Creating HTML Email Templates
March 9, 2009 ·
The Post Notification Plugin for WordPress allows you to customise the look and feel of the email newsletter your subscribers receive through the use of templates.
You can choose templates in different languages, text only templates, html templates or can customise an html template of your own to reflect your branding and website’s look and feel.
The following is an extract from my Post Notification User Guide available to download on this website.
Creating HTML Email Templates
Once you have selected the email_template.html in your settings page, you can then open this file in a web design programme such as Frontpage, Dreamweaver etc and customise the layout as much as you like, adding graphics, navigation, sidebars, product links and more.
Ask me about a custom-designed Email Newsletter Template for Your Website…
Add a Logo to your Newsletter
- A logo or banner image needs to first be uploaded through your WordPress admin or to an images folder on your website using ftp.
- Copy the full url to this image and paste into the top of the newsletter template (after the line of colour relating to body colour) using the following format: <img src=”url of your image”>
- I would also recommend taking the unsubscribe info and links from the top of the page and pasting them at the bottom under the post info.
- You can change the colours of the container around the email, hyperlink colours etc by changing the HEX colour (6 digit number following the # symbol) on the style sheet at the top of the template.
- Once you are happy with your changes, save the file and replace the existing one using ftp (the file is located at wp-content/Plugins/Post_Notification/en_US)
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Hello,
Nicely written piece about a great use for Post Notification. I was wondering if you’ve had any trouble with the [gallery] feature of WP when using Post Notification.
Yesterday, I posted a new item to my blog and the email went out via Post Notification as per usual. However, the images included in the body of the message were the images from a different post. I suspect the problem I ran into has to do with the Gallery feature in WordPress.
Both posts have body text and then this simple code: [gallery].
The gallery pictures are associated with the post, so the post just has this “[gallery]” tag in it and the post figures out which pictures to display.
When I tested Post Notifcation with pictures inserted directly into the post, the correct pictures were sent out.
Anyway, if you have any experience with this problem please let me know. I could use some help here and Morty seems to be out of commission.
Thanks,
Jennifer
Hi Jennifer,
Post Notification doesn’t like the WordPress gallery or next generation gallery plugin.
You need to insert images one at a time or the email newsletter will show all the images on your website.
I usually insert one image on its own at the top of the page and put the gallery further down below the “Read more” tag.
That way the subscribers see the gallery on the live website when they click through.
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Thanks Jo, for your article.
I’ve been going through a few email notifiers and it seemed they were all pretty bland. This is exactly what I was looking for. I’m looking forward to adding it to my site.
Thank you again for your efforts.