WP Double Opt-In List Management Plugin Description

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 your email newsletter sending program. WP list management plugin is fully compatible with email marketing software G-Lock EasyMail v6. 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 Double Opt-In Subscription 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 bulk email software.
• 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 for the use in your email marketing program;
• 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 Subscription Plugin Download

Version: 2.1.3 What’s New
File size: 417 kbytes (.zip file)
Format: WordPress sidebar widget plugin
WordPress version: from 2.5 to 2.7

Download WordPress Mailing List Management Plugin

WP Double Opt-In 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 WP-Admin -> Settings -> G-Lock Double Opt-In Manager

There are 5 tabs where you can configure the plugin settings. Click on the General tab to setup the General and Email Settings of the plugin.

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
   

2. 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 Default Mail Settings - if you check this option, the plugin will work using your default mail settings (sendmail)
   
• Use Custom SMTP Server - if you check this option, you can enter your custom SMTP server that will be used by the plugin.

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

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.

In the Email Templates tab 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
 

In the Action Pages tab 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.

In the Blog Broadcast tab you can set the plugin to send email broadcast from your blog RSS feed.

Send broadcast newsletters from existing blog RSS content feed - check this option if you want to convert your blog RSS feed into an email newsletter and send it to your subscribers (email will be sent only to the subscribers who confirmed their subscription)

Choose any of the sending options for your email broadcast:

Send broadcast email when the number of new posts is at least xx - the email newsletter 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] with no more than xx items - the email newsletter will be sent every specified day of week/month and will include no more than the specified number of RSS items.

Length of RSS item description 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.

If you set "Full Text" for your RSS feed items in the Settings -> Reading, RSS item description length that you set above is ignored. Your broadcast email will include the full posts together with images (if there are any) from your blog. Because of this your broadcast emails may be blocked by the users’ email clients or filtered to the Junk or Bulk email folder. It’s recommended that you select the option to show the "Summary" for each RSS feed item in the Reading Settings and define the description length yourself.

Broadcast Email Template

Here you can compose your email newsletter content. You can modify the email Subject, HTML part and Plain Text part. You can use the variables in the email content that are available at the right side.

To restore the default email template, click on Load Default Template.

Test Broadcast

Here you can enter a test email address to send a test copy of your email newsletter. Note: a test copy of your broadcast email will include 10 latest posts from your blog regardless of how many posts you specified in the email broadcast settings.
 

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 WP-Admin -> Manage -> 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 your bulk email software.

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.

Tags: bulk email software, opt in email marketing software

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