Newsletter Extras 1.0.3

Yesterday I released for members the version 1.0.3 of Newsletter Extras. If you don’t know what’s I’m talking about, get a look to the new Newsletter Extras page.

There you can find information about statistics, scheduler, custom forms related to Newsletter plugins.

Newsletter Extras is for Satollo.net members with a number of other goods, like Post Layout Pro. Membership detail are here.

Newsletter Version 1.5.1

Newsletter version 1.5.1 has an important new option and feature. In Composer panel you can now set a “return path” address. This address is added as value to a special email header, so delivery error will be sent to that address.

I was wrongly assuming that WordPress was setting this value. It did not, so I added an interceptor to set the return path on email sending.

You will find a little design revisits of the admin panel too.

Hyper Cache Version 2.6.5

This new version is an update for Windows systems. On Windows based hosting the PHP function filectime() cannot be used, so I changed it on filemtime().

The problem was discovered and solved by Sergey T.

Thank you Sergey!

Newsletter Version 1.5.0

Newsletter version 1.5.0 comes with a nice new feature. On configuration panel you can now choose a theme to be used for confirmation request and welcome emails during the subscription process.

You have to select blank theme if you want to send messages “as is” or a theme specifically designed for subscription messages (not all theme are good).

There is a theme I added called “messages” and it’s a start point example.

Themes for messages need to have the special tag {message} in their body.

Composer panel has been updated with latest version of TinyMCE and the “full screen button” added to the visual editor.

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.

Read more..

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