G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager Plugin
This WordPress email list management plugin allows the visitors of your blog subscribe to your mailing list using a double opt-in method. The signup form (Email, Name and other fields) is placed on the WordPress blog sidebar. After a user fills in the form and clicks “Subscribe”, WP double opt-in plugin sends an email with the subscription confirmation link to the user.
If the user confirms his subscription, the plugin sends a welcome email to the new subscriber. You can choose yourself whether to send a welcome email to the user or not. The plugin includes a default pre-compiled welcome message text. You can modify it to fit your marketing needs so you can generate profits from your signup process.
The details of new subscribers are saved to the internal WordPress database. You can manage the mailing list inside WordPress and export the list for the further use in G-Lock EasyMail. You can connect directly to your WordPress subscribers from G-Lock EasyMail address book and send an email to them without the need to export-import the list.
If the user unsubscribes from your list, the plugin marks the user as “Unsubscribed” in your WordPress database. You can also choose the option to send the user a notification that his email address was successfully unsubscribed.
You can also use the plugin to convert your blog RSS feed into an email newsletter and send it out to your subscribers. You can design the style and content of your email newsletter yourself and you can schedule your email broadcast weekly, monthly or as soon as you add a certain number of new posts to your blog.
WP Newsletter Plugin Features
- users can subscribe to your mailing list from your blog;
- users can update their subscription details and unsubscribe;
- sends a subscription confirmation email to the user;
- sends a welcome email to each new subscriber (optional);
- sends an unsubscribe notification to the user (optional);
- sends a subscribe/unsubscribe event notification to the blog admin (optional);
- saves the subscriber’s details to your internal WordPress database;
- can show the subscription report on your blog dashboard either in the activity box (Right Now) or in the separate widget (optional);
- provides you with the unsubscribe link that you can copy and paste into your newsletter (WP-Admin -> Manage -> Subscribers);
- can automatically delete users who did not confirm their subscription within 7 days since the subscription date (optional);
- can work with either your default mail settings (sendmail) or using a custom SMTP server;
- you can customize the signup form as you like (add fields, remove fields, re-order fields);
- you can merge custom fields such as blog name, blog URL, subscriber’s name, subscription time and others into your confirmation and welcome messages as well as into your broadcast email newsletter. Plus, you can merge these fields into your mass emails if you connect to your WP subscribers from our G-Lock EasyMail.
- you can build own in-house permission based email list using a double opt-in subscription method;
- you can manage your opt-in mailing list inside WordPress (unsubscribe or delete users);
- you can export your mailing list from WordPress;
- you can connect to your subscribers stored in WordPress directly from G-Lock EasyMail address book and send an email to them without export-import;
- you can convert your blog RSS feed into an email newsletter and send it to your subscribers;
- you can schedule your email broadcast weekly, monthly or as you add new posts;
- you have a full control under your email newsletter design and content.
WP Double Opt-In Newsletter Plugin Download
Version: 2.6.4 What’s New
File size: 282 kbytes (.zip file)
Format: sidebar, widget, plugin for WordPress v3.0+
IMPORTANT: PHP 5 required!
Download G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager Plugin
WordPress Newsletter Plugin Installation
- Extract the files from the g-lock-double-opt-in-manager.zip archive
- Upload the complete plugin folder /g-lock-double-opt-in-manager/, contained in the zip file, to your WP plugin directory via FTP . If there is no /g-lock-double-opt-in-manager/ root folder in the zip file, create one in your WordPress plugins/ folder.
- Go to your WordPress Admin panel -> Plugins and activate the double opt-in plugin
- Go to Design -> Widgets and add the new G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager plugin to the sidebar
- Click Save Changes
To put the signup form at any place on your post or page, use this shortcode (without spaces):
[gsom - optin]
If your theme doesn’t use widgets, do this:
- Go to your WP Admin panel
- Go to Design – > Theme Editor
- Put the code into your template where you want the signup form to show up:
<?php if (function_exists('gsom_put_form')) gsom_put_form(); ?>
WP Double Opt-In Plugin Configuration
WP Opt-In plugin is pre-configured by default to collect the subscribers’ email addresses and names and send confirmation and welcome emails. You can modify the default settings as you like.
To modify the plugin settings, go to your WP-Admin -> G-Lock Opt-In -> Settings
General Settings
Delete subscribers who didn’t confirm their subscription within 7 days – if you check this option, the plugin will automatically delete the users who didn’t confirm their subscription within 7 days since the subscription date
Plugin statistics on the dashboard:
- Do not show – check this box if you don’t want to display the plugin subscription report on your blog dashboard
- Show in the activity box (Right now) – check this box if you want to display the subscription report in the activity box on your blog dashboard
- Show in the separate widget - check this box if you want to display the subscription report in the separate widget on your blog dashboard
Email Settings:
From Name: – enter the name you want to send notification emails to new subscribers from. It may be either your contact name, or company name.
From Email: - enter the email address you want to send notification emails to new subscribers from
Mail Delivery Settings:
- Use PHP Mail - if you check this option, the plugin will work using your default mail settings (sendmail). If you get any errors using this option, you can select any of the following sending modes:
- Use Sendmail Directly (*nix only) – you can use this sending option if your blog is on Linux or Unix platform.
- Use Custom SMTP Server – you can use this option to send emails using your custom SMTP server.
Send Welcome Message – check this box if you want to send a welcome message to each new subscriber
Send Unsubscribe Notification – check this box if you want to send a notification that the user has successfully unsubscribed from your list
Send Subscribe/Unsubscribe Event Notifications to Admin – check this box if you want to send a notification about the subscribe/unsubscribe event to the blog admin
Debug Settings:
Write Debug Log – enter the name you want to send notification emails to new subscribers from. It may be either your contact name, or company name.
To save the changes you made, click Update Options button.
Submission Form
Click on the Submission Form tab in the plugin settings to edit your signup form.
Form Title: – type a title for your signup form
Form Header: – type a text that will appear above the signup form (for example, ask the user to fill in the form to subscribe)
Form Footer: – type a text that will appear below the signup form (for example, an email privacy statement)
Form Fields: – fields the user must fill in. By default there are “First Name” and “Email”. You can add more fields by clicking on “Add Field” button. You can re-order fields as you like. To move a field, drag it up or down and drop it.
“Subscribe” button – button the user must click to subscribe. You can change the button label if you like.
Email Templates
In the Email Templates you can view and modify email messages that will be sent to your subscribers.
Confirmation Email: (will contain a subscription confirmation link and will be sent to the user after he clicks “Subscribe”)
Subject: – confirmation email subject (usually it clearly asks the user to confirm his subscription)
Message: - confirmation email text including the subscription confirmation link
Available variables – the variables you can use in your confirmation email, welcome message and on action pages. They will be replaced with the real data in the emails. The available variables are:
$blog_name – your blog name
$blog_url – your blog URL
$from_email – email address you will send confirmation and welcome emails to new subscribers
$from_name – name you will send confirmation and welcome emails to new subscribers from
$manage_subscription_link – update profile link (allows the subscriber update his details or unsubscribe)
$confirmation_link – link to confirm the user’s subscription
$resend_confirmation_link – link to re-send the confirmation email to the user (if the email address is subscribed but not confirmed)
$encoded_email – subscriber’s email address encoded into Base64 for compatibility with G-Lock EasyMail v6 software
$decoded_email – decoded subscriber’s email address
$subscription_time – date and time of the user’s subscription
$subscriber_ip – subscriber’s IP address
$gsom-fname-field – subscriber’s first name (form field)
$Last_Name1 – subscriber’s last name (form field)
$gsom-email-field – subscriber’s email address (form field)
If you add custom fields to the signup form, they will become available as variables for the use in your email notifications. If you rename the default form field First Name, be sure to replace the default variable $gsom-fname-field used in the confirmation email, welcome message and on action pages with the new variable associated with the renamed field. The new variable will be listed under Available Variables.
Welcome Email: (will be sent to the user after he confirms his subscription)
Subject: – welcome email subject (usually it thanks the user for his subscription)
Message: - welcome email text. It’s highly recommended that you welcome each new subscriber with a well written email message. The way you welcome people lays the foundation of your future relationships. A skilful message creates a good reputation and defines you as a serious email marketer. In this article you’ll find 9 Tips for Writing Your Welcome Message
Unsubscribe Email: (will be sent to the user after he/she unsubscribes)
Subject: – email subject (for example, Removal Request Confirmation)
Message: – email text
Action Pages
In the Action Pages you can modify the text that will be displayed on your blog after the user fills in the form.
Wrong email address format: – asks the user to enter a valid email address;
Confirmation required: – asks the user to check his mailbox and confirm the subscription;
Confirmation successful: – thanks the user for confirming his subscription;
Email address is already subscribed and confirmed: - tells the user that his email address is already subscribed and confirmed;
Email address is already subscribed but not confirmed: – tells the user that his email address is already subscribed but not confirmed;
Unsubscription successful: – tells the user that he was successfully unsubscribed from the mailing list.
Sending Email Broadcast from RSS Feed
You can set the plugin to send email broadcast from your blog RSS feed.
To setup email broadcast, go to your WP-Admin -> G-Lock Opt-In -> Blog Broadcast
Sending Options (choose an option when your email broadcast will be sent):
I’ll send broadcast manually – if you choose this option, the plugin will not send broadcast emails automatically. You will be able to send it at any time by clicking on “Send Broadcast Now” button.
Send broadcast email when the number of new posts is at least xx – broadcast email will be sent after the specified number of new posts are added to the blog. The plugin checks your blog for new posts every hour after the last email broadcast and when it finds the xx number of new posts, it sends a broadcast email to the subscribers.
Note: if you specify just 1 post, you may not receive an email newsletter immediately after a new post is added. The email newsletter will be sent after the plugin checks the blog for new posts.
Send broadcast email each [day of week/month] – broadcast email will be sent every specified day of week/month.
Feed Options:
Include full posts into broadcast email – if you choose this option, your broadcast emails will contain the full article(s) from your blog.
Don’t show images in broadcast emails – if you choose this option, the images from the articles on your blog will not be included into broadcast emails.
Length of post excerpt xx characters – here you can specify the length in characters of the RSS item description included into your broadcast email. The plugin will not cut your posts after the specified number of characters. Instead, it will keep adding complete sentences until the defined number of characters or more are returned.
Limit feed output to xx items – here you can specify the number of RSS items to include into broadcast emails.
Next broadcast will send posts from [date] – here you can specify the date of the posts for the next email broadcast. The next broadcast will include the posts added to the blog since the specified date.
In the Categories field you can choose the articles from which categories you want to include into your broadcast email. And in the Authors field you can select the articles’ authors.
In the preview screen you will see a preview of your broadcast email based on the specified criteria (Date, Categories, Authors). If the plugin finds no articles that satisfy your criteria, you will see the “Sorry, no posts matched your criteria” message.
To save the changes in the Blog Broadcast settings, click Update Options button.
Mailing List Management in WordPress
WP double opt-in plugin saves the subscribers to the internal WordPress database.
To view your subscribers list, go to your WP-Admin -> G-Lock Opt-In -> Subscribers
The plugin collects and saves the following data about the subscriber: email address, subscription date, IP address, first name and other fields you may have added when customizing the signup form. You can also see a status of each subscription: confirmed, unconfirmed or unsubscribed.
For you convenience you can choose to display only confirmed subscriptions, or unconfirmed subscriptions, or unsubscribed users. Or click on “All Subscribers” to show all the users on your list.
You can manage your subscribers list yourself. You can search for users, unsubscribe users, delete users and export users from your WordPress database to use the mailing list in G-Lock EasyMail.
To search users:
- type an email address (or a part of the email address) into the search field
- click Search Subscribers
The search (filter) engine will display the subscribers that satisfy the search criteria. If the list is filtered, all the features are applied to the filtered subscribers only. To remove the filter and show all the subscribers on the list, click Remove Search Filter.
To unsubscribe users:
- check the boxes near the email addresses you want to unsubscribe
- click Unsubscribe
To delete users:
- check the boxes near the email addresses you want to delete
- click Delete
To export users:
- display the users you want to export (all, confirmed, unconfirmed, or unsubscribed). Or, apply a search to display particular subscribers. If the list is filtered, Export will work for the filtered users only.
- click Export
You can export the subscribers to a .csv or .xls file for further import into your newsletter sending software.
Unsubscribe Link for Your Newsletter
The plugin provides you with a ready unsubscribe link that you can include into your email messages. You can simply copy the URL and paste it somewhere at the bottom of your email newsletter. The subscribers who would like to opt-out from your list will click on that URL.
Comments (97)
webdesigner
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sorry guys, but is this blugin free? do i need to pay anything to get it installed on my website?
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Julia
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This plugin is free. You don’t need to pay anything. Just download it and upload to your blog.
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Julia
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@Kerry
You can style the form by editing the gsom.css file located here:
…plugins/G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager/css/gsom.css
In the next version of G-Lock Double Opt-in Manager plugin we’ll make a strict separation of a standalone and widget form classes and make separate class for all elements.
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Dave
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Do you have a feature to send out emails at a slow, throttled rate? Some server providers won’t mind if you send out 10, 20, or even 50 emails per hour, but others will cut your service off if you “overuse” the email.
The Autoresponder Plus V3 has two nice settings to help you stay out of trouble with your service provider.
1. Mail sleep interval. Number of seconds between emails. Set to 20, for example will limit it to 3 per minute and 180 per hour.
2. Message limit. Restrict mailing to this number of of messages. Set to 4000, for example.
I’m just getting ready to try your plugin, but I already know that I need to be concerned about how to throttle back the email to avoid trouble with my hosting service.
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Eric Hicks
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Found a typo… the REQUIRED warning is mis-spelled… it displays Reqired, and should be REQUIRED. I found it in the js/gsom.js file… three instances of the mis-spelling. Just do a find/replace.
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Sylvester
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Hi Julia,
I simply got to come back here to leave a comment that my queries have been answered by you.
I really appreciate your help and offer to fix any issues I have with the plugin. Your support is very
much appreciated and admired.
Thanks again for a great plugin!
Sylvester
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Ironshef
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Julia,
Just wanted to drop a quick line to say that this is an amazing plugin. Not only is it easy to install and configure, but your support through the minor rough spots is exceptional.
Thanks!
- Ironshef
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Dion Drakes
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This is fantastic. I’ve been searching for something like this for a while and now you’ve delivered a solution. Your plugin is sure to be a big hit with WP blog owners. Another fantastic tool! Thank you and keep up the great work.
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Neil
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Hi, I have just downloaded and installed v2.3 onto my site and it all looks ok, but I have subscribed myself and can’t get the subsfriber added to the list. It looks like it has worked, but no one ever turns up in the subscriber list on the dashboard.
Any ideas?
Neil
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Julia
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Hi Neil,
Please, check the Email Settings of the plugin for accuracy. Click on the Test button to see if the test works. For me, everything works OK.
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Neil
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Hi Julia, the test works fine – am using the PHP email option.
Should I get a confirm page after hitting the subscribe button? Mine goes right back to the empty subscribe form …
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Justin
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Julia,
Since most people have already stated above how excellent this plug-in is, I’m not going to spend time on that. What I will state however, is that I’ve been looking for a way to build an email list for a long time and do it in a way that will not cost me a small fortune.
I tried using one of those well know email marketing services which charges a monthly fee for their service. Well, because my list was not growing at a fast enough pace, the monthly payments I was making was basically just like flushing money down the tubes. Needless to say, I had to cancel that account after a few months and ended up with nothing to show for my efforts; not to mention the money I wasted.
I think this plug-in is exactly what I’ve been looking for as it will allow me to build my list at my pace and more importantly, will not cost me a dime while doing so.
Thank you for making it available for free and I am looking forward to reporting back with my success story.
Blessings,
Justin
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Diane Scott
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Could be cutting expenses with autoresponders (if you’re a wordpress users) will be on the menu! Great plugin idea, excellent post – and yours is our inspiration for today’s post on our blog. So a double thank you!
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Bryan
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Hi Julia! Great Plugin!!
I’m working on a solution for my blog and wanted to see if you had a suggestion on how to integrate it with G-Lock.
I’d like to enable a checkbox below the comment submit button that a commenter can check to add the email address (that they were just required to enter) to my site mailing list powered by the G-Lock WordPress Plugin.
Thanks for all the hard work,
Bryan
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Poli from Design Schemes
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I’m sorry I missed the previous comment dealing also with my question. The reason being that I thought the styles mentioned were in the gsom-css file I have. On double checking now I realise they are not. I’ll paste them onto the original css file.
Many thanks
Poli
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mr.eims
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Hi Julia..
Thanks A lot for this very useful plugin.
I will use it on my blogs. I won’e have to use other opt in mailing list service from other service provider and that will make my blog less dependencies to other service provider. Thanks again.
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Paul Easton
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Can it be set so that it emails every time there is an update to the blog, with a link to the new post?
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Poli@Design Schemes
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Hello Julia,
Would it be possible for you to tell me a way of editing de design of the opt-in form? Everything works with the form but now I’ve to integrate into the overall design of the website. I need to put a border and background to all the inputs including the submit button (just like this form, for example) as well as extend the width of the fields. I’ve been trying to find a way of doing this but I’ve failed, therefore, I must ask for your advice.
Many thanks
Poli
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Simon@Leadership
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“you can build own in-house permission based email list using a double opt-in subscription method;” – This is a great benefit considering you’d have to pay Aweber like £100 a year for that benefit.
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dan
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Hello,
How do you import a legacy list of email users to the wordpress plugin?
Thanks in advance,
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Julia
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@ dan,
Sorry, there is no way to import a list of email addresses into a WP database using the plugin.
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James
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Wow, this seems like a cool WP plugin! I am subscribed to your email list and I had to check out this plugin when I got your email. I will be trying out the plugin shortly.
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Poli from Design Schemes
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Hello Julia,
Thanks for the pluggin. It works great and it’s 95% stable on a Mac. I had tried many pluggins and yours comes up the best. At least for my purpose.
Two things, however. One is the Unsubscribe link. I’ve an email marketing soft for Mac and according to your information the link the plugin provides will not work. That link is needed so I’m thinking a way round the problem. Any thoughts? Of course, the user can always send an email with Unsubscribe in the Subject and the Email marketing soft wil pick it up. But I want something more direct. The other point has to do with the changing of the default names to the fields in the opt-in form. The names change OK but then the Available variables don’t. And I can’t find a way of altering the label for the Email field. Here I just want to eliminate the (:). Apart from this all is well. I’d love, though, to have more control over the opt-in form. It’ll great if you could advice me on these issues.
BTW: I do have the latest version of the pluggin
Regards
Poli
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Julia
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@Poli,
Please, download a new 1.3.3 version of the plugin. We added the unsubscribe link for email programs other than G-Lock EasyMail. Go to Manage Subscribers and you will see the unsubscribe link there.
As to the ability to edit the Email field, we are working at this. I will let you know when this is available.
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Poli from Design Schemes
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Hello Julia,
The link works perfectly. Thanks. I’m liking the script more and more.
Another question is how can I make the script to send a notification when someone subscribe/unsubscribe/bounce? I noticed above that this was an issue with another user of the script but I couldn’t find the solution in the post.
I was also wondering whether there’s a way to import subscribers from other database? So that the unsubscribe link becomes applicable to all subscribers and not just to those who subscribe via the form.
Thanks again for the script and your advice
Poli
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Julia
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@Poli,
>Another question is how can I make the script to send a notification when someone subscribe/unsubscribe/bounce? I noticed above that this was an issue with another user of the script but I couldn’t find the solution in the post.
The plugin automatically sends such notifications to the users. You just need to make sure that you checked the option to send an unsubscribe notification in the plugin settings. The problem may also be the IP address of the server where your website is hosted. If the IP is blacklisted, the emails sent from that IP may not reach the users.
>I was also wondering whether there’s a way to import subscribers from other database? So that the unsubscribe link becomes applicable to all subscribers and not just to those who subscribe via the form.
Sorry, in the current version of the plugin there is no way to import subscribers from other databases.
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Mick Gray
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Hi Julie,
Again a big Thank You.
I removed the formatting code from the form footer as you suggested and this has proved successful.
Thank You for all your support.
Best Regards
Mick Gray
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Haider
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Thanks Julia for your email reply!
The new version works beautifully…
It brought a tear to my eye :’-)
Thanks again for a great plugin…
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Casey
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Great plugin, been looking for something like this for some time now. Do subscribers get counted in your blog RSS count like Aweber? If no, any idea on how to make them get counted?
Thanks!
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Andy
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I have the same problem as Michael above (ie subscribers can’t edit their email or unsubscribe. Would love to use it otherwise.
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Julia
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@ Andy and Michael,
Please, download the latest version of the plugin. The unsubscribe function is fixed in the latest version. There was an issue with the unsubscribe function on those blogs which are located in a folder but not in a root directory.
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Poli
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I love you!!!
Many thanks
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Jan
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Hey,
great tool!
I use wordpress for managing my website (which calls wp-posts). On this website, I would like to add a field using your widget. Everything works fine. But after clicking submit, subscribers are linked to the blog-website which I actually do not want to be seen (as it uses entirely different styles).
Is it therefore possible to fully integrate the subscription tool into a php-site?
Thanks,
Jan
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Poli from Design Schemes
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Hello Julia,
Thanks for your reply. Excellent! I’ll look at the link.
regards
Poli
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Bytetips
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It makes easy to manage email subscriptions. I am a big fan of G-lock Products. I know the power of this plugin. And i am using Fast Blog Finder to promote my Blog. Thanks for this plugin
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Bert
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I have been trying several other subscription plugins for WP but yours as the most straight forward and easy. One problem though – I set it to send a newsletter every Wednesday but it is not sending anything. Is there something else I need to set up? wp-cron or something?
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admin
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@Bert,
Please, note that in your case the newsletter will be sent only if:
1) you added the specified number of new posts to the blog since the last newsletter mailing. If you set the email broadcast to be sent if the number of new posts is at least 1, so you need to add at least 1 post to your blog since the email broadcast was last sent.
2) you had at least 1 visitor to your blog on that day when the newsletter must be sent, i.e. on Wednesday. That is how wp-cron works.
So, if 2 conditions above are executed, the newsletter will be sent at the fixed day.
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Bert
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I configured the plugin to send when there is at least one post, then I add a post, then visit the site. I still do not get any emails sent. Anything else to look for? I tried the email test at the bottom of the screen and that seems to work just fine.
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Writing Traveler
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After upgrading to version 2.3, when the widget tries to activate, the following error is shown:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/8564/domains/writtenrhetoric.com/html/wp-content/plugins/g-lock-double-opt-in-manager/glsft-optin.php on line 3452
Has anyone seen this and if so, found a fix?
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Julia
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The new 2.3 version of the plugin requires PHP 5.
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Writing Traveler
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Thanks Julia. Just to make sure I understand it, does this mean that if my site is hosted outside of wordpress that they have to upgrade to PHP 5 on that server?
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Julia
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Yes and you can download the v2.2.6 of the plugin from the link below:
http://www.glockeasymail.com/files/glockoptin2.2.6.zip
When your hosting company upgrades PHP to the v5, you can upgrade our plugin to the v2.3.
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Steve
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Latest version of plug-in (just updated)
I can see 2 sets of form fields First Name, Last Name, Email and submit button) in the subscribe form which you can see at http://peebee.php5.truth.posiweb.net/.
Great plugin works a treat (apart from this one issue)
Steve
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Steve
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The problem seems to be caused by a conflict with the voodoo widget….a real shame as they go together so well. Something in one of the plugins is causing a problem
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Poli
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Thanks Julia,
But I was refering to notifications to the owner of the list.
Poli
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Vince
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I agree with Writing Traveler.
Giving subscriber options is the way to go.
Frequency: Immediate, Daily, Weekly Monthly
Categories: choice of which categories or All
Thank you very much.
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Kerry
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Could you give some insight to the form so I could style it with my own css? Div id’s/classes and the like. Thanks for a womderful plugin/widget.
k.
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Brenda
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This is an awesome plugin! I have been searching for several weeks, (off and on) to find a solution that would allow me to manage double opt in subscriptions from within WP. Most of what I’ve found was either large and unwieldy, or simple and buggy. Finally, a solution that’s just the right size, and works out of the box. Thanks so much.
I do have one question about the subscription management tool, however. I don’t need the field for, “Please leave a reason why you’re unsubscribing,” and would like to remove it. I had a look at the main plugin file, but could not identify the precise call for that field. I thought I had, but the changes I made to that file didn’t affect the field, so I must be missing something. It seems odd to me that there isn’t a setting for this, similar to the submission form. Can you tell me how to modify that field?
Finally, a humble feature request: It would be really nice to have the option of adding templates and actions. I’d like my submission process to run over a couple more initial emails, and wish I could easily create a lengthier subscription process.
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admin
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@Brenda,
To disable the “Please leave a reason why you’re unsubscribing” field, please, do this:
1) Go to your WP admin panel -> G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager
2) Click on the General tab in the plugin settings
3) Go to the Email Settings section
4) Uncheck the “Send Subscribe/Unsubscribe Event Notifications to Admin” option
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Brenda
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Thanks very much for your prompt reply. While your suggestion works, I’d really like to keep the option for being notified of new subscribers via email.
I’m looking for a way to modify the plugin itself, and delete the calls for the field I have no need for. I’d also like to change the text field, “You can unsubscribe from our mailing list:” If you can give me the file name and approximate line number for these settings, I should be able to make the changes I need.
Many thanks.
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Michael
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Hi, I have just installed this awesome plug-in and it is working great, except that I can’t unsubscribe any users from the link provide in the welcome message.
When I click the link it goes to the /?page_id=manage-subscription page where I can succesfully change email address but I can’t unsubscribe (shows a link to / in browser and then refreshes to index page) and I dont receive the unsubscribe confirmation email (although ticked).
I can however successfully remove a subscription through the Manage -> Subscribers option but i obviously need to empower the user to unsubscribe.
Any hints?
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Ben
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Hi
First of all, I’m highly impressed byt the plugin – and I’d be very happy if I could solve the following problem:
I try to configure the SMTP server using gmail (instructions here: http://techblissonline.com/gmail-smtp/ )
Unfortunately, I always get an error message (with whatever port I use: 465, 587 or 25
fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]:
unable to connect to
ssl://smtp.gmail.com:25
(Connection refused)
Any idea???
Thanks
Also – for future releases, I thing it would be awesome if it was possible to display a picture of an incentive (ebook – video) to make people give their email address – any thought on this?
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Brenda
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I recently upgraded this plugin, and cannot reactivate it, due to the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /homepages/36/d113714374/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/g-lock-double-opt-in-manager/glsft-optin.php on line 3465
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Grant
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Exactly the same for me
that pesky line 3465
I already have PHP 5 installed.
Any suggestions? I’m going to love these updates.
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Grant
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Yep my fault… My cpanel was telling me I had php 5 but it was running php 4. Upgraded to php 5 and working fine
Thanks for the help by email! Good support
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A BIG Fan
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Brilliant…simply a brilliant concept…this easy-to-use tool will dramatically increase the usefulness of any WP blog! An OUTSTANDING piece of work…
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Mick Gray
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Julia,
Just a minor Glitch.
After setting the Form Title the form dissappears and just leaves “Fill out the form below………” and the privacy statement.
The form title is displayed perfectly.
When removing the form title the form re-appears.
Any ideas?
Best Regards
Mick Gray
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Katie Probst
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I just uploaded your plug-in and haven’t actually put up the widget yet, because I want to make sure everything is set up correctly. One of the variables is confirmation_link. Is this part of your plug-in coding or do I have to set up an html page called confirmation_link and put it in a particular folder? I know I have to fill in my URL and other personalized features, but I need to know whether there is any other set-up or if everything is built in. Thanks very much!
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Simon
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Julia,
What database field would the email addresses be in? Surely we can import subscribers that way?
Simon.
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admin
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@ Simon,
The email addresses will be stored in the “varEmail” field in the WP database.
No, there is no way to import the emails into the WP database using the plugin. You can only import the email addresses using phpMyAdmin although I’m not sure this will work. But even if this will work, you will import only the email addresses with no additional fields.
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Sylvester
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Hi,
Thanks for such a wonderful plugin. I manage to install it successfully. But when I do a trail subscription
I did not receive any notification message at all. What do you think could I have missed in the set up? The
“from” email I use is a gmail. Does the form activates the sending of the confirmation email using that email?
Cheers
Sylvester
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Elizabeth
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Is there a way to import existing subscribers into the G-Lock plugin? I already have a subscriber list but I found your plugin today and want to use it moving forward. However, I don’t want to have to start from scratch and would like to move my existing subscribers over. Is there a way to do this?
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Grant
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Here is a question
I already have a mailing list for my custom emails in G-lock easymail, is there any way I can import them into my wordpress database as well? It looks easy enough to do the reverse but I don’t want to send existing clients to a signup page, sending them to opt-in would suffice without the extra step.
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Fabio@GpsNews.it
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I’d like use your great plugin in a popup windows generated by MaxBlogPress Unblockable Popup or Action Popup plugin. But the short code is not recognized and php code is not permissed in the text area of both this plugin.
Have you any idea how to use one of this popup plugins with yours?
Thanks
Fabio
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O.C.
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Hello Julia,
I ran into your marvelous plugin, so I downloaded and installed it in this blog I am putting together. It works great and it was super easy to implement.
Since I create only one single post everyday from Monday to Friday, I have the plugin set to do the broadcast email after the plugin sees 1 new post.
I have a question: It seems that the plugin takes very long (2 to 3 hours at minumum) to detect the new plugin and start emailing. Is there away to change how ofter the plugin checks for new articles? Or maybe a way to add a button on the ‘Blog Broadcast’ section of the admin to force the plugin to check for new posts and/or send the broadcast email?
If this was possible it would be a great help. I create my post early in the morning and then email the post to my subscribers (all previously done manually) but the post needs to get to the subscribers as early as possible.
I hope that you can help.
But most importantly, thanks so much for such great plugin!!!
OC
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admin
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Hello OC,
Currently the plugin is set to check the blog for new posts every hour. This time interval cannot be changed by the user in the current version of the plugin. We have a separate page where our users can post their feature suggestions for new versions of the plugin. So, please, feel free to click the link below and post your thoughts there:
http://www.glockeasymail.com/wordpress-newsletter-plugin/glock-double-optin-manager-survey/
Our programmers will check the suggestions and take them into consideration for future versions of the Double Opt-In Manager plugin.
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O.C.
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I understand. I have submitted the feature suggestion.
Is there any chance that you can tell me where can I manually change the time interval in the code.
I browsed thru some of the source files, but I was unable to identify the code that takes care of the time interval.
If it was possible to find out how to manually change that, it would be a great help for me.
Thanks a lot.
OC
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admin
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Please, download the new 2.1.4 version of the plugin. Our programmer changed the time interval in this version. It is now 10 minutes instead of 1 hour.
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O.C.
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Thank you so much for your reply and for makng the change to the plugin.
Sadly I must report that the change did not work. The system still takes a very long time, after publishing a new post, to do the broadcast email.
Please understand that I am NOT complaining. I am actually VERY appreciative of this plugin and of the fact that you’ve made it available to us all.
I hope that sometime in the near future you (your programmer) can consider the option of a button to manually trigger the broadcast emailing feature.
That would be Awsome.
Best Regards,
OC
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Fanatic
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Hi there, just a heads up:
1. Creating custom fields for the subscription task doesnt work, it doesnt save them properly
2. Your Plugin doenst work with the new custom_post categories introduced in WP 3.0.1, it only recognizes the default posts submitted under the main Blog category, I’m flagging this gievn the theme that I’m using already adapted to this new custom_post and custom_taxonomy approach therefore separating the regular Blog posts from the custom created posts.
Any updates addressing those 2 issues in the future?
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Clive
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This is a great WordPress plugin, particularly for those starting out in Internet Marketing – it saves you $$$ every month.
The only issue that I have encountered so far is that if you use non-default permalinks on your WordPress blog make sure you follow the WordPress instructions to the letter when setting up Apache, particularly the FollowSymLinks and mod_rewrite instructions.
Thank you for making the plugin available.
Clive
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Kevin
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I think I have tried all of the newsletter plugins for WP and even some of the paid ones like constant contact. I am impressed with yours but have a few questions?
1. Is there an issue using this plugin / admin with Firefox?
2. Would you consider adding in a filed type of date so that a subscriber could add in their birthday? Second part would be very cool to them have a tool that check for upcoming bdays from the subscribers and notifies the admin somehow and maybe even a custom template to send out a happy birthday email.
Thanks,
Kevin
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