I noticed that 29 people have viewed my original post, but haven't had a response which means that either:
a) there isn't an easy answer, or
b) my question was too basic to acknowledge.
I'm hoping for a)!

I really want e-mail notification for new posts. So, if I can't get e-mail notification for protected posts and have to use published posts, is there a way that I can make published posts readable only by members? For example, can I password protect the entire site in some way?

Many thanks in advance!

Something that may or may not work is our "protect your blog" plugin. You'd be able to make posts "published" ( they'll automatically be changed to "protected" ) and ... with a smidge of luck, the notifications will be sent out ... I'd have to look through the core files to see if the point where we change published to protected is before or after notifications are issued.

Anyway, if you want to try it then you can download it here : @link [url=http://waffleson.co.uk/2007/10/credits]credits page[/url], just click the tacky green icon next to the plugin to download it ;)

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Thanks for the suggestion, ¥åßßå.

I gave it a try, but it doesn't seem to work. The plugin installation was easy and I came up with the login page immediately on accessing the blog (which didn't happen before), but no e-mail notification. I'm guessing from your last post that the switch from published to protected does happen to early.

My solution is to password protect the blog directory on the server which works, but has one drawback: users need to login once to see the posts and a second time to write a new post, which is a little clunky.

Thanks again!

Just add the following to the blog's stub file, either blog1.php, blog2.php... or index.php

$login_required = true;

Thanks sam2kb!

I tried adding:

$login_required = true; 

to the blog stub files, index.php, and a few other files, but that didn't seem to do anything.

Then I found [url=http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=13411]this[/url] previous post to the forum, which suggested placing the line inside conf/_basic_config.php. This seems to do exactly what I wanted: now posts can only be read if the user is logged in and so I can use published posts which means that e-mail notifications will be sent.

My conf/_basic_config.php now has the lines:

# Restrict viewing posts to members only
$login_required = true; 

just before the final assignment:

$config_is_done = 1;

Thanks!!