Send out weekly emails

katmac

Is there a way to automatically send out a newsletter each week? For example lets I have a newsletter with this code in it:

[wpmlsnippet id="1"]

[wpmlposts numberposts="3" showdate="N" eftype="excerpt" orderby="post_date" order="ASC" category="0" post_type=""]

The 3 latest posts are dynamically created. It would be great if this template could be used as a template that gets automatically sent every Friday for example, sending out the 3 most recent posts from that week.

Are there any facilities like this currently?

admin

Hello Kat,

Thank you for getting in contact with us.

Yes, that can be achieved with the Newsletter Plugin.

Under the plugin configuration you will find the "Latest Posts Subscription" section as you can see here: http://screencast.com/t/rfpxv5yKyD

You can modify the feature settings and schedule an automatic post to be sent once a week: http://screencast.com/t/H6XktrYq2G

Please let us know if that`s what you were looking for ok?

All the best!

AndrewG

Hi Admin,

I was looking at doing a similar weekly email, only I was wondering instead of specifying the number of posts, you could specify posts for the coming week. 

I am using Events Calendar Pro and you can select the Events custom post type events but I am wanting to send out a weekly email containing events occurring that week automatically, or maybe just all upcoming events limited to a certain number of events

Any help you can provide will be great

Thanks

Andrew

[Deleted User]

Hi Andrew

You can create a normal Newsletter: Newsletters> Create Newsletter. 

You can set up a future schedule or recurring schedule: http://screencast.com/t/wr8Wkhvuvk9y

With Insert into Newsletter>Insert Post you can easily post the events with shortcodes: http://screencast.com/t/fy8KFtJzf9l

Please let me know if this help? Feel free to ask more questions if not clear about the Newsletter Plugin.

Regards

Marietha

AndrewG

Yes i see that option, but i would have to select which posts to insert

[wpmlpost post_id="1401" showdate="N" eftype="full"]
[wpmlpost post_id="1430" showdate="N" eftype="full"]

I want to have it automatically insert posts for events without having to select them each week

AndrewG

I was playing around with email snippets and got this shortcode

[wpmlposts numberposts="10" orderby="post_date" showdate="N" eftype="full" order="ASC" category="0" post_type="tribe_events"]

It almost does what I need, It lists the titles of the upcoming events but not the content in them

Also both Events have the same link for some reason and they go to 404 error

AndrewG

I hadn't heard anything back for a while any ideas?

AndrewG

i tried to list the events using a custom shortcode which works in wordpress posts, but in the newsletter it just displays the shortcode like this - [do action="upcoming-events"], is there a way to enable the use of wordpress shortcodes in the newsletter

Tribulant

Thank you for your responses.

Where exactly did you insert the [wpmlposts...] shortcode?

Did you put it in the edit of Newsletters > Create Newsletter or somewhere else?

I see that you show it doesn't show the content, just the titles and links.

Do the posts have static content or do they contain shortcodes in them or?

All 3rd party shortcodes from WordPress, other plugins and the theme will be parsed by the Newsletter plugin. If you insert a shortcode anywhere and the Newsletter plugin doesn't parse it, it may mean that the plugin/theme developer is only having the shortcode load on the front-end and that it may not be loading int he admin panel. Can you please check with the author/developer?

I look forward to your response with more details on this.

AndrewG

Yes i put the [wpmlposts...] shortcode in the edit area of create newsletter, they are events calendar pro events posts, they are static content, and they display correctly if I insert them manually as single posts

Tribulant

Thank you for your response, Andrew.

Best would be if you can please submit a ticket to us then we can test it out.

You can do that here: http://tribulant.com/support/

I look forward to hearing from you.