You can use a sample placeholder bundled in plugin package. Read more:
http://www.eventualo.net/blog/easymail-newsletter-for-developers/#tutorial-customplaceholder
Then you have a [LATEST-POSTS] placeholder that include a list of latest published posts. They are ordered by date and you can set how many posts and filter by category. I hope it helps.
Obviously, quite a few users of this wonderful plugin have this request for the possibility to insert more post-info into their newsletters.
And most of us lack the capabilities to create or adapt custom placeholders.
I can see that to have the placeholder [LATEST-POSTS] insert more info than just the post-title (extract or content) you would have to edit the ‘foreach’-loop in the custom-hooks file. But that is beyond my knowledge of php/wp.
Another option might be to make the post-placeholders ([POST-TITLE], [POST-CONTENT] etc) configurable by adding post-ID’s or make the post-dropdown-list multi-selectable.
So this is definitely a request for the future.
I just made a small donation for inspiration 😉
Thanks a lot for the donation 🙂
You are lucky: there is already a placeholder I think you can like.
You can use multiple [CUSTOM-LINK] inside newsletter to insert links to posts and/or external links.
Examples:
1) a link to post ID 1 of your blog:
[CUSTOM-LINK href=1]
2) a link to Wordress.org:
[CUSTOM-LINK href="http://www.wordpress.org"]
For more arguments see in placeholder metabox in newletter edit screen.
Well, but that results in a list of clickable post-url’s or post titles, just like [LATEST-POSTS].
What is wished for is the possibility to display more information from several posts (e.g. extract, content).
This is now possible, with the post tags like [POST-EXTRACT] or [POST-CONTENT], for just one post.
So the result should look like:
Title of post 1
Blah blah blah (content or extract of post 1)
Title of post 2
Blah blah blah (content or extract of post 2)
Title of post 3
Blah blah blah (content or extract of post 3)
