Version 7.1
the WordPress mailing platform
First Things First
Welcome. MailPress is a very special project to me and I'm proud to be a part of it ;-). Lot of hours have gone into MailPress, and I am dedicated to making it better every day. Thank you for making it part of your world.
— André Renaut
System requirements
- PHP version 7.0 or higher
- WordPress version 5.0 or higher
- PHP functions
proc_open() must be available
- PHP extensions
simplexml and intl must be available
MailPress 7.1 is using swiftmailer 6.1.3.
Description
- Style your html and plain text mails with dedicated themes and templates.
- Newsletters/Post notifications on a per post, daily, weekly, monthly basis.
- Subscriptions to Comments, Newsletters/Post notifications and even to Mailing lists.
- Support international emails
- Support Dkim or S/Mime
- and much more, for free !
Installation
- Before any installation, make sure you have a smtp server available (supports smtp (default) or sendmail).
- Have all informations to access to this server at hand.
- The installation process is like any other plugin.
- Once activated, go to "Settings > MailPress", fill and save the settings for each tab (General, (Connection to your mail server), Test, ...
- Once everything is set, use the Test tab in "Settings > MailPress" to validate your settings (your first mail with MailPress)
- You can also install the MailPress widget on your front page : "Appearance > Widgets".
- Just browse the different MailPress admin screens, read the help in the help tab for each screen.
- Now that you are familiar with this plugin, you can visit "Plugins > MailPress Add-ons" to add options to your plugin (may be you already did it to activate sendmail).
- I wisely recommand to activate add-ons one by one, and see what are the changes in the MailPress settings admin panel, in the help, etc ...
Upgrading
WordPress automatic upgrade is a delete and replace process !
- Deactivate all MailPress Add-ons
- Save or Back-up any customized file (if any)
- Deactivate the plugin
- Upgrade
- Restore any customized files (if any)
- Activate plugin and add-ons
MailPress themes and templates do not need to be changed if customized in a previous MailPress release.
Resources
If you have any questions that aren't addressed in this document, please take advantage of MailPress numerous online resources:
- Readme.txt
- Read the
readme.txt of MailPress
- MailPress google group
- The MailPress google group. See the Welcome page.
Some Add-ons
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Autoresponders
Autoresponders ( based on wp-cron ).
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Newsletters
Allow subscription to newsletters for posts, per post, daily, weekly, monthly ...
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Mailing lists
Need to organize the emails inserted into MailPress and/or let your users to choose which mailing lists they subscribe to, based on WordPress taxonomy concept (post categories, link categories, tags).
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Tracking
Track your mails will report opening rate, clicks generated and much more.
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Synchronize with WordPress
If you want to synchronize MailPress with your WordPress registered users.
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Batch send
Your website becomes more and more successful, you have now plenty of subscribers, processing a large number of recipients becomes an issue ! , use the Batch_send add-on.
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Bounce handling
Process your mail bounces with Bounce_handing_II add-on.
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User Roles
If you need to set Capabilities in MailPress, use this add-on.
You can read more about Roles and Capabilities on the Codex.
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SMTP, Sendmail ... SMTPUTF8
Natively, MailPress support SMTP connections to your mail server, however you can switch to Sendmail.
Final notes
- If you have any suggestions, ideas, comments, or if you (gasp!) found a bug, join the MailPress community in the MailPress google group.
Share the Love
MailPress has no multi-million euro marketing campaign or celebrity sponsors, but do have something even better—you. If you enjoy MailPress please consider telling a friend, setting it up for someone less knowledgable than yourself, or writing a post on MailPress.
And thank you for your (financial) support.