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• Swiftmailer 4.1.7
• bug fix : subscription form now working when javascript or ajax not activated
• Code Reviews & changes
  • newsletter xml files path and name changed + some scheduler and processor ids (read Upgrade Notice)
  • use of checked() function
  • mp themes review + new mp theme TwentyTwelve
  • New Mail > new way to add mailinglists (see 3 new add-ons)
  • new ip geolocation provider : quova.com (required : 2 constants MP_Ip_quova_ApiKey & MP_Ip_quova_Secret)
  • useragent search engine, datas, icons, new tracking modules
• Add-Ons
  • MailPress_comment : now subscription to comments can be checked by default (see settings)
  • MailPress_tracking : new modules for mail & user (System info II + Domain recipients)
  • New MailPress_embed : Mail oEmbed (equivalent of WordPress video embedding but for mails)
  • New MailPress_comment_newsletter_subscription : Subscribe to a default newsletter from comment form
  • New MailPress_mailinglist_country_code : New Mail > add mailing lists based on country code (beware ! IP geolocation search is not 100% accurate)
  • New  MailPress_mailinglist_US_state : New Mail > add mailing lists based on US State (beware ! IP geolocation search is not 100% accurate)
  • New  MailPress_mailinglist_user_role : New Mail > add mailing lists based on wp user roles (beware ! Sync_wordpress_user add-on STRONGLY required)
  • New  MailPress_wp_fromemail : New Mail > FROM email & name replaced by current user wp values
  • New  MailPress_write_edit_fromemail : New Mail > make FROM email and name editable (info ! use Roles_and_capabilities add-on for fine tuning new capability ‘MailPress_write_edit_fromemail’)
• Custom Post Types
  • Due to custom post type integration, if you have any xml newsletter customized file in your MailPress installation, you will need to be cautious (path changed). Read this post.

After making several tests, we finally made it with some changes in the mailpress code.

1. Code modifications
   
   will be included in MailPress 5.3 .
   
   
2. New MailPress add-on (force_qp)
3. New MailPress theme (simplehtml)

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nb : this blog is using WP 3.3.2

WordPress embeds videos and photos in posts from sites such as youtube, dailymotion etc … (more on WordPress embedding)
New add-on Embed, is using some WP ressources, to embed videos and photos using thumbnails when provided by the oembed hosts api

such as this one (click on post link to see how it renders in WP) :

About custom post type integration

With MailPress 5.3, custom post type and taxonomies integration is made possible.
This following zip contains all necessary files + sample add-ons to set up a custom post type (ad_listing) and a related taxonomy (ad_cat).
read the “How to custom post type + taxonomy.txt” file.

As stated in the readme.txt file that few of you are reading …, do the followings when doing your MailPress upgrade :

1. Point your browser to “Plugins > MailPress Add-ons” page and deactivate all add ons.
2. Point your browser to “Plugins” page and deactivate MailPress plugin.
3. If you have any customized file, Save or Back-up mailpress/tmp folder + any customized file (mp theme, etc …) :
   • standards newsletters xml files have their path changed : mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/post/ (formerly mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/)
   • post newsletter xml file has its path & name changed : mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/post/post.xml (formerly mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/new_post.xml)
   • category newsletters xml file(s) have their path changed : mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/post/categories (formerly mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/categories)
   • scheduler id post_cat is renamed in post_category
   • processor id now is renamed in post
4. Delete wp-content/plugins/mailpress folder.
5. Unzip the MailPress package.
6. Upload the mailpress folder into wp-content/plugins.
7. Make sure the wp-content/plugins/mailpress/tmp folder is writable.
8. Restore mailpress/tmp folder + your MP theme+ any customized file (mp theme, etc …) (read step 3 for any mailpress/mp-content/advanced/newsletters/ restore)
9. Refresh “Plugins” page and activate MailPress plugin
10. Activate MailPress previous add-ons (Plugins > MailPress Add-ons)

About custom post type integration

With MailPress 5.3, custom post type and taxonomies integration is made possible.
This following zip contains all necessary files + sample add-ons to set up a custom post type (ad_listing) and a related taxonomy (ad_cat).
read the “How to custom post type + taxonomy.txt” file.

• Switmailer 4.1.5
• bug fix : subscription form now working when javascript or ajax not activated
• Code Reviews & changes
  • use of checked() function
  • mp themes review + new mp theme TwentyTwelve
  • New Mail > new way to add mailinglists (see 3 new add-ons)
  • new ip geolocation provider : quova.com (required : 2 constants MP_Ip_quova_ApiKey & MP_Ip_quova_Secret)
  • useragent search engine, datas, icons, new tracking modules
• Add-Ons
  • MailPress_comment : now subscription to comments can be checked by default (see settings)
  • MailPress_tracking : new modules for mail & user (System info II + Domain recipients)
  • !!NEW!! MailPress_comment_newsletter_subscription : Subscribe to a default newsletter from comment form
  • !!NEW!! MailPress_mailinglist_country_code : New Mail > add mailing lists based on country code (beware ! IP geolocation search is not 100% accurate)
  • !!NEW!! MailPress_mailinglist_US_state : New Mail > add mailing lists based on US State (beware ! IP geolocation search is not 100% accurate)
  • !!NEW!! MailPress_mailinglist_user_role : New Mail > add mailing lists based on wp user roles (beware ! Sync_wordpress_user add-on STRONGLY required)
  • !!NEW!! MailPress_wp_fromemail : New Mail > FROM email & name replaced by current user wp values
  • !!NEW!! MailPress_write_edit_fromemail : New Mail > make FROM email and name editable (info ! use Roles_and_capabilities add-on for fine tuning new capability ‘MailPress_write_edit_fromemail’)
• Custom Post Types
  • preparing dedicated “newsletters for custom post type” integration …

mysql_real_escape_string(): 25 is not a valid MySQL- Link resource in …

This happens on some configurations when trying to send and definitely save a draft mail !

Here is the code sequence :

1) Disconnect from mysql database
2) Send Mail
3) Re connect to database
4) Save Mail definitely !

so step 4 is bugging and i believe this is due to some bug on step 3 for some configurations.
Connection/deconnection code used is available here : http://goo.gl/hKCVW
If anyone have found how to fix this, please share your solution.

Changes from MailPress 5.2.1 are the followings :

• generalization of checked() function
• bug fix : subscription form now working when javascript or ajax not activated
• Add-Ons
  • MailPress_comment : now subscription to comments can be checked by default (see settings)
  • MailPress_mailinglist_country_code : !!NEW!! New Mail : add mailing lists based on country code (beware ! IP geolocation search is not 100% accurate)
  • MailPress_mailinglist_US_state : !!NEW!! New Mail : add mailing lists based on US State (beware ! IP geolocation search is not 100% accurate)
  • MailPress_mailinglist_user_role : !!NEW!! New Mail : add mailing lists based on wp user roles (beware ! Sync_wordpress_user add-on STRONGLY required)
  • MailPress_wp_fromemail : !!NEW!! New Mail : FROM email & name replaced by current user wp values
  • MailPress_write_edit_fromemail : !!NEW!! New Mail : make FROM email and name editable (info ! use Roles_and_capabilities add-on for fine tuning new capability ‘MailPress_write_edit_fromemail’)
• IP geolocation provider
  • new : quova.com (required : 2 constants MP_Ip_quova_ApiKey & MP_Ip_quova_Secret)
• Custom Post Types
  • preparing dedicated “newsletters for custom post type” integration …

MailPress 5.3-alpha can be downloaded here.

About dedicated custom post type newsletters integration, extra code is required.
A new add-on, some xml files, specific scheduler and processor and eventually specific theme templates.
For documentation purpose, you can download the following file containing the required files to integrate a custom post type named “cpt” and a readme_cpt.txt file.
Download Custom Post Type Newsletter sample code (133)