I’m a partner in Freeform Games, a small UK-based publisher of downloadable murder mystery party games. We use the phplist.com service to send our email marketing campaigns. We recently became aware that Gmail and other large providers had started to spam-filter our mailouts: consultation with phpList staff revealed that we had a high bounce rate which… [+]
By Suela Palushi, event organiser and Business Informatics student in Tirana, Albania Photography by Andis Rado After a very successful translation sprint where thanks to team work our contributors got to translate phpList to Albanian (all in one night :D) this time we thought to get hands on some more technical stuff. So on 10th October… [+]
By Suela Palushi, event organiser and Business Informatics student in Tirana, Albania Photography by Andis Rado A translation sprint was held on the 1st of June at 6 PM for the first time, at Open Labs Hackerspace in Albania. Our goal was to translate phpList though participation and involvement of new contributions, using the phpList Community translation… [+]
Last summer we started trialling some new ways for people to get involved in phpList development. We tested a few things, and found that the release candidate method had a great response. Our next release candidate is due very soon. You can sign up to receive it by using the subscribe form immediately below, or… [+]
A cool new feature in phpList 3.2.2 allows the upload of a logo to the main settings page. The logo can then be inserted into campaign templates using the new [LOGO] placeholder: this system helps you change the logo across all templates in one go, with just a few clicks. Read on to find out… [+]
To Celebrate phpList’s 15th birthday we asked the phpList community to nominate Open Source projects to receive unlimited gratis use of phpList.com. Each nominee has now been sent their goodiebag. The nominations In total, 20 projects were nominated. These ranged from community lead endeavours such as DokuWiki and Inkscape, through Open Source favourites like Piwik… [+]
A new plugin, submitByMail, allows you to compose your campaigns in your email client, for example in Thunderbird or Outlook, and then submit them to phpList by email before sending. This plugin is an early beta version: it has been thoroughly debugged but has not yet been tested in the field. As the author, I… [+]
phpList: Importing your list This tutorial covers importing your lists into phpList three different ways: Copy and paste your list of emails Upload a file with email addresses Upload a file with email addresses and additional attribute data.
A brand new phpList manual will launch on Tuesday the 5th of May. As part of the launch celebration we will be running a UK election: email send-a-thon. The event will encourage people to learn how to use phpList within the real-life context of sending an email campaign about the general election, which is on… [+]
Our new phpList.org, launched to celebrate phpLists 15th birthday, has an sent mails counter on the home page, which shows us how many emails we sent as a community so far this year. We also know how many emails were sent last year, and how many countries phpList is used in right now. The tally at the time… [+]