RSC Early Access

WordPress plugin for collecting and managing early access signups with admin management, CSV export, and email notifications.

🔌 Why I built this

I needed a way to collect early access signups for Rock Solid Code without relying on a third party email service or paid plugin. I wanted full control signups stored in my own database, notifications straight to my inbox, and a clean admin page to manage and export the list. So I built it.

✨ Features

📋 Signup Collection

• Custom database table to store signups
• Collects name, email, date, and IP address
• Duplicate email detection with user feedback
• Form feedback states: success, already signed up, invalid email

📬 Email Notifications

• Instant email notification on every new signup
• Configurable notification email address via admin settings
• Defaults to WordPress site admin email on install

🖥️ Admin Management

• Dedicated admin menu page; Early Access
• View all signups in a clean table
• Delete individual signups
• Delete all signups with confirmation prompt
• Export full list as CSV

🛠️ Tech Stack

• PHP 7.4+
• WordPress Plugin API
• WordPress $wpdb - custom database table
• wp_mail - email notifications
• dbDelta - safe table creation and updates

🚀 Installation

1. Download or clone this repo
2. Upload rsc-early-access.php to /wp-content/plugins/rsc-early-access/
3. Activate the plugin in WordPress Admin → Plugins
4. Navigate to Early Access in the admin menu
5. Set your notification email address under Settings

📋 Usage

Frontend form - add this HTML to any page or template where you want the signup form:

<form method="post" action="/">
    <input type="text" name="rsc_early_access_name" placeholder="Your name">
    <input type="email" name="rsc_early_access_email" placeholder="your@email.com" required>
    <button type="submit">Notify me</button>
</form>

Feedback states - handle user feedback via the rsc_signup query parameter returned on redirect:

if ( isset( $_GET['rsc_signup'] ) ) {
    if ( $_GET['rsc_signup'] === 'success' ) echo "You're on the list!";
    if ( $_GET['rsc_signup'] === 'exists' )  echo "You're already signed up!";
    if ( $_GET['rsc_signup'] === 'invalid' ) echo "Please enter a valid email.";
}

📁 Project Structure

rsc-early-access/
└── rsc-early-access.php    # Single file plugin - all logic contained

📋 Version History

👤 Author

RJS Labbert

• GitHub: @RJSLabbert
• Blog: rocksolidcode.co.za