Hi, alo. I just want to know whether i can compose with chinese. Thank u very much
alo:
14 ottobre 2009 alle 14:44
Hi Daniel, I suppose it’s possible: you have to insert chinese characters in main content’s editor and send. I’ve just tried pasting some chinese words and It seems to work – even if I haven”t understood what I’ve sent…
Gyro:
22 ottobre 2009 alle 13:13
Hi, great plugin…
However, can you change the alo-easymail_action.php file (line 112ish) so that is uses wp-mail() instead of mail()?
Many users have problems with the php mail system and are using the ‘WP Mail SMTP’ plugin to overcome these issues (see plugin page for details). The WP Mail SMTP plugin changes the wp-mail() function to use SMTP properly which is great unless other plugins use mail() and not wp-mail() whereupon those plugins fail.
I have changed my file but hope you will too so that any future updates dont break my site!
Many thanks
Gyro
alo:
23 ottobre 2009 alle 07:20
Hi Gyro, thank you for the suggestion. Surely I’ll include it in next release.
Hi…
i’m having the same problem with the images like “habacuque” did.
i tried to send emails to several contacts and the images that i inclued in the emails are not shown, just some of them. But in most of cases only the title of the image is shown in the email. I find it a little weird since a picture or two can been seen and the rest is not (all pictures are .jpg)
But congratulations since it’s the only plugin i’ve found that allows me to input non-subscribers emails (the rest of the plugins have lots of errors).
For last i would be nice to have a way to save the contacts or create a list of contacts inside the plugin so we don’t have to write the emails over and over…it’s just an idea
alo:
23 ottobre 2009 alle 20:49
Hi Luis, if I understood right your problem is different from habacuque’s. Try using other image formats (gif, png) to check if the problem is in your jpgs.
As for saving list of contacts I’m thinking about it and I’ll add it in the next release.
Many thanks for your comments.
luis:
24 ottobre 2009 alle 17:45
Hi again. I tried to change the format of my images to gif and png and it still doesn’t show them. i tried to send emails using Firefox and IE and it’s the same. I noticied that when i insert any kind of pictures and when they are open in the email that i’ve send, they are shown only for 1 second and then disapear and the only thing that appears (has said before) is the image file name. could it be the theme? but it never showed me any errors and your plugin works perfectly except the images.
sorry for being so annoying but your plugin is a “most-have”, it’s perfect
well see ya and hope you can help me
alo:
25 ottobre 2009 alle 11:05
Hi Luis. Did you try viewing sent emails with different email clients? (eg. outlook, evolution, online account such as gmail, hotmail…). Maybe it could be just a visualisation setup of your client. By next week I’ll do tests. Thank you, I really appreciate.
EDIT: new version (0.9.2) released: added wp_mail() function and the option to save emails’s list. Let me know your feedback!
i don’t know what you did but…it’s working now. i used several images and they all worked (in hotmail, outlook and gmail).
Also thanks for the save emails list….it’s the best. and it’s working
keep up the good work.
it’s the best wordpress email plugin EVER!!!!!
Jen:
6 novembre 2009 alle 07:33
Great Plugin – sends emails without a problem. However, how do I stop wordpress from reformatting the html email sent to the user? It adds a ridiculous amount of tags. Even when I put all html on one line, WP automatically reformats it so there are extra breaks in the email.
I also tried disabling autop plugins, but they didn’t help.
Jen:
6 novembre 2009 alle 23:09
It was the plugin inserting the breaks into the html rather than wordpress. I removed the insertion and it is working better.
alo:
7 novembre 2009 alle 09:02
Maybe there are some breaks fot the POST-EXCERPT tag… I’ll fix in next release. Thank you for the suggestion
Bart:
14 novembre 2009 alle 20:07
Alo,
Thanks for such a great plug-in.
My host only lets me send 500 emails per hour, so I added a line in aol-easymail_action.php right after:
// SEND EMAIL TO EACH RECIPIENT
foreach ($recipients as $recipient) {
>>> I Added this >>> sleep(8);
so the script will only send one email every 8 seconds (450 per hour).
I have to leave the window open until the script is done, (I think?) but at least I won’t get in trouble with my host.
Maybe in later versions you could make this configurable?
Thanks again for such a great plugin.
Cheers!
alo:
16 novembre 2009 alle 09:38
Hi Bart, there is already a sleep function in alo-easymail_action.php, maybe you should setup it. See at line 128:if ( ($r % 50) == 0) {
sleep(10); // every n° sent wait a little
}so you can modify how many seconds (default: 10) and every many emails (default: 50).
It’s a good idea to make this sleep configurable, thank you.
For the rest of the reader i will foloow in english.
One question :
First time i used it, the plugin send the email with template of our site like a post. But now it is not the case, it’s like a Plain Text mail. Why I don’t know.
Second : All mails send are receipt 8 times. Do you have an idea why ? Is the sleep delay that is too short or too long ?
PS : Se vuoi posso fare la traduzione del plugin in francese (FRENCH).
alo:
10 dicembre 2009 alle 16:32
Yssen & PlanetWiFi, thanks a lot for your helpfulness to translate the plugin! I’ll remind myself in future, sure.
PlanetWiFi, about your first issue, be careful when switching editor (visual – html). About second one, the sleep delay should work properly: check your registered users and added recipients and try to make more tests. Let me know.
Gilberto:
30 dicembre 2009 alle 14:32
Il sistema di gestione e-mail funziona ma ha molte lacune specie nella gestione delle liste. Però gli altri plugin wordpress o sono più scarsi o non sono aggiornati, questo fa di Alo uno delle poche alternaive possibili
Roshwill:
31 dicembre 2009 alle 18:13
thank you so much for this plugin. you are a genius. lessen the hassle.
once again I’ve come to give you some new ideas for this plugin.
since the beginning of it’s release I’ve been using it for the sending of newsletters of a private health club and a judo club (has you can see i use it for professional ways) and it’s been working 200% =D once again congratulations for the good job.
but every time i use it I’ve been having troubles for controlling the huge number of emails I have in my plugin list. so I thought It would be of great help having an option of inputing in the plugin an email list option…kind of like it’s use in conventional email services (a list with the name of the person and email where we can add-remove name and email). its great to be able to save the emails in the template but could be even better for us to control the email list options.
a big thanks and i hope you can help
Greg Lambert:
5 gennaio 2010 alle 03:03
Hi,
I was looking for an email newsletter for my site and yours had 90% of what I wanted. I have made the following additions and changes:
1. Added widget to allow a registered user to optin/out.
2. Added the optin/out option to the user’s profile.
3. Added an option to the ALO Easymail settings to allow editors to send email.
4. Added a [USER-FIRST-NAME] tag for message insertion.
I think that these would make a great addition to your plugin and am happy to send you the code if you were to send me an email address or site where I can upload it.
Cheers,
Greg.
BTW I amd from Australia and only know English.
alo:
5 gennaio 2010 alle 11:16
Hi Greg, many thanks for your job. I sent you a mail.
I really like this plugin, and I realize it’s not intended to be a newsletter plugin but easy emailing. However, I’m trying to send a bulk email to my site’s subscriber’s list, and this plugin is about 90% of what I’d like to do (like the above poster said). Right now I don’t mind copying and pasting the email addresses (comma separated of course) into the box and then send a mass email to the recipients. However, I can’t get your plug in to send an email at all. A few days ago I could, but now I keep getting this message:
“Inserted inputs are incompled or wrong. Please check and try again.”
I try clicking on generic email, and I’ve tried for specific posts. I’ve tried a lot of different ways of sending this email out (I’ve been trying just on my own email first to try isolating the problem).
What am I doing wrong? I seemed to have no problem whatsoever two days ago when I tried this. Now, it doesn’t seem to matter what I try differently I constantly get that error message.
Also, I’m not a web designer or expert on these things, so please have some patience with me! I follow instructions and look for sites like this to figure out problems I’m having with plugins, but can’t figure this one out so I’m asking.
I think you designed a great plugin, I just would like to be able to use it!
ps: I also want to send personal items. also a pity that only the admin can send mails. even better if the admin could choose to have items in writing to be sent automatically.
alo:
7 gennaio 2010 alle 21:28
First of all, many thanks to Greg! I’m testing his work and it’ll help me to prepare an important update. So, I hope to release a new version, maybe in week or two.
@ kummod:
Using the entire post content is a good idea. I’ll try to include in next release, or soon as possible.
@ Steve:
From what you say maybe the problem could be in the input fields. Remember to insert the subject each time before sending (a reload could clean the field) because it’s mandatory. And then check all email addresses of your list. There is an error not only if not comma separated, but also if only one address is formally wrong (it lacks the @ or the full stop before domain and so on).
And many thanks to all the people who are contributing to the plugin with comments, tests, suggestions…
Thanks for responding to my comment, however, I’ve tried those ideas already and still can’t send e-mails; if I put a list in the box where you insert your own list of addresses. I’m only able to make it work if I send it to registered users…
I was using the Subscribe2 plugin and accumulated a list of email addresses so far, and when I enter the CSV list of that into the box, all of them have a comma following them. I also went through each address and deleted a few incorrect email addresses and still get the problem. And yes, the subject field is filled in.
Does it matter if the email addresses are separated onto a new line? I tried a few of my own email accounts this way and it worked, but with this longer list I can’t pinpoint what the problem could be.
alo:
9 gennaio 2010 alle 23:04
Hi Steve. The addresses list must use comma as separator to work properly. I’ve made some quick tests with new line as separator and it seems to work, but it’s not designed for that and I can’t guarantee it works.
Then try pasting the addresses from CSV to a simple text editor (such as notepad), delete anything you don’t need (such as tabs, paragraph, other symbols…) to obtain a list with only addresses and commas, and finally paste in the list field of the plugin.
Unfortunately, I already copied and pasted my CSV to a text editor, and then copied and pasted from that. All of the addresses are separated by a comma, but go onto the next line. So I have even just tried hitting the backspace button to make a large sample test list to not have be separated by lines but just commas–including the incorrect email addresses removed. Still get the error message…
Thanks for the help, but I’ve tried making this work for days and can’t figure out what’s wrong with any of the 100 email addresses in my test list. When I try one address at a time, no problem, and I don’t think I want to sit down and manually try each address until I find ones that are incorrect. Based on your instructions, I can’t find anymore incorrect email addresses to remove…
I’d really like to salvage all the email addresses that users have submitted using the Subscribe2 plugin, since that list is substantially larger than the number of registered users on my site (that the plug allows me to send to with no problem!).
Thanks for the help,
Best of luck
Hugh:
28 gennaio 2010 alle 01:13
On the widget, the text is not legible as my theme has a dark background. How can I change the text color on the widget?
alo:
28 gennaio 2010 alle 10:51
Hi Hugh, you can modify the font color in ‘alo-easymail-widget.php’: line 128 (error) and 145 (success). In future I’ll add more options to customise.
UPDATE:
I told you about feedback messages but I forgot the widget text, sorry…
You have to modify the font color in other 2 lines of ‘alo-easymail-widget.php’: line 110 and 129.
Bot start with: $html = "<form name= ...
you have to insert a style attribute (eg.: style=’color:#fff’) at the end of the line, before html closing tag (>).
So the new 110 will be: $html = "<form name='alo_easymail_widget_form' method='post' action='{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}' style='color:#fff'>\n";
the new 129: $html .= "<form name='alo_easymail_widget_form' method='post' action='{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}' style='color:#fff'>\n";
Jim Heck:
29 gennaio 2010 alle 11:07
Hi,
I am on WordPress ver 2.9.1 and have just installed Alo Easy Mail. I have 2 difficulties.
1. The Newletter Sunscription page does not appewar. I get a message “Sorry, but you cannot enter the requested page.” even though the page appears in the WordPress admin under pages.
2. None of the emails that Alo Easy mail generates seem to get posted, even though when I try sending a test newletter the popup indicates delivery OK (with a green tick). (My installation of WP seems to send out emails OK when people register using the built in WP register widget)
I would be grateful for any help, but I am a WP newbie!
rgds Jim
alo:
29 gennaio 2010 alle 22:45
Hi Jim, about your issues:
1. the subscription page cannot be always viewed as a normal page, but can be viewed only by subscribers when activing/deleting subscription: so, if you try to see this page you cannot enter it (you can enter it only you do have an email address to activate/delete and personal key: see the links in the activation-email/newsletter).
2. I’ve tried again on my WP 2.9.1 and it seems to work. Try to subscribe a new email address, activate it and test again.
alby:
30 gennaio 2010 alle 00:42
Ciao Alo, ho installato questa sera il tuo plugin perchè ho un sito in wordpress che non richiede iscrizione però vorrei cmq che gli utenti si possano registrare alla newsletter. Detto questo ho un problema, cioè funziona tutto, però i campi per iserire il nome, l’indirizzo mail e il relativo pulsante di iscrizione non vengono visualizzati nel widget, di conseguenza non è possibile effettuare la registrazione. Vengono invece visualizzate le due frasi che l’utente deve spuntare x scegliere se iscriversi o meno.
Uso wordpress versione 2.9.1.
Sai dirmi come posso fare?
Grazie
alby:
30 gennaio 2010 alle 00:51
Stavo controllando il tuo codice e mi è parso di capire che il tuo widget dovrebbe essere largo 300…io però non ho tutta questa larghezza nella mia sidebar..forse è per questo che non vedo tutto. Ho inserito un formail in un frame della home page e volendo potrei fare la stessa cosa per il tuo modulo di iscrizione però quale tuo file.php devo richiamare x vederlo operativo nel frame?
Grazie
alo:
30 gennaio 2010 alle 11:51
Ciao Alby, credo di aver capito il punto. Il widget si comporta in due modi diversi se sei un utente registrato (compreso tu come admin) o un visitatore non registrato.
Nel primo caso ti mostra quello che hai visto tu: i due combo per scegliere se ricevere la newsletter. Nel secondo caso mostra i due campi (nome e email) per iscriversi.
Forse semplicemente tu sei sempre loggato come admin e quindi vedi solo e sempre la versione per utenti registrati: prova a fare il logout e dovresti vedere la versione per non-registrati.
alby:
31 gennaio 2010 alle 00:21
Ciao Alo, si in effetti io entro sempre come admin anche perchè stò ancora ultimando il sito e ci lavoro sempre come “loggato”. Ora mi hai messo un piccolo dubbio..ovvero il mio sito non richiede nessuna iscrizione, cioè non obbliga gli utenti ad eseguire nessuna login. Vorrei semplicemente che qualsiasi utente si possa però iscrivere alla newsletter per ricevere gli aggiornamenti senza doversi necessariamente registrare al sito. Quindi in teoria mi servirebbe che i campi di registrazione alla newsletter fossero separati dalla registrazione al sito rimanendo sempre visibili x chiunque.
Mi sembrava che il tuo plugin permettesse l’iscrizione anche ai non loggati però forse mi sono confuso. Se mi togli questo dubbio mi faresti un favore.
A presto
alo:
31 gennaio 2010 alle 12:15
Si, avevi capito bene: qualsiasi visitatore può iscriversi alla newsletter inserendo email e nome nel widget, senza registrarsi come utente.
Invece un utente registrato e loggato nel widget non vedrà il form di registrazione ma la combo (si/no) come vedi tu se stai loggato come admin.
alby:
31 gennaio 2010 alle 13:55
Grazie Alo..tutto perfettissimo e funzionante. Ho fatto tutte le prove del caso. Infatti non essendoci la login al sito gli utenti vedranno sempre i campi x iscriversi alla newsletter.
Sai cosa sarebbe bello? Poter inserire il tuo widget in un box (o frame) nel corpo della home page come ho già fatto per un formail. Questo per dare + corpo alla home page e ridurre in lunghezza la sidebar con i widget.
A volte troppi widget danno troppo quel senso “bloggoso”, mentre il sito che stò facendo è molto funzionale con maggior importanza alla parte centrale della home page.
Tu dici che sarebbe possibile inserire la funzionalità del tuo widget piuttosto che sulla sidebar nell’homepage?
Scusami x le mille domande ma il tuo plugin è il migliore di tutti e vorrei usarlo nel mio sito
Grazie ancora.
I installed v1.5 in WP 2.9.1 and put the widget on the sidebar. To test the installation I subscribed and when I received the activation email I clicked on the link and received an error 404 loading the “Newsletter Subscription” page. I tried this with two different sites one worked and created the “Newsletter Subscription” page but the other didn’t.
Are there any permissions that I need to be concerned with?
Nice plugin…
alo:
3 febbraio 2010 alle 18:16
Hi John, try to re-activate the plugin, it should create the newsletter subscription page on activation. Let me know.
I’ve tried to deactivate/reactivate and still not getting the newsletter subscription page.
alo:
3 febbraio 2010 alle 20:56
On activation does the plugin create an easymail table in database? If not, try to delete plugin files and reinstall it. If yes, maybe it’s only a problem with the option value of subscription page. In ‘wp_options’ table of your database look for the option called ‘ALO_em_subsc_page’. Its value should be the subscription page ID: they should match each other. Anyway, delete this option and re-activate plugin. If the plugin doesn’t find an existing page it will create a new one, with a new correct ID.
I’ll take that back, I now have my newsletter subscription page but when I clicked on the link to activate the registration I got a 404 page now found again.
Here is the site if you’d like to try and register, you will receive an activation email and when I clicked on it I get the 404.
I see the easymail_subscribers table added to the db and now the newsletter subscription page is in my page list. I can click on it and view it and I get the message “Sorry, but you cannot enter the requested page” but when I try to click back on an activation link after subscribing this is when I’m getting the 404. I checked the options table for ‘ALO_em_subsc_page’ and the option value is set correctly to the subscription page ID.
This returned a 404 error page not found
I made the following change to the activation link removed “blog” and pasted this in a browser window and my subscription was activated and I landed on the newsletter subscription page, the following worked.
Where do you get the URL for building the activation message? When you retrieve this do you know if it’s the wordpress address, where wordpress is installed or if it is the blog address based on reference to general settings?
My wp install is in my root/blog directory and in my root directory have redirect setup in my .htaccess.
Here’s the change that I made that is working with my installation, you may want to look at this further for the next release since it will use the URL to the blog site vs. the URL to the WP installation.
Here is the change I made to “alo-easymail.php”
In the “ALO_em_send_activation_email” function I changed: $content .= get_option ('siteurl') . "/?page_id=". get_option('ALO_em_subsc_page'). "&ac=activate&em1=" . $div_email[0] . "&em2=" . $div_email[1] . "&uk=" . $unikey . "\r\n";to$content .= get_option ('home') . "/?page_id=". get_option('ALO_em_subsc_page'). "&ac=activate&em1=" . $div_email[0] . "&em2=" . $div_email[1] . "&uk=" . $unikey . "\r\n";
Many thanks John for your tests and suggestions! I’ll keep them in mind for next release.
Dimitry:
13 febbraio 2010 alle 08:19
I would like to know how to wrap the [POST-TITLE] with Links to the Post Page?
Thanks!
alo:
13 febbraio 2010 alle 12:16
Hi Dimitry, you should open ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘ and replace line 114 with this one: // TAG: [POST-TITLE]
if ($pID) { $updated_content = str_replace("[POST-TITLE]", "<a href='".get_permalink($obj_post->ID). "'>".$obj_post->post_title."</a>", $updated_content);
} else {
$updated_content = str_replace("[POST-TITLE]", "", $updated_content);
}
Ovi:
13 febbraio 2010 alle 13:12
Oh man, if only someone would make the widget XHTML valid…
Apart from that, it is an awesome widget
patti:
14 febbraio 2010 alle 20:17
how do I get the from line in the email to be something like Ride 52 Club?
alo:
15 febbraio 2010 alle 10:40
Hi patti, if I undestood you question, you can modify the “from” email in ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘, lines 63 and 67.
William:
16 febbraio 2010 alle 09:31
Hello. I tryed to send an email out, but when the popup box comes up, it tells me it could not send it to anyone. I was using the list and a manual email address. Please tell me if there is something that I am doing wrong or need to change.
William:
16 febbraio 2010 alle 09:36
Also when I try to sign up as a non reg. member, I get this error “Error during sending: please try again.” When is the problem?
PeppezZ:
16 febbraio 2010 alle 16:50
Ciao alessandro, volevo sapere come fare se voglio inserire un testo nel widget prima dei 2 label “name” e “email”
Hasti:
17 febbraio 2010 alle 05:14
Hello Alo..
I want to know that is their an option to used your plugins on separate pages rather use as widget. I want to display the subscription on footer.
Hasti:
17 febbraio 2010 alle 05:16
Hello Alo:
Is their option to download the all subscriber and registered user data or to export to csv file.
patti:
17 febbraio 2010 alle 07:18
thanks, got that. now I installed wordpress 2.9.2 and I get an error message when I hit the send button and nothing goes through.
object doesn’t support property or method
line 152
character 5
by the way I really love this plugin
alo:
17 febbraio 2010 alle 09:08
Busy days for me… I’ll test the plugin on WP 2.9.2 and I’ll answer questions soon as possible
PeppezZ:
17 febbraio 2010 alle 11:19
la mia è una domanda + semplice
alo:
18 febbraio 2010 alle 21:36
Ciao PeppezZ, il testo lo puoi aggiungere nel file ‘alo-easymail-widget.php’ prima all’incirca della riga 129.
patti:
18 febbraio 2010 alle 22:14
Don’t mean to bug you but any ideas? Your easymail is just perfect for what I want to do.. PLEEASSSEEE.
I tried looking through the php to see if I could figure it out but I don’t know what all of that stuff means. something about explode on line 152 but I’m not even sure if I’m in the right file. it say aloeasymail main but that didn’t seem to make sense. I would think it would be in the action file.
I Really Really like your plugin.
alo:
18 febbraio 2010 alle 22:49
Hi William: can you tell me more info about your WP installation? and, if you can access it, try to view the server log.
Hi Patti, I made a quick test on a local 2.9.2 installation and the plugin didn’t give error. I’ll do more tests in a few days. Did you try on many browsers? Always error?
patti:
19 febbraio 2010 alle 00:33
It does work. what’s happening is that they are being blocked by the spam filter for one of my servers.
I can get the message through on another servers email. is there a way to make the newsletter email less spamish?
alo:
20 febbraio 2010 alle 15:15
mmm, at the moment I don’t know. I’ll read about that… all suggestions are welcome.
But the output the will be:
href = 3D'http://sv-niederhofen.de/2010/02/20/ah-termine/'
Where does the “3D” come from?
Thx, Tobi
alo:
25 febbraio 2010 alle 20:33
Hi Tobi, I have no idea about this strange “3D”… Be sure to digit the new code as you see on screen, not making copy and paste (otherwise you could paste strange html chars). And then, did you modify other parts of the plugin?
the problem seems to be that when I post “=” in the main body, the recipients will get an “=3D”.
And yes, I modified or better augmented your plugin by a new tag [POST-LINK]. But that’s not the reason.
alo:
27 febbraio 2010 alle 10:36
Mmm… I found that “3d” is the code of equal sign (=) in a lot of encodings (see here). So you have some problems during encoding. The newsletter now uses UTF-8 charset, but maybe you can change it and see what happens: open ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘ and modify the line 69 with another charset (eg. first of all use the line 68 instead 69 for iso charset).
amit:
3 marzo 2010 alle 18:32
Fantastic plugin, you did a great job……….Keep it up!!!!!!!
I was wondering if there was a way to change the sending email address. I have multiple sites on a parent directory and when I use you plugin people see a sender email address (one from the parent directory) that they are not familiar with.
All the best
alo:
3 marzo 2010 alle 22:37
Hi Joseph, you can can modify the “from” email in ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘, lines 63 and 67.
I love this plugin. It’s just what I needed. For some reason my emails sent to Yahoo accounts are going into the spam folder though. Do you know if there’s anything I can do to fix that?
aaron:
4 marzo 2010 alle 18:39
Is there a way to make it default on “YES” instead of “NO” on the users profile page? Where do I edit the php code?
aaron2:
4 marzo 2010 alle 19:23
Actually, how can I make it so whenever anyone registers for our blog they are automatically added to the newsletter?
Hi!
I don;t know anything about programing and was looking for a plugin where readers can sign up to a newsletter. I thought that your plugin in did the job. I installed it but on the screen there is nowhere to add in email address !?!?!
Also, how do i send a mail to all the people that have subscribed (and stop others from sending out emails. )Please explain simply.
Thanks
Ben
alo:
7 marzo 2010 alle 15:27
About some emails going to spam… it depends the plugin was born to send only few emails, then it became useful to send newsletter. So, in future releases I’ll try to resolve the problem introducing some kind of fractioned sending.
About subscription… the plugin allow people to add their email addresses to newsletter using the widget. You can’t add new subscribers in backend, but you can send newsletters to non-subscribers adding a list of email addresses as recipients (the 2nd field of plugin’s sending page). To send to your subscribers choose this kind of recipients in the first select field of plugin’s sending page.
aaron2:
8 marzo 2010 alle 00:57
Hello, great plugin I have a question, how can we use the FCKEditor as our newsletter WYSIWYG editor?
I have the plugin installed on my blog and it’s working when I make blog post’s but it doesn’t replace the ALO newsletter editor.
Can this work?
Don:
9 marzo 2010 alle 23:17
Hi, Your plugin is great. Is there a way to import a list of email into it the Alo EasyMail database? Thanks!
Don
alo:
10 marzo 2010 alle 09:29
Hi, you can add (and save) a list of emails into a field of sending page. Intead, if you’d like to add subscribers into database, you have to work on database directly: use phpmyadmin (or similar app) stored on your web site server, or use a plugin like ‘WP-phpMyAdmin’ or ‘Portable phpMyAdmin’.
hi I just tried your plugins i love it but have some question How many email in mail list I can send at a time Because I’ve tired around 15000 subscriber in my email lists and after I CLICK Send Button my Pop Up window show nothing
Is that I have to wait?
alo:
11 marzo 2010 alle 20:27
Hi, for 15000 emails I think you have to wait quite a lot… Leave the popup open and let it works. Mmm… maybe the script could take too much time and stops because reaching the max execution time permitted by the server.
I’ve tried others plugins before yours such as Subscribe2,G-Lock Double Opt-in, and many many ….now I’m trying Newsletter but not like your plugins I Think Easy Mail ’s a nice Subscriber panel easy to manage and send and if you add more Option in the next release like cron job to send 2 times a day or once a day or one per week or per post or per 5 post and…more it’ll perfect!
alo:
12 marzo 2010 alle 22:17
Ok, Aon, good idea. I’ll update the plugin as soon as I can, stay tuned
Hi Alo, I have another question about the script. Recently I’ve noticed certain email addresses are being rejected as “not correct”. An example of one was
“first_last@college.edu”. I’m guessing that the “edu” is causing the issue since I tried entering several addresses with “_” and it is accepted. Is there a switch in the script somewhere to allow the “.edu”? Thanks!
I think I solved this issue by editing the alo-easymail-widget.php script. You had an email format check statement as follows:
if (!ereg(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”, trim($_POST['alo_em_opt_email']) )) {
$error_on_adding .= “The e-email address is not correct.”;
}
I changed the “!ereg” at the beginning of the statement to “!eregi” and can now enter domain extensions other than .com, .net, .org.
Thank’s for this great extenstion. I have a site who’s running Wordpress and Prestashop. I use easymail to send mass mailing to our subcribers. Il it possible to get the form from easymail for include it as html in another application like prestashop ?
alo:
15 marzo 2010 alle 18:58
Hi alain, sorry but I never used prestashop so I don’t know how difficult could be merge easymail and prestashop.
In Firefox, the plugin show up as “Yes, i would like to receive th newsletter” or “No, please do not email me” – I choose “Yes”, and nothing happens.
In IE, it shows up as a subscribing form, asking name and email, and it works, after submission, I receive the message telling the submission is done, to look for the confirmation link.
- Does the plugin have different ways to work, according to the navigator?
This morning I tested the plugin and sent an email for myself – it’s been over 4 hours and I didn’t receive anything, so as the confirmation link, it hasn’t arrived… what could be happening?
Thank’s for your attention!
alo:
17 marzo 2010 alle 18:32
Hi Cynthia. About your 1st doubt, in that case the difference is not the browser, but I think if you are logged in (in Firefox) or not (in IE). To let “yes”/”no” buttons work your browser must have javascript turned on.
About the email on late, I don’t know, it could be a spam filter or some server issue. Make more tests to understand if it was only a single case.
Gee, I didn’t realize I was logged in at FF and off at IE! Thank’s for the tip!
About the late emails, so far nothing has come at my domain, I received at my gmail… I’m logged at the webmail, not using email clients, and the spam is off… Well, it works, later I’ll try to figure out what’s happening with my emails!
Thank’s, your plugin is great!
I
lenzjo:
18 marzo 2010 alle 15:47
I am creating a “coming soon” type of theme. It has only one page (index.php). I saw your plugin and thought that it’s perfect for the theme, but I am running into a problem.
I have set up a widget area and can see and use the widget. If I enter a name and email, it sends of the opt in email with the link. The problem is if I click that link all I see is the index.php page. The link is correct as it points to:
The plugin has created the “Newsletter Subscription” page with an id of 114, and it has the “[ALO-EASYMAIL-PAGE]” shortcode on it. But even in the Admin area if I click view the index.php page is displayed.
As a test I created a template page twice, both with and without the post loop in them, but then either way I don’t get any of the code that should be generated by the shortcode.
When I go to the Admin Subscribers page the new user is there but not active.
I am testing all this on a local server (XAMMP) and am using WP 2.9.2, any ideas how to get it working?
thx
alo:
19 marzo 2010 alle 10:43
Hi lenzjo. So you are testing on a local sever. Viewing your activation link, the path of your WP installation seems to be in your root: http://myproject.local/
is it correct? or maybe it’s in a subdirectory, so the path should be something like “http://myproject.local/wordpress/”?
In this case the hack suggested by john could be help you (see his comments on 6 february in this page).
Or maybe are you using WP MU? The plugin is not tested on it.
lenzjo:
19 marzo 2010 alle 12:57
Hi alo,
I’m running virtual hosts so that I can have multiple projects on the go at the same time and I’m using plain old WP 2.9.2
I eventually got it working properly last nite. The problem was that though I had created a template for the “Newsletter Subscription” page, it seemed very fussy about what should be in the template.
I noticed in these comments that someone was asking about a XHTML valid version of the plugin. I hope you don’t mind, I’ve converted the subscribe forms so my version now validates, and I am now going thru the rest of the code to see if there’s any other invalid stuff in there.
Also I would like to move the various pages to under one heading on the Admin Dashboard as I keep forgetting where the different pages are.
Great Plug-in. Can you create some documentation? Also, the function on the user profile page, even if I set it to “Yes” it always reverts to “No”. Is this a known bug? What is it supposed to do, add the user to the subscribers list? For me it does not seem to do anything. Suggestions: The ability to add manually to subscribers page would be nice. An import into the subscribers list would be nice. Multiple templates would be nice as well. Thank you for the great plug in!
I think I solved this issue by editing the alo-easymail-widget.php script. You had an email format check statement as follows:
if (!ereg(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”, trim($_POST['alo_em_opt_email']) )) {
$error_on_adding .= “The e-email address is not correct.”;
}
I changed the “!ereg” at the beginning of the statement to “!eregi” and can now enter domain extensions other than .com, .net, .org.
The problem with this is that the ” ereg ” function series is deprecated as of PHP 5.2.5 and will eventually stop working.
It has been replaced with ” preg ” which has been running in parallel for some time – since at least PHP 4.2 therefore you need to upgrade these sections of the code sooner rather than later, to reduce future support requests.
Great looking plugin by the way – I’m just about to test drive it on a couple of new sites.
Add my voice to the people calling for the batch quantity and sleep period to be configurable in the admin panel.
Also for the configurable period for sending digest emails of latest posts (daily, weekly, whenever)
Many thanks
Gaz
alo:
2 aprile 2010 alle 09:45
Hi Eric, many thanks for your ideas and suggestions. The option yes/no in the user profile page should add/delete user’s subscription to the newsletter.
Hi Gaz, thank you for your explain, I’ll surely keep in mind for the next release.
I’m working on it: I will fix bugs and include a configurable cron batch (something like: x mails every y minutes).
I have installed this on a Wordpress Default 1.6 theme template. I get the message it is activated but I cannot get the widget to display on my site.
Can you help me please? Im new to WP, more used to Joomla, but Im preferring WP so far.
Stevie
alo:
2 aprile 2010 alle 22:07
Hi Stephen. Did you go to Appareance – Widget to add easymail widget? In that page can you see the widget in the list?
Many thanks for considering my input – your plug in looks great but it does desperately need the “batch sending” or “mail throttling” feature (as do all similar plugins and softwares nowadays due to increasingly tighter and tighter limits on how many emails per hour/day that hosting services allow.
I’ve also noticed a move by hosting services to a “double limit” on how many emails can be sent and it contains a trap for the unwary. Examples – one of the hosts I use allows 200 emails per hour but a maximum of 2000 per day (200 x 24 hours = 4,800 so your daily limit is only 40% of the hourly limit). Another states 300 per hour but 3000 per day (300 x 24 = 7200 so again, only 48% of the hourly limit).
The algorithm you use for the sending limits should therefore be based on the daily limit, not the hourly one, and should aim to spread the sending batch based on the dily limit calculated per hour/minute, not on the hourly limit which is used for headline advertising by the hosting companies.
Hope it helps
Gaz
alo:
3 aprile 2010 alle 14:51
Hi Gaz, your help is welcome and very useful! As you suggest I think I could prepare 2 configurable options: an emails/hour limit and a emails/day limit. Then, starting with these 2 params, the batch will send X emails every Y minutes to cover the hour limit and to not exceed the day limit. Could it work? Thanks a lot for your help.
Hi Alo
Yes, that’s one way to do it, but be careful of time-outs or a system that needs the user to keep their browser open on the send page until all emails have been sent. I know that’s a problem many of the WP plugins have had.
I’d recommend only configuring for the daily limit, and let the software do the maths behind the scenes – include a help tip warning that the daily limit is not 24x the advertised hourly rate – make the user check with their host to get the daily limit.
Also use a help tip that they need to think about other emails from their site(s) too – e.g. user registration confirmation emails etc. They need to keep an allowance aside for those. If they have a 2000 per day limit, they should probably not allocate more than say 1800 (90%) to newsletters – if they have high signup rates, or have ecommerce pages that process orders and payments, they need to allocate less.
Remember to use the “sleep” function for mail sending – pausing between small batches rather than dumping the single hour’s allocation in one blast – if it coincides with an RSS fetch and a few heavy page views, the user’s server allowance could hit the red line and their account get suspended, if doing once per hour mail dumps.
At 1800 mails per day, that’s 150 per hour = one every 24 seconds – - – much better to figure a way to do that as a steady outgoing, than to dump 150 emails in a batch once per hour.
Remember too that the big webmail hosts (AOL, Google, Hotmail etc) hammer your spam rating if you put too many emails per hour INTO them – if you can figure out a filter to keep say 5-10 minutes between each send to the same domain name, then that would be a bonus (especially with Hotmail and MSN). If you’re working via SendMail rather than SMTP, I think SendMail has a queue-by-domain-name option in its backend somewhere …. or, I might have that the wrong way round, and it might be SMTP that has it – either way, one of them does – MS Exchange Server draws on it heavily.
Sorry to dump a lot of different things on you, but they do need thinking about, and unfortunately (or fortunately – LOL) not all WordPress users are web or email experts, and “plugin addiction” is a real problem for some “webmasters”.
I like this plugin. But I would like to see the ability to include multiple posts in one newsletter. maybe an option to include the newest post from each category. It would be nice to see it include more then one post per e-mail.
Options for controlling which posts are added and where would be great too.
I have a long list of email adresses that I need to get into my database, but that part is not a big worry for me. When I look in the database table there is the value of Unikey that is unique for each user. I tried and added one name with a copied value from a registered user which seems to work fine.
My question, is this a value that is needed or can it be left blank? If it’s needed must it be unique or not.
Best regards and thank you for a great plugin!
//Thomas
alo:
7 aprile 2010 alle 15:20
Adding multiple posts in one newsletter is a good idea, like a “digest”. It’s in the “todo” list.
The unikey is a random string. It’s fundamental when a subscriber must activate or delete his subscription: the unikey is in the activation or unsubscribe link he clicks and it must match with unikey stored in database for this subscriber.
Ciao.
complimenti per il tuo ottimo plugin, lo sto provando su un sito di un mio amico…
Ho però un piccolo intoppo: il sito in questione è multilingue.
Utilizzo il plugin WPML, che permette di postare un articolo per ogni lungua. Facendo così succede che non riesco ad inviare mail con l’ultimo post pubblicato…
In parole povere mi sarebbe utile, come primo passo , la possibilita di raggruppare gli utenti “iscritti” in gruppi. in modo da poter inviare mail in lingua differente. La selezione della lingua da parte del sottoscrittore, potrebbe essere una naturale conseguenza, ma per il momento mi accontenterei della possibilità di raggrupparli a mano.
Pensi sia facilmente realizzabile?
Grazie ciao.
Vik
Ok, thanks now I understand what the purpose of unikey is.
But I don’t understand if it needs to be one unique key per user or if many users can use the same unikey.
Also if I create the user via phpmyadmin will he/she be able to unregister later?
//T
alo:
13 aprile 2010 alle 14:31
The key could not be unique, but in this case anyone could activate subscription or – more dangerous – unsubscribe only using a link with an email address and the same unikey (see the link to click in activation mail or unsubscribe link in the newsletter to understand how activation/unsubscription links work).
Jacob:
13 aprile 2010 alle 18:07
How can I add an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email? When I first installed the plugin it had a template where I could use that dropdown to include text/images in messages. After I messed with creating a custom template that feature no longer works. Is there a way to reset the template to the original? I even tried deleting and reactivating it.
Thanks! This is the best plugin i’ve found for mailing from wordpress.
alo:
14 aprile 2010 alle 07:58
You can find the original template is in easymail.php, line 42. Here you are: Hi [USER-NAME],<br /><br />
I have published a new post <strong>[POST-TITLE]</strong>.<br />[POST-EXCERPT]<br />Please visit my site [SITE-LINK] to read it and leave your comment about it.<br />
Hope to see you online!<br /><br />[SITE-LINK]
The plugin should add an unsubscribe link at the bottom of newsletter (only when recipients are subscribers).
I was wondering when the option of ‘x mails every y minutes’ came available. I really like the newsletter program, however i cannot use it now on my server.
Please can you tell me when the update is available?
invio in corso...
Image attachment worked in WP 2.7 but it’s not working in WP2.8.4
Any idea why?
Thank you for this nice plugin.
I’ll test it and try to fix it, if possible.
Thank you fot the report and for the feedback.
EDIT: I release a new version (0.9.1) that – I hope – fixes this problem.
Hi, alo. I just want to know whether i can compose with chinese. Thank u very much
Hi Daniel, I suppose it’s possible: you have to insert chinese characters in main content’s editor and send. I’ve just tried pasting some chinese words and It seems to work – even if I haven”t understood what I’ve sent…
Hi, great plugin…
However, can you change the alo-easymail_action.php file (line 112ish) so that is uses wp-mail() instead of mail()?
Many users have problems with the php mail system and are using the ‘WP Mail SMTP’ plugin to overcome these issues (see plugin page for details). The WP Mail SMTP plugin changes the wp-mail() function to use SMTP properly which is great unless other plugins use mail() and not wp-mail() whereupon those plugins fail.
I have changed my file but hope you will too so that any future updates dont break my site!
Many thanks
Gyro
Hi Gyro, thank you for the suggestion. Surely I’ll include it in next release.
Hi…
i’m having the same problem with the images like “habacuque” did.
i tried to send emails to several contacts and the images that i inclued in the emails are not shown, just some of them. But in most of cases only the title of the image is shown in the email. I find it a little weird since a picture or two can been seen and the rest is not (all pictures are .jpg)
But congratulations since it’s the only plugin i’ve found that allows me to input non-subscribers emails (the rest of the plugins have lots of errors).
For last i would be nice to have a way to save the contacts or create a list of contacts inside the plugin so we don’t have to write the emails over and over…it’s just an idea
Hi Luis, if I understood right your problem is different from habacuque’s. Try using other image formats (gif, png) to check if the problem is in your jpgs.
As for saving list of contacts I’m thinking about it and I’ll add it in the next release.
Many thanks for your comments.
Hi again. I tried to change the format of my images to gif and png and it still doesn’t show them. i tried to send emails using Firefox and IE and it’s the same. I noticied that when i insert any kind of pictures and when they are open in the email that i’ve send, they are shown only for 1 second and then disapear and the only thing that appears (has said before) is the image file name. could it be the theme? but it never showed me any errors and your plugin works perfectly except the images.
sorry for being so annoying but your plugin is a “most-have”, it’s perfect
well see ya and hope you can help me
Hi Luis. Did you try viewing sent emails with different email clients? (eg. outlook, evolution, online account such as gmail, hotmail…). Maybe it could be just a visualisation setup of your client. By next week I’ll do tests. Thank you, I really appreciate.
EDIT: new version (0.9.2) released: added wp_mail() function and the option to save emails’s list. Let me know your feedback!
hi Alo
i don’t know what you did but…it’s working now. i used several images and they all worked (in hotmail, outlook and gmail).
Also thanks for the save emails list….it’s the best. and it’s working
keep up the good work.
it’s the best wordpress email plugin EVER!!!!!
Great Plugin – sends emails without a problem. However, how do I stop wordpress from reformatting the html email sent to the user? It adds a ridiculous amount of tags. Even when I put all html on one line, WP automatically reformats it so there are extra breaks in the email.
I also tried disabling autop plugins, but they didn’t help.
It was the plugin inserting the breaks into the html rather than wordpress. I removed the insertion and it is working better.
Maybe there are some breaks fot the POST-EXCERPT tag… I’ll fix in next release. Thank you for the suggestion
Alo,
Thanks for such a great plug-in.
My host only lets me send 500 emails per hour, so I added a line in aol-easymail_action.php right after:
// SEND EMAIL TO EACH RECIPIENT
foreach ($recipients as $recipient) {
>>> I Added this >>> sleep(8);
so the script will only send one email every 8 seconds (450 per hour).
I have to leave the window open until the script is done, (I think?) but at least I won’t get in trouble with my host.
Maybe in later versions you could make this configurable?
Thanks again for such a great plugin.
Cheers!
Hi Bart, there is already a sleep function in alo-easymail_action.php, maybe you should setup it. See at line 128:
if ( ($r % 50) == 0) {so you can modify how many seconds (default: 10) and every many emails (default: 50).sleep(10); // every n° sent wait a little
}
It’s a good idea to make this sleep configurable, thank you.
Hi, I was wondering if you’re interested in publish on your blog Polish translation of Alo EasyMail. I can do it for you to help you get more fans ^^
If you’re interested, jest give me a sign on my e-mail twoj[at]email.com
Ciao Alo,
Ho scoperto il tu plugin ed e fantastico.
For the rest of the reader i will foloow in english.
One question :
First time i used it, the plugin send the email with template of our site like a post. But now it is not the case, it’s like a Plain Text mail. Why I don’t know.
Second : All mails send are receipt 8 times. Do you have an idea why ? Is the sleep delay that is too short or too long ?
PS : Se vuoi posso fare la traduzione del plugin in francese (FRENCH).
Yssen & PlanetWiFi, thanks a lot for your helpfulness to translate the plugin! I’ll remind myself in future, sure.
PlanetWiFi, about your first issue, be careful when switching editor (visual – html). About second one, the sleep delay should work properly: check your registered users and added recipients and try to make more tests. Let me know.
Il sistema di gestione e-mail funziona ma ha molte lacune specie nella gestione delle liste. Però gli altri plugin wordpress o sono più scarsi o non sono aggiornati, questo fa di Alo uno delle poche alternaive possibili
thank you so much for this plugin. you are a genius. lessen the hassle.
hello again,
once again I’ve come to give you some new ideas for this plugin.
since the beginning of it’s release I’ve been using it for the sending of newsletters of a private health club and a judo club (has you can see i use it for professional ways) and it’s been working 200% =D once again congratulations for the good job.
but every time i use it I’ve been having troubles for controlling the huge number of emails I have in my plugin list. so I thought It would be of great help having an option of inputing in the plugin an email list option…kind of like it’s use in conventional email services (a list with the name of the person and email where we can add-remove name and email). its great to be able to save the emails in the template but could be even better for us to control the email list options.
a big thanks and i hope you can help
Hi,
I was looking for an email newsletter for my site and yours had 90% of what I wanted. I have made the following additions and changes:
1. Added widget to allow a registered user to optin/out.
2. Added the optin/out option to the user’s profile.
3. Added an option to the ALO Easymail settings to allow editors to send email.
4. Added a [USER-FIRST-NAME] tag for message insertion.
I think that these would make a great addition to your plugin and am happy to send you the code if you were to send me an email address or site where I can upload it.
Cheers,
Greg.
BTW I amd from Australia and only know English.
Hi Greg, many thanks for your job. I sent you a mail.
Albaicín a good plugin.
it is possible to use the entire post content with correct formatting in the newsletter?
best thanks
@ u
I really like this plugin, and I realize it’s not intended to be a newsletter plugin but easy emailing. However, I’m trying to send a bulk email to my site’s subscriber’s list, and this plugin is about 90% of what I’d like to do (like the above poster said). Right now I don’t mind copying and pasting the email addresses (comma separated of course) into the box and then send a mass email to the recipients. However, I can’t get your plug in to send an email at all. A few days ago I could, but now I keep getting this message:
“Inserted inputs are incompled or wrong. Please check and try again.”
I try clicking on generic email, and I’ve tried for specific posts. I’ve tried a lot of different ways of sending this email out (I’ve been trying just on my own email first to try isolating the problem).
What am I doing wrong? I seemed to have no problem whatsoever two days ago when I tried this. Now, it doesn’t seem to matter what I try differently I constantly get that error message.
Also, I’m not a web designer or expert on these things, so please have some patience with me! I follow instructions and look for sites like this to figure out problems I’m having with plugins, but can’t figure this one out so I’m asking.
I think you designed a great plugin, I just would like to be able to use it!
Thanks for help.
ps: I also want to send personal items. also a pity that only the admin can send mails. even better if the admin could choose to have items in writing to be sent automatically.
First of all, many thanks to Greg! I’m testing his work and it’ll help me to prepare an important update. So, I hope to release a new version, maybe in week or two.
@ kummod:
Using the entire post content is a good idea. I’ll try to include in next release, or soon as possible.
@ Steve:
From what you say maybe the problem could be in the input fields. Remember to insert the subject each time before sending (a reload could clean the field) because it’s mandatory. And then check all email addresses of your list. There is an error not only if not comma separated, but also if only one address is formally wrong (it lacks the @ or the full stop before domain and so on).
And many thanks to all the people who are contributing to the plugin with comments, tests, suggestions…
Thanks for responding to my comment, however, I’ve tried those ideas already and still can’t send e-mails; if I put a list in the box where you insert your own list of addresses. I’m only able to make it work if I send it to registered users…
I was using the Subscribe2 plugin and accumulated a list of email addresses so far, and when I enter the CSV list of that into the box, all of them have a comma following them. I also went through each address and deleted a few incorrect email addresses and still get the problem. And yes, the subject field is filled in.
Does it matter if the email addresses are separated onto a new line? I tried a few of my own email accounts this way and it worked, but with this longer list I can’t pinpoint what the problem could be.
Hi Steve. The addresses list must use comma as separator to work properly. I’ve made some quick tests with new line as separator and it seems to work, but it’s not designed for that and I can’t guarantee it works.
Then try pasting the addresses from CSV to a simple text editor (such as notepad), delete anything you don’t need (such as tabs, paragraph, other symbols…) to obtain a list with only addresses and commas, and finally paste in the list field of the plugin.
Thanks for the prompt reply alo,
Unfortunately, I already copied and pasted my CSV to a text editor, and then copied and pasted from that. All of the addresses are separated by a comma, but go onto the next line. So I have even just tried hitting the backspace button to make a large sample test list to not have be separated by lines but just commas–including the incorrect email addresses removed. Still get the error message…
Thanks for the help, but I’ve tried making this work for days and can’t figure out what’s wrong with any of the 100 email addresses in my test list. When I try one address at a time, no problem, and I don’t think I want to sit down and manually try each address until I find ones that are incorrect. Based on your instructions, I can’t find anymore incorrect email addresses to remove…
I’d really like to salvage all the email addresses that users have submitted using the Subscribe2 plugin, since that list is substantially larger than the number of registered users on my site (that the plug allows me to send to with no problem!).
Thanks for the help,
Best of luck
On the widget, the text is not legible as my theme has a dark background. How can I change the text color on the widget?
Hi Hugh, you can modify the font color in ‘alo-easymail-widget.php’: line 128 (error) and 145 (success). In future I’ll add more options to customise.
UPDATE:
I told you about feedback messages but I forgot the widget text, sorry…
You have to modify the font color in other 2 lines of ‘alo-easymail-widget.php’: line 110 and 129.
Bot start with:
$html = "<form name= ...you have to insert a style attribute (eg.: style=’color:#fff’) at the end of the line, before html closing tag (>).
So the new 110 will be:
$html = "<form name='alo_easymail_widget_form' method='post' action='{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}' style='color:#fff'>\n";the new 129:
$html .= "<form name='alo_easymail_widget_form' method='post' action='{$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']}' style='color:#fff'>\n";Hi,
I am on WordPress ver 2.9.1 and have just installed Alo Easy Mail. I have 2 difficulties.
1. The Newletter Sunscription page does not appewar. I get a message “Sorry, but you cannot enter the requested page.” even though the page appears in the WordPress admin under pages.
2. None of the emails that Alo Easy mail generates seem to get posted, even though when I try sending a test newletter the popup indicates delivery OK (with a green tick). (My installation of WP seems to send out emails OK when people register using the built in WP register widget)
I would be grateful for any help, but I am a WP newbie!
rgds Jim
Hi Jim, about your issues:
1. the subscription page cannot be always viewed as a normal page, but can be viewed only by subscribers when activing/deleting subscription: so, if you try to see this page you cannot enter it (you can enter it only you do have an email address to activate/delete and personal key: see the links in the activation-email/newsletter).
2. I’ve tried again on my WP 2.9.1 and it seems to work. Try to subscribe a new email address, activate it and test again.
Ciao Alo, ho installato questa sera il tuo plugin perchè ho un sito in wordpress che non richiede iscrizione però vorrei cmq che gli utenti si possano registrare alla newsletter. Detto questo ho un problema, cioè funziona tutto, però i campi per iserire il nome, l’indirizzo mail e il relativo pulsante di iscrizione non vengono visualizzati nel widget, di conseguenza non è possibile effettuare la registrazione. Vengono invece visualizzate le due frasi che l’utente deve spuntare x scegliere se iscriversi o meno.
Uso wordpress versione 2.9.1.
Sai dirmi come posso fare?
Grazie
Stavo controllando il tuo codice e mi è parso di capire che il tuo widget dovrebbe essere largo 300…io però non ho tutta questa larghezza nella mia sidebar..forse è per questo che non vedo tutto. Ho inserito un formail in un frame della home page e volendo potrei fare la stessa cosa per il tuo modulo di iscrizione però quale tuo file.php devo richiamare x vederlo operativo nel frame?
Grazie
Ciao Alby, credo di aver capito il punto. Il widget si comporta in due modi diversi se sei un utente registrato (compreso tu come admin) o un visitatore non registrato.
Nel primo caso ti mostra quello che hai visto tu: i due combo per scegliere se ricevere la newsletter. Nel secondo caso mostra i due campi (nome e email) per iscriversi.
Forse semplicemente tu sei sempre loggato come admin e quindi vedi solo e sempre la versione per utenti registrati: prova a fare il logout e dovresti vedere la versione per non-registrati.
Ciao Alo, si in effetti io entro sempre come admin anche perchè stò ancora ultimando il sito e ci lavoro sempre come “loggato”. Ora mi hai messo un piccolo dubbio..ovvero il mio sito non richiede nessuna iscrizione, cioè non obbliga gli utenti ad eseguire nessuna login. Vorrei semplicemente che qualsiasi utente si possa però iscrivere alla newsletter per ricevere gli aggiornamenti senza doversi necessariamente registrare al sito. Quindi in teoria mi servirebbe che i campi di registrazione alla newsletter fossero separati dalla registrazione al sito rimanendo sempre visibili x chiunque.
Mi sembrava che il tuo plugin permettesse l’iscrizione anche ai non loggati però forse mi sono confuso. Se mi togli questo dubbio mi faresti un favore.
A presto
Si, avevi capito bene: qualsiasi visitatore può iscriversi alla newsletter inserendo email e nome nel widget, senza registrarsi come utente.
Invece un utente registrato e loggato nel widget non vedrà il form di registrazione ma la combo (si/no) come vedi tu se stai loggato come admin.
Grazie Alo..tutto perfettissimo e funzionante. Ho fatto tutte le prove del caso. Infatti non essendoci la login al sito gli utenti vedranno sempre i campi x iscriversi alla newsletter.
Sai cosa sarebbe bello? Poter inserire il tuo widget in un box (o frame) nel corpo della home page come ho già fatto per un formail. Questo per dare + corpo alla home page e ridurre in lunghezza la sidebar con i widget.
A volte troppi widget danno troppo quel senso “bloggoso”, mentre il sito che stò facendo è molto funzionale con maggior importanza alla parte centrale della home page.
Tu dici che sarebbe possibile inserire la funzionalità del tuo widget piuttosto che sulla sidebar nell’homepage?
Scusami x le mille domande ma il tuo plugin è il migliore di tutti e vorrei usarlo nel mio sito
Grazie ancora.
Hi Alo,
I installed v1.5 in WP 2.9.1 and put the widget on the sidebar. To test the installation I subscribed and when I received the activation email I clicked on the link and received an error 404 loading the “Newsletter Subscription” page. I tried this with two different sites one worked and created the “Newsletter Subscription” page but the other didn’t.
Are there any permissions that I need to be concerned with?
Nice plugin…
Hi John, try to re-activate the plugin, it should create the newsletter subscription page on activation. Let me know.
I’ve tried to deactivate/reactivate and still not getting the newsletter subscription page.
On activation does the plugin create an easymail table in database? If not, try to delete plugin files and reinstall it. If yes, maybe it’s only a problem with the option value of subscription page. In ‘wp_options’ table of your database look for the option called ‘ALO_em_subsc_page’. Its value should be the subscription page ID: they should match each other. Anyway, delete this option and re-activate plugin. If the plugin doesn’t find an existing page it will create a new one, with a new correct ID.
That worked sir
Thank you very much for your time and again, you’ve created a very nice plugin here.
ciao,
John
I’ll take that back, I now have my newsletter subscription page but when I clicked on the link to activate the registration I got a 404 page now found again.
Here is the site if you’d like to try and register, you will receive an activation email and when I clicked on it I get the 404.
http://www.mentabolism.com
I see the easymail_subscribers table added to the db and now the newsletter subscription page is in my page list. I can click on it and view it and I get the message “Sorry, but you cannot enter the requested page” but when I try to click back on an activation link after subscribing this is when I’m getting the 404. I checked the options table for ‘ALO_em_subsc_page’ and the option value is set correctly to the subscription page ID.
Alo, I noticed the following as I did some testing tonight.
When I receive my activation email I receive the following link
http://mentabolism.com/blog/?page_id=212&ac=activate&em1=jmacmull&em2=blah.com&uk=123samplekey
This returned a 404 error page not found
I made the following change to the activation link removed “blog” and pasted this in a browser window and my subscription was activated and I landed on the newsletter subscription page, the following worked.
http://mentabolism.com/?page_id=212&ac=activate&em1=jmacmull&em2=blah.com&uk=123samplekey
Where do you get the URL for building the activation message? When you retrieve this do you know if it’s the wordpress address, where wordpress is installed or if it is the blog address based on reference to general settings?
My wp install is in my root/blog directory and in my root directory have redirect setup in my .htaccess.
Hi Alo,
Here’s the change that I made that is working with my installation, you may want to look at this further for the next release since it will use the URL to the blog site vs. the URL to the WP installation.
Here is the change I made to “alo-easymail.php”
In the “ALO_em_send_activation_email” function I changed:
$content .= get_option ('siteurl') . "/?page_id=". get_option('ALO_em_subsc_page'). "&ac=activate&em1=" . $div_email[0] . "&em2=" . $div_email[1] . "&uk=" . $unikey . "\r\n";to$content .= get_option ('home') . "/?page_id=". get_option('ALO_em_subsc_page'). "&ac=activate&em1=" . $div_email[0] . "&em2=" . $div_email[1] . "&uk=" . $unikey . "\r\n";Hi Alo,
One more change in the unsubscribe and I think that’s everything…
file alo-easymail_action.php
unsubscribe section
$updated_content .= "<a href='".get_option ('siteurl') . "/?page_id=". get_option('ALO_em_subsc_page');to$updated_content .= "<a href='".get_option ('home') . "/?page_id=". get_option('ALO_em_subsc_page');Many thanks John for your tests and suggestions! I’ll keep them in mind for next release.
I would like to know how to wrap the [POST-TITLE] with Links to the Post Page?
Thanks!
Hi Dimitry, you should open ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘ and replace line 114 with this one:
// TAG: [POST-TITLE]if ($pID) {
$updated_content = str_replace("[POST-TITLE]", "<a href='".get_permalink($obj_post->ID). "'>".$obj_post->post_title."</a>", $updated_content);
} else {
$updated_content = str_replace("[POST-TITLE]", "", $updated_content);
}
Oh man, if only someone would make the widget XHTML valid…
Apart from that, it is an awesome widget
how do I get the from line in the email to be something like Ride 52 Club?
Hi patti, if I undestood you question, you can modify the “from” email in ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘, lines 63 and 67.
Hello. I tryed to send an email out, but when the popup box comes up, it tells me it could not send it to anyone. I was using the list and a manual email address. Please tell me if there is something that I am doing wrong or need to change.
Also when I try to sign up as a non reg. member, I get this error “Error during sending: please try again.” When is the problem?
Ciao alessandro, volevo sapere come fare se voglio inserire un testo nel widget prima dei 2 label “name” e “email”
Hello Alo..
I want to know that is their an option to used your plugins on separate pages rather use as widget. I want to display the subscription on footer.
Hello Alo:
Is their option to download the all subscriber and registered user data or to export to csv file.
thanks, got that. now I installed wordpress 2.9.2 and I get an error message when I hit the send button and nothing goes through.
object doesn’t support property or method
line 152
character 5
by the way I really love this plugin
Busy days for me… I’ll test the plugin on WP 2.9.2 and I’ll answer questions soon as possible
la mia è una domanda + semplice
Ciao PeppezZ, il testo lo puoi aggiungere nel file ‘alo-easymail-widget.php’ prima all’incirca della riga 129.
Don’t mean to bug you but any ideas? Your easymail is just perfect for what I want to do.. PLEEASSSEEE.
I tried looking through the php to see if I could figure it out but I don’t know what all of that stuff means. something about explode on line 152 but I’m not even sure if I’m in the right file. it say aloeasymail main but that didn’t seem to make sense. I would think it would be in the action file.
I Really Really like your plugin.
Hi William: can you tell me more info about your WP installation? and, if you can access it, try to view the server log.
Hi Patti, I made a quick test on a local 2.9.2 installation and the plugin didn’t give error. I’ll do more tests in a few days. Did you try on many browsers? Always error?
It does work. what’s happening is that they are being blocked by the spam filter for one of my servers.
I can get the message through on another servers email. is there a way to make the newsletter email less spamish?
mmm, at the moment I don’t know. I’ll read about that… all suggestions are welcome.
I’m getting a sending error “Error during sending: please try again.”
when a user tries to subscribe.
I need some help on what is causing this error.
Thanks guys
Parker
hello alo,
sorry for posting twice. However, what I tried is what you posted to Dimitry – replacing line 114:
// TAG: [POST-TITLE]if ($pID) {
$updated_content = str_replace("[POST-TITLE]", "<a href='".get_permalink($obj_post->ID). "'>".$obj_post->post_title."</a>", $updated_content);
} else {
$updated_content = str_replace("[POST-TITLE]", "", $updated_content);
}
But the output the will be:
href = 3D'http://sv-niederhofen.de/2010/02/20/ah-termine/'
Where does the “3D” come from?
Thx, Tobi
Hi Tobi, I have no idea about this strange “3D”… Be sure to digit the new code as you see on screen, not making copy and paste (otherwise you could paste strange html chars). And then, did you modify other parts of the plugin?
Hi alo,
the problem seems to be that when I post “=” in the main body, the recipients will get an “=3D”.
And yes, I modified or better augmented your plugin by a new tag [POST-LINK]. But that’s not the reason.
Mmm… I found that “3d” is the code of equal sign (=) in a lot of encodings (see here). So you have some problems during encoding. The newsletter now uses UTF-8 charset, but maybe you can change it and see what happens: open ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘ and modify the line 69 with another charset (eg. first of all use the line 68 instead 69 for iso charset).
Fantastic plugin, you did a great job……….Keep it up!!!!!!!
Hey Alo,
Great plugin – it works like a charm.
I was wondering if there was a way to change the sending email address. I have multiple sites on a parent directory and when I use you plugin people see a sender email address (one from the parent directory) that they are not familiar with.
All the best
Hi Joseph, you can can modify the “from” email in ‘alo-easymail_action.php‘, lines 63 and 67.
I love this plugin. It’s just what I needed. For some reason my emails sent to Yahoo accounts are going into the spam folder though. Do you know if there’s anything I can do to fix that?
Is there a way to make it default on “YES” instead of “NO” on the users profile page? Where do I edit the php code?
Actually, how can I make it so whenever anyone registers for our blog they are automatically added to the newsletter?
Hi!
I don;t know anything about programing and was looking for a plugin where readers can sign up to a newsletter. I thought that your plugin in did the job. I installed it but on the screen there is nowhere to add in email address !?!?!
Also, how do i send a mail to all the people that have subscribed (and stop others from sending out emails. )Please explain simply.
Thanks
Ben
About some emails going to spam… it depends the plugin was born to send only few emails, then it became useful to send newsletter. So, in future releases I’ll try to resolve the problem introducing some kind of fractioned sending.
About subscription… the plugin allow people to add their email addresses to newsletter using the widget. You can’t add new subscribers in backend, but you can send newsletters to non-subscribers adding a list of email addresses as recipients (the 2nd field of plugin’s sending page). To send to your subscribers choose this kind of recipients in the first select field of plugin’s sending page.
Hello, great plugin
I have a question, how can we use the FCKEditor as our newsletter WYSIWYG editor?
I have the plugin installed on my blog and it’s working when I make blog post’s but it doesn’t replace the ALO newsletter editor.
Can this work?
Hi, Your plugin is great. Is there a way to import a list of email into it the Alo EasyMail database? Thanks!
Don
Hi, you can add (and save) a list of emails into a field of sending page. Intead, if you’d like to add subscribers into database, you have to work on database directly: use phpmyadmin (or similar app) stored on your web site server, or use a plugin like ‘WP-phpMyAdmin’ or ‘Portable phpMyAdmin’.
hi I just tried your plugins i love it but have some question How many email in mail list I can send at a time Because I’ve tired around 15000 subscriber in my email lists and after I CLICK Send Button my Pop Up window show nothing
Is that I have to wait?
Hi, for 15000 emails I think you have to wait quite a lot… Leave the popup open and let it works. Mmm… maybe the script could take too much time and stops because reaching the max execution time permitted by the server.
and how can I slove this problem Thanks a lot for advance
I’ve tried others plugins before yours such as Subscribe2,G-Lock Double Opt-in, and many many ….now I’m trying Newsletter but not like your plugins I Think Easy Mail ’s a nice Subscriber panel easy to manage and send and if you add more Option in the next release like cron job to send 2 times a day or once a day or one per week or per post or per 5 post and…more it’ll perfect!
Ok, Aon, good idea. I’ll update the plugin as soon as I can, stay tuned
Hi Alo, I have another question about the script. Recently I’ve noticed certain email addresses are being rejected as “not correct”. An example of one was
“first_last@college.edu”. I’m guessing that the “edu” is causing the issue since I tried entering several addresses with “_” and it is accepted. Is there a switch in the script somewhere to allow the “.edu”? Thanks!
I think I solved this issue by editing the alo-easymail-widget.php script. You had an email format check statement as follows:
if (!ereg(“^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$”, trim($_POST['alo_em_opt_email']) )) {
$error_on_adding .= “The e-email address is not correct.”;
}
I changed the “!ereg” at the beginning of the statement to “!eregi” and can now enter domain extensions other than .com, .net, .org.
Hi alo,
Thank’s for this great extenstion. I have a site who’s running Wordpress and Prestashop. I use easymail to send mass mailing to our subcribers. Il it possible to get the form from easymail for include it as html in another application like prestashop ?
Hi alain, sorry but I never used prestashop so I don’t know how difficult could be merge easymail and prestashop.
Hello, greetings from Brasil!
I have some doubts:
In Firefox, the plugin show up as “Yes, i would like to receive th newsletter” or “No, please do not email me” – I choose “Yes”, and nothing happens.
In IE, it shows up as a subscribing form, asking name and email, and it works, after submission, I receive the message telling the submission is done, to look for the confirmation link.
- Does the plugin have different ways to work, according to the navigator?
This morning I tested the plugin and sent an email for myself – it’s been over 4 hours and I didn’t receive anything, so as the confirmation link, it hasn’t arrived… what could be happening?
Thank’s for your attention!
Hi Cynthia. About your 1st doubt, in that case the difference is not the browser, but I think if you are logged in (in Firefox) or not (in IE). To let “yes”/”no” buttons work your browser must have javascript turned on.
About the email on late, I don’t know, it could be a spam filter or some server issue. Make more tests to understand if it was only a single case.
Gee, I didn’t realize I was logged in at FF and off at IE! Thank’s for the tip!
About the late emails, so far nothing has come at my domain, I received at my gmail… I’m logged at the webmail, not using email clients, and the spam is off… Well, it works, later I’ll try to figure out what’s happening with my emails!
Thank’s, your plugin is great!
I
I am creating a “coming soon” type of theme. It has only one page (index.php). I saw your plugin and thought that it’s perfect for the theme, but I am running into a problem.
I have set up a widget area and can see and use the widget. If I enter a name and email, it sends of the opt in email with the link. The problem is if I click that link all I see is the index.php page. The link is correct as it points to:
http://myproject.local/?page_id=114&ac=activate&em1=tlc1&em2=inbox.com&uk=e65266(cut...)
The plugin has created the “Newsletter Subscription” page with an id of 114, and it has the “[ALO-EASYMAIL-PAGE]” shortcode on it. But even in the Admin area if I click view the index.php page is displayed.
As a test I created a template page twice, both with and without the post loop in them, but then either way I don’t get any of the code that should be generated by the shortcode.
When I go to the Admin Subscribers page the new user is there but not active.
I am testing all this on a local server (XAMMP) and am using WP 2.9.2, any ideas how to get it working?
thx
Hi lenzjo. So you are testing on a local sever. Viewing your activation link, the path of your WP installation seems to be in your root:
http://myproject.local/
is it correct? or maybe it’s in a subdirectory, so the path should be something like “http://myproject.local/wordpress/”?
In this case the hack suggested by john could be help you (see his comments on 6 february in this page).
Or maybe are you using WP MU? The plugin is not tested on it.
Hi alo,
I’m running virtual hosts so that I can have multiple projects on the go at the same time and I’m using plain old WP 2.9.2
I eventually got it working properly last nite. The problem was that though I had created a template for the “Newsletter Subscription” page, it seemed very fussy about what should be in the template.
I noticed in these comments that someone was asking about a XHTML valid version of the plugin. I hope you don’t mind, I’ve converted the subscribe forms so my version now validates, and I am now going thru the rest of the code to see if there’s any other invalid stuff in there.
Also I would like to move the various pages to under one heading on the Admin Dashboard as I keep forgetting where the different pages are.
Great Plug-in. Can you create some documentation? Also, the function on the user profile page, even if I set it to “Yes” it always reverts to “No”. Is this a known bug? What is it supposed to do, add the user to the subscribers list? For me it does not seem to do anything. Suggestions: The ability to add manually to subscribers page would be nice. An import into the subscribers list would be nice. Multiple templates would be nice as well. Thank you for the great plug in!
Hi Alo
Re the comment above
The problem with this is that the ” ereg ” function series is deprecated as of PHP 5.2.5 and will eventually stop working.
It has been replaced with ” preg ” which has been running in parallel for some time – since at least PHP 4.2 therefore you need to upgrade these sections of the code sooner rather than later, to reduce future support requests.
Great looking plugin by the way – I’m just about to test drive it on a couple of new sites.
Add my voice to the people calling for the batch quantity and sleep period to be configurable in the admin panel.
Also for the configurable period for sending digest emails of latest posts (daily, weekly, whenever)
Many thanks
Gaz
Hi Eric, many thanks for your ideas and suggestions. The option yes/no in the user profile page should add/delete user’s subscription to the newsletter.
Hi Gaz, thank you for your explain, I’ll surely keep in mind for the next release.
I’m working on it: I will fix bugs and include a configurable cron batch (something like: x mails every y minutes).
Hi
Thanks for your efforts in making this plugin.
I have installed this on a Wordpress Default 1.6 theme template. I get the message it is activated but I cannot get the widget to display on my site.
Can you help me please? Im new to WP, more used to Joomla, but Im preferring WP so far.
Stevie
Hi Stephen. Did you go to Appareance – Widget to add easymail widget? In that page can you see the widget in the list?
Hi alo
Many thanks for considering my input – your plug in looks great but it does desperately need the “batch sending” or “mail throttling” feature (as do all similar plugins and softwares nowadays due to increasingly tighter and tighter limits on how many emails per hour/day that hosting services allow.
I’ve also noticed a move by hosting services to a “double limit” on how many emails can be sent and it contains a trap for the unwary. Examples – one of the hosts I use allows 200 emails per hour but a maximum of 2000 per day (200 x 24 hours = 4,800 so your daily limit is only 40% of the hourly limit). Another states 300 per hour but 3000 per day (300 x 24 = 7200 so again, only 48% of the hourly limit).
The algorithm you use for the sending limits should therefore be based on the daily limit, not the hourly one, and should aim to spread the sending batch based on the dily limit calculated per hour/minute, not on the hourly limit which is used for headline advertising by the hosting companies.
Hope it helps
Gaz
Hi Gaz, your help is welcome and very useful! As you suggest I think I could prepare 2 configurable options: an emails/hour limit and a emails/day limit. Then, starting with these 2 params, the batch will send X emails every Y minutes to cover the hour limit and to not exceed the day limit. Could it work? Thanks a lot for your help.
Hi Alo
Yes, that’s one way to do it, but be careful of time-outs or a system that needs the user to keep their browser open on the send page until all emails have been sent. I know that’s a problem many of the WP plugins have had.
I’d recommend only configuring for the daily limit, and let the software do the maths behind the scenes – include a help tip warning that the daily limit is not 24x the advertised hourly rate – make the user check with their host to get the daily limit.
Also use a help tip that they need to think about other emails from their site(s) too – e.g. user registration confirmation emails etc. They need to keep an allowance aside for those. If they have a 2000 per day limit, they should probably not allocate more than say 1800 (90%) to newsletters – if they have high signup rates, or have ecommerce pages that process orders and payments, they need to allocate less.
Remember to use the “sleep” function for mail sending – pausing between small batches rather than dumping the single hour’s allocation in one blast – if it coincides with an RSS fetch and a few heavy page views, the user’s server allowance could hit the red line and their account get suspended, if doing once per hour mail dumps.
At 1800 mails per day, that’s 150 per hour = one every 24 seconds – - – much better to figure a way to do that as a steady outgoing, than to dump 150 emails in a batch once per hour.
Remember too that the big webmail hosts (AOL, Google, Hotmail etc) hammer your spam rating if you put too many emails per hour INTO them – if you can figure out a filter to keep say 5-10 minutes between each send to the same domain name, then that would be a bonus (especially with Hotmail and MSN). If you’re working via SendMail rather than SMTP, I think SendMail has a queue-by-domain-name option in its backend somewhere …. or, I might have that the wrong way round, and it might be SMTP that has it – either way, one of them does – MS Exchange Server draws on it heavily.
Sorry to dump a lot of different things on you, but they do need thinking about, and unfortunately (or fortunately – LOL) not all WordPress users are web or email experts, and “plugin addiction” is a real problem for some “webmasters”.
Gaz
Yes under Sidebar 1 it says Alo Easymail Widget, and in there I have selected sidebar 1 and position 1 and saved it, nothing shown on screen.
Stevie
I like this plugin. But I would like to see the ability to include multiple posts in one newsletter. maybe an option to include the newest post from each category. It would be nice to see it include more then one post per e-mail.
Options for controlling which posts are added and where would be great too.
Hello!
I have a long list of email adresses that I need to get into my database, but that part is not a big worry for me. When I look in the database table there is the value of Unikey that is unique for each user. I tried and added one name with a copied value from a registered user which seems to work fine.
My question, is this a value that is needed or can it be left blank? If it’s needed must it be unique or not.
Best regards and thank you for a great plugin!
//Thomas
Adding multiple posts in one newsletter is a good idea, like a “digest”. It’s in the “todo” list.
The unikey is a random string. It’s fundamental when a subscriber must activate or delete his subscription: the unikey is in the activation or unsubscribe link he clicks and it must match with unikey stored in database for this subscriber.
Ciao.
, la possibilita di raggruppare gli utenti “iscritti” in gruppi. in modo da poter inviare mail in lingua differente. La selezione della lingua da parte del sottoscrittore, potrebbe essere una naturale conseguenza, ma per il momento mi accontenterei della possibilità di raggrupparli a mano.
complimenti per il tuo ottimo plugin, lo sto provando su un sito di un mio amico…
Ho però un piccolo intoppo: il sito in questione è multilingue.
Utilizzo il plugin WPML, che permette di postare un articolo per ogni lungua. Facendo così succede che non riesco ad inviare mail con l’ultimo post pubblicato…
In parole povere mi sarebbe utile, come primo passo
Pensi sia facilmente realizzabile?
Grazie ciao.
Vik
Reference:
W3C Markup Validation Service gives me an error-message:
>> reference to non-existent ID “alo_em_opt_name” <<
for this code-section:
Name
Nice plugin!
I’m looking for the possibility to add an unsubscribe-link tot the Newsletter? Would be nice for not-registered users…
Ok, thanks now I understand what the purpose of unikey is.
But I don’t understand if it needs to be one unique key per user or if many users can use the same unikey.
Also if I create the user via phpmyadmin will he/she be able to unregister later?
//T
The key could not be unique, but in this case anyone could activate subscription or – more dangerous – unsubscribe only using a link with an email address and the same unikey (see the link to click in activation mail or unsubscribe link in the newsletter to understand how activation/unsubscription links work).
How can I add an unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email? When I first installed the plugin it had a template where I could use that dropdown to include text/images in messages. After I messed with creating a custom template that feature no longer works. Is there a way to reset the template to the original? I even tried deleting and reactivating it.
Thanks! This is the best plugin i’ve found for mailing from wordpress.
You can find the original template is in easymail.php, line 42. Here you are:
Hi [USER-NAME],<br /><br />I have published a new post <strong>[POST-TITLE]</strong>.<br />[POST-EXCERPT]<br />Please visit my site [SITE-LINK] to read it and leave your comment about it.<br />
Hope to see you online!<br /><br />[SITE-LINK]
The plugin should add an unsubscribe link at the bottom of newsletter (only when recipients are subscribers).
Hi there,
I was wondering when the option of ‘x mails every y minutes’ came available. I really like the newsletter program, however i cannot use it now on my server.
Please can you tell me when the update is available?
Thank you,
Arend
Hi,
I found this in the comments above:
there is already a sleep function in alo-easymail_action.php, maybe you should setup it. See at line 128:
if ( ($r % 50) == 0) {
sleep(10); // every n° sent wait a little
}
so you can modify how many seconds (default: 10) and every many emails (default: 50).
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I want to send 45 e-mails per 15 minutes (or 180 per hour). How do I configure this then?
Thank you,
Arend
Hi Arend, the new version with the cron batch sending will be available in a few days. It’s ready, stay tuned!