Miscellaneous Hacks - vBNewsletters

Hey all,

What is vBNewsletters?

It is a simple modification that adds a massive addition to your community! It gives you the ability to add a newsletter to your forum. It not only adds more features to your bulletin board, but can also help boost your member base as many forums find that members enjoy reading the happenings via newsletters.

Features

* Newsletter Page Added - ?do=newsletter
* Newsletter Switch Added
* Newsletter Title and Content Added
* Newsletter Release Date Function Added
* Newsletter Navbar Phrase Added
* HTML Ready
* Version Check Added (vBulletin Version 3.6)

Included in Modification...

* 1 Product
* 1 Template
* 1 Phrase
* 1 Plugin

Support

Support will be given at vBDiscussion.com and in this thread

Installation

Installation takes minutes as the product file does every thing apart from one small template modification which is to place the Newsletter link into your navbar! (This template modification is unneccesary if you have Menu Control installed!)

Thanks,

Marky

[djbaxter]

If this included an option to subscribe for forum members and the ability to send out the newsletter via email, it would be an interesting and useful add-on. As it is, the point of installing it escapes me, frankly.

[Kirk Y]

Originally Posted by Barteken

I was hoping on a mailing out feature and that people could subscribe and unsubscribe. Such a hack would get my vote lol :-)

Use Psionic Vision's HTML E-Mail Hack.

Any chance on a 3.5.4 version of this?

[The-Ensemble]

Very Nice. I love the idea.

I was wondering why doesnt it say
Viewing Newsletter
when your viewing who's online?
Is there a way to change this so it does?

[Kaezul]

People are just too cynical these days, Marky. I personally think it's a great idea for those that do not want to install a portal. Announcements just don't cut it either - They get read less often than normal posts on my forum. A newsletter is a great idea, especially if you have some sort of alert when a new issue is released. I can code that myself, though it would be a handy addition to this addon.

All in all, I'd give you a 5/5 on this one. Great work.

[utw-Mephisto]

Mmm... the title is really confusing imho ... I also expected a HTML based Mail newsletter .

[Hornstar]

Not bad, but if you included some more features then it would appeal to heaps more people.

some suggestions.

1. give us the option to email this newsletter out to selected usergroups.
2. allow people to submit topics to the newsletter so we can include that in the final posting of the newsletter.
3. Have an archive of old newsletters that have been sent out.
4. forgot this idea, will post it when i remember ^^ lol.

[The-Ensemble]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Not bad, but if you included some more features then it would appeal to heaps more people.

some suggestions.

Have an archive of old newsletters that have been sent out.

I'm all for that one
I dont agree about it being sent out, that can be done in admincp as said, Its just people being too lazy to do it

[Snake]

Oh dear god. Thanks a lot for this!

[optrex]

I was just about to suggest an archive to view previous newsletters, but I see I've been beaten to it

Also like the "viewing page" idea suggested earlier.

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by The-Ensemble

I'm all for that one
I dont agree about it being sent out, that can be done in admincp as said, Its just people being too lazy to do it

Yeah im one of those lazy people ^^ and it would make this mod complete if it did lol, it can at least be an option.

here is more idea on extending the idea of sending it out.

Have a cron job or something that will send it out on x day of the week/month/year etc.

Have a default template to start with for the newsletter. One that wont change each month unless we change it.

Then have the option of accepting or declining peoples contributions to the newsletter (an idea from before I had where people can try and get articles etc submitted into the newsletter, where they write out a something good, then in the newsletter it may have the first paragraph then say full article here...)


how cool would this be ^^