Newsletter Version 1.5.4

Some people reporting that version 1.5.3 and may be 1.5.2 stop to work, or better the configuration panels do not show. I think is a problem of PHP configuration or version, so I made a new version with some modifications that may be the solution to that issue.

Try to update and hope…

Newsletter Version 1.5.2

This new version is only a maintenance release with some layout changes and a more complete internationalization code (for who wants to translate using a .pot file).

Desperation Note About Newsletter Development

Today I was testing the feed by mail new function of Newsletter plugin (and still I really don’t know if I ever release it). Testing I sent myself 6761 email filling up my account… I’m seeking people to delete them!!!

Share Your Personal Experience With Newsletter Plugin

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!

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.

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.

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