mem_postmaster - Postmaster Revamp

mrdale · 2013-03-12 16:07:36

OK, I’ve proposed a rewrite of this workhorse that will hopefully garner enough interest to make it a reality.

if you’re willing to contribute to a bounty pool for a dev, please pledge in that thread.
if you have a feature request, post it there, we’ll discuss and add if possible.

Let’s see how far this goes…

Keepital · 2013-08-05 02:02:14

Ok, so it’s August now, and after scanning these 28 pages of threads I have some questions:

I get that it works with newsletters/mass mailings, but the original reason I ended up in this forum is because I followed the Email_on_post thread here

So my questions are as follows

If I install this mem_postmaster plugin, does that mean that I’ll end up with a Subscribe button where readers can subscribe by email to my latest posts?

Never found out the answer as to whether this is compatible with 4.5.? (I’m specifically interested in whether this is compatible with the current version, 4.5.4) —- I don’t want to install this plugin if there’s no point, because I barely know what I’m doing anyway as a newbie.

I went to Feedburner to check out the email subscribe button there, but I couldn’t figure it out – Is Feedburner what the rest of you use for this subscribe service for your blogs? (For this question, I’m interested in the responses from those that have blog sites; not websites – a website is more likely to use a newsletter service, which I’m not interested in.)

Last edited by Keepital (2013-08-05 02:12:43)

colak · 2013-08-05 02:28:02

Hi Kepital, this plugin is not compatible with 4.5.x

If I install this mem_postmaster plugin, does that mean that I’ll end up with a Subscribe button where readers can subscribe by email to my latest posts?

Yes and no. It expands the capabilities of txp to add the subscribe field in one or more/all pages and adds the option to post articles to that list

THE BLUE DRAGON · 2013-09-06 17:37:50

I just setup the plugin on txp 4.5 and it works,
the backend is definitely not pretty but whatever.

You can’t really send the emails from the write tab, but you can from the extensions tab.
You are probably not going to send an old articles right?
so just set the form with article_custom limit to a single article sorted as posted desc, then you got the latest article, that’s what I do.

If that’s good enough for you then here’s how you should setup it.

Can’t add a new single subscriber from the extensions tab?
just use this workaround of mine, where I’m hiding the not working subscribe-form, and replace it with a working one using an iframe.

Unsubscribe link doesn’t work? here’s how to fix it.

Want to import a list of subscribers emails?
use this template:

"","","name1@example.com","default","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"","","name2@example.com","default","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"","","name3@example.com","default","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"","","name4@example.com","default","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""
"","","name5@example.com","default","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","","",""

The first empty cell is for the first name, the second if for last name, then the email adrress, the list name, custom-field1,custom-field2………custom-field20

If I had time I was fixing the look of it, but besides of that it works.

I HATE NEWSLETTERS! hopefully this is my last time doing it LOL.

Last edited by THE BLUE DRAGON (2013-09-06 17:39:14)

mrdale · 2013-09-06 17:47:46

A significant update is in the works. getting there…

Keepital · 2013-09-07 20:51:15

-Let’s say I add a page to my blog called SUBSCRIBE
-Visitors like my blog and they click on the SUBSCRIBE page, which opens up an input form where they can submit their email address to subscribe to my future updates.
-That email address/input is captured and written to a database that I will create & store within Bluehost’s cpanel.
-Can I then install this plugin and use it (mem_postmaster Postmaster Revamp) to mass email each new article I write to my subscribers?

*It sounds like I can -MiketheVike spells it out here
bq. The Postmaster plugin uses the zen_contact_reborn plugin to let people subscribe to a newsletter, then a site owner can maintain a subscription list and create a newsletter and send it to the subscribers.

Does this sound like I’m on the right track to allow subscriptions to future articles from my blog site? Should I download both the Zem_Contact_Reborn plugin and the mem_postmaster Postmaster Revamp plugin?

Last edited by Keepital (2013-09-07 22:07:47)

colak · 2013-09-08 04:31:10

This is how the plugin used to work but not any more. I would wait until Dale’s version finishes before installing anything

Keepital · 2013-09-08 13:33:56

I really can’t afford to wait, I have to get a subscribe option up. I have guest-author posts that are waiting to be made active. Are there any alternative suggestions then, even if they are temporary solutions?

Thank you for the quick info, though on this plugin.

mrdale · 2013-09-08 19:27:10

@keepital

actually, the way you describe is pretty much exactly how it works. and I do have a version that works with 4.6 builds, not feature complete, but would be willing to share that with you and anyone else as a quick fix.

Last edited by mrdale (2013-09-08 19:31:18)

craigdrown · 2013-09-08 22:53:24

I’ve been using Dale’s test version and it’s doing the job- much appreciated.

maniqui · 2014-09-17 14:08:40

Hi. Could someone update me on the status of this plugin?

I’m currently updating a very old TXP installation (from 4.0.6 to 4.5.5), and would also like to update some old plugins. This website has good ol’ original Ben Bruce’s Postmaster.
My questions:

is it possible to upgrade to mem_postmaster? If so, to which version?
does it send HTML email?
what else should I know? :)

Thanks!

colak · 2014-09-17 15:36:22

Hi Julian

Ben’s postmaster will definitely not work on txp4.5.5 and neither any of the newer versions. Because of this plugin I kept one of my sites to a slightly amened version of 4.4.1. This of course stops me from ever changing it to html5. One long winded option I am considering is to have 2 txp installs in the same domain. One would be in the root of the site using the latest and brightest release and the other in a folder called newsletter or similar where all the postmaster functions will be handled…

maniqui · 2014-09-17 16:05:59

Thanks, Yiannis.

What about mem_postmaster then? I’ve just installed v1.0.10, but I’ve also seen that you posted some (patched?) version?

colak · 2014-09-17 16:23:54

maniqui wrote #283831:

Thanks, Yiannis.

What about mem_postmaster then? I’ve just installed v1.0.10, but I’ve also seen that you posted some (patched?) version?

Hi Julian

That is the version I am using in one of my sites with txp4.4.1. I think that the library is untouched but there are some patches on the plugin itself. I can’t remember what they are right now but I know that I definitely did them following advice from this forum.

maniqui · 2014-09-17 18:31:10

Thanks, Yiannis.

Is there any post (or maybe you know) about the issue between mem_postmaster 1.0.10 and TXP 4.5.x?

I was having the issues of “Send to Test” not working properly and I just changed the plugin type from 1 to 5 and, after that, the plugin started working properly. Well, at least, it sends the newsletter.
What else is known to be broken?

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