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When I try to configure the newsletter im getting an error messages:
1.Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /users/time2win/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/plugin.php on line 50
here is line 50:
if (is_array($newsletter_options)) $newsletter_options = array_merge($newsletter_default_options, $newsletter_options);
2.Warning: array_merge() [function.array-merge]: Argument #1 is not an array in /users/time2win/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/options.php on line 17
here is line17:
if ($options) $options = array_merge($newsletter_default_options, $options);
What should i do to make it work? Thank you and have a nice day.
This error sounds strange ’cause the code seems correct. Can you give me some other details? There is the languages subfolder in the plugin folder with at least en_US_options.php? Have you changed this file? Are you able to modify the plugin following my instructions to have a more clear error message? If so, mail me to info@satollo.net.
Emil, the files in the languages subfolder of the plugin have the wrong name. The right name is en_US_options.php NOT en_us_options.php. Case matters! Rename the file or reinstall the plugin.
How do you make the newsletter page with the [Newsletter] work in a custom template?
nothing, it’s a short tag and works in any themes (i hope…) the tag is [newsletter] not [Newsletter]
I got the newsletter fully working but, I want to put it in a custom template I made. I put the tag [newsletter] and it just prints the tag. No form or anything comes up.
Hey Stefano,
I got everything work but when i test it, there is no email with the conformation link being sent. Meaning that I do not receive no emails from my site for new user subscriptions.
Thank you very much it is working now.
Actually it doesn’t work. I can send e-mails to my users but sign in form doesn’t show up. Here is a link to my newsletter page http://time2win.eu/?page_id=656
Have you created the newsletter page with [newsletter] short code in it?
Hi there
Great plugin indeed! The only feature it misses is lack of user roles management. For instance now the Newsletter management is available only to admin. That would be great to pick up ie. an author and give him access to the newsletter, too.
Hi Makalunga, do you mean an author can have access to the blog newsletter of a newsletter for him self?
No. You can create different users of the blog with different user status. For example editors – they can access all post/page management, but they can’t access blog’s maintenance option, (ie. to change admin’s password, settings page). The problem is that Newsletter plugin is available for admin users only and it is not visible to Editors. I can’t give access to newsletter to them as I can’t give them access to blog’s setting for security reasons. Can you change this so that other user levers can also access it? Thank you!
I mean editors and authors too. Now only admin can access it.
I was wondering how to add this feature as well. I want my editors and authors to manage the newsletter without having the admin login details.
Ah shoot. Sorry for my post. I found the setting where you can enable editors to access the newsletter.
For those looking for it, it is under Advanced (way at the bottom). The last option in the list is called “allow editors to user the newsletter plugin” put a check in the box and save changes.
I can’t figure out how to do the double opt-in to allow the user to unsubscribe.
Could someone please show me what to do?
Thanks.
Dear Kathy, double opt-in means the user has to confirm his subscription. This is done sending him an email when he subscribe with a link to confirm his request. This is done to avoid fake registration: users who insert wrong email or worse users who insert emails of others.
The unsubscription process is a totally different thing: when you send a newsletter, you can user the unsubscribe tag in it to give the receiver a link to unsubscribe. This link is unique per user, so no one can delete the subscription of others.
I know, the newsletter page lacks of this kinf of information, I’ll try to update it after this week-end!
Where do I get / generate the unsubscribe link / what html do I drop in the newsletter so it contains the unsubscribe link?
Hi Stefano
I mean, for instance I’d like to add editors to the blog w/o giving them admin privileges. But the Newsletter disappears once you don’t have an admin account so all options are not accessible to editors. This is sort of limitation as I can’t give them a chance to prepare/send newsletters. I wish there was am access control for users with different roles. Something like that ie. NextGEN gallery incorporates. I can chose whether the gallery management is accessible to authors or editors etc.
Something else I’ve notices that newsletter messages are ruined once non-English characters are inserted. For instance if I post a msg in Polish, all diacritic characters are ruined and sent as plain UTF-8 encoding. This forces me to send all texts without Polish characters which is not convenient.
Also I can offer a fee Polish translation of the entire plugin for you including templates as I really appreciate the plugin exists. Can you provide .po/.mo language files to do so (or I could use php files to translate?)?
just upgraded the plugin and discovered this functionality – thank you!!!
Sorry, yet another question. is there a way to send newsletter in plain text only or plan text + html?
At now, no. There is a lot of modification to do to sent it in two format and… many test with the CMS I work on for job showed that when a text version is present, many clients show only that one… I can introduce as new feature a way to senf the emails only in a text format.
That would be great…I am also looking for sending the NL only in plain text format…;)
Hi Stefano,
First of all, thanks for you work on the plugin, it looks great.
i followed the instructions, and everything works fine till i subscribe my first user, using the newsletter page. he sees the “You successfully subscribed to my newsletter. You\\\’ll receive in few minutes a confirmation email. Follow the link in it to confirm the subscription. If the email takes more than 15 minutes to appear in your mailbox, check the spam folder.” message.
the user receives the confirmation email, but when he clicks the link, he’s sent to page showing “Subscribe to my newsletter filling the form below. I\\\’ll try to make you happy. A confirmation email will be sent to your mailbox: please read the instruction inside it to complete the subscription.”.
His status remains unconfirmed.
How come the click doesn’t send the user to the “Your subscription has been confirmed! Thank you {name}!” page. No “welcome aboard” email is sent either.
What can i do ?
Hi Japy, I need to see the confirmation email the user has received. Can you ask him to forward it to you?
There was some wrong default values in the first newsletter release. May be if you “revert to the default values” the problem will be fixed. Can I try to subscribe to your blog? It’s the one you left on the comment?
i put newsletter 1.0.5, downloaded yesterday.
Shall i revert to default values anyways ?
the email i received (i’m the test user
is :
“Hi Japy Wagnon,
I received a subscription request for this email address. You can confirm it clicking here. If you cannot click the link, use the following link:
http://www.desracinesetdesailes.net/?page_id=886?na=c&ne=jphwagnon%40gmail.com&nt=1ff906efb0e683cec422e34826a895ce
If this subscription request has not been made from you, just ignore this message.
Thank you.”
Feel free to register – yes, my blog is the one i left on the comment.
Thank you again,
Japy.
Hi Stefano,
I hope you receive this, since i have the feeling my last comments didn’t make it through.
i reverted to default, as you suggested – and it works fine !
Thank you for setting up that great-does-everything-we-need-simply-and-efficiently-newsletter plugin !
Japy.
Hi again, Stefano !
May i bring the following suggestion to the list of improvements/features you might have regarding the plugin :
Allow the user to subscribe from his profile page to the newsletter, by means of a tick box ?
Greetings,
Japy
Hey Stefano,
Were currently using your newsletter plug in:
http://208.43.108.173/~h2b/?page_id=9
Everything works expect when we receive the auto email “confirm your subscription to …”
The links in the email do not work. We have tried Revert to defaults. But we still get the same problem.
Example Email
Hi anthony,
I received a subscription request for this email address. You can confirm it clicking here. If you cannot click the link, use the following link:
http://here2better.com/?page_id=9?na=c&ne=apcincommand%40hotmail.com&nt=867e9a88d9229ec4db328704d717aa75
If this subscription request has not been made from you, just ignore this message.
Thank you.
Change the permalink structure, the link with parameters are not supported by Newsletter. sorry for the late response, the links in the comments made it to be marked as spam…
Stefano,
it seems the \’ have a strange behaviour, as they are sent.
it occurs in each text box of the configuration page, as in the composer.
i also trie to insert an image directly in the composer, but that didn’t pass the test.
maybe the tiny-mice formatting box is a bit too much at an early stage ?
Oh ! and a captcha to prevent bots inscription might be interesting ?
Greetings, and thanks again
Japy.
PHP is stupid about single quotes and I check is a specific PHP parameter is setted to remove the back slashes… but for some reasons on some PHPinstallation that does not work…
How could I export my list?
You’re right, I’ll add this function ASAP.
Hi Stefano,
I been thinking about the same thing – exporting people from my list. Is that possible now?
/ Martin
Hi,
I am trying to subscribe myself to test but it’s not sending the confirmation e-mail and I’m seeing there’s one unconfirmed subscriber. What’s wrong?
Did you set the newsletter “from” the same of the address you’re trying to subscribe? Mail server do not always accept that.
Hi Stefano,
Thank you very much for providing such simple and useful
plug-in!
it seems work well, but a problem I’m facing with..
after I activate the newsletter plugin, wp-admin
page went blank. Deactivating the plugin makes the
admin page comes back.
Maybe it occurs only on Japanese edition Wordpress,
probably some conflict causes it.
Could you kindly give me some hint to solve this?
Because I really like this plugin you created, I want
to find the way to get it work.
Best regarads,
Yungnu
Uhm… I really don’t know why… no errors at all? Have you access to some kind of log (eg.apache error logs) which sometime report PHP errors?
MS, when i had that problem, it was because i didn’t active the permalink in the wordpress settings. i also a revert the setings of newsletter to default, created the page as stated in the plugin manual, to default, and set it up again. it worked afterwards.
Stefano,
Forget about my question, sorry!
It was silly mistake, when I put costum.php on server,
I mistakenly set the file’s character code as UTF-8 “with BOM”.
After changing it to “without BOM”, it works well.
Thanks!
Yungnu
Hi there
Great plugin but one problem- whenever i subscribe to the newsletter i get the following at the top of my blog and it kicks teh header out by a few lines:
Could you please help me with this?
Warning: fopen(/home/thecarma/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/newsletter.log) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/thecarma/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/plugin.php on line 626
Warning: fwrite(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/thecarma/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/plugin.php on line 627
Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /home/thecarma/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/plugin.php on line 628
Ok, will be patched on next release!
Stefano,
i hope you don’t mind my comments, as i like your work, and hope they’re helping : i updated to newsletter 1.0.7 …
let’s say i was confident in your upgrade, since the details of the new features aren’t online yet ^^
Though, i was surprised to see my own custom settings regarding the newsletter confirmation, unsubscribe, etc messages were replace by the defaults.
I guess you shall try consider it in the future ?
Thanks for your work again,
Japy
Hi,
Great plugin! For some reason though, the confirmation links do not seem to be working for me. Everything else is working fine though.
Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Samwell
Send me a copy af a confirmation email, so I can check it. Thank you!
Hi! UTF-8 codings (en_US.php file) I would like to use it, but I receive an error message unfortunately.
Would you be able to top a some kind of idea with this?
Anyway excellent plugin!
Can you give me a bit more information about the error you get? What are you trying to do?
Stefano, it wasn’t working because I was using an unsupported permalink setting.
It’s now working, your plugin ROCKS!!!!
Many thanks dude
I’m rewriting a lot of code to organize it better… I hope after that it still rocks!
I solved of the question meanwhile!
Hello Stefano,
I’m trying out your great plug in but I’ve got a question for you.
I’ve put an html page into the newsletter folder which is supposed to be the theme for my newsletter. The page is loaded correctly but pictures won’t show up. I’ve checked out and links to images are correct!
How can I solve this problem?
Thanks in advance for your support and congratulations on your great plug in!
Claudio
Hi
First thanks alot for the great work …..
can yoy please tell me where to change “Your name” and “Your email” and “Sunscribe me” (button)
maybe its a stupid question (Im new to WP)
Thanks
//Lars
One more question …
Where can I see a list of the subscribers ??
Thanks again
Ciao Stefano, credo tu sia italiano
Comunque per evitare scrivo in inglese, anche per poter rendere la cosa pubblica a tutti…
Hi Stefano, first of all compliments for your plugin, i hope that in future your plugin will supports an option to send newsletters in many languages, allowing users to choose the emails language they would receive. That’s very usefull.
I’m a problem with your plugin but i resolve it. I send this comment to inform you and correct it in the next version. Sending emails with your plugin, in Microsoft Outlook the headers are trucate, than i resolved it replacing the headers line separator “\r\n” with only “\n”.
Regards,
Thomas M. Vargiu
The header end-of-line characters have to be “\r\n” by standard… but yes, some mail server get them wrong. I’ll change them, thank you!
(e grazie per aver scritto in inglese… per me è uno sforzo micidiale, ma spero che in questo modo possano capirmi in numero maggiore… sempre che io non li stia schifando proprio!!!
.
Hello there,
i have wp 2.8 and installed your newsletter script. Anyway it doesnt send the senders email when receiving the confirmations and it dont show the mail correctly, it shows the subscription mail with html codes? I tried with different email accounts, all the same! What happened here?
I cannot know whay on your system the emails are not displaied correctly. Please send me the original message (email clients and even gmail have a way to show you the original message complete with headers).
Hi again Stefano
I found the place where I could change the text on the submit button and the texts: “Your name” and “Your email”
You’ll find it here: /languages/en_US.php
I still mis a place where I can export and Import subscribers …. but this is the best newsletter-plugin for WP I have found until now anyway
Hopping for updates in the future!!
Thanks!!
//Lars
Hi Stefano,
Thanks for the plugin “newsletter”, it is working perfectly in one of my sites. As a way of thanks I would like to make a translation of your plugin to pt_BR. you are interested? Contact me…
Yes absolutely interested in translations. I’m waiting to have the plugin stable just to avoid to ask corrections to translators
Ok, when you think everything is right. Please contact me. I think this plugin will be very successful in Brazil when translated. Sincerely …
Hi There!
Really nice plug-in! Thank you!
Is there a way to display all the list of the subscribed e-mails or some sort of filer option in the newsletter > manage page. because right now I have to search the email one by one.
Thanks!
WP-2.8
Search for @.
Hi,
thanks for that plugin.
It works great for me, but I had to make 2 changes:
1. admin-mail: just to “beautify” the “From”-Adress: wp_mail instead of mail.
( wp_mail($to, $subject, $message, $headers); )
2. unsubscribe confirmation: The Link in the E-Mail worked, but the Link in the Confirmation – File did not work…
The link that is produced in the unsubscribe-confirm – form looks like this:
http://www.somedomain.de/wordpress/kontakt/newsletter/%5C%22http://www.somedomain.de//wordpress/UNSUBSCRIPTION_CONFIRM_URL%5C%22
So my code is like the following now:
$newsletter_subscriber = newsletter_get_subscriber($_REQUEST['ne']);
$buffer = newsletter_replace($newsletter_options['unsubscription_text'], $newsletter_subscriber);
$url = $newsletter_options['url'] . ‘?na=uc&ne=’ . urlencode($_REQUEST['ne']) . ‘&nt=’ . $_REQUEST['nt'];
//$buffer = newsletter_replace_url($buffer, ‘UNSUBSCRIPTION_CONFIRM_URL’, $url);
$buffer.=’Abmelden‘;
Strange… I left that link out and hard-coded the url below the form so it works for me… until the next update
Thanks for keeping the good work goin’ on!
Basti
Yes, you’re right. I do a deep change in URL replacements. Please, use only and always {unsubscription_confirm_url}. No more need to user the uppercase version, it’s not working.
Yes… I had to write clearly about that… sorry!
The comment form messed up the code:
$buffer.=’Abmelden‘;
Thanks for the handy plugin. I was just wondering if it’s possible to configure it to automatically email new blog posts to my subscribers?
Newsletter is a plugin made to compose end send newsletter. It have an autocompose function to create a message with latest posts but if you’re looking for an automatic mail send, use subscribe 2.
Hello Stefano,
my first problem is after your update resolved! So many thx… great!
But when i use autocompose and save this project than all links are canceled, also images are empty??? What happened here?
In this case i cannot use the auto-compose. If you want i can send you the destroyed email for subscribers!
Yes, send it to me!
Hello Stefano,
I send you the mail
whats permalink activated?
when I compose a newsletter and save it the whole structure is changed?
Hello,
Congratulations, satollo.net. Your plugin is an excellent and very promising newsletter plugin for Wordpress. It´s absolutely better compared to G-lock newsletter-plugin. You are doing a great job.
However, there is one problem that doesn´t work properly in the current version 1.1.2 and I´d like to help you creating a masterpiece.
Having tested many times {unsubscription__url} Unsubscribe-link is not being displayed in welcome email message. It only print the following – {unsubscription__url}.
When sending/composing a mail in the composer, the link {unsubscription__url} being printed perfectly in emails and unsubscribing is being possible by a user.
best regards,
Antti Haverinen
The right format is {unsubscription_url} with only one “underscore”.
Hi Stefano,
I can’t seem to get the subscription confirmation part right – it sends out the newsletter subscription confirmation email with the link back to the page I inserted the [newsletter] part in – is this correct?
http://www.healthywaves.ca/blog/?page_id=78?na=c&ne=gabenowak%40gmail.com&nt=6bc98e60de6671ca1bed506a33ef5ec5
I hope this problem (related to permalink structure) is resolved now.
Hi Stefano,
First thank you so much for this plugin it rocks so much and it’s pretty powerful. My questions for you if there is away to use the plugin without using shorthand [newsletter] in the post field. Say i want to manually put in a page template, is that possible?
Thanks again,
Hi Stefano,
Great plugin!!
Works without any problem.
Two wishes..
1. I realy like the posibility to export the addresses.
2. the posibility to send an attachement with the newsletter.
Maybe something for a future update?
Greetings,
Boudewijn
Ciao Stefano,
ho appena installato il tuo plugin e avrei una domanda probabilmente banale…Prima ancora di vedere se e come l’attrezzo spedisce le email, vorrei fare una cosa: anziché su una pagina del blog, io vorrei avere (come tu hai nel tuo blog) una form di sottoscrizione nella sidebar…Come si fa?
Se possibile, la vorrei in ogni post..
Grazie anticipatamente,
Michele
E’ un widget che puoi gestire nell’aspetto grafico del tema.
Hello!
I am having a big problem. I signed up myself and I never received the confirmation email! What would cause that?
Thanks!
Do you signed with the email address you configured as newsletter sender? If so, it’s normal.
Oh, I figured it out.
I had the sender email set up wrong. It should be working now, although we have not seet up the correct messages yet. Thanks!
Great plugin but I’m having one problem. With the plugin activiated no one is able to comment on any posts. “Wrong email-go back” comes up each time I or anyone else trys to post comments under individual posts.
I’m hoping you can help with this one and it’s not just user error!
Thanks again for your great work!
Stefano,
sono troppo ignorante per poter sfruttare la tua risposta. Se hai qualche minuto di tempo, prova a leggere quanto segue.
In questo momento, seguendo le tue istruzioni, io mi trovo una pagina del blog – di nome “newsletter” – che contiene la form in questione. Io vorrei, invece, che la form apparisse sulla pagina principale (“home”), sulla destra. Su cosa devo agire?
Grazie ancora,
Michele
Steeeefanooooo!
Chiedo venia! Ho visto il widget nella pagina opzioni del tema…Mi era completamente sfuggito (forse perché avevo temporaneamente disabilitato il plugin). Chiedo scusa!
Michele
Hi,
thanks for this simple to use newsletter. Really great!
I have a few comments:
Mail addresses on the form name+word@domain.tld appears not to be supported.
Is there any way to know if emails aren’t recieved, i mean, if the given address does not exist anymore.
Do you mean address with a “plus” sign? Second,when a mail is sent out and the recipient doesn’t exist anymore, the sender receives a “Mail delivery error”. this is the only way to know if an email address is no more existant.
Yes, i mean that mail addresses with plus sign does not seem to work.
For the second question, i really don’t know why i asked. It’s totally obvious…
Hi stefano,
I really like this plugin and its working great, but i do have a small problem, that maybe you can help with?
Is it possible to “hardcode” the form into the sidebar?
I ask because i want it to show in my tabs.
Best regards,kristian
Put the widget in the sidebar, extract the generated HTML and hardcode it elsewhere. It’s pure HTML.
Can you tell me how I can install a working newsletter form in my sidebar?
Hi again,
could you please tell me how I would make an access to Newsletter also for other user Levels than “admin” ?
thanks a lot.
hello
I downloaded your wonderful script and I would like to add my list of all registered and
then later in this table to the actions (Delete | Confirm | Do not confirmed |
Resend confirmation)
can you help me? thank you
Hello!
I have two questions: In which file are the addresses stored?
In which directory is the file?
Thank you for your help.
Best regards,
Chris
The address are store in the database. The table is named “newsletter”, eventually with “wp_” prefix or the custom WordPress prefix if specified.
Stefano, that worked great! Thank you so much.
After a person click on the activation link, an confirmation email is sent, but is it an error that i recieve it 3 times?
My subscribers receive the confirmation email always twice…any idea on how to repair it? Thanks…great plugin…;)
I try to subscribe to newsletter on your blog just to understand better.
Yes you’re right: two welcome email are sent…
Any solution?
Hy Stefano,
First of all thanks for this great plugin.
Look, i’m facing a problem…i activated the Newsletter Version 1.1.3, i’ve setup the Sender and subscription page and Subscription form. The others will be made later. But, when i access the page, only the text is shown. No text boxes for name and e-mail…what am i missing?
Thanks a lot!
(by the way, link is http://routegamer.net/abonare-newsletter/)
Have you added the [newsletter] short code?
reply is down, sorry
yes, on the page. that’s how the rest of the text is displayed, actually the page contains only that code.
and, by the way…it seems that WP2.8 has no options for visual editor under the text box, as in your screenshot. (not a problem, i was just saying
)
Salve Stefano !
Il tuo plug-in e davvero forte !
In english now…
Thank you for this wonderfull and efficient plug-in.
I wish it will be able to export soon, too!
Anyway I have a small problem that I can’t fix.
When the unsubscription is complete, the page shows the information to the unsubscriber and a mail is sent to the admin, but this mail is empty! And the unsubscriber is still on the mailing list.
So, the plug-in erase the unsubscriber itself or is it the admin? And the mail should indicate who is the unsubscriber, isn’t it ?
I’m using WP2.8 and Newsletter 1.1.3.
And if you like I added the french language
Many many thanks!
v
I know about unsubscription admin notification: it’s empty and it’s a bug. I have to check out about unsubscription: I tested id many time on my blog and it worked, but… I can subscribe to your newsletter but I need a newslettere email to try the unsubscription. Can we do this test?
I saw in you site the email text area save with escaped double quotes… the email links do not work. I still cannot understand why come WordPress installation save the options escaped… I’ll check my code another time but it’s incredible how many time this issue appears…
so, any help or ideas?
ty
Hi,
Great plugin! Is there any way of making the Newsletter functions available to users who are Editors, as it seems that only Administrators are able to use Admin features? Thanks, Darren
The submit button on the sidebar widget doesn’t redirect the subscriber to the subscribe page to say that they have been subscribed. It just goes to my homepage.
The configuration is set up correctly. Do I need to hard code the widget somehow to direct to the subscribe page? Please explain how (if code — what line and file).
Can you give me the version of Newsletter you’re using and the address of the blog? On my site it works and I’m using the latest version of Newsletter.
i have 6000 subscribers in my database. is there any way I can send just one mass email? its only sending about 100 at a time and i need to click on “proceed” to keep it going
No mass mail is supported: the unsubscription process has to be really different with mass mail. I’m writing a java utility to send the newsletter “off line” and a way to change the PHP timeout (but is not supported by almost every hosting provider).
New Newsletter version have a trick to make PHP timeout infinite, if your provider support it, so the sending process won’t stop.
On a website I use the wordpress newsletter double optin widget plugin for visitors to subscribe for a newsletter. It was ment to work together with Sendblaster (http://www.sendblaster.com/wordpress-newsletter-double-optin-widget/)
The owner of the website is working with a Mac and Sendblaster is only for windows. SO I had to look for another newsletter plugin and found yours. But I have a lot of subscribers with the other plugin. Is there a possibilities to import subscribers from another database or let your newsletterplugin work together with the subscribers plugin?
Hi, excellent plugin I just have a small feature request. When the widget is outputted all elements except the actual text are surrounded by . I use css to style my p-tags in the sidebar and most other widgets are using p-tags for text output.
I updated my version of the widget but every time i do an upgrade the changes are omitted. I would be really happy if this change could be incorporated, or don’t strip tags from the actual widget options field and i can add them my self
Hi Stefano!
I’m using WP 2.8 and just downloaded Newsletter 1.1.4 earlier today. It looks like it will meet my needs, if I can just get it to work correctly.
My service provider doesn’t support PHPMail so I have to send email via SMTP. Do you have any plans to add SMTP support? Using the plugin WP-Mail-SMTP and changing mail() to wp_mail() in your plugin.php file (3 occurances) I am able to send email OK.
The link that is included in confirmation emails opens a webpage with the introduction text instead of the confirmation text. Can you suggest how to resolve this? Here’s an example link…
http://walt.therestons.com/?page_id=490&na=c&ne=russ%40therestons.com&nt=0d98c69d2e83ac8fa8822391fe370e0c
Thanks for your help!
Walt. R.
Emails sent are in HTML and when sending i force the header set the content type to html. I don’t know if wp_mail changes those headers, if so the links that contain escaped ampersand won’t be “unescaped” and won’t work.
I used the php mail function to have more control on how emails are sent. It’s really strange that a hosting provider stops the php mail function I never heard about that. What about changing provider?
Thanks for your reply.
Can you help me with the with the problem I’m having with the link in the confirmation emails?
The link that is included in confirmation emails opens a webpage with the introduction text instead of the confirmation text. Can you suggest how to resolve this? Here’s an example link…
http://walt.therestons.com/?page_id=490&na=c&ne=russ%40therestons.com&nt=0d98c69d2e83ac8fa8822391fe370e0c
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The reason my hosting service doesn’t support PHP mail is because they provide their users with a “Virtual Server,” and the php.ini is actually shared by many users. See this link for more information.
http://forum.webfaction.com/viewtopic.php?id=187
This is fairly common. The service offered by many hosting providers is similar, allowing them to offer a low cost hosting solution for small websites, that doesn’t require a dedicated server.
Thanks for your help!
The sunscription confirmation problem has been solved with version 1.1.5, just now! About hosting… in Italy for 11 euro/YEAR http://www.tophost.it gives you 500 megabytes, 4 db, mail and so on. I think a hosting provider have to give php hosting space with default php mail. BTW I’ll take a look to the SMTP features already embedded in WP to use an external SMTP.
Ciao, ascolta quando inserisco nome e indirizzo email e clicco submit mi appare una pagina di errore HTTP 405 – Risorsa non consentita. Forse è un problema di permessi su qualche file? se sì, come cavolo li cambio????
Grazie x il lavoro
If you do not give me a way to try and see the error… I really cannot help you. Give me the subscription page, at least.
Great plugin!
I’ve added a simple additional tag to be replaced by the plugin: {date}
Just had to add another line to the function. I guess it would be more comfortable to be able to select a date formatting for other countries, but hey .. it works for me!
Ciao ragazzi!
function newsletter_replace($text, $subscriber)
{
$text = str_replace(‘{home_url}’, get_option(‘home’), $text);
$text = str_replace(‘{blog_title}’, get_option(‘blogname’), $text);
$text = str_replace(‘{email}’, $subscriber->email, $text);
$text = str_replace(‘{name}’, $subscriber->name, $text);
$text = str_replace(‘{date}’, date(“d-m-Y”,time()), $text);
return $text;
}
I may have totally missed this in the documentation but, is there a way to have multiple subscription “lists”?
For example, if I wanted to have two different newsletters, each with their own opt-in form, does your plugin do that?
I feel so lonely here with all these other folks having their questions answered except mine..
No, there is no way.
Is there a way to get multiple newsletters for various subscription lists? MailPress offers this function but the plug does not work on my site. Newsleter works flawlessly, but I need more than one mailing list. Please advise.
Hi,
changing the language files doesn’t work for me (WP 2.8.1, Newsletter 1.1.6)
I did exactly what you wrote (adding a /wp-content/newsletter/langauges), called the files “de_DE.php”, changed all the strings – but everything is still in English.
I even changed the original “en_US” files, but those changes did not turn up in the subscription form. That seems to be very strange. What could have gone wrong?
I’ll check the plugin for this bug. Thank you.
Hi Stefano,
Love this plugin – thanks so much for making it available!
My question is about the email address that is used when confirming a subscription or sending out my newsletter. I would like to change that email address. I input the appropriate email address that I would like to use in the configuration page but it currently it shows:
From:username@server99.hostcompany.com [username@server99.hostcompany.com] On Behalf of WEBSITE.
Is there a way to do this? Or is it something I have done incorrectly?
Thanks so much in advance for your help!
Uhm, I add the From address in a standard way,and on my hosting provider it works. May be there are different way to add the From to a message without having the provider to overwrite it. When WordPress sends you emails (eg. to notify a new comment), they come with a right From field?
Hi Stefano – thanks so much for responding. If I understand what you are asking me – You are exactly right – I just did a test (new site so no previous comments)
Good catch! The emails I get when someone leaves a comment also show that same stupid username@server99.hostcompany.com .
Sigh. This is completely beyond my skills – I know it’s not part of the plugin but do you have any suggestions?
Any help is much appreciated – Thanks again.
Daniele
Hi Stefano – Just wanted to update – contacted our Hosting company and apparently it is all to do with SPAM prevention and our hosting package – because we are on a shared server they do not permit that kind of masking or some such blah blah. Anyhow, I tried installing wordpress plugin wp-mail-smtp but it hasn’t ‘cured’ the issue.
So I will keep on that track.
Thanks again – and awesome plugin – thanks so much for sharing it!
Hi Daniele, on next version I’ll switch to wp_mail to send emails, so plugin that change the WordPress way to send emails using an SMTP will work.
Hi Stefano,
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Just wanted to thank you so much for the switch!! It works BEAUTIFULLY now.
Thank you thank you thank you
Hi Stefano – the switch you did works beautifully. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Made an already great plugin perfect!
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I love the plugin, it works great to subscribe new members. I imported a csv list from a hotmail export, but the fields were incorrect (my fault)but now when I hit ‘remove’ to take out the bad data, it doesn’t remover the user. How can I delete the imported data and re-import after I’ve fixed the fields?
Subscriber removal works on my installation. To check your problem I need access to your admin interface. If you feel confortable with giving me such access, write me to info@satollo.net.
Hi Stefano,
I have a curious error when you try to subscribe. I’m still testing at the moment but if I enter my details and submit. I get a confirmation page but then the following error appears at the bottom of the page:
PHP Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 550 No such user here in D:\hosting\member\mellowe\wp-content\plugins\newsletter\plugin.php on line 679
I receive the subscription notification but none of the confirmation emails are being sent.
Have you see this before?
Hello Stefano,
Just dropping a note to say thanks for the Newsletter WP Plugin. It’s really a nice piece of work!
I’m running it on an OpenBSD (4.5) server, and it works very well.
Brian
I want to ad google e-mail tags so I can see who is klikking om witch subject?
Can you ad this to the e-mail tool?
Hello,
I love your plug-in! I know next to nothing about programming and was still able to figure out how to use it, it’s great!
Two questions though:
1. How can I edit the names of people in our list of addresses?
2. Can I export the addresses so I can back them up?
Thanks!
Sara
Hi there. Great plugin – very much appreciated.
When a subscriber confirms their subscription via the email, can they be sent to a Thank You page, rather than back to the subscription page?
Cheers.
Sorted – no replay needed. Thanks.
Is there a way to delay the emails being sent so I don’t overload the ISP’s server? For example, can I specify that an email from my bulk email list is sent once every 20 seconds? So six emails a minute are sent – not one a second.
Can a CAPTCHA field be added?
Hey I’m having an issue…
In my newsletter page it displays the introduction but not the actual form?
I have a custom template.
Do I need to add a database for the newsletter??
Thanks
Hello,
can anybody tell me where I can find the CSS-File for formatting both the plugin and the widget?
Thanks a lot and regards from Austria,
Andreas
There is no CSS. I can add a DIV to surround the form, or a class to the form so you can control the layout with CSS. Ok?
Stefano, that would be great. Thanks a lot. Can you please inform me, when the changes are done? So I have to update then or how can I get the changes into my version?
Great support!
Regards,
Andreas
Greetings Stefano,
I’ve been going through all sorts of newsletter/mailing list plugins for Wordpress, and so far I like yours the best. The only problem is I can’t get it to send any emails. I changed the permalink structure to a default one and it still did not work. Everything else I got to work fine. Have you had any users run into this problem before? Thanks.
What does this mean?
PHP execution timeout is set to 60 (information for debug purpose).
I’m having an issue with the -f button. It doesn’t appear to work. When anyone subscribes a ‘nobody’ email is generated by my web hosting provider.
Anyone else had this? Got a fix?
Cheers.
Hi Stefano. Can you subscribe to my blog just to see if works? Please. I subscribe with different e-mail but i can’t receive any news when i wrote a post.
Yes but I’m not able to find the subscription page
Hi Stefano, first of all very nice plugin and it works fine.
Here my qeustions or Ideas:
1.it would be great if we can sort the subscribers in Categories:
For Example:
Categorie 1: all germans, Category 2: all english.
2.It would feel well if we could select to which category we send news.
for ex: send to “Category 1″ or “Send to all”
3.Only the Admin can sort the subscribers in categories.
4.I cannot paste some css-code into the composer. The TinyMCE always delete it .
example:
after saving:
TinyMCE always delete this:
Okay.. thats its
Thanks
You cannot add CSS to tinymce (as well all other online editor). Still remember that many mail client will delete CSS as well. Use standard tag, tables and inline css with email, it’s the beast way to do (and the harder).
Hi,
I installed the plugin and subscribe for test.
The confirmation went well, and it suceeded.
But in the manage board, I only see : subscriber : 1 but I don’t see the email adress and I’ve no more received a confirmation of a subscription in my contact adress.
Where are the email listing ?
Thanks
Nathalie from France
Go to the manage page and do a search without filtering.
Hey there
when I send a test subscription I also get an email from an account @web172.opentransfer.com
with the text New subscription:
where does this come from and what is it for?
Thanks
Hi Stefano,
Congratulations for this plugin! It works great for me.
I just wondering if there is a Spanish localization for it?
Cheers
Rafael
Hi, thanks for your fine newsletter-plugin for wp.
I would like to edit your script to have only the “e-mail-subscription-field” NOT the “Name”. How could I do that? Which file I have to edit?
Thanks alot!
Regards
Frieda
Hello,
I would like to know how add a captcha in the newsletter form.
Thanks in advance
I think there is no need to add a captcha. I explain better: why a bot have to try to subscribe? Newsletter subscription is not a way to publish a link to you blog (like comments) and if they do not provide a decent email the subscription fails. Have you experience automated subscriptions?
It’s just because I wanted to make my blog the most secure is possible. But you are right, bots won’t be able to register to the newsletter.
Thanks a lot for this plugin and this answer.
At first, i’d like to congratulate and thank Stefano for this this very interesting plugin.
I’ve installed it (v.1.1.7) on WP v2.8.4. It works very well except 2 small issues.
1- Unsubscription messages received by the admin are EMPTY. So, i can’t know who unsubscribe. Subscription mails well work.
2- Impossible to insert correctly accentuated characters in field “from_name” (Sender name). Bad luck, my blog name is : ‘Démocrates 35′ !
Any idea to solve this ?
Last point, it could interresting that more than ONE admin can be notified in cas of new (un)subscription. ie : all admin of WP if several exist.
Waiting to read from you,
Best regards.
Chr.
Hi Christophe, on next version I’ll move back to the internal mailing function of WordPress, so the name with accent will be sent correctly (I hope). I can modify my mailer function, but too many prefer the usage of wp mailing system so I’ll use it.
Thks 4 your answer.
see post http://www.satollo.net/newsletter-help#comment-383
about the empty unsubscription message
Chr.
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Line 268, Column 42: document type does not allow element “input” here; missing one of “ins”, “del”, “h1″, “h2″, “h3″, “h4″, “h5″, “h6″, “p”, “div”, “address”, “fieldset” start-tag
input type=”hidden” name=”na” value=”s”/
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Uhm, so i have to add a div element, because the plugin write out a table with input fileds in its cells…
Stefano-
Thank you for the plug in. I am having a problem in that the unsubscribe message and link do not show up on the newsletter email.
All other aspects of the plug in seem to be working fine.
Thanks for the help.
Hi Stefano
I have downloaded your plugin and so far, it’s been fantastic. However, I can’t get images to display when making a newsletter and opening it up after being sent. Can you help by any chance please?
Thank you so much!
Do you mean images do not display in email clients/readers? It’s normal and it depends on client protection against mail reading tracking.
Hi Stefano
I mean the images don’t display in either the template when designing the newsletter or in the final email received in the client’s inbox.
Thanks again.
Hi Steph
I was looking for your plugin for about two days now, but finally found it and tested it somewhere and it is just the cup of tea i needed.
Just one tiny thing. When i am logged into wordpress as ADMIN of course i get the NEWSLETTER option in the bottom left hand corner and i can edit things ok and everything else on the script works well.
Only the end user of my wordpress website will be the guy i created the site for. And to protect him he is currently logging in as EDITOR role.
I have got him on this role because i DO NOT want him messing around with :
Appearance
AppearanceThemesWidgetsEditorAdd New ThemesLifestyle Theme Options
Plugins 0
Plugins 0InstalledAdd NewEditor
Users
UsersAuthors & UsersAdd NewYour Profile
Tools
ToolsToolsImportExportUpgrade
Settings
SettingsGeneralWritingReadingDiscussionMediaPrivacyPermalinksMiscellaneous
This is becuase my user is a novice to wordpress and it protect me and him from any hickups in him say changing the site theme ect.
However when i log in as any role other than ADMIN the NEWSLETTER options are not available.
Can i assign the newsletter plugin to show up when a EDITOR is logged into wp-admin?
or does the user of your great ( and stable ) plugin have to be logged in as ADMIN.
I hope there is a way.
Respect Bro
I know, many are asking me this features. I’ve to admit I don’t know (enought deeply) the way WordPress manage such things… I have to find the time to study it.
I am going to use this plugin anyway. Its the best thing out there. All the other newsletter plugins don’t work.
I think you assign roles to being allowed to access it.
But untill then . . . Nice work.
Hi,
love the design of the plugin, very simple and logical. BUT I am having an issue. When the user clicks on the confirmation link (or URL) in the confirm email, he is redirected to a page on the blog. The problem is that this page returns a 404 error.
Any idea why?
I need to know the subscription page address to test it or forward me a confirmation email so I can check the links.
Here is it Stefano:
http://www.canon5dtips.com/newsletter-subscription
The page is private now until I fix the issue.
Thx Stephano.
I’m having the same problem.
We are on an IIS server so permalink validation might be the issue.
Here’s our subscription page:
http://www.apexprd.org/emailnewslettersubscription
Thanks,
Rob
It’s the “.” in the confirm url parameter. You said you use IIS with somefilters, I image. I think the problem is there but I really don’t know how to solve it…
hi,
great plugin. installation works very well. I subscribe myself and never got the double-opt-in message to confirm. When I look in the admin area, looking for my e-mail address, is there and I must confirm it manually. Do you have any idea why?
best regards from Berlin
Try to check your spam folder. Still, do not set the Newsletter email sender the same address you use to signup.
Still not getting the unsubscribe message and link on the sent newsletters. Is there any way to manually add the unsubscribe in the newsletter composer?
Thanks.
Figured it out. You have to manually put the [unsubscribe] tag into your newsletter. You can use the tag in a link like this:
// You may unsubscribe to our newsletter by clicking here. //
The tag used by itself shows up as a rather unsightly url.
Hi,
I successfully installed your plug-in. Nice work!
One question though: it is possible to import users, which is great, but why not provide the possibility to export users?
Kind regards,
Anja
Hi Christiano,
There is a small mistake on line 588 of plugin.php, so the unsubscription message sent to admin is empty.
You wrote :
#588 newsletter_notify_admin($subject, $newsletter);
instead of :
#588 newsletter_notify_admin($subject, $message);
Best regards.
Christophe
Stefano,
i don’t know why I called you “Christiano” in the previous post. Sorry.
one more word : it would be necessary to add a line 583 in pluging.php (before query(delete…), to get the $name from DB.
Whats the maximum number of users i can email until i have to find anther mass email program ?
Are we saying this is good for hundreds or thousands of users who sign up to the newsletter database ?
It really depend on your hosting performance, and mail server performance. May be 1000 can be a low or high number. There is no a unique answer, just check with yor provider how much mails per hour you can send. If there is a limit, consider to use an external SMTP and a plugin to force WordPress to use it.
Hello,
I’m french and don’t speack very welle english … sorry !
Thank’s for this plugin, simple, great !
I have just a proposition for the Widget sidebar, when a membre or why not a visitor have already register to the newsletter, the widget show another message, “you’re already register at the newsletter” “ununscribe” or don’t show the widget or anything but not the possibility to register again !
If a newsletter is programmed, show when it’s send …
It’s impossibile, I cannot know if the user is already subscribed. Clearly I can put a cookie on the user browser, but it will be effective until the user cleans up his browser or changes browser or changes computer.
Exact, if newsletter user make one of your exemple … you can’t know if he’s already suscriber or not !
But, this option can be integrate for the members of the blog ?
Today, i just put a link to the newslette register page, i don’t like to have the register form if i’m alreday register
Thank’s
Mate
can we add subscribtion button in sidebar
Thanks
You can use the newsletter widget: check the “appareance” section of your blog.
Stefano,
Thanks for your plugin, fantastic!
There are two features I need to add:
1. select all/none checkboxes next to subscriber list
2. image upload (tinymice only has image URL option)
I have a partially developed newsletter system that has an excellent WYSIWYG editor for creating newsletters but it’s not a WP plugin. The idea was to install it on my hosting server for new clients but the developer could not complete it properly. I have now discovered WP and am hooked. If you can help in any way I would be grateful.
Thanks
Love the plug-in, it’s perfect for what I need. Is there a way to customize the button text that says “Subscribe Me”? I’m a developer so I can handle code, which file do I edit to change the text?
Thanks
Change it on language file inside “languages” subfolder. Just do a search in the text files. But remeber that on plugin update such file will be restore. I have to decide if it’s better to move such label on admin panel or find other ways…
Stefano –
Thanks for your Newsletter plugin. I was able to install and activate it easily, unlike MailPress which I could never activate because of PHP errors.
Configuring your Newsletter subscription process was relatively simple, and your instructions were useful. The subscription function seems to work fine when tested, even the sidebar widget (http://spiritualdenver.com/newsletter).
HOWEVER, noplace in your instructions can I find where you tell me how to actually send out a newsletter. Perhaps this is so obvious that I’m missing this part of the how-to, yet please advise how how to send out newsletter emails. (Perhaps you can add this more visibly to your instructions, too?)
Also, am I correct that only a website admin can send emails? I want this to be a one-way or announce-only newsletter, so no subscriber can post any messages to other subscribers.
Thanks for your help.
I figured it out. Access is through the “Newsletter” button in the admin control panel, when a “Composer” sub-directory appears. Still, adding clear instructions on your website for using the Composer and Manage functions would be a blessing. Thanks.
FYI, You might wish to know that I chose your plugin over MailPress, which kept having chronic problems with permissions until I finally gave up on it. None of these problems have occurred with Newsleter, which has worked properly from day one, I’m grateful to report.
FYI, MailPress attracted me because it enables multiple mailing lists. Newsletter only permits one mailing list, apparently, but if I’m mistaken, please let me know ASAP. The site involved needs multiple mailing lists.
Thanks!
Wonderful plugin. I really need multiple mailing lists though. Are there any plans to add this feature soon?
Multiple lists are complex to manage, but I hope to introduce them.
Really nice plugin Stefano!
Ive read the comments about different user privileges, and was just wondering if you have made any progress in finding out how to specify which users that may send newsletters? Would be amazing if others than the admins could do this.
On version 1.2.0 there is an option to enable editors to use the plugin. I hope this little modification will be of help to many…
Is there a way to change the confirmation email address? It seems to use the sites admin email address but we would like to have subscription confirmations sent to another email.
Thanks
Sabine
Hello, nice plugin, first of all.
My question is why my subscribers does not recieve the confirmation e-mail?
Thank you, I’ll wait for an answer!
Hi Stefano,
Great plugin – seems very simple and clean. Although I can easily incorporate the newsletter into specific pages by just adding: [newsletter], I am having trouble adding it into my sidebar php file. I don’t know what HTML code to use.
I saw your post above that says you can just drag the newsletter widget into the sidebar and view the HTML that results, but I don’t use widgets with my sidebar so I don’t think this is an option for me. Is there any way I can figure out what HTML code I need to add directly into my sidebar PHP file?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Is it possible to place JUST the form in my sidebar?
With widget yes, you can. With no widget you have to add specific html code, you can copy it from the en_US_options.php file.
I’ve done it now, but I have two problems.
It dosen’t update the database, when you press the confirmation-link it says: Succesfull(whatever) you are now subscriped, but then I just sign up again and it just repeat.. sending me confirmation-links without adding the email/name to the database
In the “compose” I am getting this mistake:
PHP execution timeout is set to
Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /customers/tweis.dk/tweis.dk/httpd.www/clients/sikkerhje/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/newsletter.php on line 203
30 (information for debug purpose).
hi stefano, your plugin is great and works very good. I just want to know if it is possible, wenn someone subscribe wrong, instead of redirectim on a blank page with this message: Wrong email address. Go back.
it should be redirected on a real page of the website, like on the success registration page.
hope you understand my bad english too-
best regards from berlin
I agree:)
Here is a question. I really hope you’ll answer it.
It all works fine.. but.. the problem is that I can write my informations more than one.. I know there is only one e-mail that is showed, but it is just annoying, that you are able to press the same e-mail twice, when it is already confirmed.
Kind regards,
Mathias
Hello,
Is it possible to link this plugin to another site like myspace? I’d like to attach a newsletter subscription form that links to the main site from other pages. Can I do this?
Let me know if I can,
Joshua Kincheloe
HI there,
I’m sorry to ask a stupid question, if my server don’t allow to send email, what should I do if I want to use your wonderful plugin?
Thanks
Find an smtp service (there are free email services which give you it) and install wp-mail-smtp plugin so wordpress will send emails via SMTP. Just a note: every hosting provider should give mail service, consider to change it.
Is is planned in future versions to add categories?
I mean, I have different clients, each with interest in different products, and I want only send a newsletter to clients with interest in product 1, but not to clients which are interested in product 2. This is the only minus point I could find (and which renders the plugin currently useless for me).
After following your setup instructions as carefully as I could, I was able to get the double-opt-in subscription process working perfectly. Sending a test newsletter to myself went flawlessly, too. However, when i went to send my first actual newsletter yesterday, it seemed to go out fine but the email never arrived (at least, I never received a copy).
At the top of the compose page I found this message:
Total emails to send: 22
Emails sent till now: 22
Last email (if empty the batch has completed)
Did I miss a step somewhere? I keep seeing a reference to “batch” on the Compose page, but I cannot find the word “batch” used anywhere on your set-up instructions page (http://www.satollo.net/plugins/newsletter). Actually, I’ve not found any instructions at all on composting and sending a newsletter.
The process seems intuitive, but when I did what seems natural, not emails arrived at my subscribers’ addresses. What am I missing?
Please advise.
Thanks
– Judah
I’m still not getting the unsubscribe link to show up at the boot of the newsletter. I am not finding instructions in the plugin configuration page at my site or on Stafano’s page (http://www.satollo.net/plugins/newsletter). And I’ve studied all the notes on this support forum
Could someone please post DETAILED instructions on getting the unsubscribe function set up and working properly.
Thanks!
You have to manually put the [unsubscribe] tag into your newsletter. You can use the tag in a link like this:
// You may unsubscribe to our newsletter by //clicking here. //
The tag used by itself shows up as a rather unsightly url.
I hear you saying to put this at the bottom of my newsletter:
“You may unsubscribe to our newsletter by //clicking here. //”
using the hyperlink: http:// http://www.yoururl/ [unsubscription_url]
So where do I get the unsubscribe URL? I’ve not found anything in the plugin interface for creating an unsubscribe page with a permalink, nor can I find any sign that such a page is being created automatically by the plugin. Kindly advise.
I still wish someone here would post the html code for a working unsubscribe link at the bottom of an email, so I can see the real thing (the whole code string) and adapt it as template. Please…..?
Problem: my confirmation e-mail is not inserting the {subscription_confirm_url} correctly. It is missing my domain before the other part of the URL.
Have you set the complete url of the newsletter subscription page in the configuration panel?
Stefano –
Kindly reply to my requests (above) for detailed instructions on getting the unsubscribe link to appear at the bottom of newsletters, and for an insight about why test newsletters go out but real newsletters do not.
Thank you.
– Judah
Simple, write your unsubscription sentence, like “click here to unsubscribe”, select the text you want to be the unsubscription link and press the “link” button (the button with a chain). As href write {unsubscription_url}.
Stefano –
Actually, when I looked at this, I realize that i cannot make sense out what you are suggesting. My knowledge is too limited.
When you say, “select the text you want to be the subscriptions link,” select from where? Is there some menu I’m supposed to select text from? if so, where do I find it? If not, where do I get the text to select?
And when you say, “press the ‘link’ button (the button with a chain),” what button? And what do you mean by “chain”? (Please pardon me for being ignorant in code lingo.)
Finally, when you say, “As href write {unsubscription_url}”, my understanding is that the normal configuration for a hyperlink is link text , So do you mean that I should enter the hyperlink as unsubscribe? I was not aware that code in the brackets “{}” could be used in a hyperlink. Am I misunderstanding your meaning.
The easiest thing may be to send a code snippet that I could past into the bottom of an outgoing email.
Thanks you!
– Judah
When you write a newsletter you use a visual editor. On the bottom of it there are some buttons to create links and so on.
The buttons on the bottom of your plugin’s visual editor (on the composer page) produce blank popups that do function, such as when I click to get into HTML mode (see attached image). The same goes for the buttons inserting anchors, images and especially links.
I can get around this fault by editing the code in a WYSIWTG HTML editor, but still does not address my previous request:
Please send a functional code snippet that I modify for my site and paste into the bottom of an outgoing email.
Thanks
–Judah
Hello, Stefano, how are you?
We have followed your tips to put a newsletter form on our page. We created a page (http://olivreiro.com.br/blog/newsletter) and, then put the subscription page URL at the right place. But it didn’t work. The form didn’t appear on the URL that should appear.
Am I doing anything wrong? Should I use any other pluggin?
Best regards and thanks in advance,
ronaldo
Hello,
Firt of all, thank you for this nice plugin !
However I have a problem I can’t resolve : I can’t edit the html source in the editors “tiny”, it’s always a white window that opens, without any code. Same problem with edit link or image command.
Any idea ?
Thanks and best regards.
Thié
You’re not the only one. I’m try to debug this issue on a blog which have the same problem. I think there is some interference between tinymce and other plugins, but I don’t know where they are.
This is the same problem I just mentioned above, by the way, which is why I’m asking for the actual “unsubscribe” code snipped that I can paste into the bottom of an outbound Newsletter email code via another application.
hi stefano,
I need to change the width of the fields in the newsletter widget. they are a bit too wide. where can I find it?
thanks and cheers,
Hi there!
I’m another unhappy Mailpress user. I think your newsletter is great, really easy to use and actually, I just sent a newsletter and it seemed to work.
I just wonder about something : Is there a way to back up/save each newsletter email?
Thanks a lot for your work
un plugin perfecte!! gracies!!
I may be dense, but none of the suggestions on inserting an unsubscribe link into outgoing emails has worked for me, so far. Therefore….
I’d be very grateful if someone (anyone) here would post their actual html code for a working unsubscribe link at the bottom of an email, so I can see the real thing (the whole code string, end-to-end) and adapt the html code (with my url) as a template for insertion into the bottom of an outgoing newsletter. Please?
GOOD NEWS!
I received the support I needed offline, so the unsubscribe function is now functioning. A big thanks for everyone’s help.
I am trying to make newsletter generation as easy as possible for my website managers. Does anyone know a way of filtering the “auto-compose” button to only pull from one category? The auto compose function starts around line 12 in newsletter.php. I want them to be able to say only from category 3. It would be even better if they could choose the category, but that isn’t a priority at all. I’m new to wordpress so any feedback would be appricated.
Thanks for a great plugin!
I’m writing a totally new theme system, like the wordpress themes. Then every wordpress programmer can write complex themes, helping with issues like your. But not everything can be made configurable…
Solved the last issue, but now I’m wondering if auto compose and the templates it corrisponds with could be set up to display a dynamic number of posts so all posts in a category would be displayed. Right now it only allows for the last 5 posts in a category be displayed, as I have it set to pull posts from a single category.
Hi Jesse
It would be really useful if you could share how you did this. A great thing to do with this fantastic plugin would be to have an “include in newsletter” category to pull the posts from that you could select and unselect on a post (and hide from navs etc on the site). How did you alter the newsletter.php file to pull posts from a single category?
Thanks
Hello
I worked this out myself.
Say you make a category “include in newsletter” with ID of 21.
Say you are using the with picture newsletter theme.
Give the posts you want to be in the newsletter the “include in newsletter” category.
open newsletter/themes/with-picture/theme.php
replace line 10 with:
query_posts(’showposts=’ . nt_option(‘posts’, 10) . ‘&post_status=publish’ . ‘&cat=21′);
Then only the “include in newsletter” posts will appear in your newsletter.
Remember to hide the “include in newsletter”category on your site. This is well documented in WP.
Hi Stefano.
Very functional and usefull plugin. Works great for me first time.
Only little thing …. I keep getting the “Welcome aboard mail” once every day !!!
Do you have a suggestion ?
Best regds from Denmark
Bennie
Too wide where I do change the sizes?
yeah everyday receiving “Welcome aboard” emails ???
There is no reason to receive the welcome email many times, I have a doubt related to some toolbar for browser that grab some link and send them to bots or search engine… What’s too wide? Check the language file.
Hi Stefano.
)
I’m Italian, but, well, I’ll try to explain what I need in English… Strange, but… I saw your cool plugin for Newsletters, I haven’t tried it yet, but I’d like to know if is possible to send several newsletters for different groups of subscribers and, of course, if it’s possible to create many groups of subscribers. Moreover it would be great if it would be possible to schedule future newsletters. Thanx
Grazie per la tua sollecita risposta… A presto
You did well, congratulations.
Now I am waiting for the group management. It would be really helpfull if we could create different users groups. I would definitly buy such a plugin if it was around 50 $.
Thanks Stefano, but I move every bit of code to modify the width of the widget on my sidebar and nothing is too wide for my design and displaces menu and looks ugly on IE…
how can I lower the width?
hi!
i want to know how to change the language in tinyMCE i installed the new language file from the tinyMCE site,now i want to know if you’d know where (line numbers or arguments to search for ) in the tiny_mce.js i need to edit to enable another language than english
also.. if i unconfirm someone in the list of confirmed users,will he receive the newsletter even when unconfirmed ? i suppose an unconfirmed user won’t receive an email,is this right ?
the reason i ask is that i’m testing the list with a few select users,but i want to “disable” other users from receiving the test emails,so i unconfirm them..it takes less time than adding test users to do test runs
thanks for this nice plugin!!
To all interested in Newsletter plugin, please take the time to read an give feedback to this post: http://www.satollo.net/newsletter-lists-or-group-management
Thank you!
First of all, thank you for the excellent plugin. I’ve tried couple others, and decided that this one worked the best!
My simple question would be; is there any way to show off the subscriber numbers? Like Feedburner or twitter counts. Something like that.
Also, I think adding {date} code would be an awesome idea. I don’t want to type up the date each time I send out the newsletter.
Thank you very much again for your generosity to make this plugin available.
Date tag is easy to implement, I keep it for next version (hoping to remember it…). About subscribers number, do you want something to be displayed? Like a widget?
Yeah. Just the numbers can be fine, since it should be easier for people to design their own boxes or badges with numbers. Or anything pre-made should be cool too. Like a Feedburner subscriber counter.
Oh and I’m also interested to catch IP addresses while they signed up for the newsletter. Today I had one guy pretended to be five different person. We were doing a giveaway. Thanks!
Goog idea, thank you.
Hi, and thank you for a nice plugin!
However, I have a problem regarding WP mail.
When your plugin is activated, it will “hijack” the From-header of mail sent from WP. I use the Contact7 plugin to receive mail from visitors, and when your plugin is deactivated, the From-header will contain the visitor’s name and email address as designed. When your plugin is activated, the From-header from Contact7 will contain the WP admin name and email…
See this page: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/276107
wp mail is not a my plugin.
I know WP Mail is not your plugin, I didn’t mean the plugin, I meant “WordPress e-mail” in general: All mail that is being sent through WordPress without any plugin activated except yours.
When your plugin is activated, and only yours, it will change the From-header of all mail sent by WordPress to the WordPress admin’s.
Did you understand my problem with your Newsletter plugin, Stefano?
Yes, sorry, have you configured the newsletter sender data? It’s one of the first configuration options in the configuration panel. It those options do not work, let me know!
Thanks,
Yes, the sender’s name and from address on the Newsletter configuration page works for your plugin. But when your plugin is enabled, the From address and Name of the sender for another plugin, Contact Form 7, gets replaced with the name and e-mail address of the WordPress admin user.
The author of Contact Form 7 says this is your plugin’s fault, while you probably will say it’s his fault…?
I’d really like to be able to use both plugins, but right now it’s not possible, and I rely on Contact Form 7 already…
Installed correctly but its not sending real or test email…. Please help in email config. Thanks
I am having an issue with the unsubscript link.
When a user subscribes I get an email with:
http://www.website.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-newsletter/newsletter.php?kei=2a863d074843246995ec7d1dc08904b0
I click on this and subscription is confirmed. An email is then sent with the unsubscribe link:
http://www.website.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-newsletter/newsletter.php?type=remove&kei=d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
The 2 kei values don’t match and I get an error saying:
Failed to verify your email. There is no such user.
In the subscribe email the kei value is set with this:
$url .= “kei=”.md5($email.$name);
In the remove email the kei value is set with this:
$url .= “kei=”.md5($email->email.$name->name);
Any idea how to fix this.
-John
You are using a plugin installed on folder wordpress-newsletter, it’s not mine. My plugin is installed on “newsletter” folder.
WP Mail isn’t his plugin or the other Newsletter…
Newsletter is the one! and he will tell me where to change the width on the widget
))
Dear Stefano. i am having issues with actually sending the newsletter. i was wondering if you could help me figure out why i keep getting this error when i run a simulation. i have not seen this issue here yet and perhaps others have the same question ^_^ Great plug-in! this seems to be my only problem.
all the best!
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:48:04 GMT Server: Apache Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:48:06 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Pragma: no-cache Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
OK
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at juicylucyrecords.com Port 80
Ask your provider the apache error log, and send it to me via email or make it downloadable, so I can check out the problem. Check the configuration options of the newsletter: the sender email and name is configured?
my configuration options have been set. I also spoke to my provider which happens to be godaddy. they were unable to give me the server error log since i am on a shared server. could that be the reason why? they told me i have phpmail setup…i keep running the simulation and its still stops…
with the same error..hmmmm
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Queue: 456 emails
Max time: 0 seconds
Sending to:
**email list here**
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:27:30 GMT Server: Apache Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:27:31 GMT Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0 Pragma: no-cache Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99 Connection: Keep-Alive Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
OK
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, support@supportwebsite.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/1.3.33 Server at juicylucyrecords.com Port 80
Hey Stefano, a little question, how much time between each batch of emails to be sent ?
Thanks in advance, plugin works great.
Hey I installed the newsletter script and I love the features. But my page background is dark and the Your Name Your Email doesn’t show up. Where can I go to edit this?
Here is the page i have it on
http://djstevieg.com/?page_id=26
Hi Stefano,
I’m just trying out your plugin, but it doesn’t seem to be sending all the e-mails. It says:
and below, beside the Restart send process button, it shows:
Any ideas?
Nevermind. It worked. I had set the limit of 10 e-mails per batch and ran the simulation.
Hi!
Again: so great you’re building this plugin!! You’re helping out thousands of users!
I was wondering how I know what the confirmation URL should be for my website newsletter? In you admin it says: {subscription_confirm_url}
But in the mails my users get this URL isn’t clickable.
Thank you in advance,
Susan
Elephant sees Elephant
Hello Stefano,
great plugin! Thank you.It works well but i’ve a little problem when someone insert a wrong email he gets the error message with blank background. The url shown in the address is the right one. When you successfully subscripted it is all ok.
Any idea where to look?
Thank you in advance,
Jan
I am having issues with the newsletter plug in, specifically with the subscriber function.
It seems to work EXCEPT when the subscriber gets the click here to confirm email. When you click on the link, nothing seems to happen..it doesn’t go to the “your subscription has been confirmed” message.
The subscriber does get the “welcome aboard” email, however.
Thanks for all help.
Hi Stefano,
thank you very much for the fantastic plugin.
The Autocomposer shows me the 5 lates posts. Is it possible to autocompose more – lets say 15?
Its because I’m posting three times a day, sending a mail once a week.
Thank you
Simone
Stefano, Thanks so much for this. It works great except for the fact that the email sent to subscribers is not coming from the email address I set in the configuration but instead from my default webserver email.
No idea why that would be, but if you have any suggestions I would be graeful. My webhost is bluehost using Linux and Apache 2.2.13 with PHP 5.2.9.
Also the links don’t seem to work in the email no matter what I do… That is with Outlook 2007. The only way I can confirm my email is to copy the link and paste it into my browser.
Many thanks,
Justin
GREAT ! Simple and clean…. Thank you!
In the confirmation message i still get {subscription_confirm_url} any idea why?
Molto Grazie per tutti
Philippe
Give me your blog address, so I can test a subscription.
Hi Stefano, not sure if that reply was to me but the site I am working on is http://www.arkney.com.
Really a holding page for my sister in laws business but would be great if I could get it so the emails were coming from her business not from my webhost.
any clue on that… Why {subscription_confirm_url} stays in the message and is not displaying the url…????
Hi Stefano. Quick question….
Can the newsletter subscription form be integrated to the wordpress register form in any way?
Thanks in advance for your answer,
Andres
I don’t know how to do that, but I think it’s possible cause WP is very customizable in every aspect.
here is my address…
http://kyudo.fr
All the best
Philippe
Hi Stefano,
I send test emails and also to 7 subscribers… But the newsletter doesn’t arrive. I have the message saying in the composer page:
Total emails to send: 7
Emails sent till now: 7
Last email (if empty the batch has completed):
Am I doing something wrong?
I know you are doing a lot.. Molto Grazie per tua patienza…
Philippe
It works ! and it looks great ! Thank you Stefano… It seems it only takes a certain time to send the mails….or to recieve… Maybe it’s a question of the server…
One question though… Do we have to keep the window open till I receive the newsletter..
Thank for All
Tanti auguri
Philippe
Is there any chance that on a later version we can edit the layout of the form?
On firefox it works well but on Internet Explorer the way my page was configured, with an image to the left of the subscription box, it cut off the subscription boxes, so although they work they just look odd.
You can see it on the website I posted in my name.
Ciao Stefano, spero che tu non abbia sovrapassato la mia domanda: Vorrei semplicemente sapere come si fa a mettere piu che i 5 ultimi articoli nella funzione autocompost.
Grazie della domanda
Simone
Hi Stefano,
Great plugin. I had to remove it temporarily for design reasons. But I want to put it back on. It’s great plugin. I want to create a new template which will automatically insert the FULL text of the last post. I tried this:
{blog_title}
{title_1}
{content_1}
A bientot sur {blog_title}.
It works but I lose all the ‘next paragraph’ breaks. It basically copies the latest post in one big paragraph which makes it really hard to read.
Can you help?
Jordan.
Quick bump.
Can anybody help?
Jordan.
Hey steffano, is there any way to get rid of the confirmation mail ?
How to make the fields wider?
I would like to change the width of the fields because they are too narrow when using Internet Explorer.
There are many persons on this site asking the same question.
Thank you!
This is a css modification. I did it for a site using this script. Just created new classes and applied them to the input tags.
Hi,
i’h installed newsletter in wp2.8.4.
The installation is ok, i’v made the {newsletter} page, when i’m trying it, it works well, and give me the page with confirmation of sending email.
But i don’t receiv it . the email for the test is different with the email sender.
i have tried with smtp settings, and wihtout it.
can you help me ?
thanks a lot
It is maybe due to your server response time… I also thougjht it was a problem and then, some time after I recieved the message…. Give it some hours and see….
Hi!
Don’t mean to be pushy, but I am still awaiting help on this message from Sept. 27th:
I am having issues with the newsletter plug in, specifically with the subscriber function.
It seems to work EXCEPT when the subscriber gets the click here to confirm email. When you click on the link, nothing seems to happen..it doesn’t go to the “your subscription has been confirmed” message.
The subscriber does get the “welcome aboard” email, however.
Thanks for all help.
Linda, please, consider that Newsletter plugin is free and I’m not require to answer to all questions in real time.
Then, I send you an email explaining the problem: you added the [newsletter] tag the bottom of a page full of text. The messages are displayed by Newsletter in place of the [newsletter] tag. I subscribed your neswletter and the “ok” message appeared correctly at the bottom of the page.
It’s better if the subscription page is a blank page only with [newsletter] tag in the body.
As written in the plugin page: “create a page for the newsletter subscription and put in the content the shorcode [ newsletter ] (without spaces)”. Ok, it’s not specified it has to be a blank page, but your subscription page is the home page of the site with a full and long explanation of the site content… not just a subscription page…
Hi Linda,
I had the same problem. I think it is something to do with Outlook as the email link worked fine in hotmail and gmail.
If you copy the link it subscribes you ok.
There seems to be a bug with this forum as the last post is Stefanos from the 24th September and I have posted a few queries since then. My biggest problem at the moment can be seen only in Internet Explorer when I use the newsletter plug in on my sister-in-laws website http://www.arkney.com website the form is truncated for the name and email address otherwise it seems to work fine.
Would also be interested to know if anyone else has had problems with the link in Outlook and my problem with internet explorer and if so whether they can help me solve it?
Excellent plugin! It’s all working fine. However, where can I configure it to include X number of posts in the newsletter? Depending on which template I use, it sends either 2 (picture) or 6 (default).
Thank you, Stefano.
Stefano, another question, if you have time:
Can Wordpress/this plugin handle over 2,000 subscribers? I have that many from an opt-in subscription from before we switched to Wordpress for our site.
Hi Paula, I use my own Newsletter plugin with 3000 subscribers. I cannot, as usual, grant that the sending process won’t give any problem, it’s really sensible to hosting settings.
Awesome plugin! Thanks!
Can anyone advise on how to change the background color of the newsletter page to black for example?
Thanks!
Matt
OK – I figured out to how to do this. I changed the CSS in the specific WP theme that I’m using. Viola’!
This is a fantastic plugin, and I have it working just fine, although I have not yet tested it on the full subscriber list. We have over 4000, I just discovered.
In testing on a small number of subscribers, I find that if I choose the picture template, only a few of the post titles are included. All of the ones from the front page are included with the default template. Can I change that in the code somewhere?
Is there a way to modify or create new templates?
Yes, you can just open up the 2 template files in a text editor or in the plugins editor and change things. I was able to add a logo image, change the size of the headline font, etc.
I am seeing this messsage while in Composer:
Newsletter message
PHP execution timeout is set to 0 (information for debug purpose).
________
When I try a test email, the email arrives but there is no content.
How to delete all this subscribers ?
i don’t fin it in the plugin
thanks
This plug-in looks very promising. I was looking for a checkbox in the comments section. Something similar to “subscribe me to _______ newsletter” This way by simply checking the box while leaving a comment the user can be subscribed to the newsletter, similar to the “Notify me when new comments are added” box you have. Since email and name are already being filled in it is an opportune time to get subscriptions and would cut down on redundancy for a visitor already leaving a comment.
Your e-mail validator does not see my emiliano.jordan@templatecascade.com address as valid but does see my info@ as a valid email. You might want to check that over seems anything with a “.” in it might be rejected.
Stefano, it is a bit confusing when a subscriber clicks on the confirmation link in the email, and they see the previous “Please fill out the form below, and we’ll send you a weekly email update about the latest Larchmont Gazette content. We will never give or sell your information to a third party, and you can easily unsubscribe at any time. Be sure to enter your complete email address, as in you@yourprovider.com.” text. See what I mean? It would be better if, when they confirm, they see only the welcome message, not the previous message.
Hi Stefano!
I was trying to add polish language to that plugin, but there’s no effect. I’ve made folder wp-content/languages/newsletter and copy there files named pl_PL.php and pl_PL_options.php. And I’m still have informations in english and english emails… I’m using qTranslate to translate my site, you can look at this on http://www.skrybot.pl. Plugin is great, but I need your help… Regards!
Hi – Love the plugin!
I am a web developer and the large non profit site i added this plugin to would like a bit of customization(for their record keeping) but I dont know how to program it
Is it possible to get it customized for a donation OR help with how I can add some fields
We need these fields in addition to the Name and Email
Phone number
Address
Preferred method to recieve newletter (check boxes)
- Mail
- Email
- Please do not mail
Is it possible that these questions appear in the confirmation email as well?
Thanks in advance
Leanna
Great Plugin. Now that I have the subscribers, what do I do next? How can I see who has subscribed and how is a newsletter actually sent out?
Thanks,
Nik
I set up the plugin I believe right. http://www.atmwallstreet.com/?page_id=398
Once I fill in various emails (other than the one for the newsletter) I never get anything. I check my spam and nothing. What did I forget?
thanks
Troy
Hello Stefano,
pretty pretty please include customization fields in the configuration page for the field names “Your name” and “Your email” and the button “Subscribe me”. Because if I want to translate those three I have to hack the plugin and it will be changed back to English when I update it.
Thank you bunches in advance!
I found out, that I can write my own language-specific files and did so.
Now the only real concern is that there is no way of setting the newsletter up to send out emails in plain text instead of HTML. Can you say when this will be introduced?
Your plugin works great. I actually have no problems or issues, have everything set up and tested. I just have a question about getting the sign-up into a sidebar widget… Is it possible? and how?
Stefano -
I am having trouble getting the test email to send out.
What is Zanzera?
Where can I find the export key?
I am also having a problem receiving the email. I have subscribed using 3 different emails and non of them received the email. I am also interested in knowing what Zanzera is. I don’t see any information about this and why it on your config file. Please respond with how we might be able to get this to work. Looks like a great plugin and I’m excited to use it. Here is the link to my newsletter sign up page. http://www.frankenmuthriverplace.com/index.php/newsletter/
Thank you.
I have just subscribed your newsletter and I received the confirmation and the welcome email. So it seems to be working.
Yes, it is working now, but I didn’t get my email for almost 3 hours after I hit the subscribe button. It was weird they all came in at once, the problem I am having now is that when you click the link in the email it takes you to a confirmation page saying that you are confirmed, but when I go to manage in the admin section it still shows the users as unconfirmed. So the email is working but it isn’t changing the status of the users. Any idea way this happening?
About the status change I really don’t know, I’ll check better your links. About the email sending, it’s a problem of your provider, I can do nothing about it.
Ok, so I think I figured it out, the link in the email must be incorrectly sending the information to the database that the customer hit the confirm button. If you click the link that says Click Here to confirm it works, but if you click the very long link or copy and paste that long link it sends me to a confirmation page, but does not update the client information about being confirmed.
Dear Stefano,
I tried your great plugin, and I have only one problem.
The custom language does not work.
I have create a folder as you mentioned on your site, and puts the translated custom.php into it, but the form still in english.
Can you please help me?
Regards
Peter
Hello,
I am getting this Warning:
Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /var/www/vhosts/ottoderohrwurm.de/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/newsletter.php on line 203
30 (information for debug purpose).
Is this a serious problem? My mailing list isn’t hat big (80 subscribers so far). Wen I send testmails to my own accounts everything works fine. should i be worried and ask my provider to solve the safe mode thing or will it be ok like this? Thanks a lot!
Hi Stefano!
I’m trying to customize the subscribe form.
I’ve copied and edited the language file (it_IT.php) in a new /wp-content/newsletter/languages folder and renamed it custom.php but changes made to that file aren’t showing in the newsletter page…
Any hit of what could be wrong?
Thanks!
It does not work, I now. Just wait the new version.
K! Thanks for the prompt reply and for the wonderful plugin!
S.
Ciao Stefano,
I’ve been to Casino to visit my relatives, but that is still the only Italian I can speak. Fantastic plug-in. No complaints or problems. If I could do it, anyone can. I have one question. I imported a list. It is our list (not bought or anything, but we did not have a confirmation system before). The newsletter is set to send on php (not smtp). I’m not getting any “undeliverable” messages in the mailbox set for the newsletter. Would they go somewhere else or to some other log?
Thanks again
I want to to add the subscriber page in sidebar how can i do this??Is there any shortcode plz reply with details….
Thanks….
where i will put the shorcode [ newsletter ]in side bar.If add this code in a new page it is showing the code only..
plz help me…
Okay, obviously a really retarded noob coder made this. Why the hell not just provide a shortcode for sidebar form? What the hell do people want to use widgets for? Did you consider that any half-decent coder might have a custom theme that does NOT use widgets? Total fail.
It took me over half an hour to code this into the sidebar, I hope you die you bastard.
So you are a coder. A coder that tell me “bastard” but use a fake email. A coder who is not able to take the html code from my sidebar ad adapt to his custom themes site.
A coder who doesn’t know that WordPress short codes are enabled ONLY in post content and not on sidebar.
What a coder you are!
If you’re so smart, why don’t you make your own plugin? Idiot. Stefano has written a marvelous piece of work. Please go away.
Thank you, Paula!
People who write posts like that don’t really deserve a response. Just delete it and call it a day. Criticisms – OK. Attack = delete.
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Hello Stephano,
First, I thank you for your great plugin, i find it really usefull. I install it and when i try to send a news letter I have the message following :
Newsletter message
PHP execution timeout is set to
Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /mnt/166/sda/4/6/bienvenuechezhernest/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/newsletter.php on line 203
30 (information for debug purpose).
This behaviour appear with the test mail and when i use the send button.
Could you help me to solve this ?
Hi, Stefano. Your English is quite good, but there are a few little mistakes in the text for the newsletter configuration. Would you permit me to show you the corrections I made for my own newsletter? I left a _____ for the name of the user’s newsletter:
Subscription Form:
Introduction: Subscribe to our newsletter by filling in the form below.
A confirmation email will be sent to your mailbox: please read the instructions inside it to complete the subscription.
Success: You successfully subscribed to the ______ newsletter. In a few minutes you’ll receive a confirmation email. Follow the link in it to confirm the subscription. If the email takes more than 15 minutes to appear in your mailbox, check the spam folder.
Confirmation email message: Hi {name},
We received a subscription request for this email address. You can confirm it by clicking here. If you cannot click the link, use the following link:
{subscription_confirm_url}
If this subscription request was not made by you, just ignore this message.
Thank you.
Successful confirmation: Your subscription has been confirmed! Thank you, {name}!
Welcome email: This message confirms your subscription to the {blog_title} newsletter.
Thank you!
Unsubscription: Please confirm your desire to unsubscribe from the AGHCA newsletter by clicking here.
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Great plugin!
Is it possible for me to add some extra fields?
Like gender and age.
Stefano:
Thanks for the plugin.
There is an error in your instructions at the bottom of this page (http://www.satollo.net/plugins/newsletter). I thought I would let you and others now.
“f you want to customize the form, it’s simlpe: do not modify the file provided with the plugin. Insted, create a folder named “newsletter” under the folder “wp-content”, and a subfolder “languages”. Copy the language file you want to start with under the latter folder and rename it “custom.php”. Change the content as you like.”
Must be changed to:
“If you want to customize the form, it’s simple: do not modify the file provided with the plugin. Instead:
1- Create a folder named “/newsletter” under the folder “/wp-content”.
2- Find the “/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/languages”, take “en_US.php” (or “fr_FR.php” or any other, but not one that has “options” in the file name) and copy it into the folder you created in step 1.
3- Rename the file you just copied in “/wp-content/newsletter” into “labels.php”.
4- Change the content of this file as you like.”
Yes! That works!
Thanks Jerome, and thanks Stefano for this great plugin
Hi-
This didn’t work for me… I’m trying to use the French version – anyone know how to get it working? The english file overrides everything I do and deleting it stops the table from appearing – I can’t seem to find the answer anywhere – have to wait for the next release?
Eager to use this plugin as it seems to be the BEST one available! well done Stefano!
Found a solution but I’m not sure that it is what we are supposed to do… I copied the FR file into the english file – I imagine that to get the php to call the FR version you have to change the code… I’m not good at doing that kind of thing…Maybe something more ’step by step’ would be a good thing. Think this plugin will rock once I get my head around it.
One more thing – I’d like to add a CAPTCHA anti-spam line before the “submit” button. Where should I insert the code?
Thanks Stefano for your hard work.
Hi,
Is there a way to remove all subscribers in the same time ?
Thanks for the answer.
Ced.
Nice work. Thank you
hi,
when is configured the plugin a typed an email address on the Sender email field.
but when i subscribe the email sent is not from the email address i typed. how can i fix this. please help
Hi Stefano!
Great plugin thanks! And I have a question. I want to import all the addresses that I already have (about 800) in the table. I tried an sql-insert to, but the token’ field remains empty. Can I leave it empty? Is there an other way to recover my address book?
Thanks in advance,
Edith
Hi,
Great plugin – however I just upgraded and changed my theme and now the Newsletter Widget is no longer available – any idea why it has vanished and if there is a way to hack a html widget to display the same thing?
thanks in advance…
Probably your new theme do not support widgets… I really don’t know.
Hi Stefano!
when I go to settings to configure the plugin, the only page which comes up is ‘Newsletter subscription Double Opt-in Options’.
The page which requires me to enter the permalink, as described in the instructions,(‘manage subscriptions’- or something like that) doesn’t come up and I can’t seem to find this page.
Any ideas how to resolve this? (sorry if it’s something really obvious!)
much thanks,
Joanna
Hi,
when i put a mail and name it returns:
“Wrong email address. Go back.”
The stranger is, at install I tested and the plugin works.
I don´t know when/why start this problem, maybe when I changed the instalation folder.
someone can help me?
Thanks.
Hi Stefano, congratulations on a terrific newsletter subscription program. Where can I make a donation?
I have two questions – first, how can I make the form entry wider (please see the screenshot).
Second, is there a way to ask the subscriber to type in their email address a second time before hitting submit, as a way to make sure they did not type it incorrectly?
thanks for the great work! – Alan
Hi Stefano. I have two questions – first, how can I control the formattng of the data entry form and make the data fields wider (please see the screenshot).
Second, is there a way to ask the subscriber to type in their email address a second time before hitting submit, as a way to make sure they did not type it incorrectly?
thanks for the great work! – Alan
hi there!
nice plugin, works great for me so far. There is only one thing i’d love to add, but need advice.
I’d like to have an unsuscribe-form like
“Unsuscribe from our newsletter”
email: [ ]
it there a more or less simple way to do this?
best regards
Hi Stefano,
It’s a very good job and the newsletter works fine, 3 people suscribe at the day of installation. I’m very happy
But, the rest…
I’ve problem only when i activate the newsletter plugin. When i go to publish a news in article panel, i encountered this error : “Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.”
Unfortunately, when i disabling the plugin it’s work fine…
What can i do, please.
Etienne
Hi
Thanks for a great plugin
Everything works great except that I have a problem with the sidebar widget. It does display and it is functional. It is just that the page content area returns a 404 and not the script that gets returned when you subscribe through the created page form.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Hi,
i tried to use your newsletter plugin and i found “PHP execution timeout is set to 60″, so i changed the max-time value in the php.ini file, but the newsletter composer page didn’t change it. I don’t undertand why… any suggestion?
Thanks
Nick
Hi All
I am trying to put an unsubscribe link in my newsletter and I can’t get it to work.
I have tried setting the contents of the newsletter to:
”
unsubscripted test:
[unsubscription_confirm_url]
”
And also:
”
unsubscripted test:
{unsubscription_confirm_url}
”
Neither one is inserting the link in the newsletter.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Best Regards
Will Ferrer
May be there is an error on the current version, but under the editor the tag suggested is {unsubscription_url}. That on my version, I have the new one not yet released.
Hi Stefano
That worked perfectly — I guess I was using the wrong tag.
Thanks for the help
W
Hi,
, do u have a newsletter unsubscription or newsletter.php ?
Great job Stefano. But I’m a very lazzy bastard
Stefano,
I just suscribed to your newletter on your site and wanted to let you know that a few things don’t work quite right – In the name field, it doesn’t pick up the name- Here is how it appears in the email and on the screen:
“Hi name,
I received a subscription request for this email address. You can confirm it clicking here. If you cannot click the link, use the following link:
http://www.satollo.net/subscribe?na=c&ni=212&nt=bae35fc944468d62395da0f12476eac5
If this subscription request has not been made from you, just ignore this message.
Thank you.”
“Subscribe!
Help me testing out the newsletter plugin: subscribe and be prepared to receive test email.
Your subscription for veroniquemckay@yahoo.fr has been confirmed! Thank you name!”
The other click option is not active – you have to cut and paste it into the browser…
When I sign into my own newsletter, I am not receiving the confirmation email… could you advise on this?
Thanks a million-
Veronique
Hi Veronique, thank you for your comment. The newsletter plugin on this site is the new (and in development) version, and you found one of the many bugs I’m fixing!
Thank you again!
Hi Stefano,
Again thanks for the great plugin.
I have made a dutch translation for the plugin If your interested please let me know.
I saw that the export function is planned for one of the comming versions. That would be great I realy could use that. If you need any assistance with developing that please let me know I wil be happy to help.
Greetings,
boudewijn
Hi,
I am interested in the Dutch version as well. Is it already available?
Thank you.
Rgrds,
Willem Jan
Hi Stefano,
Do you have an example of your page newsletter ? because I don’t understand what you mean when u say “the newsletter page with [newsletter] short code in it”.
Thanks a lot
Olá, I am of the Brazil and I use its fabuloso plugin of newsletter. In the configuration it appears the message: ” TAGS HAVE BEEN CHANEGED! PLEASE CORRECT YOUR LINKS IN TEXTS AND EMAILS.” How I can decide this problem?
I congratulate you on making this. My only issues are:
*Few Options in TinyMCE
*No Color Change
*Hard to format tables
* doesn’t work in html
Will there be a fix
new subscribers aren’t getting a confirmation email. can you please help me? thanks!
Hi, debtor for answering. My page is: http://www.jmprojeto.com/newsletter Appears the code to [newsletter] and not it form with name and email. Everything functions, exeto the pages of newsletter. Debtor João
You put a link around the word “newsletter”. Have you some auto link plugin?
Not, in the page I placed only [to newsletter] I do not have another page to neswletter
I discovered which age the error! use one plugin that it generates links automatic and it had inserted link in the word to newsletter. This was causing the error. Its perception helped me to solve the problem.
Thanks a lot for the attention and congratulations for excellent plugin.
João Machado
Hi Stefano, I would like to suppress the second mail that is sent after someone confirmed his or her subscription. Is it possible?
Stefano, Hello, is possible add support to others languages? using a .mo/.po files? this is very usefully
thanks for this plugin =D
Can you tell me what output format this plugin supports? I’m trying to send emails in html format but I see all the markup.
Thanks,
Nick
probably you provider is messing up the emails header: the plugins send emails in html with the correct mime type.
And my question????
Would love to see list groups added to this excellent plugin.
Please contact me via email if this is something you’d be interested in doing, Stefano
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30 (information for debug purpose).
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Please Help Me.
I resolved my problem, The problem was related to a setting hosting not of the plugin or WordPress, sorry for my english.
Is a possible pydonate for this pluggin?
How can the confirmation email be send to the editor instead off to the administrator.
Right now i get these emails for the site i made for a client.
I want the client to get those mails
I noted your request to be implemented
Hi! Thanks for this wonderful plugin. I’d like to remove the table output from the newsletter page form (ie, the form input fields are wrapped in a table, td and tr…) entirely, since the widths and colspans are hard-coded and it’s making me insane trying to style them properly.
I searched through the plugin files for where this table gets created and couldn’t find it.
Thanks again.
EDIT on my previous post:
I just found where the table is generated, and the files are all located in language files, which means the table is created at least as many times as there are languages. Perhaps a translation system which doesn’t involve structure markup would be easier to customize for users.
Thanks anyway!
How can I place an actual form in a Text Widget on the sidebar of my blog that a user can subscribe via instead of going to the actual page?
Thanks,
Ivan
Nice request!