Newsletter for WordPress
Adding sign-up methods for your VOXmail, Mailrouter, Mymailer lists to your WordPress site should be easy. With this plugin, it finally is.
Newsletter for WordPress helps you add more subscribers to your VOXmail, Mailrouter, Mymailer lists using various methods. You can create good looking opt-in forms or integrate with any other form on your site, like your comment, contact or checkout form.
Some of the Newsletter for WordPress features
- Connect with your VOXmail, Mailrouter, Mymailer account in seconds.
- Sign-up forms which are good looking, user-friendly and mobile optimized. You have complete control over the form fields and can send anything you like to VOXmail, Mailrouter, Mymailer.
- Seamless integration with the following plugins:
- Default WordPress Comment Form
- Default WordPress Registration Form
- Developer friendly. Newsletter for WordPress is built upon Newsletter for Wordpress code reference for developers.
What is VOXmail?
VOXmail is a newsletter service that allows you to send out email campaigns to a list of email subscribers. VOXmailis free for lists up to 2500 subscribers, which is why it is the newsletter-service of choice for thousands of businesses in Italy.
This plugin acts as a bridge between your WordPress site and your VOXmail account, connecting the two together.
If you do not yet have a VOXmail account,
creating one is 100% free and only takes you about 30 seconds.
Installing the plugin
- In your WordPress admin panel, go to Plugins > New Plugin, search for Newsletter for WordPress and click "Install now"
- Alternatively, download the plugin and upload the contents of
newsletter-for-wp.zip to your plugins directory, which usually is /wp-content/plugins/.
- Activate the plugin
- Set your VOXmail/Mailrouter/Mymailer API key in the plugin settings.
Configuring Sign-Up Form(s)
- Go to Newsletter for WP > Forms
- (Optional) Add more fields to your form using the add Newsletter field dropdown.
- Embed a sign-up form in pages or posts by using the
[nl4wp_form] shortcode.
- Show a sign-up form in your widget areas using the "Newsletter Sign-Up Form" widget.
- Show a sign-up form from your theme files by using the following PHP function.
`
<?php
if( function_exists( 'nl4wp_show_form' ) ) {
nl4wp_show_form();
}
`
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
How to display a form in posts or pages?
Use the
[nl4wp_form] shortcode.
How to display a form in widget areas like the sidebar or footer?
Go to
Appearance > Widgets and use the
Newsletter for WP Form widget that comes with the plugin.
How to add a sign-up checkbox to my Contact Form 7 form?
Use the following shortcode in your CF7 form to display a Newsletter sign-up checkbox.
[nl4wp_checkbox "Subscribe to our newsletter?"]
The form shows a success message but subscribers are not added to my list?
If the form shows a success message, there is no doubt that the sign-up request succeeded. Newsletter could have a slight delay sending the confirmation email though, please just be patient and make sure to check your SPAM folder.
When you have double opt-in disabled, new subscribers will be seen as
imports by VOXmail/Mailrouter/Mymailer.
How can I style the sign-up form?
You can use custom CSS to style the sign-up form if you do not like the themes that come with the plugin. The following selectors can be used to target the various form elements.
.nl4wp-form { ... } /* the form element */
.nl4wp-form p { ... } /* form paragraphs */
.nl4wp-form label { ... } /* labels */
.nl4wp-form input { ... } /* input fields */
.nl4wp-form input[type="checkbox"] { ... } /* checkboxes */
.nl4wp-form input[type="submit"] { ... } /* submit button */
.nl4wp-alert { ... } /* success & error messages */
.nl4wp-success { ... } /* success message */
.nl4wp-error { ... } /* error messages */
== Changelog ==
1.0.0 - February 10, 2016
Improvements