Archive for June, 2008

Wordpress Mailing List Plugin v3.6.1 Change Log

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With the Wordpress Mailing List plugin, you can insert subscription forms on the pages of other websites (even if they aren’t Wordpress sites) and allow users to use these subscription forms to subscribe to the mailing lists on the current Wordpress blog.

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There are different ways of embedding/inserting the subscription/opt-in forms into your Wordpress website. See the links below for instructions on each of the individual embedding methods available.

• Hardcoding into your theme
• Post/Page Embedding
• Sidebar Widgets
• Offsite Subscription Form
• Registration Checkbox

All emails sent through the mailing list plugin (not just newsletters, but expiration notifications, confirmation emails, etc…) are parsed through a method which checks for certain dynamic variable tags in the content and replaces these tags with values based on their purpose. Below is a list of all the available dynamic variables, together with a description for each.

• {email}
  Ouputs the email address of each individual subscriber.
   
• {unsubscribe}
  Generates an unsubscription link for each individual subscriber.
   
• {blogname}
  Outputs the title of your Wordpress blog.
   
• {siteurl}
  Outputs an absolute URL to your Wordpress blog’s home page.
   
• {activationlink}
  Generates an activation/confirmation link for each subscriber for the specific mailing list. 

Apart from these predefined dynamic variables available, each of your custom fields in the mailing list will have their own dynamic variable so that you can personalize newsletters sent out to your subscribers. For example, if you create a custom field with the title “Birth Date”, you later on insert the dynamic variable “{birth_date}” into a newsletter to output the value of the custom field for each respectable subscriber.

• Cron Schedule Fixes
• Other Fixes and Improvements