Collecting Profile Data On Newsletter Subscription
04. Feb, 2010 
2 Comments
Collection user data other than name and email can be very useful but can produce a lot of missing contacts. Why? Because people are tired to give they own personal information to anyone (or better they hate having such questions asked while they are proud to put everything of personal on Facebook).
Newsletter could collect such data since previous releases than 1.4.9 but I never documented it as it was experimental. It’s still experimental but just a little bit more stable.
Note: there is no way to visual design or configure subscription forms to collect other fields that email and name. Newsletter has a ways to store such extended data, but not features to easily create the form.
How can we do that? With Newsletter Extras package there is a panel called “Forms” where to code what is needed.
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I'm Stefano Lissa. Ten years ago I was building web sites for pleasure. Blogs didn't exist, web content systems were ugly, hosting was really expensive... and my student pocket was empty.
Stefano, I do have one question about the newsletter plugin. Is it possible to extend the features in the html editor? I am interested in adding some of the other features available in the tinyMC editor.
Thank you,
Lourdes Sodari
Added the full screen (it was easy!)