Last Saturday 15 hackers, translators, testers and documenters brought the phpList “Bug Squashing Party” to life at Open Labs Hackerspace in Tirana. The event aimed to get first-time contributors to improve phpList, sharing their skills and putting them into practice; getting their hands dirty with a widely-used Open Source application. To keep the event buzzing… [+]
APIs are essential for building applications that are open and can integrate with other applications and services, yet with the openness of APIs comes a challenge: APIs can create additional security risks, as they increase the number of ways in which malicious actors could get into applications. Therefore, when developing APIs, careful design and security… [+]
With phpList 3.3.2 back in May, a new look for public pages was introduced. The default design was greatly improved but to avoid overwriting admin customisations, the improvements were not applied during phpList version upgrades so, only fresh installations of phpList with a new database could benefit from these improvements. One of the improvements in… [+]
By Xheni Lala, Booth Volunteer, and Web Developer in Tirana, Albania This year’s Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) took place on the sunny weekend of 19th May, and phpList was well represented. As well as a vibrant booth, phpList was the Diversity Sponsor, supporting talks and workshops supporting inclusivity. phpList representatives had two talks and… [+]
The next generation of phpList, version 4, has been under development for some time. It’s still in the early stages (Alpha 1), but already provides useful API functionality. Here’s an update on what it is, what you can do with it, and short-term goals. What is it? A ground-up rewrite of phpList 3 using best… [+]
This post by Xheni Myrtaj describes her experiences extending her PHP skills using online training materials from Treehouse and contributing code to phpList. Xheni is studying for a Masters Degree in Information Security and recently began an Internship with phpList. The transition from being a student to the world of real work can be quite… [+]
Last week the phpList.com Knowledgebase was launched for users of the phpList Hosted service. It includes articles specific to those users about account management and sending policies, as well as guides for engaging, reviving, and delighting subscribers that are relevant to all email marketers. The platform we used to build the site was wp-knowledgebase; an… [+]
The Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAl) again took place in Tirana last month, and students and Open Source-lovers took the opportunity to try out the new phpList user interface and learn how to manage mailing lists and send them campaigns with help from phpList Pros. The event had multiple tracks of talks, workshops and of booths… [+]
Today new advice on how to use trademarks related to phpList has been published as the Trademark Guidelines. phpList is used widely for both sending and managing email campaigns, and also providing newsletter services and software from community members to others. Because it is Open Source software both created and deployed by an international community,… [+]
Technical publishing house SitePoint.com published a review of phpList today as part of a week of Open Source articles geared towards developers and administrators. They conclude: “The business model of phpList is great: It offers a decentralized, self-hosted software solution for everyone to run for free, while it also has a competitive pricing for its… [+]