WordPress Questions and Answers (CMA) - Notifications - User Notifications

User Follow Options

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Users that post content to WordPress Questions and Answers will receive notifications in the following custom controlled cases:

• If they are the creator of the question and have checked the “Notify me of follow” option when submitting their question:

• If they are someone who has submitted an answer to a question and checked the “Notify me of follow” when they submitted their answer.

Notification Message Template

If you would like to control the structure and the kinds of notification messages that users receive, WordPress Questions and Answers enables admins to change these features in the Notification tab that is found in the plugin settings dashboard. 

Here are several examples of shortcodes that can be placed within an email message’s content:

• [blogname]  - Name of the site
• [question_title]  - Title of the question
• [question_body]  - Body of the question
• [comment_link]  - Link to the new answer
• [author]  - Author name
• [ip]  - Author IP address
• [answer]  - Answer body
• [opt_out_url]  - URL address of the opt-out page

Enable Thread Following in the Plugin Setting

In the plugin settings under the notification tab you can find the options which controls the appearance of the notify me section which appear on the front end:

Following a Category

In the plugin settings under the notification tab you can also find the options which controls the appearance of the notify me section which appear on the front end for categories. 

Please be aware that this might create a heavy load on your SMTP server and outgoing email functionality if you have many users registered to your site.

Supported Shortcodes

By using the shortcode [cma-followed] users can see all the question and categories that they are following and opt out from following them. You can place this shortcode in the user dashboard.

To show a list of all available categories and the ability follow them, you can use the shortcode [cma-categories questions=1 answers=1 follow=1 header=1 unanswered=1 parent=category experts=0] or

[cma-categories-list] so that the user can mark which categories to follow.

[cma-followed] - Will show all the categories and threads the user is following.

[cma-categories-list] - Will show the list of all categories with the option to follow the category.

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