Forcing campaigns to send on a schedule

  • Resolved brucedwilliams

    (@brucedwilliams)


    2 years, 6 months ago

    My problem is that I have a “newsletter” with the following content:

    1) latest posts to the site
    2) upcoming events as output by the Event Calendar Newsletter plugin from The Events Calendar plugin (see https://eventcalendarnewsletter.com/docs/mailpoet-support/)

    MailPoet ONLY triggers sending of the “newsletter” when new posts have been created, not when upcoming events are output by the Event Calendar Newsletter plugin. IOW, if there are upcoming events present but no new posts, the “newsletter” email doesn’t get sent. That isn’t the behavior that I want.

    Ideally, MailPoet would check for both new posts to the site and content generated by the Event Calendar Newsletter plugin shortcode. The “newsletter” would then be sent if EITHER new posts or upcoming events were present. I suspect that is not possible, though.

    A compromise would be to force the “newsletter” to send on a schedule (for example, every week on Thursday at 10pm) regardless of whether there were new posts or not. This would include any upcoming events that are otherwise getting missed.

    Anyone know if this compromise solution is possible? From regarding the MailPoet documentation, it appears that there is not an option to force a “newsletter” to send even if there are no new posts. Am I missing something?

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by brucedwilliams. Reason: Clarify the issue
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  • Plugin Support Gui A. a11n

    (@guicmazeredo)

    Hi there @brucedwilliams,

    Indeed, Latest Post Notifications emails will only be triggered if new posts have been published since your last post notification email was sent.

    What you could do is create newsletters with the Automatic Latest Content widget, and schedule them to send when you want. This widget allows you to select to display Posts, Pages, Media, Products, or other Custom Post Types registered on your site. Note that we only support custom post types that are searchable on the front-end. If the events created by the Events Calendar plugin are a custom post type, the newsletter should include them whenever there are new events published.

    If that’s not the case, this is not possible with the MailPoet plugin out of the box indeed.

    However, it might be possible with some custom code to integrate both plugins and make them work the way you want. If you need help with custom code, you can reach out to someone from Codeable: https://codeable.io.

    Thread Starter brucedwilliams

    (@brucedwilliams)

    Configuring my email as a “newsletter” won’t solve this issue as there is no recurring option in that case. This email needs to go out on a weekly basis, not just once.

    Plugin Support Gui A. a11n

    (@guicmazeredo)

    Configuring my email as a “newsletter” won’t solve this issue as there is no recurring option in that case. This email needs to go out on a weekly basis, not just once.

    I understand it’s not an ideal solution. To achieve what you want, developing a custom integration would be necessary, I’m afraid.

    You’re also welcome to add it as a suggestion here?https://feedback.mailpoet.com

    Our team will take it into account when discussing new features and improvements for the plugin ??

    Thank you!

    Plugin Support Ojoma a11n

    (@geraltrivia)

    Hello @brucedwilliams

    We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to mark this as resolved – if you have any further questions, you can start a new thread.

    Have a great day.

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