Simplenews

In this series you will learn how to setup Simplenews to run one or more newsletters from your Drupal site.

Videos in this series

Installation

In this video we will simply install and enable the simplenews and administration menu modules. I'll be using the standard installation profile of Drupal for this video series.

 

Default Simplenews Settings

In this video we will set some defaults to use when creating newsletters, set an address to use for test newsletters and set the default "from name" and email address.

 

User Account Settings

In this video we will tell Simplenews what to do with a newsletter subscription when a user account is blocked or disabled, we will configure the subscribe and unsubscribe email text and we will decide where to send a user after they subscribe or unsubscribe from a newsletter.

 

Sending Newsletters

In this video we will decide whether or not to use cron to send newsletters, as well as how many should be sent on each cron run.

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Configure the Default Newsletter Category

In this video we will configure the newsletter category that is automatically created when we install the Simplenews module.

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Create a Newsletter

In this video we will create our first newsletter!

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Sending Your First Test Newsletter

In this video we will send our first test newsletter!

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Configuring the Subscription Blocks

In this video we will display the subscription blocks so that users can subscribe to our newsletter!

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Managing Multiple Newsletters

In this video we will create another newsletter category and explore the differences involved with having more than one newsletter on our site!

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User Permissions

In this video we will configure the user permissions so that anonymous and authenticated users can subscribe to our newsletter!

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Managing Your Subscriber Base

In this video we will explore the ways we can add, remove, import and export users to and from our newsletter lists!

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Sending Your Newsletter

In part 7, we sent our first test newsletter. Now that we have some subscribers, we're ready to send out the real thing.

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Including HTML Links in Plain Text Newsletters

In this video we will explore the two ways of handling HTML links in plain text newsletters.

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Sending Newsletters as HTML

In this video we will start sending our newsletters as HTML.

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HTML Links and Images in Newsletters

Now, it's time to install the necessary modules to make our newsletters look like HTML.

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Using a wysiwyg for Newsletter Creation

In this video we will be installing a wysiwyg editor so that we can include links, images, and other HTML code without having to actually know HTML.

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Installing Necessary Modules For Email Theming

In this video, we will install the modules required in order to apply a theme to our newsletters.

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Applying a Theme to Our Simplenews Emails

In this video, we will apply a theme to our newsletters.

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Creating a Custom Theme for Simplenews Emails

In this video, we will create a very basic theme to use for our simplenews emails.

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