HTML Newsletter Generator - Keep Members Coming Back [Paid] [Deleted]

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BamaStangGuy said:
New Sort Options For Resource Manager & Showcase + Bug Fixes
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Great, thanks! Now getting Resources and Showcase items :)
But, showcase avatars are not working due to having a URL of
Code: 
https://netrider.net.au/https://netrider.r.worldssl.net/data/showcase/13/13091-48c25586e919ad965f62ab94b44baaed.jpg
... easy enough to fix the HTML for this sending of the newsletter.

Resources are also keeping IMG bb code. Example:
Code: 
Headache time[IMG] Where’d you get that hat?

Feature suggestion: It would be great to have an order number on the sections, so that I can put featured first, showcase second, etc. within the newsletter
 
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At the top of /xfnewsletter it says; "Copy the HTML source code below into your newsletter service using the Source button on the editor. That's all it takes!"

I don't see any source button, or even an editor. No way to modify/adjust the HTML source for the newsletter. Should it be there, or is the above for a previous/future version and the editor functionality has been removed?

No big issue, I'm just copy 'n' pasting it into HTML editor app at the moment.
 
Mouth said:
At the top of /xfnewsletter it says; "Copy the HTML source code below into your newsletter service using the Source button on the editor. That's all it takes!"

I don't see any source button, or even an editor. No way to modify/adjust the HTML source for the newsletter. Should it be there, or is the above for a previous/future version and the editor functionality has been removed?

No big issue, I'm just copy 'n' pasting it into HTML editor app at the moment.
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Thanks for pointing out these issues. I was just about to release another update but will fix these right now.
 
Mouth said:
Great, thanks! Now getting Resources and Showcase items :)
But, showcase avatars are not working due to having a URL of
Code: 
https://netrider.net.au/https://netrider.r.worldssl.net/data/showcase/13/13091-48c25586e919ad965f62ab94b44baaed.jpg
... easy enough to fix the HTML for this sending of the newsletter.

Resources are also keeping IMG bb code. Example:
Code: 
Headache time[IMG] Where’d you get that hat?

Feature suggestion: It would be great to have an order number on the sections, so that I can put featured first, showcase second, etc. within the newsletter
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I believe your avatar issue is due to you using a different path, much like the issue @Jake Bunce talked about in his post in his thread. I will look at trying to fix this in the future. The BBCode will have to be fixed in the next update. Will remove template wording as that is deprecated info.
 
BamaStangGuy updated HTML Newsletter Generator with Showcase, Resource Manager & Gallery Support with a new update entry:

Better XenForo Media Gallery Support + Bug Fixes

As pre the last update, this update brings better support for XenForo Media Gallery:
  • More Sort Options. See Screenshot below
  • Include only a single album. If you wish to display a single album only, input the id and it will be included.
Other code was improved as well and a few small bugs squashed.

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Read the rest of this update entry...
 
Mouth said:
I'm using @xfrocks [bd] Mails add-on, so that all XF generated emails go via Mandrill. Is anyone using this scenario with this newsletter add-on, and sending out via XF's standard user mass email functionality? I'm interested if the integrated bounce handling in [bd] Mails still works?
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@giorgino Works great. Just sent over 5,300 emails to a subset of my membership list with no problems. Took a while as XF auto looped through sending 30 at a time.
But, does look like bounce handling is not functional from [bd]Mail as no bounced email addresses are being set to 'Email Invalid (bounced)' state within XF.
 
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Mouth said:
@giorgino Works great. Just sent over 5,300 emails to a subset of my membership list with no problems. Took a while as XF auto looped through sending 30 at a time.
But, does look like bounce handling is not functional from [bd]Mail as no bounced email addresses are being set to 'Email Invalid (bounced)' state within XF.
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Thank you very much @Mouth for your report :) I greatly interested in this addon as I actually use a self-made php script to generate a daily/weekly automatic newsletter that I send via phpList. phpList can "read" an HTML page and send it to a list of subscribers. On the other side, phpList is slow and "complicated" to use... so I can't wait to stop using it.

So all nights my three medium/big boards (+50K users) send a daily newsletter to all subscribers.

This addon is really great (congrats to @BamaStangGuy great job!) but don't send automatically the newsletters if I understood well. That's right?
 
This addon is really great (congrats to @@BamaStangGuy great job!) but don't send automatically the newsletters if I understood well. That's right?
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Correct. It may be something I look into in the future but as is it just auto generates the HTML for you to use with your email. I know that Sendy supports crons and has an API and have gandered at it. Looks like it would be possible to set it up with Sendy at some point.
 
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Looks like it would be possible to set it up with Sendy at some point.
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Should be the best product on xenforo :)
I've created the custom field to manage subscription/unsubscription and syncro between xenforo and phplist.
All nights before send out e-mail, a cron run a php script to synchronize users e-mail.

Work for now, but it's heavy and badly developed by me :P

An automatic newsletters system with a daily/monthly/weekly users preferences it's literally a dream for user engagement and community management.
 
giorgino said:
Should be the best product on xenforo :)
I've created the custom field to manage subscription/unsubscription and syncro between xenforo and phplist.
All nights before send out e-mail, a cron run a php script to synchronize users e-mail.

Work for now, but it's heavy and badly developed by me :p

An automatic newsletters system with a daily/monthly/weekly users preferences it's literally a dream for user engagement and community management.
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The problem I have found and the numbers seem to back it in open and ctr, is that auditing the newsletter before you send it out provides the best results. While automated is nice and saves time, it has always provided the lowest open rate and the lowest ctrs of any emails I have every sent out.

In these three examples of using this add-on, you can see that even over time, the CTR remains high and the open rate high, if not even beating previous emails.

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Being able to preview what is being sent to your members, select specific threads, and then tailoring the title of the newsletter seems to produce the highest results for me.

I have also found the daily emails seem to be too much for members and that spacing them out over at least 3 days provides good user interaction and keeps them from unsubscribing.
 
BamaStangGuy said:
In these three examples of using this add-on, you can see that even over time, the CTR remains high and the open rate high, if not even beating previous emails.
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That's right. Or maybe right. Depend on content strategy you plain for your community (and the time you have to spend in doing this).

BamaStangGuy said:
Being able to preview what is being sent to your members, select specific threads, and then tailoring the title of the newsletter seems to produce the highest results for me.
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Sure, but you send one newsletter each week.
If you send one newsletter per day, to three/five communities, bye bye :D

I think that "automated" is better for admin business, and "tailored" is better in single CTR result as you said.
I run communities from 10 years and frankly I don't have time to tailor daily/weekly newsletter :)
I think that many admins are in my shoes (like each other in yours ;) )

So I hope you'll have time and effort to develop the "automatic" parte of this great addon :)
 
giorgino said:
That's right. Or maybe right. Depend on content strategy you plain for your community (and the time you have to spend in doing this).


Sure, but you send one newsletter each week.
If you send one newsletter per day, to three/five communities, bye bye :D

I think that "automated" is better for admin business, and "tailored" is better in single CTR result as you said.
I run communities from 10 years and frankly I don't have time to tailor daily/weekly newsletter :)
I think that many admins are in my shoes (like each other in yours ;) )

So I hope you'll have time and effort to develop the "automatic" parte of this great addon :)
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It won't be something in the near future unfortunately. There are other things I'd like to do (and have already promised).

It takes me about 3 1/2 minutes to generate the newsletter, see if all the threads are good enough quality, adjust if need be using the built in options, copy and paste into Sendy and then send out.

We run 7 sites that use this script and I do this about 3-4 times a week, depending on the site and how active it is. One thing that I will look into though and have thought about doing in the past, is a one click button to send into Sendy once you are done, set a time for delivery and then you will never have to login to sendy to send the actual email since it will use the cron system within Sendy. That is something more likely to appear in this add-on.
 
giorgino said:
So I hope you'll have time and effort to develop the "automatic" parte of this great addon
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It's literally a 2 min job to copy 'n' paste the output from this add-on into the ACP users mail functionality ( /admin.php?users/email ), set your criteria, and click the send button and let XF do it's work.
 
Mouth said:
It's literally a 2 min job to copy 'n' paste the output from this add-on into the ACP users mail functionality ( /admin.php?users/email ), set your criteria, and click the send button and let XF do it's work.
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I know @Mouth but my idea is don't do anything to send newsletter. Business, vacation, family, every day can come up something and I don't want to think at the newsletters.
Now I've (decent or less) working solution... but I really hope that in future I'll can leave it for a more modern, and sophisticated system.
 
Addon broke my site:
An unexpected database error occurred. Please try again later.
my forum is not accessible, any idea?
 
Can I see it working on a forum somewhere? I tried the religious forum but didn't see it.
 
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