MailPress
Version 4.0.1

the WordPress mailing platform

First Things First

Welcome. MailPress is a very special project to me and I'm proud to be a part of it ;-). Lot of hours have gone into MailPress, and I am dedicated to making it better every day. Thank you for making it part of your world.

— André Renaut

System requirements

MailPress 4.0 is using swiftmailer 4.0.3. If you would like to support MailPress, please consider donating.

Installation

  1. Make sure you have already installed WordPress 2.8 or above.
  2. Unzip the MailPress package.
  3. Upload the mailpress folder into wp-content/plugins.
  4. Make sure the wp-content/plugins/mailpress/tmp folder is writable.
  5. Log in to your WordPress admin and point your browser to "Plugins > installed" page.
  6. Activate MailPress plugin first.
  7. Point your browser to "Settings > MailPress", fill and save the settings for each tab.
  8. Activate MailPress add ons if required and update the settings if necessary.
  9. Once everything is installed, use the Test tab in "Settings > MailPress" to validate your settings.

Upgrading

Do not use WordPress automatic upgrade : you will loose the content of mailpress/mp-content and mailpress/tmp folders !

  1. Deactivate all add ons.
  2. Deactivate MailPress.
  3. Delete all add ons folders
  4. Move mailpress/mp-includes/languages to mailpress/mp-content/languages
  5. Delete mailpress/mp-admin, mailpress/mp-includes, mailpress/xtras folders.
  6. Follow installation procedure
  7. If you implemented page or category template, upgrade from mailpress/mp-content/xtras folder.

MailPress themes and templates do not need to be changed if customized in a previous MailPress release.

Upgrading from another system

MailPress can import the emails stored in another system. First you need to get MailPress installed and working as described above. To finally import your emails into MailPress, you will need to use the mailpress_import api and addon.
You have developped your own importer and you think it can be useful to the MailPress community, let us know.

Resources

If you have any questions that aren't addressed in this document, please take advantage of MailPress numerous online resources:

Readme.txt
Read the readme.txt of MailPress
Plugin wiki
Bookmark and check often.
MailPress google group
The MailPress google group. See the Welcome page.

Mailing lists

Need to organize the emails inserted into MailPress and/or let your users to choose which mailing lists they subscribe to, based on WordPress taxonomy concept (post categories, link categories, tags) : MailPress_mailinglist.

Batch mode

Your website becomes more and more successfull, you have now plenty of subscribers, processing a large number of recipients becomes an issue ! , use the MailPress_batch_send addon.

Bounce handling

Process your mail bounces with MailPress_bounce_handing addon.

Tracking

Track your mails will report opening rate, clicks generated as well as locations of your readers using the MailPress Ip api. Activate MailPress_tracking addon.

Synchronize with WordPress

You want to synchronize MailPress with your WordPress registered users, MailPress_sync_wordpress_user add on is made for you.

User Roles

If you need to set Capabilities in MailPress, use the MailPress_roles_and_capabilities addon. You can read more about Roles and Capabilities on the Codex.

SMTP, Sendmail, PHP mail()

Natively, MailPress support SMTP connections to your mail server, however you can switch to Sendmail MailPress_connection_sendmail or native php mail() MailPress_connection_phpmail.

Need more addons ?

Final notes

Share the Love

MailPress has no multi-million euro marketing campaign or celebrity sponsors, but do have something even better—you. If you enjoy MailPress please consider telling a friend, setting it up for someone less knowledgable than yourself, or writing a post on MailPress.