https://github.com/gravityblast/radiant-newsletter

Newsletter system based on Radiant CMS
https://github.com/gravityblast/radiant-newsletter

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Newsletter system based on Radiant CMS

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/gravityblast/radiant-newsletter
• Owner: gravityblast
• License: other
• Created: 2008-04-04T15:58:48.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2008-04-05T13:23:56.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-04-11T01:06:00.356Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Ruby
• Homepage: http://gravityblast.com/projects/radiant-newsletter-extension/
• Size: 124 KB
• Stars: 28
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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= Newsletter

  

  Created by: Andrea Franz - http://gravityblast.com

  Version: 0.1.5

  Contact: andrea AT gravityblast DOT com

This extensions adds a newsletter system to RadiantCMS

  

More info can be found at the following url:

  http://gravityblast.com/projects/radiant-newsletter-extension/

  

== Installation

	Newsletter extension requires the Shards extension, an official extension from the Radiant team:

	

		svn export http://dev.radiantcms.org/svn/radiant/trunk/extensions/shards/ ./vendor/extensions/shards

  

	Make sure that Shards is loaded before this and other extensions requiring it by

	adding this line inside the Radiant::Initializer.run do |config| section of

	environment.rb:

		config.extensions = [ :shards, :all ]

  

  Also you need to install the will_paginate rails plugin, you can find more info here:

    

    http://rock.errtheblog.com/will_paginate

	Then you can proceed with installation:

                                                           

  	svn export http://dev.gravityblast.com/svn/projects/radiant/extensions/newsletter/ ./vendor/extensions/newsletter

  

  	rake RAILS_ENV="production" radiant:extensions:newsletter:install

  

Add ActionMailer configurations in your environment.rb and restart the server.

	config.action_mailer.server_settings = {

	  :address => "address_of_smtp_server",

	  :port => 25,

	  :domain => "domain_of_smtp_server"

	}

== Usage

Create a Newsletter page using the following task:

  rake RAILS_ENV="production" radiant:extensions:newsletter:page:new

  

This task will add a new page called Newsletter.Add a child to this page.

This new page will be the email to send. After the first save, you will see

the "Send as newsletter" button. Click and send your newsletter.

== Contributors

  Casper Fabricius (http://casperfabricius.com)