WPSponsorship
This is the core of the “Sponsorship” software. This allows blog users to send E-mails to a list of contacts of their choice. The content of the E-mails are controlled by the admin. They can contain links, html, photos etc. For example, by adding a link to an article in the E-mail body you can creat
This is the core of the “Sponsorship” software. This allows blog users to send E-mails to a list of contacts of their choice.
The content of the E-mails are controlled by the admin. They can contain links, html, photos etc. For example, by adding a link to an article in the E-mail body you can create a powerful article sharing page where a visitor can share the link with his E-mail contacts. Another example could be to create a small invitations page where the visitor lists the people to invite and the admin customizes the content.
This is meant to be a base to build on! So be creative!
The content in the E-mail follows a pre-built template (Photo in Screenshots tab). The admin has control over the colors, links and text.
If you are interested, we have some extensions we built ourselves at http://www.wp-inbound.com/wpsponsorship/.
Before you get started, you will need an SMTP server. Alternatively, you can use your Gmail account as an SMTP server if you wish. For more information check out this link: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-google-s-smtp-server.
Other great SMTP hosts are turboSMTP (http://www.serversmtp.com/) and MANDRILL (https://www.mandrill.com/). Set up is quick, easy and free.
A closer look.
(If you are unfamiliar with downloading plugins, consult this : https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins.)
To get started, the admin must configure the settings on the pages “Mail Format” and “Mail Settings”. Once that is done, create
a new page in any menu you like and put the following shortcode:
[Sponsorship sender_submit=”Submit info” contact_submit=”Submit Contact” email_submit=”Send Invitations”].
Each parameter is the text displayed in the submit buttons. Launch as is to get a feel for it, then change the text to your taste.
All emails sent out are saved in the database under prefix email_contacts (the emails receivers) and prefix email_sender (the email senders). The emails are being sent using ‘SwiftMailer’, an open source software simplifying the E-mail sending process.
