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Ok the "Post Alert Feature" is done. The alert feature doesn't have all the stuff the old one had but pretty much the same. I just did the basics to get it up and functional so we could have alerts again.

When you go into your manager up in the right hand corner (opposite your large username) you will see a link for Post Alerts. Eventually when I get to it there will also be comment alerts, and tracking alerts linked up there too. If you have 0 alerts it gives no number. It will only show a number if you have more then 1 unread alert.

Ok so click the alert button and now you will see your alerts. Click the title of the alert to read it .. and for right now only the mass delete option is available for deletion. Which is actually better because you can read all your alerts and then just click the top check box to select them all .. and then delete them all in one go.

There is also a link here that will take you to the subscription manager. From there you can add and delete subscriptions.

Note: We no longer subscribe to users .. we subscribe to blogs because of the multiple blog feature. So when adding a new blog subscription you need to enter the blog name NOT THE USER NAME. You can find the blog name by looking at the blogs URL for example my blog name is keith .. http://keith.efx2blogs.com <-- Note the bold underline text there in the URL.

I also added something I did for ReStyle here .. the AutoSuggest feature we had before. So when adding a new subscription you just need to enter in a few of the starting letters of the blog name and it will suggest blog names from the database. Once you see the one you want click on the name and it will be added for you. Now just click the add subscription button to subscribe to it.

You can delete subscriptions as well. :)

When making posts I added the alert code the same way as the old .. so if you make a private post it will not send out an alert .. if you make a friends only posts it should only send out an alert to your friends who are subscribed to you .. and the other two options will send out the alert to all those subscribed to you. It would be nice if someone can verify the friends alerts if you can. :)

Just remember with the friends alerts .. it's not enough just being friends .. you need to be subscribed to that blog. I know on the old system people could never figure that out. The alerts have nothing to do with friends .. it will only send to people who have subscriptions!