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A new version to fix some bugs. I hope it could solve some reported issues.
You can download it on wp.org.

The v.2 of EasyMail Newsletter plugin for WordPress is out!
As usual you can download from wp.org.

Quickly, the new features:

• now newsletter is a custom post type, using the standard WordPress GUI and API
• no more need to hack WordPress core files or php/cron timeouts
• no more multiple or missing sendings to recipients
• now you can send to a huge number or recipients: it uses a ajax long polling engine to create recipient list
• some action and filter hooks useful for developer

To keep the plugin always update please support me donating via PayPal.

Before upgrading from v.1 to v.2, note that:

• About subscribers and mailing lists: in v.2 the delimiter used in database changed. If in Newletters → Subscribers screen you cannot see the link between subscribers and lists, the automatic update didn’t work. So you can make it manually using this query in your database:
  UPDATE wp_easymail_subscribers SET lists = REPLACE( lists, '_', '|');
• About templates, now plugin uses standard post table. So you cannot see your templates anymore, but they are always stored in database, in wp_easymail_sendings table (table now not used): sorry but you have to recover them manually. Old stats are not visible anymore, but they are stored in wp_easymail_trackings (table now not used).

If you are upgrading from v.1.x, be sure to make a backup of plugin database tables. After installation remember to activate again the plugin.
The version 2 uses 3 tables: wp_easymail_recipients, wp_easymail_subscribers, wp_easymail_stats.
If you are upgrading from v.1.x, there are 2 tables not more used: wp_easymail_sendings, wp_easymail_trackings.

Now you can view a quick video about the new version of EasyMail plugin. You can see the new newsletter menu (now ‘newsletter’ is a custom post type) and the new ajax engine to create list of recipients.

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Now I’m working on EasyMail v.2, my newsletter plugin for WordPress.
Here you are the structural changes about which we talked some months ago.

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In the forum Cjellison reported me a little bug about the settings: if you un-check the 2 filter options (Convert carriage return in br tag and Apply ‘the_content’ filters and shortcodes to newsletter content) and update, the plugin doesn’t save. Infact, I forgot to include a code to save new values

Update: I’ve just uploaded the correct file in plugin repository, so you can download again the v.1.8.7 to have the fixed version.

Otherwise, here you hare the hack: add this code after line 93 of alo-easymail_option.php:

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if ( isset($_POST['filter_br']) ) {
    update_option('ALO_em_filter_br', "yes");
} else {
    update_option('ALO_em_filter_br', "no") ;
}
if ( isset($_POST['filter_the_content']) ) {
    update_option('ALO_em_filter_the_content', "yes");
} else {
    update_option('ALO_em_filter_the_content', "no") ;
}