OSTraining Class: Drupal 7 Newsletters
Teacher: Brian Lewis
Released: 06-05-2012
Level: Intermediate

Certificate: Soon you'll be able to get a certificate for this course.

This class covers sending newsletters directly from your Drupal site, using the Simplenews module.

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Setup
Sending
Managing
Theming
Description

This class covers sending newsletters directly from your Drupal site, using the Simplenews module.

Here's an overview of what you'll do in this Simplenews class:

  1. Install and enable the Simplenews and administration menu modules.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Decide whether or not to use cron to send newsletters, as well as how many should be sent on each cron run.
  5. Configure the newsletter category that is automatically created when we install the Simplenews module.
  6. Create our first newsletter.
  7. Send our first test newsletter.
  8. Display the subscription blocks so that users can subscribe to our newsletter.
  9. Create another newsletter category and explore the differences involved with having more than one newsletter on our site.
  10. Configure the user permissions so that anonymous and authenticated users can subscribe to our newsletter.
  11. Explore the ways we can add, remove, import and export users to and from our newsletter lists.
  12. Send out the real newsletter.
  13. Explore the two ways of handling HTML links in plain text newsletters.
  14. Start sending our newsletters as HTML.
  15. Install the necessary modules to make our newsletters look like HTML.
  16. Install a WYSIWYG editor so that we can include links, images, and other HTML code without having to actually know HTML.
  17. Install the modules required in order to apply a theme to our newsletters.
  18. Apply a theme to our newsletters.
  19. Create a theme to use for our newsletters.

 

Teacher
Brian Lewis

I'm not a "proper" techie. I have always enjoyed computers, and probably would have become the best programmer of our time had I not decided to, instead, pursue my other passion, which is music. I started using Drupal in college when D5 was at the end of its life. I dabbled in D6 for a bit, but then had to drop it to finish my degree in Music Education. Now I teach music in the public schools.

I got back into Drupal about a year before D7 was released, so I built a couple of sites in D6, then in January, completely switched over to D7 when it was released. Because I decided to make the switch right away, I was running into a lot of bugs/issues that hadn't been resolved yet. One of those issues was getting Organic Groups (OG) to work in D7. Nobody seemed to be able to figure it out, so I spent weeks scouring the interwebs to find the magical button that would make everything work...

With the videos I made, I realized that I had shown one way to set up OG in D7, but people still had a lot of questions about edge cases. This is when I saw the light, and had the idea to put together an OG series which would be a series of short videos covering the different settings of the module. This format would let me go in-depth into each part of the module so that site builders would then have the knowledge to bend the module to their will. Thus, ModulesUnraveled.com was born!

I'm glad to be sharing these on OSTraining!


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Drupal 7 Organic Groups 05-16-2012
Drupal 7 Newsletters 06-05-2012
Drupal 7 Podcasting 06-07-2012
Drupal 7 Webforms 06-04-2012
Drupal 7 Responsive Images 05-22-2012
Drupal 7 Workbench 12-03-2012
Drupal 7 Pathauto 11-18-2012
Drupal 7 Views Slideshow 01-28-2013
Drupal 7 Backup and Migrate 03-13-2013
Drupal 7 Mollom 03-25-2013
Drupal 7 Scheduler 04-09-2013
Drupal 7 Simplytest.me 04-23-2013
Drupal 7 Video Hosting 05-08-2013

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