If you want your Wordpress site to reach out to every user, you need to create newsletter campaigns. Wp2Newsletter plugin helps create a datasource from all your Wordpress post types for your newsletter setup, generate RSS feed URL that is ready to feed into RSS based mail chimp campaign, link with email marketing service provider (Mailchimp in this version) and publish the newsletter automatically with very less effort.
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Pull contents from your post types , filter your contents, choose the available templates for your newsletter, link marketing service provider using their api key , preview your newsletter and finally publish all from your Wordpress dashboard.<\/p>\n\n
With this version, you are able to\nPull and filter contents from any available or custom post types of your Wordpress site.\nChoose the available EDM templates which include both RSS driven or normal EDM templates. (Additional templates in paid versions)\nLink Wordpress email marketing service provider (additional providers such as GetResponse, Campaign Monitor in paid versions) using its API key\nPreview html code or visual contents before you publish.\nAutomatically generate newsletter in your Mailchimp account.<\/p>\n\n
Many post types
\nThis plugin supports any post types available for Wordpress posts, pages, custom post types and so on
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Filter options
\nIn order to create data sources for your newsletter, many data source filter options are available like Excluding posts, Order by, Sort order, Max no of items, Content Length and Date Format.
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Preview templates
\nYou can preview EDM templates before you decide which template to use for your newsletter. You can either use visual editor or html code editor.
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Preview your newsletter
\nSimilar to EDM templates, you can also preview your newsletter after you have chosen your data source and EDM template type.
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Automatic Installation<\/strong> Manual Installation<\/strong> Q1: How do I install this plugin? Q2: How do I set up MailChimp API Key? Q3: How do I add data source? Q4: How do I generate RSS feed URL Q5: How do I generate newsletter? Q6: How do create an RSS campaign in Mailchimp? Q7: How do I choose EDM templates? Q8: How do I make my own EDM template? There are standard and special merge tags that you should use to alter the contents of your template that are as follows Standard Merge Tags Special Merge Tags List of special merge tags to be uploaded soon.<\/p>\n\n Q9: Where do I get help if I have any issues?
\nLog in to your site and go to the Plugins page.
\nClick Add New button.
\nSearch for WP2Newsletter
\nClick Install Now link.
\nClick Activate Plugin link.
\nIf you want to push your datasource automatically to Mailchimp,
\nObtain your MailChimp API Key by logging into mailchimp.com, click My Account, click extras and choose API Keys in the drop down and copy the API Key code. If the API Key code is missing, click the link to \"generate your API key\" first.
\nBack on your site, click Wp2Newsletter and click settings tab on the administration sidebar menu.. Check to ensure that your API key is properly configured.
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\nDownload the Plugin and un-zip it.
\nUpload the Wp2Newsletter folder to your wp-content\/plugins\/directory.
\nActivate the Plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.
\nIf you want to push your datasource automatically to Mailchimp,
\nObtain your Mailchimp API Key by logging into mailchimp.com, click My Account, click extras and choose API Keys in the drop down and copy the API Key code. If the API Key code is missing, click the link to \"generate your API key\" first.
\nBack on your site, click Wp2Newsletter and click settings tab on the administration sidebar menu.. Check to ensure that your API key is properly configured.
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\nSteps of installing this plugin is explained in Installation section<\/p>\n\n
\nObtain your Mailchimp API Key by logging into mailchimp.com, click My Account, click extras and choose API Keys in the drop down and copy the API Key code. If the API Key code is missing, click the link to \"generate your API key\" first.Back on your site, click Wp2Newsletter and click settings tab on the administration sidebar menu.. Check to ensure that your API key is properly configured.<\/p>\n\n
\nGo to Wp2Newsletter and click New Data Source. There are 2 sections to fill while adding new data source.
\nAfter entering title, in Setup Newsletter Data Source Section, add description, select data source from the drop down list (Here only those data source list or post types are displayed that are enabled\/checked in data source list of Wp2Newsletter ->Settings section), narrow down your data source by choosing data types and also you can choose the hero post to be displayed in your newsletter.
\nIn Settings section, you can further use settings to alter your newsletter format like Excluding posts, Order by, Sort order, Max no of items, Content Length and Date Format.<\/p>\n\n
\nAfter you add datasource, go to the list of data sources Wp2Newsletter -> Data Sources
\nClick \"View\" in your chosen datasource
\nRSS feed URL will be generated which you can paste in MailChimp RSS campaign
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\nGo to Wp2Newsletter and click Generate Newsletter
\nEnter Template Name
\nChoose Template Type (Choose either RSS driven or Normal Template type depending on your need)
\nSelect Data Source ( Select the data source you want your newsletter to be made of )
\nGenerate Preview (You can preview on how your final newsletter would look like either visually or in html code editor)
\nCreate New Template ( If your preview is ok, you can finally create newsletter by clicking Create New Template). You can see this template in the list of templates of your mailchimp account automatically.
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\nGo to http:\/\/kb.mailchimp.com\/campaigns\/rss-in-campaigns\/create-an-rss-campaign
\nYou can insert the RSS feed URL generated by this plugin in RSS feed URL section of MailChimp campaign generator as specified in above link
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\nThis version comes with couple of EDM templates. You can preview these templates by navigating to EDM Templates->Templates.
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\nIf you are a developer or HTML savvy, you can make your own EDM template. At present, EDM templates are compatible with Mailchimp only. If you see one of the template and preview it, you can see the section enclosed in \n{POST_BLOCK}\n \/\/Everything that goes inside this block creates dynamic content for EDM template.\n{\/POST_BLOCK}<\/p>\n\n
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\n{POST_TITLE} => Title of post.
\n{POST_LINK} => Details page link.
\n{CONTENT_EXCERPT} => Summary of your post
\n{POST_IMAGE} => Link of post image
\n{POST_ID} => Post Id
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\n{wp2edmspcl-woo-product-price} => Price of woocommerce product
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\nPlease contact our support forum. We will try to resolve it as soon as possible<\/p>\n\n