Overview
With the MailUp plugin you can easily add a newsletter sign-up form to your Web site or blog, and then send and track email and sms with MailUp
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What it does
- Visitors to your WordPress-powered blog or Web site will be able to subscribe to your newsletter using a configurable sign-up form. Their information will be saved in your MailUp account.
- You will use your MailUp admin console to manage those subscribers, create and send messages to them, view statistics on sent messages, and more.
- The MailUp plugin supports the recommended 'confirmed opt-in' subscription method (i.e. subscriber receives an email with a confirmation link that has to be clicked to confirm the subscription). This method ensures that spam traps or wrong email addresses are never added to your list.
- The unsubscription process will be managed automatically by MailUp (e.g. unsubscribe link in the footer of your messages).
- MailUp supports SMS (text messaging) too, so you can choose to collect a mobile phone number as well.
- It also supports sign-up via a social networking account (additional fees apply: see the MailUp web site for details).
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Please view the video tutorial below:
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Sign-in to your WordPress admin account from your website or blog.
View the Plugins tab and Click on “Add New.”
Search for the "MailUp" plugin on the search tab.
Click on “install now.” and click "yes" to confirm.
Click on "Activate plugin."
Go to the the Appearance section and click on the widgets tab. You can see all the available widgets including the MailUp one.
Drag the MailUp widget into the main sidebar.
You can now go to your website and check that the MailUp newsletter plugin is installed.
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The setup page will be displayed.
Configure the settings in each section as described below. Please note that all the data required to configure the plugin is available in your MailUp console under "Settings > Codes Table".
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Feature | Description | Default Value | Example |
Console host | MailUp console URL |
| abcd.sp09.it |
Subscribe path | Subscription page name and path (do not modify this entry) | /frontend/xmlSubscribe.aspx |
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Plugin Title | Subscription form title shown where the widget is placed |
| "Sign up for our newsletter!" |
Description | Text shown under the title |
| “Enter your information and press SEND”Sign Up” |
Select preloaded CSS for widget | Select one of four predefined styles. [1] |
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Submit Button | Text used for the submit button | “SIGN UP” | "Sign Up" |
Request confirmation by email | Asks new subscribers to confirm their subscription via email (recommended) | Checked |
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Select which List in your MailUp account the new subscriber will be added to. MailUp accounts support multiple lists, but you can only add site visitors to one List (and optionally one Group within the List) using this widget.
Field | Description |
List ID (REQUIRED) | Numeric list identifier. You can locate the ID in your MailUp console under "Settings > Codes Table". |
List displayed name (NOT REQUIRED) | Not currently in use |
Group ID (NOT REQUIRED) | Numeric group Group identifier within the list. You can locate the IDs in your MailUp console under "Settings > Codes Table". You can add the same person to multiple groups by entering multiple IDs separated with a ";" |
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- Check "Show" to show the field in the widget
- Check "Req." to make the field required
- The field code must match a valid field code in your MailUp console. "Email" and "sms" should not be altered. The other field codes can be any of the field codes available in your MailUp console, and they can be located under "Settings > Codes Table". For example, you could ask for First and Last Name.
- You can use as few as 1 field and as many as 4 fields. In the example below, 3 4 fields are used.
Here is how the plugin looks by default on customer-facing pages:
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