WordPress Newsletter plugin

• Description
• Installation
• Quick Start
• Usage
• Release Notes

Description

The WordPress Newsletter plugin is a versatile newsletter plugin which installs in a flash and integrates well with your WordPress website. Using the WordPress mailing list plugin is effortless and will improve your business’ marketing drastically.

System Requirements

• WordPress 2.9 or higher
• MySQL 4 or higher
• PHP 4.2 or higher
  • short_open_tag On
  • safe_mode Off
• Mail Server (Local/Remote)

Installation

1. Download the ZIP package from the downloads management section.
2. Unzip the package in order to obtain the wp-mailinglist folder of the plugin.
3. Upload the wp-mailinglist folder to the wp-content/plugins/ directory.
4. Log in to your WordPress admin and go to the “Plugins” page in your dashboard.
5. Activate the “Newsletters” plugin by clicking the “Activate” link.
6. To start using the plugin, click on the “Newsletters” menu item in your dashboard.

Upgrade the plugin

If you are upgrading the plugin from an older version to a newer version, the steps to follow are the same as the installation steps above. All your settings, products and other data will remain intact and nothing will be lost.

We recommend that you deactivate the plugin before uploading the files and then re-activating the plugin again after you have uploaded the new files to prevent errors on a production site.

Quick Start

Activation

• Go to ‘Plugins’ in your WordPress dashboard.
• Go to Newsletters and click the ‘Activate’ link.

Configuration

• The menu item ‘Newsletters’ will appear in your menu. Go to ‘Newsletters’ > ‘Configuration’.
• Click on Auto-import users from WordPress if you want to import your current users into a list.
• Read carefully through the Configuration and select the options that best suit what you want.
• If you have more than 100 subscribers, be sure to turn On the email scheduling feature. Keep the interval as low as possible and try to keep the number of emails per interval below 100.
• Click on the blue ‘Save Settings’ at the top of the page when you are done.

Get Additional Data from Subscribers

• Go to ‘Newsletters’ > ‘Custom Fields’ and click the ‘Add New’ button.
• Enter the title, such as ‘Name’.
• Click ‘Required’, fill in Error Message such as “Please fill in your name”.
• Select the field type. i.e. ‘text field’ in the drop down.
• Tick/check the lists with which you want to associate the custom field.
• Click Save Custom Field.

Put a Subscription Form on Your Site

• Go to ‘Appearance’ > ‘Widgets’.
• Drag and drop ‘Mailing List’ into a sidebar.
• Type in Appropriate title. E.g. Stay Up To Date.
• Fill in the other fields such as the button. E.g. Subscribe Now
• Click on the ‘Save’ button.

Send a Post as a Newsletter

• Go to ‘Posts’ > ‘Add New’ in your dashboard to add a new WordPress post or simply edit an existing one which you want to send out as a newsletter.
• Below the WYSIWYG editor, tick/check the specific mailing list(s) to which you want to send out the post as a newsletter.

Start a Newsletter from Scratch

• Go to ‘Newsletters’ > ‘Send Newsletter’ and start writing a newsletter just like you would write a WordPress post.
• Tick/check the appropriate mailing list(s) to which you want to send the newsletter.

Usage & Integration

Release Notes