How to customize Web Invoice e-mail templates

In the latest release of Web Invoice – Invoicing and Billing for WordPress plugin you can customize the e-mails sent to your clients. You can customize the subject as well as the e-mail content. Please bear in mind that Web Invoice only supports plain text e-mails, but you can do wonders with plain text πŸ™‚ .Β  This can definitely come in handy if you want to localize your invoices or just does not like what comes as default.

Now to get to the point, the e-mail templates are found in ‘Web Invoice’ -> ‘E-mail templates’.Β  There are three templates,

  • Invoice e-mail – First e-mail your client receives about the invoice
  • Reminder e-mail – E-mail sent when send reminder(s) is selected
  • Receipt e-mail – Sent when the client makes a payment. You also need to set ‘Send Payment Confirmation’ to yes in Settings

All variables are of the format %variable_name. Bellow you will find the list of variables available in the current version.

  • %call_sign – First name + Last name of the client
  • %business_name – Business name as set in the ‘Settings’
  • %recurring – Recurring or not
  • %amount – Amount, with currency symbol and currency formatted
  • %link – Link to the invoice
  • %business_email – Business e-mail as set in the ‘Settings’
  • %subject – Invoice subject
  • %description – Invoice description

You can definitely use the default templates as a guideline for your templates. IMHO, default templaes are awesome πŸ˜‰

Don’t go away, there is more. You can write your own plugin to add more variables. e.g. you want to use web invoice along with a booking system. In your plugin add a filter for web_invoice_email_variables and add to the global array (variable) $web_invoices_email_variables.

I want to hear what you think about this feature or Web Invoice in general. Please post your ideas and comments in the Web Invoice community forum. Do not forget to subscribe to my RSS feed to get latest news about WordPress plugins and all things web πŸ™‚

Web Invoice exceeds 1000 downloads

Web Invoice – Invoicing and billing for WordPress plugin has exceeded 1000 downloads. It has 1172 dowloads to date. First release of the plugin was made on March 15, 2009 and now in less than 1 month it has more than 1000 downloads.

Web Invoice is ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress blog and clients to bill. If you come under any of the above, you should give Web Invoice a try.

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SyntaxHighlighter2 WordPress plugin released

SyntaxHighlighter2 WordPress plugin was released yesterday on WordPress Extend plugin repository. SyntaxHighlighter2 allows you to easily post syntax highlighted code all without loosing it’s formatting or making an manual changes. Main addition is upgrade to SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript 2.0 by Alex Gorbatchev. Also in this release the web master/blogger is given the ability to choose from 6 themes for the SyntaxHighlighter.

If you already using SyntaxHighlighter WordPress plugin and using XHTML, you should upgrade to SyntaxHighlighter2 because SyntaxHighlighter uses invalid XHTML. Bellow you will find the sample WordPress configuration file with SyntaxHighlighter2 πŸ™‚ .

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WordPress plugin Smart Throttle 1.0.0 released

WordPress plugin Smart Throttle 1.0.0 released. With this release Smart Throttle is hosted on WordPress plugin repository allowing users to easily install and upgrade.

In this release I have added the ability to configure throttling parameters. You can download the latest release from either here, here or from your WordPress blog under Plugins -> Add New in wp-admin.

Please do not forget to rate the Smart Throttle plugin and give your ideas to improve it. πŸ™‚

My fight against comment spam on WordPress blogs – Smart Throttle

My blog was hit with a comment spam flood which almost brought down the server under load. There were aproximately 30 bots continuously posting spam comments, geez don’t they realize that none of the comments get published. With all the writes to the database, my servers came to a crawling stop. I disabled comments for a while, until I figure out a means to prevent the spam messages from being posted. First option was CAPTCHA, I installed re-CAPTCHA WordPress plugin. This did reduce the spam but in an ugly way. I was thinking of a means to stop the nuisance spam without even writing to the database. Then I came accross this, and gave me the idea for Smart Throttle WordPress plugin. It’s very simple, depending on the rate of comments in the last hour by the user the comment flood time out will be automatically adjusted. Check out the plugin home page for details how it’s done. The plugin is released under GPLv3. I have now disabled re-CAPTCHA plugin and so far things are looking good, most of the spam bots are lost in the you are posting too fast message πŸ˜‰ . Give your blog a break with Smart Throttle.