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Child Themes, Help admin bar, … Continue reading →

WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 2 just released … I release today MailPress 5.2 RC 2 for testers : Continue reading →

WordPress 3.3 Release Candidate 1 just released … I release today MailPress 5.2 RC 1 for testers : Continue reading →

WordPress 3.3 beta 4 just released in trunk … I release today MailPress 5.2 beta 4b for beta testers : Continue reading →

We all have our method, for sure, but for the MailPress theme developpers who are still looking for the best (and fastest) method, here is mine

1. add manual Template to mp theme
2. create a Draft with your mp theme
3. activate Post add-on
4. edit Posts and assign them to Draft
5. preview Draft
6. Open Html part in tab
7. Modify your mp theme
8. Refresh html
9. Et voilà !

Steps 1 to 4 : to set up the environment, steps 5 to 6 : to build the mail, steps 7 to 8 : to iterate as much as needed.

Using the Post add-on and the manual template give you the ability to test both _loom.php and _loop.php files.

Browser is slow but video capture + apache + mysql + firefox & firebug + powerpoint + netbeans (editor) is hard time for my old pc (pentium 4!) .

Every year, i donate back some money from the few donations i receive from MailPress users. Continue reading →

On child themes :

In MailPress 5.2,
in mp-content/themes there are now 6 folders : Continue reading →

Still waiting for 3.3 RC1 that should be released in the coming days … Continue reading →

3.3 RC1 has been delayed [see schedule (but they are doing a great job)], WordPress 3.3 beta 3 just released … Continue reading →

The previous post was about “Disabling wp-cron scheduled by wordpress”.
But you may need to fine tune one or all of your MailPress batches and execute them out of wp-cron.

For each batch [batch_send, bounces or the newcomer delete_old_mails (ver 5.2)], here is the step by step “how to”.
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