Posts Tagged ‘Email plugin for WordPress’

WordPress Newsletters plugin v3.8 release notes.

ADDED

• Display custom fields of a subscriber in the admin email notification.
• When exporting to a specific list, you can choose whether to export all-, only active- or only inactive subscriptions.
• POP/IMAP mailbox bounce feature to handle bounced emails at a configured interval.
• ‘Check Bounced Emails’ button in the ‘Subscribers’ section to check the POP/IMAP mailbox at any given time.
• Delete subscriber on specific bounce count. You can specify a number, for example, on the 3rd bounce to a specific subscriber, it will be deleted.
• Global email priority setting (High, Normal, Low). Your recipients will see the priority in their email clients.

FIXED

• ID values of elements starting with numbers prevented XHTML validation.
• Shortcode/embedded subscription form with Ajax turned off had a problem with posting to the correct URL.
• Emails didn’t queue when an email attachment was uploaded/added.
• Editing the title/name of a custom field broke its slug and as a result, the ‘Subscribers’ section.
• Fixes to custom fields values, checkboxes and several sections due to an attribute escape and stripslashes bug.
• Editing a subscriber didn’t pre-tick/select its existing lists since v3.7.8
• Return-Path header for bounce handling when using the WP Mail function wasn’t added.
• Shortcode for subscription form with muliple choice “checkboxes” didn’t work while “multiple” worked.
• Require activation not required didn’t work for subscriptions through the WordPress registration page.

IMPROVED

• Default theme is now the checked radio button instead of NONE.
• When sending the first/latest newsletter to new subscribers, the History theme is now used rather than the default theme.
• When a subscriber unsubscribes its current email(s) in the queue for that list(s) should be removed as well.

See the email bounce configuration settings here.

WordPress Newsletters plugin v3.7.5 release notes.

• Added
  Updates notification on ‘Plugins’ page.
• Changed
  ‘listdiv’ has been changed to ‘mailinglistdiv’ on ‘Send Newsletter’ page.
• Improved
  Use get_locale() to get current language code.
• Changed
  ‘languages’ folder for language files.
• Changed
  Changed the string ‘Newsletter could not be sent’ to ‘Newsletter could not be queued/scheduled’ when scheduling is turned on.
• Changed
  Moved tracking code from ‘views/email/send.php’ to ‘views/email/foot.php’.
• Improved
  Overflow DIV on the ‘Send Newsletters’ page for ‘Mailing List(s)’ box.
• Fixed
  Empty $filefull variable in the bounce() function.
• Improved
  The url() method in the wpMailPlugin class for better compatibility.
• Added
  SMTP port setting in ‘Configuration’ when using SMTP or Gmail.
• Removed
  Contact form from the ‘Support & Help’ section.
• Removed
  ‘Support Forums’ link in the ‘Support & Help’ section.
• Improved
  wpautop() for paragraphs instead of the “the_content” filter.
• Added
  Ability to turn on/off jQuery scrolling on Ajax subscription forms.
• Improved
  Checking for updates to increase performance.
• Added
  Date shortcode/variable to put the current date into a newsletter in your preferred format.
• Added
  Row actions in all sections below each record when hovered.
• Fixed
  Send on publish excerpt bug with length of excerpt.
• Added
  TinyMCE button on WYSIWYG editor for quick insertion of subscription form shortcodes.
• Improved
  WordPress 2.9.1 compatible meta boxes in admin sections which are draggable & collapsable.
• Updated
  The nl_NL (Dutch) translation.
• Compatibility
  Fixed the Viper’s Video Quicktags breaking the editor in ‘Send Newsletter’ and ‘Save a Template’ sections.
• Change
  ‘(add new)’ link to ‘Add New’ buttons in all sections.
• Added
  Setting to change the redirect after subscription confirmation.
• Added
  Sections metabox in ‘Configuration’ for better navigation.
• Compatibility
  Directory separator (DS) constant for paths. Windows compatibility.
• Fixed
  Autosave on ‘Send Newsletter’ and ‘Save a Template’ showing a permissions error message.
• Fixed
  Input field ID values starting with numeric value which caused invalid XHTML.
• Improved
  Subscription form Ajax updates the FORM element instead of the entire widget. Helps better overall compatibility with all themes even if they don’t have the proper “before_widget” and “after_widget” values set in the functions.php file.
• Fixed
  “wpmlonline” shortcode/variable was displaying blank when emails were sent through the queue.
• Changed
  MySQL database tables now uses UTF-8.
• Fixed
  Tabindex on subscription forms.
• Fixed
  Absolute URLs for Ajax calls and other functionality specific to Windows servers.

Before you can start using the WordPress mailing list plugin, you’ll need to check your email configuration settings to ensure that they are appropriate for sending out emails.

Continue Reading “Newsletters: Email Settings” »

In the previous step, you configured the “wpmlbounce.cgi” file and changed the value of the “wordpress_url” variable to your blog address url (home page of your wordpress blog).

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