Introduction
XYZ WP Newsletter gives you unlimited ability to create, manage and automate large scale email marketing campaigns, email list, email fields etc.
You can create multiple email lists and email campaigns. It will help you to create campaigns automatically from posts.
Emails
Emails are the email information of people about whom you store information in XYZ WP Newsletter. These are the people to whom you send emails.
We can store email addresses and unlimited number of fields in different email lists.
Manual Input, CSV Files, Text Files and Website Forms
There are 4 ways to add contacts to the email list:
by inputting emails manually one by one,
by extracting from a bulk text,
by uploading a CSV (Comma Separated Value) or text file with information and
by having contacts fill out a form on your website.
XYZ WP Newsletter helps you create forms you can put on your website to let your customers sign up for your newsletter or emails.
Email Campaigns
Email campaigns are the emails that you send out from XYZ WP Newsletter to the people on the email list.
Email campaigns are based on an HTML or plain text format, and are sent to members of the email list.
You control when you send email campaigns; you can send them at the click of a button, or schedule them to be sent out at a specific point in the future.
Email Lists
Site admin can create unlimited number of email lists and can manage email addresses in different lists.
Email Fields
Admin can create unlimited number of emails fields. Email fields are used to capture extra information.
Cron
Cron (an abbreviation of “chronograph”) is a program that activates other programs, commands and processes at pre determined times and intervals. It is a way of scheduling tasks to happen automatically.
The XYZ WP Newsletter uses cron jobs to take care of sending out scheduled emails.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
SMTP is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
It is more secure to send emails compared to the PHP mail function and has a better spam score.
Getting Started with XYZ WP Newsletter
In the XYZ WP Newsletter Plugin you can set up email lists of your contacts and send emails to them. You can see the details of how to add email addresses and how to send newsletters in the coming sections.