Sunday, August 21, 2016
How to create a Drupal 7 newsletter with HTML email formatting
How to create a Drupal 7 newsletter with HTML email formatting
Enable Simplenews (and dependencies):
drush en -y simplenews mimemail mailsystem htmlmail
drush updatedb
Configure Simplenews to use HTML format and default send action is to "Send newsletter":
/admin/config/services/simplenews/settings
Configure your custom newsletter content type to use HTML format:
/admin/config/services/simplenews/categories/
Give "Subscribe to newsletters" and "Choose to receive plaintext emails via HTML Mail" permissions to all roles and give the remaining Simplenews permissions to Content Administrators (or other desired role):
/admin/people/permissions
Additional secret-decoder-ring configuration:
https://www.drupal.org/node/1283756#comment-5733262
Add newsletter subscribe block to desired theme section:
/admin/structure/block
Logout of site and subscribe via block from previous step. P.S. You can also auto-populate subscribers here:
/admin/people/simplenews
Login to site and create newsletter:
/node/add/simplenews
Send newsletter to queue (by clicking the "Newsletter" tab of the newly created node):
/node/
Run cron to process the queue (may need to run multiple times if number of recipients is greater than "cron throttle" setting on /admin/config/services/simplenews/settings/mail):
/admin/reports/status/run-cron
P.S. Its better to use real cron instead of Drupals default poormanscron.
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