Is there a plugin for messaging users as an admin?

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Does anyone know of a simple plugin that allows an administrator to send messages to users that have accounts, and allow those same users to reply to the message. I found one here, but the problem is that it allows any user to send any user messages. Only the admin should be able to send messages.

Basically the idea here is to allow the admin to send messages to customers by giving updates as far as their services. Any ideas?

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  1. Yes, you can do this with the plugin you linked, Private Messages for WordPress.

    Firstly, download version 2.1.09 – version 2.1.10 introduced mostly bugs, one of which excludes admins from the senders list.

    Open the file pm4wp.php and edit line 450 to:

    if ( current_user_can( 'administrator' ) )
{
  $users = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT display_name FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY display_name ASC" );
}
else
{
  $users = get_users( 'role=administrator' );
}

    Look into get_users for more options.

    Although as a friendly warning, you may need to do some further tweaks to make this plugin safe as it currently has a security bug. Personally I have a fix for this and the plugin author has been contacted – no response yet though.