send bulk emails to your existing wordpress user database
Overview:
The email newsletter plugin is an advanced bulk emailer designed especially for WordPress 3. It is very easy to use and feature rich. Heaps of features which allow you to quickly send professional newsletters to your existing wordpress user database.
Online Demo:
I’ve installed WordPress 3.0 over here (stock standard with the default theme): http://tf.dtbaker.com.au/wordpress_newsletter/wordpress/ and enabled the plugin. Please go to that website to view the newsletter plugin demo in action. On the right hand side is a “subscribe” box, simply enter your details in there and you will receive some demo emails shortly after.
Plugin Features:
- Send emails to your existing wordpress members.
- Pick which groups of wordpress members to send bulk email to (eg: administrators, subscribers, authors, etc..)
- Newsletter campaign (ie: schedule a series of newsletters to be sent to your members)
- Email bounce tracking
- Place a limit on the number of emails it will send per day, per hour and/or per month (good if your hosting provider has limits)
- Sidebar widgets so people can subscribe to your newsletters and view previous newsletters.
- WordPress shortcodes to embed newsletters (see online demo for example)
- Option to embed images in outbound emails
- CRON feature to process incomplete or scheduled newsletters
- Summary of scheduled newsletters on home page
- UTF -8 support for multi-lingual newsletters.
- Double opt-in confirm link to new members.
- A link to “view this newsletter online” link at top of outbound emails
- An overlay on sent newsletters showing which links were clicked.
- A-Z buttons for quick members searching
- redirect users to your own custom URL when they subscribe or unsubscribe (eg: a page on your wordpress blog)
- Embed email newsletters into your wordpress blog
- optionally notify you via email whenever someone subscribes
- Create e-newsletters from templates
- Control the sender email address
- Add your own templates to re-use over and over again
- Five demo newsletter templates which you can use or create your own one from
- Automatic unsubscribe link in every email
- Preview the newsletter in your browser before sending it
- WYSIWYG newsletter editor
- Upload pictures into your e-newsletters
- Send yourself a preview newsletter email before sending out to everybody
- Automatically convert links and images into trackable items, so you can see how many people open your newsletters
- See a live counter as the emails are getting sent out
- Pause sending out a newsletter, resume at a later time.
- Initial setup wizard to help you get up and running with required settings
- Re-send old newsletters to new members who haven’t received them yet
- Members can manage their subscriptions through wordpress profile.
- Customise the “subscribe” and “unsubscribe” pages
- Uses the popular PHPMailer to send out emails via SMTP
- You can go in and edit the HTML template using Dreamweaver before sending it out (incase you want to do anything tricky that the wysiwyg editor doesn’t allow)
Requirements:
- Linux hosting account with an existing WordPress 3 install (haven’t tested Windows yet)
- PHP Version 5
- Know your SMTP outgoing server settings (and check with your hosting provider if they will work, some hosting providers like Godaddy have different smtp settings for scripts)
- Know how to set folder permissions using FTP software or similar
- Basic Web development and FTP skills so you can install the plugin and customise or create newsletter templates
Screenshots:
 Example of the “Boutique” email template that comes with this wordpress plugin. |
 Two widgets you can install into wordpress sidebars.The first one shows links to your latest newsletters. The second one allows users to subscribe to your blog and future newsletters. |
 This is what the full “Create Newsletter” page looks like. Plenty of (easy) options to create your simple newsletter. |
 Email Campaign Management in WordPress. Schedule automatic emails to go out when members subscribe. Watch the progress of each member as they receive each newsletter. Set any time limit between emails: minutes, hours, days or weeks! Add any number of your pre-existing email templates to the email campaign workflow. |
How to Install:
Follow these simple steps:
- Purchase this item through CodeCanyon.net
- Download the zip file from CodeCanyon.
- Download your unique license file from CodeCanyon
- Extract the zip file to your desktop.
- Login to your existing WordPress 3 blog, and navigate to the plugins page
- Click the “Add New” button within plugins.
- Click the “Upload” option at the top.
- Select the “wp3newsletter_plugin.zip” file from the extracted files.
- Click the Install button.
- Enable the plugin once it has installed.
- Click the new “Newsletters” button which appears on the left.
- Enter your unique license code from the CodeCanyon license file
- You’re done! Happy sending emails!
WordPress Plugin Support:
Support for this item is provided through the forum located here. Please post all questions there, it will be the only method of support in the near future. You can also email me directly if you have a problem installing this script by going here.
If you have purchased this item and need support, please visit the support forum. This will be the fastest way to receive support.
You can read more about CodeCanyon support (what you get etc..) on the wiki here: http://wiki.envato.com/category/buying/support-buying/
Thanks for purchasing this plugin!