitter_email."
".
					__("Date:", "mingleforum")." ".$this->format_date($date)."
".
					__("Reply Content:", "mingleforum")."
".$content."

".
					__("View Post Here:", "mingleforum")." ".$this->get_threadlink($thread_id);
		$headers =	"MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n".
					"From: ".$sender." "."<".get_bloginfo("admin_email").">\r\n".
					"Content-Type: text/HTML; charset=\"".get_option('blog_charset')."\"\r\n".
					"BCC: ".implode(",", $to)."\r\n";
			if(!empty($to))
				wp_mail("", $subject, make_clickable(convert_smilies(wpautop($this->output_filter(stripslashes($message))))), $headers);
	}

This change will start sending new topic email notifications to every member of your website.

Hope that helps.

Cheers!