Daily Posts…

Hi Laura.lee

Thank you for your message. Have you tried the latest post function? You don’t have to insert any shortcode to a newsletter in order to send latest posts. Here’s documentation on it: https://docs.tribulant.com/wordpress-mailing-list-plugin/1730
This feature sends out latest posts on a predefined interval. It already includes your thumbnails and excerpt etc.

Please let me know if you need any help on this?

Regards
Marietha

Thank you! I think your plug-in is excellent… and I would give it “rave reviews”. It’s just that I would so love it… if I really could choose:

Group by Category Yes No
Group posts by category, each set with a category heading and link.

On my site, I host some of my favorite YT Channels- and have their newest posts automatically uploaded to my site as a new post. Each YT Channel has their own category.

I really wanted to have a category heading as above in the newsletter. Appreciate the plugin, but that option is not working for me. When I “click it”… posts are eliminated from the newsletter “for no particular reason”. ??

So, I was going to create a newsletter with short-code so I could have that category heading… rather than my posts(my articles on website and my own new YT vids) strung all throughout the newsletter (mixed up with my hosted YT channel vids) rather than on top of the newsletter.

I did find an “interim fix” with the auto newsletter that makes me happy enough I won’t go to the trouble of shortcodes.

I changed the author to the hosted YT vids (using Automatic Youtube Video Posts plug-in… in case anyone reading this later has an interest to do what I do)… to an author name “after my name” in alphabetical order.

Then, I changed the sort on the newsletter to author name.

So, now my articles and vids do appear in the newsletter on top of the newsletter with hosted vids by other channels after my posts in order of appearance.

So, I am happy with how that is working out now in the auto newsletter function.

I tried out “most” of the newsletter plugins from www.remarpro.com (can’t say “all”)… and yours by far and away for my purposes was the best. I was able to personalize my own theme and make it a saved new theme. I switched to “standard” as the theme used for all created newsletters… and I couldn’t be happier.

I am not “Miss Deep Pockets”… and my website has to “pay for itself” in order for me to do upgrades to it in purchasing plugins. Right now, I do small donations because I do make a little bit of money from my website (not much)… and my website does “pay for itself” right now (the income I receive pays for my $50 monthly internet bill… (there is nothing cheaper here in the mountains… lol)… and my $20 month Managed WordPress hosting… and my annual domain name cost. Above and beyond that… very limited what my income right now from my site is in a month. So, I just give little $2-5 donations for plug in authors.

I’m just not in a position where I can buy pro plug-ins for all the plug-ins I use right now.

But, I just started using this plug-in… and I want you to know it’s awesome!

There might be a “few little fixes” (like above) or a “few little things” you could do to make it absolutely above and beyond… but I still say it is an awesome newsletter plug-in… beyond what I thought “I could find” on www.remarpro.com.

So, that’s what the issue is… that “for me”… for whatever reason…

Group by Category Yes No
Group posts by category, each set with a category heading and link.

… causes posts to disappear that should have been in the daily schedule according to categories checked as choices to pull posts into the newsletter. If you have an answer on that… (or if it’s “just me” with my plug-in configuration… ???… sometimes one plug-in can “mess up” another plug-in, I’ve learned)… great! Otherwise, no worries, I found a way where I am happy with the automatic post feature (sorting by author name).

Thank you for your work and a great plug-in…. and, Lordwilling, I’ll buy the pro version if/when I can!

Have a blessed day,

Laura Lee

Hi Laura Lee

Thank you for your message, we appreciate it.

We are not aware of any bug on latest post group by category. I just test it again on our development site and it seems fine. It do show posts by category with category heading and posts below. It’s not eliminating any posts from latest post newsletter.

Is it possible to give me more information of which posts are not showing in the latest post newsletter?

Regards
Marietha

Hi Marietha,

I have 8 categories selected for the newsletter.

For the next daily newsletter, when sorting by author, the max I set of 20 articles appear. (Busy news day! All other YT channels I host! ??

When I switch to By Category… every last one of them… “disappears”. Goes to zero.

I noticed that when I first tried to set it up… different themes for the newsletter produced different results in what would appear with the same selection criteria. (I am currently using a customized – with my info – Night Life theme for newsletters.)

If you are using multiple categories… and not having the same problem…huh. I am using Enigma Theme… and a number of plugins.

So, maybe it is my set up then. (Unless you do a test with more categories and posts using that theme… and find something on your side.)

For now, I’ll accept this “as is” on this issue… and not take up your time.

Maybe it’s just my configuration that creates a “glitch” on my side… and I don’t think it’s really fair to take up your time in an issue that’s “just me”. ??

Thanks!

Laura Lee

Hi Laura Lee

Thank you. It’s no problem. Do you set latest posts up under Newsletter>Configuration- latest post subscription?

If you need me to have a look at your issue, you are more than welcome to open a ticket with WordPress login details and a link to investigate it https://tribulant.com/support ?

Regards
Marietha

Hi Marietha,

To send out the automatic daily posts… I am happy enough with that function. When sending out an automatic digest of daily posts… sorting it by author does work.

Also, I practiced more on the “Create Newsletter” function. It is very nice. Because I can insert a personal note… I can create the Category Headings there just typing them in.

I did now learn “how to” use the “multiple posts” function… to sort by date… to state the # of posts to insert. (It just takes me only a little time to adjust the number for the # of posts that actually “came across” during the 24 hour cycle.)

Anyway, I really like that. It’s not “automatic’… but it is nice because I can add my own special notes things there… interject a certain article to highlight it also… highlight my ebook store and my free ebooks.

So, now that I understand the “Create a Newsletter” function better… I may actually prefer to do that at times… or mostly.

Marietha, thank you so much for your kindness and your wonderful support here… and even through a question I asked on your site!

I think your newsletter is “the best”… and I may do an article on my site to “tell people about it”. It seems really “under-loaded”. Like, I think it’s a shame that this plug in isn’t getting more downloads as a newsletter plug-in. You have done such phenomenal work… and your support and your team is awesome!!

Sincerely,
Laura Lee

@laura.lee

I’m happy to see that Marietha has helped you with this.

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