Newsletter 4.4 Release Notes

Added

• Filters in the email queue section
• See queued emails count when viewing sent/draft emails individually
• Prevent autoresponder creationg when manually adding subscribers in admin
• Checkbox to specify Ajax queuing/sending progress while creating newsletter
• See all unsubscribes history
• Built-in, daily cron to optimize the database tables
• Button to open latest posts preview in a new window/tab
• Export delimiter setting for CSV
• Empty index.php file in plugin folder to prevent indexing of files
• Insert anchor links with “name” attribute from TinyMCE
• Custom hidden field that takes any value, editable by admin
• Archive sent emails older than X days to a flat file
• “Continue editing” checkbox in all save sections of admin
• Show Unsubscribe users to delete
• Display attached files from newsletter on published post

Improved

• More action/filter hooks
• Improved publish newsletter as post behaviour
• Prioritise emails in the queue without an existing error on them
• Check custom fields on subscribers table when clicking “Check/optimize database”
• MySQL optimization of tables with indexes
• Tabs under Import/Export section in admin for easier navigation
• Queue, import, etc… performance improvements
• Columns in Newsletters > Subscribers section should reflect in order of custom fields
• Improved help tooltips design
• View/Edit buttons per history email under Newsletters > Overview section
• Change ‘init’ hook priority to 11 for compatibility
• Change dashboard widget stats chart/graph to 14 days to prevent clutter
• “Edit” button in dashboard widget latest emails
• Improvements when upgrading from very old version
• New, improved TinyMCE button and interfaces
• Remove unused font files
• Hidden custom fields should be editable by admin
• Move bounce “Server Type” setting into CGI bounce DIV
• Only fire wp_schecule_single_event once, on first activation
• Put background:none; on offsite code iframe
• Mark email as read if a user clicks a link inside it

Fixed

• Ajax progress queuing/sending to users broken
• Clicks section bulk actions not working
• “Send Now” link to user from the email queue doesn’t work
• Database error when queuing to only users, no mailing lists
• Cannot turn off captcha on hardcoded forms
• Language files don’t load with different plugin folder name
• Post excerpt shortcode no longer working
• Export subscribers to CSV generates HTML code at the end of the file
• Subscriber validation fails on special characters like é
• Associated records not deleted when parent is deleted
• Newsletters lite admin bar menu shows up on multi-site
• “Delete Subscriber on Unsubscribe” not working as it should.