Newsletters 4.1 Release Notes

WordPress Newsletter plugin 4.1 release notes

Added

• Added WordPress 3.8 compatibility and design.
• “Preview” button when viewing history email for quick preview.
• Equals/contains/smaller/larger query for fields conditions.
• Send to WordPress users by roles.
• Custom fields validation rules and regular expressions.
• Autoresponders “Always Send?” setting to send even if it has.
• Multiple content areas for newsletter content and the theme.
• Queue section row actions to send and delete emails.
• Debugging setting under Configuration to turn On/Off.
• Manage Subscription authenticated for logged in users.
• DAP Integration (extension).
• Manage the posts logged by Latest Posts Subscription.
• HTML/TEXT format selection in subscriber management section.

Improved

• Tabs in “Subscribers” box under Newsletters > Create Newsletter.
• Manage Subscription page auto creation improvements to prevent duplicates.
• Use EasyCron as the recommended 3rd party cron job service.
• ‘delete_post’ action hook to remove post associations.
• Live updating of preview as you type when creating a newsletter.
• Multiple, comma (,) separated emails for send preview email.
• New POP/IMAP class for bounce handling. Faster and more reliable.
• Create Newsletter tabindex fix from subject to content.
• Replace wpdb escape() with esc_sql() throughout the plugin.
• Deprecated warnings/notices removed completely for good.
• Dynamic plugin folder name, doesn’t have to be “wp-mailinglist” anymore.
• Setting to enable/disable the preview feature on Create Newsletter screen.
• Subscriber management section validation improvements.

Fixed

• Captcha not usable when Really Simple Captcha plugin is not installed.
• Countdown script can’t find variable ‘performance’ Javascript error.
• Help icons text-indent was causing a horizontal scroll in some browsers.
• Bit.ly shortlinks issue when using the built-in link/click tracking feature.
• “Apply to Existing Subscribers?” autoresponder emails weren’t sending out.
• [wpmlmailinglist] shortcode didn’t show in post/page title when sent as newsletter.
• Recurring newsletters not saving when sending/queuing immediately without draft first.
• Javascript support for French strings with single quotes in them.
• Email align and hspace settings not working since WordPress 3.6
• Offsite iFrame “Please select a list” error message.
• Registered not updated to Yes when creating a user from subscriber.
• Incorrect lists under Emails Sent when viewing history email.
• POP3 variables by reference.
• Admin notifications subject shortcodes incorrect values.
• Groups not available and other group related issues.
• DKIM wizard selector empty on first run.
• “Close Window” button was showing for offsite iFrame code.
• Really Simple Captcha plugin issues and bugs.