ALO EasyMail Newsletter

Using a special page or sidebar widget, the user can gather email subscriptions.

The admin can also manage the subscription list from the backend.

He can also create multiple newsletters that users can sign up for.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• Write and send html/text newsletters, simple like writing posts
• Select the recipients to send to: registered users, subscribers, mailing lists
• Batch sending using WP cron system: it sends a number of emails every 10 minutes, until all recipients have been included
• Collect subscribers: on registration form and with an ajax widget/page
• Import/export subscribers: import from existing registered users or from a CSV file
• Create and manage mailing lists: only admin can assign subscribers to them, or subscribers can freely choose them
• Newsletter themes: using html files in plugin or theme folder
• Manage subscribers: search, delete, edit subscription to mailing lists
• Manage capabilities: choose the roles that can send newsletter, manage subscribers and settings
• View sending report: how many subscribers have opened the newsletter
• Multilanguage: set all texts and options, you can write multilanguage newsletters - full integration with WPML, qTranslate
• Debug tool: rather than the recipients, you can send all emails of a newsletter to the author or you can have them recorded into a log file

What is new in this release:

• Added:
• A /mu-plugins folder containing custom hooks, the alo-easymail_custom-hooks.php is now deprecated
• A hook: 'alo_easymail_bounce_email_unsubscribed'
• Fixed:
• Some missing alt attribute in image tags

What is new in version 2.4.15:

• Added:
• Preview in newsletter theme.

What is new in version 2.4.11:

• Fixed:
• PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser (added in 2.4.10) is now disabled because it causes some issues in newsletter content: so now all links in newsletters now are not trackable (instead the links generated by placeholdes like [POST-TITLE] or [SITE-LINK] are always trackable).
• Added:
• The 'alo_easymail_ajaxloop_recipient_limit' filter to customise limit of recipients per time during ajax list generation.

What is new in version 2.4.10:

• Added:
• Role filter for registered user recipients
• Some debug info about wp cron in batch sending settings
• The 'alo_easymail_newsletter_headers' filter to customise newsletter headers
• Check for newsletter themes also in 'wp-content/alo-easymail-themes'
• Fixed:
• A potential issue on definition of batch interval
• Now all links in newsletters now really made trackable (using PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser)

What is new in version 2.4.9:

• Added:
• Option to append campaign vars to newsletter links (e.g. Google Analytics)
• All links in newsletters now are made trackable
• The IP address of subscribers now is stored on subscription
• When a new subscriber submits the widget form with success, the form fields will be cleaned
• In case of empty excerpt, the [POST-EXCERPT] placeholder uses the beginning of post content (only WP 3.3+)

What is new in version 2.4.8:

• Fixed:
• XSS vulnerabilities
• Name "unikey" in activation email
• Some PHP warnings

What is new in version 2.4.6:

• Fixed:
• A bug that causes an infinite loop of the mail engine on the same recipient if the email is not correct.

What is new in version 2.4.3:

• Fixed:
• Files now formatted with \n as the line ending (Unix line endings).
• On plugin uninstallation now the unsubscribed table is deleted.
• Updated:
• The [DATE] placeholder now is based on get_option('date_format').
• mb_detect_encoding no more used so mbstring module is not required.

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Fixed:
• When an admin edits a subscriber inline, the "last activity" is not updated.
• If newsletters are not published on blog, there is not the "preview" link in edit screen messages.
• On registration, if a new user does not subscribe, the email is now added to unsubscribed DB table.

What is new in version 2.4:

• Added:
• A new db table to store unsubscribed emails
• last_activity column in subscriber db table
• Custom fields
• Clickable palceholders (post url, read online, site url) in newsletters are now tracked
• Updated:
• Smartupdater.js v.3.2
• Help screens and toolbar now use WP 3.3 API
• Fixed:
• Newsletter themes are now utf-8
• When on blog 'alo_easymail_newsletter_content' filter now is applied only to newsletters

What is new in version 2.3:

• Added: recipients of previous newsletters can be archived, for best query performances
• Added: KEY indexes in plugin database tables, for best query performances
• Added: [USER-NAME] and [USER-FIRST-NAME] work in newsletter title
• Added: pagination of recipients in report screen
• Added: an option to publish or not newsletters online
• Added: auto-deletion of post meta when Duplicate Post plugin copies newsletters
• Updated: glob() function for list theme files
• Updated: not using GLOB_BRACE param in glob(), for compatibilty
• Fixed: permission settings properly maintained when plugin de/re-activated
• Fixed: add a default text when auto-generated alternative plain text is empty

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Fixed:
• Now query that gets recipients in queue should be very faster.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3 or higher