Collecting Profile Data On Newsletter Subscription
Collection user data other than name and email can be very useful but can produce a lot of missing contacts. Why? Because people are tired to give they own personal information to anyone (or better they hate having such questions asked while they are proud to put everything of personal on Facebook).
Newsletter could collect such data since previous releases than 1.4.9 but I never documented it as it was experimental. It’s still experimental but just a little bit more stable.
Note: there is no way to visual design or configure subscription forms to collect other fields that email and name. Newsletter has a ways to store such extended data, but not features to easily create the form.
How can we do that? With Newsletter Extras package there is a panel called “Forms” where to code what is needed.
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Newsletter Version 1.4.9
Two fixes, one major and one minor. The major was a bug so sending always simulate instead to really send emails. The minor now export panel exports any contact, confirmed or not.
Newsletter Version 1.4.8 Is Coming Out
Version 1.4.8 of Newsletter plugin is coming out, it’s a matter of hours. You need to know some things before update.
- some core functions have been changed to be more fail safe and now if something go wrong some data is saved on disk
- logging has been widely reviewed and enabling it at level “normal” is a good idea and help me in giving help when problems rise
- database has been changed: you will find a new menu option “update” to convert old version to new one
- batch info are displayed in a better way and there is the option to restore a failed batch
- profile data is no more displayed on manage page, on next version I’ll improve it don’t worry
Be sure to have the Newsletter plugin folder writable.
Newsletter Themes Call
Hi everyone, I’m pretty sure in your mail boxes you have a lot of cool newsletters. I’m looking for newsletter themes to freely add to Newsletter plugin.
So, if you have one or more nice newsletter with nice themes, can you forward them to me at info@satollo.net? I’ll use them as source of inspiration (not brutally copy and paste).
Thank you!
GNU/Linux Advanced Administration Free eBook
The Free Technology Academy has recently released a free ebook titled GNU/Linux Advanced Administration which aims to cover almost all aspects of managing a Linux installation. Linux need a lot of knowledge (in my opinion) to make it working in the right way and with security, specially if you are using it as web server.
This guide on Linux administration can be a great resource to learn how Linux work and how to administer it.
Read it here.
Via: n2h.it.
FeedBurner and Newsletter, Are They the Same Thing?
I’m not talking about my Newsletter Plugin. I’m talking about newsletter in general. The question is simple: can I use the free FeedBurner service as a newsletter or they are pretty different.
No one believe me an expert, so I cite Six Figure Blogger Blueprint:
I advise against Feedburner for a mailing list. They do have an RSS-to email option and it is better than nothing. But, you have very little control ofyour list. Plus, you cannot email them separately from your blog posts andthat really inhibits you from using the list for marketing purposes.
Read carefully: it is not smart to use FeedBurner to build a mailing list, but FeedBurner is a great service to have your posts notified to subscribers.
What’s matter here is the difference between sending automated notifications and a newsletter. Take a look to all major bloggers, the ones are making money from their online activity. Anyone of them has a newsletter subscription AND, some time, offer a feed-by-mail subscription.
Newsletter Version 1.4.7
I know some of you are tired to see all those version coming out, but evolution is evolution…
Version 1.4.7 add nice theme features:
- support for theme css file and auto merge with message body
- ability to disable visual editor in composer
I write some stuff on Newsletter page that is good idea to read. Now go with bug hunting!
Newsletter Version 1.4.6
A new version of Newsletter Plugin has been released to fix some things and add others:
- ability to edit a contact from manage page
- added a system (experimental) to solve problem with providers with database connection timeout (works ONLY if you make the plugin folder writable) or strict query frequency limits
- added translation support with .pot files (thank you to QMOZ)
One Exposure Rejected (1x Rejected)
Just to try, I take a photo of myself to send it to One Exposure (1x) one of the leading site for photographers. One Exposure accepts one photo per week from members and someone (I don’t know who, I didn’t read the FAQ…) evaluate them and decide if they worth to be published in they selected archives.
101 Way to Improve Your Small Business (Free eBook)
There a lot lot of free and non free guides on the net, explaining how you can improve your business (and become rich…). Many of them are long text with a number of stories or a set of shiny slides with no real step-by-step way to improve our activities.
I was informed of a new free e-book (I read them all) some days ago. An e-book a little different from other because it cover online and offline business improvements. Offline actions can be very effective (not for all businesses), but how many times you thought about them?
I'm Stefano Lissa. 10 years ago I was building web sites for my pleasure. Blogs didn't exist, web content systems were ugly, hosting really expensive. And my student pocket was empty.