Share Your Personal Experience With Newsletter Plugin
February 16, 2010 
88 Comments
I see from WordPress statistics page that my Newsletter plugin has many downloads per day. So I’m asking myself “what user think about thast plugin? Do they install and remove or them trying to use it?”
Would you share your positive or negative experience with Newsletter plugin? Are you using it or have you removed it and why?
Ok, let’s start with comments!
My excuses for my bad english but it's the only way I have to communicate with you. Would you suggest
a correction? Leave a comment, thank you!
Hi,
Where can I change the subscribe button text?
Thanks a lot,
Regards, Tibor
Ezt én is szeretném tudni Tibor, nekem is ez a gond. Sajnos a plugin nem nagyon támogatja a CSS-t.
I have same problem, too. Please answer.
It’s been more than 6 months so why hasn’t this been answered yet? Come on Stefano, you can’t be that busy! Many of us would like to know the answer please.
You’ll find it in plugins/newsletter/languages. The english one, for example, is in en_US.php.
Ciao stefano, inanzitutto complimenti per il plugin fantastico.
Posso chiederti se si puo collegare la newsletter alla registrazione degli utenti con una semplice casella da segnare?
Thanks for the plugin. Works great!
The only negative feedback I can give you is the simulate bug which appeared in one of your updates.
All in all: keep it up!
DH
I love the plugin, it works perfectly for me and has lots of options. I think this has been requested before, but having multiple mailing lists would be good. Provide an option in the setup for which mailing list the name/email should be collected, or provide an option for the user to select which mailing lists they want to be on. Heck, I would even take an additional mailing list option where I could manually move people to a second or third one. As of now, I have to use a second plugin for doing just that type of stuff. Looking good!!! Keep up the good work!
…one more thing: is it possible to have two newsletter installations resp. to manage two different newsletter lists?
Thanks
DH
Hi Stefano!
I have downloaded newsletter plugin twice on my WordPress site and continue to get error in confirmation address: I have had several people test this too.
?na=c&ni=4&nt=e1df37005e77ed155d09228b7b1aaaa3
Instead of this – which I got when I just subscribed to your site:
http://www.satollo.net/subscribe?na=c&ni=xxx&nt=xxxxxxxxxx
Please advise. I will appreciate your help getting this great plugin going!
Ciao, Marilyn
This is caused by a problem with the newsletter_replace_url function in plugin.php. The function is stripping out the website’s home url from in front of {subscription_confirm_url}, so if you have http://www.yoursite.com/{subscription_confirm_url} in your subscription email template and http://www.yoursite.com is defined in the wordpress admin as your home url, then http://www.yoursite.com/ gets stripped out. I got around this by taking out the www, so that the url in the template was no longer the same as the home url. But this is a bug that should be fixed.
I agree, this should be fixed, bug still occurs here.
Anyway, promising plugin, localization was the point that made me decide to use this one.
Cheers!
OK, somehow I got it working! Sorry for misleading
Hi, your newsletter is great! Is it possible to add in an extra birthday text field and base on their birthday, automatically send a newsletter to them?
Thanks,
Terence
Hey Stefano, thanks for a great plug-in. I would like to know if I can automatically add my latest blog post to my newsletter to send it out, without too much effort? Is this possible? Thanks, Nat
Hi!
I was looking for a newsletter plugin that would be easy to integrate into the site i am working with. After testing yours i decided it hade the features i been looking for. I decided to localize it into Swedish language and its now up and running on the site.
Thanks for great plugin!
If you want to send me the localized file, I add it to next version.
Hi,
I am using your newsletter plugin. I am trying to call ‘newsletter_form’ using the code on the forms screen. I get this error message.
Call to undefined function newsletter_form()
What I have to do is hard code the form as you suggest by replacing newsletter_url with the link to the page that [newsletter] is on.
I have tried a few things like changing the call to newsletter_form() instead of newsletter_form(1).
By the way the form I am using in the form screen is the exact same form that I hard-coded except instead of the action url, I left in the variable {newsletter_url}.
I will probably end up having to embed the form differently anyways because I will be using some javascript+flash+xml to submit the form and track updates to the database.
Here is the form http://www.winrandwin.com
Have you the latest extras installed?
I have this.
You have Newsletter Extras version 1.0.2. Thank you!
I will double check for the latest version
ok let me add the 1.0.3 version and report back
I have added the updated files.
I will check the error logs, it looks like now the error is being captured because I do not see it output on the screen and yet there is no form.
The form does work in the post when I use the tag [ newsletter = "1"] but that was already working.
I notice in the FF status bar there is a message that says stopped.
I don’t know what other info to get, there is no php error in the log file.
Hi, just trialing your plugin at the moment… is there a way to compile different lists of email addresses??
What I would like to do is send an email out to my pre-school contacts and an email out to my secondary school contacts, so would need two different email address lists.
Thanks, Jacky
so far i love it! i’ve been fighting with mailpress for 8 months trying to figure out batch send. i downloaded your plugin andwas sending test batches in an hour, then i sent you $20. thanks alot, this helps me so much. a question though, can i see more than 100 emails in the manage section? i’m looking through the code now.
best,
dan
never mind i found it. i really like your plugin because it is simple and it just works.
to change the email manage limit from 100, edit plugin.php on line 636 and 640 (in version 1.5.1) change ‘ limit 100′ to ‘ limit 1000′ or so. maybe add a pagination to this in the future so you can see all. then in manage.php on line 108 (in version 1.5.1) change ‘Max 100 results will be shown’ to reflect your new number.
best,
dan
Hi,
Great plugin ! Easy to use and setup !
Just one thing, how can i add subscribers manually ? (I just want to add emails of an emailing list without ask to subscribe). May be the import module ?
thanks again
William
Hey Satollo -
I’m trialling the newsletter plugin on a couple of different sites.
I think it would great if I could easily add the full text of one or more posts to the news letter before sending it.
Thanks!
Hi, I’ve been using your plugin for a couple of weeks and am quite satisfied with it : it seems to be doing the job well, and I love the auto-composer feature. In short it’s exactly what I was looking for.
Hi!
First I had trouble with your plugin. For some reason it did not work properly. Thus I tried out a loooooooot of other plugins, but neither worked the way I wanted. Finally I tried your plugin again … and now it works great!
I do not know where the error was, but anyway, now I am happy and have the exact newsletter plugin I wanted. I can create a customized newsletter, integrate posts individually, manage subscription data and have a double-opt-in functionality.
Thanks a lot!
Sabine
Great plugin! Loving it. The thing I miss the most is that the newsletter messages don’t get saved in the database. If every newsletter sent would be saved, I could go back and see how the previous newsletters looked like. Or just copy an old one, and use as a start for a new newsletter.
Thanks. Frederic
Hi,
I am currently using your plugin in my latest wp site. Till now; it seems great! But want to change the “subscribe” text on the BUTTON to my custom text.
Can anyone please let me know how can i do it? Which file do i have to change for that in newsletter editor?
I will be grateful to get a response.
Thanks.
Hi and great plugin! Thanks for your work! I would donate if I made any money with it or my business….anyhow
For a lot of reasons with a blog of mine I am stuck with WP 2.6.3 but your plugin only works with 2.7 and up. Do you have a previous version that also works with 2.6.x versions of WP? Thanks a lot!
Jurge
I am writing a lengthy newsletter using version 1.5.1 and for an unknown reason I get random exclamation marks in the middle of my text when I send myself a test newsletter. For example, around the 600th and 980th words there’ll be an exclamation mark. They are not in my original text or html code and if I rewrite my sentence the exclamation mark will move around slightly, say within 20 characters. Even cutting the text into notepad and back again doesn’t seem to fix anything.
Any ideas? Thanks.
PS: I’ve not updated to the latest version as I’ve read a couple of negative stories here on your site. I am, however, prepared to upgrade for testing purposes if you insist.
Thank you very much,
this tool is just what I needed!
But there is one problem I haven’t been able to solve yet: in “subscription” I cannot change the content of the welcome message (it is shown after a user klicks on the confirmation link in the welcome message) – it just stays with the given value “a”, whatever I try…
Please help! Does anybody have any suggestions?
Thank you very much in advance and best regards,
connie
I like the plug in. But it doesn’t work. I entered in a name and email address that I have as a test and all I get is “entered in wrong email…go back” message. Why? How can this be? How do I fix it?
Jae
Hi Stefano,
Just wanted to say your plugin has worked great. My site isn’t in production yet but so far testing has gone well. I am about to buy the membership to I can get the extras and had a few questions. Will the extras allow me to:
1) change the way the widget looks? Like taking the link to your website?
2) Also, I completely agree with Frederic that having records of previously sent emails would be really really useful!
3) That birthday option is also great for marketing
Thanks again!
Hello
At the moment, I am testing your plugin.
It works… more or less : I am confronted to a strange problem.
If I register an adress via the newsletter PAGE, it works OK
If I register an address via the widget, it does not work.
I have checked this :
both ways , the address registered in inserted all right in the list of subscribers. And both ways, the composer tells me the letter is sent.
BUT BUT
Every address registered through the widget receives nothing at all when I do send the letter.
I also had to check the “Do not use double opt-in” . If not checked, email are not forwarded to the address, DESPITE BEING REGISTERED in the list of subscribers.
Very strange indeed.
Do you have any idea of what is happening with your plugin ?
I am on WordPress 2.9.2
Site still under construction. Not accessible.
I have a professional tech friend working the server.
What should he check first according to you ?
Hi,
I have my sender email configured to “Chris@ntaural-treatment-for-alopecia.com” but my host email actually appears on my test email instead. How do I change this?
Thanks,
Chris
Stop upgrading this fucking plugin, get a life a woman!
you are mentally ill upgrading every24hrs, you are not a real professional, I hate your guts, remove the link from your plugin, hate it!
Thank you for your interesting tips on how to get my life better (BTW probably you need to get a life seen you use your time to write stupid things here…). I’ll remove the plugin from wordpress plugin directory, so you don’t have anymore to upgrade it.
Stefano, Don’t bother about posts like that… Your work is great, and I like to see the constant development!
I will describe my experiences with your plugin in an extra post.
Hi, how do you have more than one widget?
I looked at the widget code and it seems to say that you can have more than one widget but when i drag one to a sidebar, i do not get another one available.
using wp 2.92
thanks
I saw the problem, I have to check why. I wrote the widget using the wordpress examples, but clearly is not the right way…
My experience with your plugin is very good. No problems installing, good back end. I have tried a couple of related plugins before, but yours fulfills my needs best.
However, I have two things on my wishlist, which I ask you kindly to consider:
1. Personal salutation: In German language, we have two different ways of greeting people in written (news)letters: A formal an informal way. The formal way is being used in business life and if you don’t know people for a longer period of time. In formal relationships, only the family name is being used. So in order to salute our online-customers formally correct, in German language we would have to use “Dear Mr abc”, where “abc” is the family name. Currently, your (great!) plugin only has the option to greet somebody with the full name given in the name field, and that would normally be the first *and* the family name. My question is: Could you find a way to customize salutation in a way, that plugin users gives the choice whether the full name or only the family name is being used in the salutation line?
2. It would be very helpful if subscribers could select fields of their special interests in the subscription process. Subscribers would only receive newsletters relating to their special interests, which would make online marketing much more personalized and effective. I would love to see this feature implemented in your plugin, too!
I could imagine, these requests cause a lot of work. Maybe, we will see these features one day in your software?
Greetings,
Florian
Fantastic! Takes a little work to tweak it but it’s miles ahead of the other pluf-ins I’ve found so far. Anyone begging to differ!???
Ciao Stefano,
I have a problem with your very, very great script… Maybe I’m the only one with this problem.
There ARE unsubscription links in the newsletter mails.
But sometimes some of my users want to unsubscribe at my site and they are searching for a form to unsubscribe.
There ist no problem to subscribe at my page… but how to unsubscribe?!
Greetings from germany
Marco
is there some php shortcode like that is able to be used to input this in places like the header.php file?
something similar to this:
Hi Stefano, from Catalunya. I downloaded your plugin yesterday and I was able to have it running in a while. First I was a little confused on how it worked. I was not sure how ‘automatic’ it was, what information it was sending…
The plugin activation gave me many SQL errors, but it finally worked…
I created the [newsletter] page thinking that qTranslate (multilanguage) would make it go wrong. but it worked great!
Then I began subscribing my email address. Links were not working but then I configured the ‘subscription URL’. I then composed my first newsletter and understood the idea, discovered the mail themes and loved it! I have created two custom themes in a minute with other filters. For example this ‘last 5 days’.
//query_posts(‘showposts=’ . nt_option(‘posts’, 10) . ‘&post_status=publish’);
function filter_where($where = ”) {
$where .= ‘ AND post_status=\’publish\”;
//posts in the last 5 days
$where .= ” AND post_date > ‘” . date(‘Y-m-d’, strtotime(‘-5 days’)) . “‘”;
return $where;
}
add_filter(‘posts_where’, ‘filter_where’);
query_posts($query_string);
I’m sure that when I use this plugin in a production site I will want to pay for the EXTRA plugin.
My wishlist:
- Subscriber groups in order to send different newsletter depending (in my case) on their language.
- Change all page and widget texts
A really great plugin!
I thought this plugin was great but then it just stopped working – after one person unsubscribed it never worked again.
Yes it’s me replying to myself just to put this right. Nothing to do with unsubscribing – cutting and pasting from Word 2007 into the Composer window using Firefox created lots of hidden code and that was the problem. Lesson learned (again!) Great plugin!
Thanks for the very easy to use plugin! I’m hoping my business will grow enough to justify getting the extras, those are some great looking features!
I’m just getting my site set up and I can’t figure out where to change the column settings for the newsletter widget. The text begins to the left of the widget box window instead of aligning with the widget title or submission fields.
My newsletters go to spam, what could I do to avoid that? Thanks for the help
awesome plugin
Tell people on the subscription page to add your domain to “safe senders” in their email system.
-Frank
I just would like to say thank you and that this is a great plugin. It HAS taken me some time to get it to work the way I want it to. But I realised that the answer was under my nose and I was looking too hard.
Thank you for a job well done !
Anja,
The Netherlands
Hi Stefano,
Great Plugin! I would appreciate your quick reply for the following:
How to remove header text (Blog name) from confirmation & welcome e-mails?
Is there a way to retrieve info such as address, How did you find us, comments etc that users fill through custom forms?
Please, if anyone else knows the answers to these questions please tell me.
Thanks tremendously,
Hi Stefano,
Great Plugin! I would appreciate your quick reply for the following:
How to remove header text (Blog name) from confirmation & welcome e-mails?
Is there a way to retrieve info such as address, How did you find us, comments etc that users fill through custom forms?
Please, if anyone else knows the answers to these questions please tell me.
Thanks tremendously,
Hello,
I need to see who clicked what, in the stats. Is there any way to see this is newsletter2.0?
Thanks
I like the look of this plugin very much, but two bugs caused me to deactivate it:
1: I needed to change the wording on the subscription form to get rid of the “I’ll try to make you happy” remark. I found the English options file and edited it and saved my changes, but that had no effect on the words that appeared on my blog.
2. The confirmation email has a confirming link and a confirming URL, but both are broken. The URL showed: ?na=c&ni=1&nt=c0bd1e27167a7315f46785e6d4d6019a
Hope this helps. Please let me know when these bugs get fixed. I would love to use this plugin for several of my clients.
Reuben, I don’t think that what you describe are bugs.
1. I didn’t see any “I’ll try to make you happy” when I installed it today.
2. For clickable links in the confirmation email I used html code:
[p][a href="{unsubscription_url}"]{unsubscription_url}[/a][/p] (I changed the brackets to make the code readable here. Replace with “”). This works well as far as I can see.
-Frank
Hi Stefano,
this one is really good. I tried a few newsletter/subscription plugins with double opt-in. None of them was as easy to integrate as yours. It is elegant and powerful. Good work!
One needs to do some careful work on the backend side to configure it well (like making the links clickable in the emails) — but I like it that way because it is highly configurable. Well thought out, powerful, clear …
Thanks a lot!
Frank, Wetterauer Weltbilder
thanks frank. the link on xonfigration panel are not easy i know, but with visual editor is not so simple. i need to extend tinymce but it’s not so easy to create a tinymce plugin…
Unsubscribe_url is not working. It is just showing text just like this ?na=u&ni=58&nt=9c9c5c91c9e37fa86b727f35aa7e34ab Please help me. Thanks
Thanks for this tool! How is it possible, to make the name field optional? So that the user can decide if he wants to tell me his name when he subscribes the newsletter.
Paco
Hi Stefano,
Thank you for this plug-in, I really like it! I have one problem however, which has already been exposed but not solved:
- how could I add subscribers manually? I tried to import a .CSV from gmail but it did not work. How is the table supposed to look like?
Hi, nice work the plugin. Just to let you know, the confirmation email (or resend) does not arrive if I use some spanish characters like “ó” (ó) in the title of the confirmation email (or resend).
Thank you.
Ciao Stefano!
I have two questions for your plugin (it has been really useful, thanks!)
it is possible (even with the pro version) to prepare an automatic sending (ie: “send every Thursday at …)?
can I use your plugin to send automatically a message to those whom we mention in a post?
thank you and congratulations!
Great plugin but I have an issue with the “pics” not showing up in the newsletter. They don’t display yet are there in the Blog entry. Using WordPress 3.0 with Hybrid News Theme. Anybody else have this issue?
Is it possible to include the email signup form fields somewhere other than using a widget or on the newsletter page? I’d like to put it in my site footer or header.
I had to re-install WordPress but did not overwrite my WP Content folder. I created a new database but kept a copy of the old one. All my custom content that was in the Newsletter Subscription Form page has been replaced by the default content. Where does Newsletter save the custom content? I’ve looked in the old database but can’t see any related info there. Please help.
Found it, problem solved.