- Issue created by @pfrilling
- 🇺🇸United States pfrilling Minster, OH
Simplenews
- This module allows an administrator to create a newsletter entity to which people are able to subscribe.
- Subscriptions are managed with a Drupal block that is placed in a region.
- After a user subscribes, they are sent a confirmation message with a link back to the site. Once they follow those steps, they are then 'subscribed'.
- An administrator then can create a newsletter issue, and assign it to a newsletter. Once the newsletter is ready to send, the administrator can browse to a page and send the message to all those subscribed. Drupal's cron process will then handle sending to all subscribers.
Questions
If we decide to go this route, I think we need to determine the following:
- What newsletter should be included?
- What text should the subscription block contain and where should it be placed?
- What should the confirmation messaging be?
- What roles should we create to allow the newsletter creation/sending?
- 🇺🇸United States artinruins
Great first steps. Here are my answers, thinking about it from a first-time user perspective:
- We should create a default newsletter title. Is there a Site Title that we can leverage to do this? Something simple like "[Site Title] Newsletter"
- "Yes, send occasional emails to me from this site." The block should be placed in the footer region.
- Confirmation message: "You are successfully subscribed to the [Site Title] Newsletter." Follow up question: Should we include a link to the Unsubscribe page in case someone signed up by mistake?
- Unsure how to answer this one. A new user likely is not thinking too much about various roles, and they are likely the sole owner/admin of a site. I would keep this ability on the Admin role unless it makes more sense to create a new role (but that feels more complicated than it needs to be)
- 🇦🇺Australia pameeela
Thanks for this @pfrilling and @artinruins!
I think we need to do a UX assessment of Simplenews before we proceed, I haven't ever used it myself. My main concern would be that it doesn't quite match the expectation of marketing-focused users, and we may be better off looking to integrate with external tools first.
