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 MailPress is an open source

The install

Naturally, every Email you send to your subscribers contains a unique unsubscribe link directly to this Blog. These are automatically generated and loged. The conformation of the optout appears on the next screen and it’s rock solid.

If a subscriber does not click back from the email within 7 days they are automatically deleated from the pending cue.

Lots of stats are availble in your WordPress Dashboard via pretty graphs and charts.

A subsciriber can optin or opout to a given Post’s Comments.

I can send attachments with my Email blast any time I wish.

It uses Themes which I can tweak. Five are included for those that prefer to send an HTML Email and one for pure text.

It’s fast and uses Ajax so you never leave the site to either Subscribe or Manage your subscriptions. Opt-In and you will see a link below the Email field to “Manage your subscription” on this Blog

Every Email which MailPress sends are saved and I can view them from the WordPress Dashboard

If a subscriber chooses to subscribe to a Post, they automatically recieve an email digest every time a Comment is made.

Numerous Addon Plugins are available:

• MailPress_autoresponder is an addon for MailPress to manage autoresponders (based on wp-cron).
• MailPress_batch_send is an addon for MailPress to send mails in batch mode.
• MailPress_bulk_import is an addon for MailPress to import users.
• MailPress_connection_phpmail is an addon for MailPress to to replace default SMTP connection by native php mail connection.
• MailPress_connection_sendmail is an addon for MailPress to replace default SMTP connection by SendMail connection.
• MailPress_deregister_scripts is an addon for MailPress to remove unwelcomed scripts from MailPress Pages.
• MailPress_extra_form_mail_new is an addon for MailPress to temporarily change the MailPress theme on MailPress Write page.
• MailPress_filter_img is an addon for MailPress to filter ALL html img tags before mailing and preview them.
• MailPress_import is an addon for MailPress providing an import API for external importers.
• MailPress_mail_custom_fields is an addon for MailPress to edit MailPress mail custom fields.
• MailPress_mailing_lists is an addon for MailPress to manage mailing lists.
• MailPress_newsletter_categories is an addon for MailPress to manage newsletter for main categories.
• MailPress_reset Activating this plugin will immediately delete all MailPress related data in the WordPress & MailPress tables!
• MailPress_roles_and_capabilities is an addon for MailPress to manage capabilities.
• MailPress_sync_wordpress_user is an addon for MailPress to synchronise MailPress users with WordPress users.
• MailPress_tracking is an addon for MailPress to track the mails/users activity.
• MailPress_user_custom_fields is an addon for MailPress to edit MailPress user custom fields.
• MailPress_upload_media is an addon for MailPress to use upload media wordpress facilities for images.
• MailPress_view_logs is an addon for MailPress to view logs.

Wow!

Unless you have been living under a rock, their has been a torrent of Plugin upgrades since Version 2.8 was released. Upgrading a Plugin on a single blog or two is easy although sometimes the automatic upgrade fails. What if you have numerous WordPress Blogs that need lots of Plugin upgrades? What is the fastest and best way to pefrom these upgrades?
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Newbie Guide to upgrade to WordPress 2.8. I had a trashed test Blog when I did this via the WP Dashboard so I will not use that method.

(1) Restart your computer

(2) Back up your entire site and DB to your local machine. Easy via CPanel

(3) Go to http://wordpress.org/ and download the WP 2.8 .zip archive

(4) Unzip on your local machine

(5) I removed those two funky default styles and the entire Plugins folder so it would be a faster upgrade

(6) Make local backups of any core .php files you may have tweaked in your WP install

(7) Launch your FTP client and make sure it is set up to overwrite files

(8) Upload the entire contents of the WP 2.8 folder so it overwrites your current install

(9) In your browser go to www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

(10) Click the Upgrade WordPress Database button

(11) Click the Continue Button

(12) Bingo, their is your Blog

(13) Go to http://mysite.com/wp-login.php

(14) Log in and set the cookie via the Remember Me check box

(15) Make another backup of your site and DB. Easy with CPanel

Have fun Yes, we can do this via Shell using your Telenet client but that’s beyond the scope of this Post. Around 680 + files to upload and should take you around 30 minutes or less.

We are passionate about showing you exactly how our Themes work with numerous Plugins. Not a limited Demo but actually using a Theme and taking note of exactly how this Blog looks and works.

Our Installed Plugins

• Akismet
• All in One SEO Pack
• Contact Form 7
• MailPress – Our Email Newsletter is live: double opt-in and industrial strength
• MailPress_tracking  – We glean data from every Email that is sent
• NextGen Gallery
• Really Simple CAPTCHA
• Simple CAPTCHA
• Theme Switcher Reloaded
• Viper’s Video Quicktags
• WordPress Database Backup
• WP-Sticky
• WP Security Scan
• Google Analyticator
• Google XML Sitemaps
• WordPress eStore
• Max Banner Ads PRO – Look for the Banner/Advertising at the top of our sidebar & at MyPanamaBlog
• CaRP/WP - Multiple News Feeds on our Blog which uses our Theme at MyPanamaBlog
• Text – - Look for the Weather Widget on the sidebar at MyPanamaBlog

We have also tested dozens of other Plugins to insure that our Themes work properly. Naturally, a given Blog should not have an overabundance of Plugins because the load time (queries) becomes slow. Check the bottom of our source code for this data which is included with every Theme we sell.