WP JV Custom Email Settings

Where can I define new “Email From” name and from “Email Address”?

Go to Settings -> General -> “WP JV Custom Email Settings” section.

How this works? What is the difference between Auto/Manual notification mode?

In Settings -> Writing -> “WP JV Custom Email Settings – Notifications” section you can select to send notifications automatically or manually. If it is set to Auto whenever you publish a post notification e-mails will be sent out automatically for users with access to the post and opted to receive such notifications. In case of Manual you will be provided a “Send/Re-send notification email(s)” button to notify your readers.

I’m not getting any notification e-mails, what is wrong?

In order to receive notification e-mails users have to go to their profile and check “Notify me by e-mail when a new post is published” checkbox in WP JV Custom Email Settings section (or an admin has to do it for them). Further more user has to have access to the post as well, but this applies to private posts only (see FAQ of WP JV Post Reading Groups plugin for more details).

What kind of tags I can use and for what?

You can customize notification e-mail template (both subject and content) In the content you can use any standard html tags as well on top of the following ones:
%title% means title of the post
%permalink% means URL of the post
%title_with_permalink% means URL with title of the post
%author_name% means the name of the post author
%excerpt% means excerpt of the post
%words_n% means the first n (must be an integer number) number of word(s) extracted from the post
%recipient_name% means display name of the user who receives the e-mail

Where are the logs?

Log of notifications is available at Posts -> JV CES Email Log, where you can view which users were notified about which post and if e-mail sending was successful or not (please note that bounce messages are not processed).

I’ve multisite. Does this plugin works for me as well?

Yes, it does, but in that case each site will have its own log in Posts -> JV CES Email Log.