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WP List Mailer Guide



WP List Mailer Guide

Introduction1

A few Words 61.1

Main Menu 81.2

Prerequisites2

WP List Mailer requirements and optional setup items 102.1

Installation3

Files 183.1

Activation and license check4

Activation and license check 264.1

Important configuration settings5

General Settings - Create New Membership Types 335.1

General Settings - Credit landing page 45.2General Settings - Mail settings 435.3

General Settings - Payment settings 455.4

General Settings - Server status 475.5

General Settings - License 495.6

General Settings - Cleanup 505.7

Advertising Setttings6

Create and set up advert blocks 526.1

Import Contacts7

Import Contacts from your lists 557.1



Credit Packs8

Credit pack setting 588.1

OTO settings9

One Time Offers 609.1

Users10

Your members list 6510.1

User mails11

View emails sent by your members 6811.1

View setting and affiliate landing page12

View Settings 7212.1

Affiliate landing page 7312.2

Affiliate report13

View affiliate activity 7513.1

Affiliate Banners14

Add your affiliate banners 7814.1

Main affiliate-referral link 8014.2

Additional Plugins and Settings15

Plugins highly recommended 8215.1

Optional Plugins 8515.2

News and updates tab 8815.3

Quick Guide tab 8915.4



Testing WP List Mailer 16

How to test WP List Mailer 9216.1

Troubleshooting 1016.2

Legal Stuff and Final Words17

Legal Stuff 10617.1

Final Words 10717.2



WP List Mailer © 2011 User Guide V1.0WP List Mailer Guide - 5

Introduction




A few Words

Thank you for purchasing WP List Mailer !

We are grateful that you chose to respond to our offer and we promise you this is aninvestment that you will not regret.

WP List Mailer is the ONLY plugin in it's class and one of the most versatile that we ever used. Wedon't say this becaus e it's ours :) but because it's the truth. We invested in WP List Mailer considerable amounts of money and 10 months of development and testing. The results areastounding even for us as we cannot think at any other plugin that can do for your bus iness asmuch as WP List Mailer will.

Please keep in m ind that WP List Mailer requires a fair amount of WordPress experience butmaybe the most needed quality would be your imagination!Because almost every major WP List Mailer setting can be configured in as many ways aspossible, you are almost guaranteed that your own site will have a unique set up. And herecomes the imagination part as if you can think at possible combinations with other WordPressplugins there is a huge variation of possible setups.

Another huge value - WP List Mailer is in continuous development - we are constantly adding new features, improvements to existing ones and we will also implement YOUR most required ones.Our customers will have the power to influence the development of WP List Mailer - by being an

active member in our forum, you can propose, vote and discuss each feature and add-ons.




In the following pages you will find a ste-by-step guide on how to install, configure and set upWP List Mailer. We decided to present all information in a logical and s tructural manner rather than going through it in menu items order. So at times you could probably think that we missedsomething. Don't worry, even if a certain menu is not presented in the order in which appears inyour WordPress admin, it's all there. Every single menu item is explained to the best of our abilities.

In order to make the most of this guide you should carefully read it and follow each s tep exactlyas we pres ent it. If you have doubts or you are not understand exactly what you should do,

please follow the steps we lis ted at the end of the manual.

We are suggesting you the recommended s ettings for each particular function but you can s etyour own values as long as you understand correctly the function. We used a simple conventionto enforce the mos t important elements, settings and facts - The most important and vital parts are always presented in red and even bold-ed where we felt the utmos t enforcing is needed.Then we have blue text that denotes also things you should not miss and finallyBold items thatare again things to look for.




Main Menu

Once WP List Mailer is installed and activated you will s ee this menu in your WordPress adminarea. We will cover each setting in detail in the next steps so please read this guide in full.

Main menu o verview

This is the main menu of WP List Mailer. You can access it through your WordPress adminaccount - log in the WordPress installation and go to the bottom of your menus. The las t one(or near) should be the menu above. Each tab is explained in detail in the following pages.




Prerequisites




WP List Mailer requirements and optional setup

items

Here is the list with WP List Mailer requirements. Make sure you check them and prepare your files and server before installing WP List Mailer *Notes• DO NOT upload the WP List Mailer folder you purchased directly to your server by FTP or

by using WordPress plugin install function ! It will NOT work. Please read and follow thesteps below.

• If you install WP List Mailer on a working/existing blog, make sure to back it up before.We have thoroughly tested our plugin but we cannot guarantee that some configurationswon't be affected. We are not responsible for any damage to your blog.

• The best way is to install WP List Mailer on a fresh, clean WordPress installation to avoidany incompatibilities• WP List Mailer will not function until the steps under Activation and license code guide

part are not completed !• This guide was made using a Windows 7 PC - the menus and commands will not be the

same on Mac or Linux machines

Required items

• Linux based hosting , min 32 Mb RAM available - make sure your host can support your site.We recommend at least a VPS server for any site with a decent amount of members andemail sent. Our recommended hosting is BigScoots - they will also help you with WP Lis tMailer install and prepare the server for it, making the job much eas ier for you. And theyhave incredibly cheap offers

• PHP 5.2 installed on server with phpcurl enabled• ioncube loader for php 5.2 +• cron jobs - at minimum 2 are required• WP 3.0 +• A FTP software that will allow you to upload files to your server (make sure you have your

FTP login/pass at hand) - We recommend Filezilla, it's easy and s imple to use but you canuse anything you want. Make sure the transfer mode is ‘binary’ while you upload the files.

All of the above are included if you opt in for BigScoots hosting, if you already have a good one,make s ure to check all prerequis ites are met. We have decided to recommend them for their spotless s upport during the time we used them as our hosting provider and also because theywill help each of our clients to install WP List Mailer quick and painless .

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Conflicts and initial settings

You need to know that WP List Mailer works using default WordPress system for membership towhich we added our modifications. You will need to make sure that your membershipregis tration is open - like in the image above. To verify, log into WP admin and go to GeneralSettings - check that is enabled.

The easies t way to install WP List Mailer would be to disable all other plugins if you are doing aninstall on existing site. There are certain plugins that will NOT work with WP List Mailer, like WPSales Engine, WP Spire - pretty much any plugin in this category (OTO, sales page creation andso on). Also any membership plugin will most likely conflict with WP List Mailer. Obvious ly wecould not test WP List Mailer with every possible plugin and combination but it will work with a




wide variety of plugins.

If you cannot or don't want to disable all your plugins please disable all that are in the

categories - sales page offer creation, membership plugins, redirect and custom paths,captcha-related plugins and any other big resource consuming plugin. Most of them will workprobably after you finish installing WP List Mailer but in order to accomplish some tasks youneed to have the least pos sible interferences(e.g. you will not be able to import contacts if captcha plugins are active)

Please m inimize the poss ible causes for errors and try to disable ALL plugins . This will shortenthe install time and will eliminate any possible cause of conflict. We will do our best to providehelp where needed but cannot help everyone that chooses not to lis ten our advices.




Cron setup - server path

We created a tab in WP List Mailer menu called Quick Guide - when selected it will open thepage in the image. The 2 scripts that you will need to install in Cpanel cron are circled. Theseshould already have the right path as the plugin detects the server path, but in case the




detection fails please follow the alternative s teps below

Finding your site ser ver addres s - Alternative method - step 1

Log in your Cpanel account - the circled address is your domain address on the server, note thatdown, you will need it




Finding your site ser ver addres s - Alternative method - step 2

Next, either use a ftp software or browse from cpanel using the file manager to the actualdirectory where your WordPress is installed - usually, if your s ite is not in a folder or subdomainthen it's right under public_html folder. Add this to the address you wrote in the first step and you




will have your s ite server addressIn the example above , where the server folder for the dom ain is "thenetwo", the completeaddress is home/thenetwo/public_html

This is the most frequent configuration for linux based hosts so you will have no problems of your is set up in a s imilar way. You should contact your hos t to be sure if you are not used withCpanel or FTP




Installation




Files

Follow the s teps required to install and activate the plugin on your des ired site.

Purchased files

You should have received a zip file after your payment named -WPListMailer_files_unpack_first.zip. After you received your WP Lis t Mailer and unzipped thepackage you should have a folder containing the files above.

Upload files to your server using WP plugin installer

Log in your Admin area of your WordPress installation and go to Plugins-Add new-Upload .Navigate to your directory on the local drive where you saved the plugin files and upload thewp-list-mailer-plugin.zip file, the activate it.




Alternative - upload the plugin using a FTP progr am

• Unpack the wp-list-mailer-plugin.zip file first, you will have a new folder like above• Using a FTP program like Filezilla, log in your FTP account and navigate to your WordPress

installation's plugin folder and drag the whole folder in your plugins directory• Go to your WP admin and activate the plugin




Upload globa l files

• Using a FTP program, navigate to your FTP server where the main wordpress files arepresent - wp-config and the rest...

• Browse on the local disk to your unpacked WP List Mailer and open the global files folder.You will find 3 files there, drag them all in your WP folder

Activate WP List Mailer plugin

Go in your WordPress admin - Plugins - Inactive and click on Activate




Set up Cron jobs

Go to WordPress admin->WP Lis t Mailer menu->Quick guide .You wil l have a page like above,the second 2 lines are your cron commands that you will need to copy and paste in the cpanelcron command field . Go to step 3 if the path is correct (it should contain your cpanel namewhere the image is blurred)

If the script cannot detect your path or it's not the correct one (it should work for 90% of hosts and it's sure to work with BigScoots hosting) please use the alternative method steps1 and 2




Set up Cron jobs - Alternative method ste p 1

• Go to your folder where you unzipped the plugin and open Crons.txt file• Prepare your saved path to your site that you should have saved in prerequisite step , like

/home/YOURCPANELLOGIN/public_html/




Set up Cron jobs - Alternative method ste p 2

Replace the path as above, paste your exact path to your s ite for each of the 2 files




Set up Cron jobs ste p 3

• Log into your Cpanel and go to your Cron page (under Advanced tab usually)• Copy your command path from the Quick Guide tab (see Set up Cron jobs step)or use the

one in the txt file , edited with your own server path• To make it easier you could select a common setting - if you want to test first or your email

needs are not that big, select a loose setting - every few hours or so. However, if you intendto make use of heavy email duties you could go s traight ahead and s et it to run each minute

• Paste the command with your edited path and click "Add New Cron Job"• Repeat for each command/file




Activation and license check




Activation and license check

Before anything else WP List Mailer needs 2 s teps to be completed :• Create aand set a default membership type• Add your license key. Each license key is generated individually for the exact domain where is

used. If you did not did it already please send an email to [email protected] containing URL of the domain where you gonna use the plugin. If you use another email thanthe one you regis tered with us please send your paypal transaction number.




Create de fault members hip - step 1

In order to use WP List Mailer you need at leas t one active membership type - the default membership. The default membership is the one each member will have once they subscribe -

the lowest grade or cheapest type if you want.Notes:• You should prepare before installation with a membership plan - credits, price, bonuses

and also what rights will each membership have are the most important things toconsider - Do your math carefully so you balance the credits each member can gain byclicking with the credits they can spend on site for emails and banner/text ads

• Set your email limits according to your server capabilities! The best way is to asksupport about email limitations of your server if you are not sure! We are not




responsible of any loss you might suffer if you set your limits too high (hosting accountloss or even worse...)!

• All price fields are numbers, not percents and are displayed in the currency you will

select in the General settings-Payment options tab• You cannot delete a membership type after your site has launched and is operationalwithout messing up the database. Each membership type can be edited and if you don'tuse it anymore or is a trial or a temporary membership, can be disabled by changing thestatus from Active to Inactive

• The paid membership are not automatically renewing - we are working to improve thisbut for now you have to consider this fact. The paid members are informed of their membership expiration and they have the option to buy it again from the upgrade menuor choose another membership.

• Very Important ! - at the first login to each member is presented a series of pop-upwindows containing upgrade offers for your membership types -remember all members

sign in as default member types - . The pop-ups are ordered from your last entry in themember type - the last one you create- to the second(the default is not presented asthey are logged in that membership). So you should create your membership type fromthe least expensive to the most expensive order. If your most expensive is $100 and theleast is $10, start creating the $10 first and move up until you create the last one the$100. This way the first upgrade offer will be the most expensive.

Here are the explanations for each field and step-by-step tutorial:1. Name - Choose a descriptive name for the membership type, like "Free" if there is no

charge. You can put whatever you want though.

2. Price - The price members will pay - 0 if it's free3. Duration - The membership duration in days - with WP List Mailer you can have

memberships that can last years, months or a few days if you want to. Choose your number or input 0 for a lifetime membership. Don't forget these are days !

4. Discount fields - Add here the discount you want to offer for a paid membership type. e.g. if you want to have a 10 day promo with $5 off an $10 membership, add 5 into the discountfield then select discount start and end dates. Add your discount text - this wil l be presentedin the upgrade offers each member can see after the first login.

5. "Is contributor" - a very powerful option and a unique feature. By checking this option themembers will have a new "Posts" tab in their member menu where they can add posts tothe blog. They will use the WordPress editor and have access to all plugin fields and

settings any editor has so you can have all sorts of extra features enabled via plugins for your members if you choose so.

6. Registration credits - the amount of credits each member will receive once they register 7. Read Mail Bonus Min/Max - WP List Mailer has a random feature for reading credits that

members will receive upon clicking on a credit link or ad. You can choose different valuesfor each membership type so that higher level members could earn credits they needeasier. e.g. 20 value for Min and 40 for Max will reward members a random number of credits between 20 to 40, like 28 or 36 and so on




8. Save Mail Limit - each membership can have sent email messages saved for statisticsdata (number of open messages is dis played) and re-use. You can set how many emailswill be saved for each membership level. Do not allow a very high number - like hundreds,

even tens for a large number of members will add cons iderably to the server load andperformance.9. Advert Limit - you can create many advert types and s izes in the Advertising settings tab

and also determine which membership types can use them- here you can choose howmany you wil l allow the specific member type to use - 0, 1 or more, it's up to you. You shouldknow ads are displayed through widgets in your s idebars and widgetized areas. Manyrecent themes have multiple sidebars options so you can display specific ads in eachsidebar. You will be also able to set the s izes for all ads that will be displayed on your site.

10. Referral Bonus - if a member is actively promoting your site and a new member registers toyour site from this promotion, the member will automatically gain the specified number of credits

11. Maximum recipients per mail - another important setting you should cons ider beforestarting the site - This is the number each membership type is allowed to send in theinterval you wil l set below (Mail limit) - if you're not careful you will very easy get over email limit or server capabilities. You wil l need to do some math here to find out themaximum email capabilities for your server so that you can set a decent amount here. e.g if you want to allow 1000 members to send to each every day that's 100.000 emails daily(of course not all will do it but even half would be 50 k emails). o send 100k email the server has to be capable and allow you to send at least 4166 email hourly. So plan ahead and doyour math before launching your offer and give yourself a good margin. WP List Mailer iscapable of sending the email at almos t the speed of the server so the real factor you shouldconsider here is the server capability. As we mentioned before, we have tested and

recommend our hosting company of choice - BigScoots . Visit them and check their offer.12. Mail Limit - The setting is straightforward - how many emails is the member allowed to

send in a set interval i days - e.g daily is 1 mail per 1 day, weekly 1 mail per 7 days and soon. You can even have something like 100 email per 365 days so the member can send hisor her emails when they want in that interval. As almost all options wee tried to give youcomplete freedom so you can set everything to your pleasure. By combining the settingshere with Maximum recipients per mail setting you can control the email part very easy witha little planning. You can allow a bigger recipient number but al lower frequency or lessrecipients but more often, it's up to you.

13. Status - We mentioned before that once you create a membership type you cannot delete it (you can reset all settings as you will see) Every membership though can be edited and

also set Active or Inactive . If you don't want to us e a membership type a period or you justdon't want to edit it for any reason you can set it to Inactive - the members will not beaffected and they will continue to have the same privileges as set when they regis tered untilthe membership duration expires . Then they can upgrade or be automatically reverted to thedefault membership type.

Once you set everything you can click Submit. Don't worry, if you forgot anything you will be ableto edit the membership type. If some required setting is missing you won't be able to subm it







until you complete the required field.

You can now proceed for the next step or you could add all your membership types now if

you made a plan and you are sure on the number of membership types you want to have.We would advise to give as much as possible to these settings. Give some thought on how you want your site to function, if you need/want a trial membership, how many would be and how much the upgrades will cost, all these are factors you should consider.

To create the other membership types just follow the steps above for each membershiptype. You can use the short code [showmembertypes] to display all available membershipsin any page or post.

Create de fault members hip - step 2

Once you have your default membership created you need to go to General Settings - >Registration Settings - > Default Member type drop down menu. Select from there themembership type you want to set as default.Warning - Once you set this all members that register will automatically be assigned to thismembership type.




Final activation step - license check

The final s tep required to activate WP List Mailer is the license check. This is required for safetyand as an anti-theft measure but also to insure proper communication at API level. Using WPList Mailer API we will implement a hos t of features - like the ability to organize solo-emails -after 2 or more WP List Mailer owners have an agreement they can offer a JV email option for their members - the email will get send to all members of all sites involved. Other powerfulfeatures will be implemented using the API so this is a necessity.

To receive your API key you will need to email us with your domain URL where WP List Mailer will be installed. If you use a different email than the one registered at WP List Mailer you willneed to add in the email the Paypal transaction number for verification and the email

address you registered with. The API key is unique for each site/owner, do NOT give it awayor allow access to it to untrusted persons.




Important configuration

settings




General Settings - Create New Membership Types

Until now we set up all absolutely required settings. WP List Mailer will work but in order touse it at it's full potential you will need to set up more items. Most settings we present arerecommended but you can set almost any parameter as you like if you want to experiment.We will do our best to help you understand the function, the rest is up to you.Here is one of the main parts of WP List Mailer - the membership creation. You can createUNLIMITED membership types , hide some if not used (special offers, trials, JV...). You need toknow that each ACTIVE membership type along with details is presented in a pop-up window tonew members at their first login AUTOMATICALLY. The order is from the latest ACTIVE entry inyour membership lis t to the first non-default entry.The default membership is the one assigned to ALL new members once they join your site. Toupgrade, they will have to either accept one of the upgrade offers pop-ups or go to their upgrade

entry in member menu.To create a new membership type you wil l need the WP List Mailer to be in active state, at leas ttemporarily. If it's not (the WP Lis t Mailer s tatus is always displayed in your WP admin dashboard,at top) go to WP Lis t Mailer - General Settings -Server state and activate it. Below is a walk throughon membership creation.




Create more membership types

To create a membership type, please read detailed instructions in the WP List Mailer Guide.pdf - you will be talked through all the steps required.

Notes:• You should prepare before installation with a membership plan - credits, price, bonuses

and also what rights will each membership have are the most important things toconsider - Do your math carefully so you balance the credits each member can gain byclicking with the credits they can spend on site for emails and banner/text ads

• Set your email limits according to your server capabilities! The best way is to asksupport about email limitations of your server if you are not sure! We are notresponsible of any loss you might suffer if you set your limits too high (hosting account




loss or even worse...)!• All price fields are numbers, not percents and are displayed in the currency you will

select in the General settings-Payment options tab

• You cannot delete a membership type after your site has launched and is operationalwithout messing up the database. Each membership type can be edited and if you don'tuse it anymore or is a trial or a temporary membership, can be disabled by changing thestatus from Active to Inactive

• The paid membership are not automatically renewing - we are working to improve thisbut for now you have to consider this fact. The paid members are informed of their membership expiration and they have the option to buy it again from the upgrade menuor choose another membership.

• Very Important ! - at the first login to each member is presented a series of pop-upwindows containing upgrade offers for your membership types -remember all memberssign in as default member types - . The pop-ups are ordered from your last entry in the

member type - the last one you create- to the second(the default is not presented asthey are logged in that membership). So you should create your membership type fromthe least expensive to the most expensive order. If your most expensive is $100 and theleast is $10, start creating the $10 first and move up until you create the last one the$100. This way the first upgrade offer will be the most expensive.

Here are the explanations for each field and step-by-step tutorial:

1. Name - Choose a descriptive name for the membership type, like "Free" if there is nocharge. You can put whatever you want though.

2. Price - The price members will pay - 0 if it's free

3. Duration - The membership duration in days - with WP List Mailer you can havememberships that can last years, months or a few days if you want to. Choose your number or input 0 for a lifetime membership. Don't forget these are days !

4. Discount fields - Add here the discount you want to offer for a paid membership type. e.g. if you want to have a 10 day promo with $5 off an $10 membership, add 5 into the discountfield then select discount start and end dates. Add your discount text - this wil l be presentedin the upgrade offers each member can see after the first login.

5. "Is contributor" - a very powerful option and a unique feature. By checking this option themembers will have a new "Posts" tab in their member menu where they can add posts tothe blog. They will use the WordPress editor and have access to all plugin fields andsettings any editor has so you can have all sorts of extra features enabled via plugins for

your members if you choose so.6. Registration credits - the amount of credits each member will receive once they register 7. Read Mail Bonus Min/Max - WP List Mailer has a random feature for reading credits that

members will receive upon clicking on a credit link or ad. You can choose different valuesfor each membership type so that higher level members could earn credits they needeasier. e.g. 20 value for Min and 40 for Max will reward members a random number of credits between 20 to 40, like 28 or 36 and so on

8. Save Mail Limit - each membership can have sent email messages saved for statistics




data (number of open messages is dis played) and re-use. You can set how many emailswill be saved for each membership level. Do not allow a very high number - like hundreds,even tens for a large number of members will add cons iderably to the server load and

performance.9. Advert Limit - you can create many advert types and s izes in the Advertising settings taband also determine which membership types can use them- here you can choose howmany you wil l allow the specific member type to use - 0, 1 or more, it's up to you. You shouldknow ads are displayed through widgets in your s idebars and widgetized areas. Manyrecent themes have multiple sidebars options so you can display specific ads in eachsidebar. You will be also able to set the s izes for all ads that will be displayed on your site.

10. Referral Bonus - if a member is actively promoting your site and a new member registers toyour site from this promotion, the member will automatically gain the specified number of credits

11. Maximum recipients per mail - another important setting you should cons ider before

starting the site - This is the number each membership type is allowed to send in theinterval you wil l set below (Mail limit) - if you're not careful you will very easy get over email limit or server capabilities. You wil l need to do some math here to find out themaximum email capabilities for your server so that you can set a decent amount here. e.g if you want to allow 1000 members to send to each every day that's 100.000 emails daily(of course not all will do it but even help would be 50 k emails). To send 100k email the server has to be capable and allow you to send at least 4166 email hourly. So plan ahead and doyour math before launching your offer and give yourself a good margin. WP List Mailer iscapable of sending the email at almos t the speed of the server so the real factor you shouldconsider here is the server capability. As we mentioned before, we have tested andrecommend our hosting company of choice - BigScoots . Visit them and check their offer.

12. Mail Limit - The setting is straightforward - how many emails is the member allowed tosend in a set interval i days - e.g daily is 1 mail per 1 day, weekly 1 mail per 7 days and soon. You can even have something like 100 email per 365 days so the member can send hisor her emails when they want in that interval. As almost all options wee tried to give youcomplete freedom so you can set everything to your pleasure. By combining the settingshere with Maximum recipients per mail setting you can control the email part very easy witha little planning. You can allow a bigger recipient number but al lower frequency or lessrecipients but more often, it's up to you.

13. Status - We mentioned before that once you create a membership type you cannot delete it (you can reset all settings as you will see) Every membership though can be edited andalso set Active or Inactive . If you don't want to us e a membership type a period or you just

don't want to edit it for any reason you can set it to Inactive - the members will not beaffected and they will continue to have the same privileges as set when they regis tered untilthe membership duration expires . Then they can upgrade or be automatically reverted to thedefault membership type.

Once you set everything you can click Submit. Don't worry, if you forgot anything you will be ableto edit the membership type. If some required setting is missing you won't be able to subm ituntil you complete the required field.







To create a trial membership, add as a discount the full amount of your price - e.g. if the priceis $10, out a $10 discount. Then set a period for your discount and add your discount text and

other settings and activate it.

To create the another membership types just follow the steps above for each membershiptype. You can use the short code [showmembertypes] to display all available membershipsin any page or post.

Upgrade membership pop-up

Above you can see a screen shot of upgrade pop-up in action. This is presented to EACH newmember after they log in the first time, ONCE. If they aren't taking the upgrade offers they canupgrade at any time in their upgrade menu . You can find out more about member s ide settingsin the WP List Mailer member-side guide.pdf .




Setup Admin Account step 1

• You will need an admin account in order to send emails to all members. It is bes t if youset it up once all other membership type accounts are done. Using the admin account youwill be able to send emails to all user levels and communicate the latest news, contests




and other things. Also as a good incentive for members to open them, you should add agood premium to read bonuses .

• Create a new membership type following the steps we presented before. This time you

should add really high values - at least as much as you think you will need for save maillimit, advert limit, max recipients and max mail per day - as we did above. Once it's done youwill set it to inactive so it won't be displayed in the upgrade offers or in the membership lis tthat can be set up using the shortcode [showmembertypes]

Setup Admin Account step 2

Register as a new member by going to the default WordPress registration page - the link ishttp:// Yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?action=register , replace Yourdomain.com with your

domain name. You have to use a new email account that is not already registered at your blog/site. 1. Go to Wp List users tab in your admin area and select the newly created account. You can

search for it if you have more emails(you shouldn't unless you already imported a lis t). Clickon Change Type link. Once you activated the command the options from #2 will sl ide abovelike in the image.

2. Choose the new member type you created for admin - you might have named it admin :) and3. submit. Once it's done, you can log out of WP admin account and log in the new WP List

Mailer admin account to test it. Will cover this in Testing chapter.Create 1 or more test accounts

This is optional but highly recommended. In order to make sure everything is working as itshould and the members will be able to send-receive emails , set their ads and use all thefunctions you activate for them you should create at least one test account. Just regis ter as anew member in your default membership. Then log in the new account and send emails, setyour ads and verify all functions . With just a single account you can't verify thoroughly the emailsending and receiving part so you might wanna use 2 or more testing accounts. You will need anew email for each account.




In order to use a s ingle account for testing, you can s tart by testing the default membership.Once you're done and satisfied you can upgrade the account following the steps done with your admin account, just choose the second level membership. Repeat the upgrade to test all

membership types. Even better would be to have 1-2 friends or team members help you - thiswill speed everything up.




General Settings - Credit landing page

The credit bar is the overlaying bar on top of all pages that are set in the email credit field bymembers or admin. Once the link in the email is clicked the page is opened and a countdowntimer s tarts. The credits are automatically added in the member's account after the countdown isover. If the page is closed before for any reason the credit are NOT

The credit bar closes once the countdown is over but the page remains open. This helps inpromotion as the pages have a chance to stay open even after the countdown is terminated.View the credit bar in action - VIDEO

Editing credit bar te xt

In the above page you can configure the text above and below the countdown timer. You can alsouse links if you want to - maybe even sell the bottom line spot. There is nothing special thoughyou should experiment with fonts and texts until you are satisfied. We would suggest to use the

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top line text for your branding - name of the s ite/safelis t.Another important setting here is the waiting time - this is the amount of time you want your members to keep open the pages until their account is credited. You can set it how short or

long you want.




General Settings - Mail settings

This is another vital part in WP Lis t Mailer configuration. These settings affect directly the number of emails being sent by the server. It is critical to not go over your server capacity so be careful. Alittle math will help you here to calculate the ratios. Make sure you get first the email lim its andcapacity of your server from your email provider. They can help you also to set this up by giving youthe exact values . If you followed our recommendation and choose your hos ting from Big Scoot offers, they will have you covered.

Editing mail settings

1. Members have the option to use their own email when sending an email or choose to gideit and use the email provided here in your settings. We suggest you to use something [email protected]

2. Credit per mail : how many credits will be deducted from the users account after sending asingle mail to a single receiver.

3. Maximum mail per day : the highes t number of mai ls the server can send in a day. This







reflects your server capability. Contact your host for it. The plugin wil l never send more thanthis in a day

4. Maximum Mail per hour : How many emails are you allowed to send in an hour in your

server. In a dedicated server you can have it set to 10000 - 100000 emails5. Maximum Mail per Cron : Emails are scheduled and sent periodically for ensuringconsis tency and integrity of the system with the help of complex schedule management andcron files. In every server each cron script can run for a certain period of time. This settingtells the cron file how m any email is to be processed and sent in each run. If your server has maximum 30 seconds set for a run and you have a shared server then limit to 10. If youhave a dedicated server you should set it to 100 or more. Remember this is alsoinfluenced by the server setting for the cron - e.g. if you set the cron to run each minuteand the max mail per cron to 1000 then the server will send 1000 emails each minute.

It is important that you work with your hos ting company to set up the settings above. For sites

just starting up there is no need to go over the board and set it to the max, you can put morerelaxed values here.




General Settings - Payment settings

In this page you will learn how it set up the payment related options of WP List Mailer. Everyimportant setting is straightforward so nothing to worry here. Just double-check the emails to besure they are the correct ones you want to use.

Editing payment set tings

1. You will need a business Paypal account to be able to receive payments without problems.Make sure your account is OK and add your email in this field.

2. If you want to be notified when a member pay for an upgrade or other items add here a validemail address. Works only if IPN service is activated - see Paypal IPN chapter

3. The currency code is the code for your desired currency from the Paypal approved codes - inyour account should be set the same - USD, AUD, EUR and so on. A full lis t of currencycodes here

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4. You can set up payments thank you and cancel pages if you wish so - these are used whenthe members upgrades or at any payment in general. These are the same with the onesyou can set in your Paypal settings . Just add the URL's of your already created pages.

5. Referrer percentage - The percentage (%) your members will receive when they refer anew upgraded (paid) member. This refers s trictly to paid memberships, there is another setting when you create the memberships where you add the amount of credits themembers receive for referring a non-paid member

Save your settings after you are sure everything is correct.




General Settings - Server status

This is simple setting but very important. If you forget the status things can get mes sy. That is whywe set WP List Mailer to display it's status on top of your WordPress dashboard.

Editing server status settings

There is just a s ingle option where you can s tart or stop WP List Mailer. When s topped noemails are being sent, any new member that registers will NOT be added to your usersdatabase. So make sure you're prepared when you are choosing to s top it for whatever reason.

You will need WP List Mailer to be set in active mode in order to test it, even before launchingyour site or service, so make sure it is so.




Server Status not ification area

At the top of your das hboard you will s ee this area above where WP Lis t Mailer server status andother messages are displayed. It's also a quick link to Server settings above so you can stop itimmediately of there's a problem.




General Settings - License

We covered this setting at the activation step but in case you need to change or refresh your info,here it is again

License s ettings

Just to remind you - you wil l NEED a licens e # in order to activate and use WP Lis t Mailer. As weexplained before, each and every WP List Mailer ins tallation is tied with the domain and em ail of the owner. The API it's used for security but will also help us to develop updates and add-onplugins that will allow multiple WP List Mailer ins talls/sites to collaborate and work together.

To obtain your license key we ned you to contact us with the domain URL where the plugin willbe ins talled and your email if you use the one you registered with at WP List Mailer site. If youuse another email we require the Paypal transaction # to verify your ownership. We know it's alittle complicated but we are doing our bes t to minim ize the effort - we will try to reply your emailin the shortest time possible. Also this will help a lot our development team and in turn willbenefit you when the new additions will be implemented.

If you know exactly where you will us e WP List Mailer you can contact us before starting theinstallation and have everything ready once you actually start. Send us an email [email protected] with the required data and we will send your license # asap.

DO NOT SHARE YOUR LICENSE NUMBER - it is unique and tied to your installation but hackerscan use it to mimic this data so you can end up with a non-working site !




General Settings - Cleanup

This is a sensitive setting so make sure you're sure you want to do this. You should use theseonly if you messed the settings really bad and don't wanna repair them but rather start fresh or if you are ready to uninstall WP List Mailer completely. With either command you will delete allsettings, users, data and even database tables if you choose Delete all tables.Once you click on the settings is NO GOING BACK !

Cleanup page

1. Clean Data - You can us e this safely to delete all data in all WP List Mailer tables so you can

start fresh. All data, settings, options will be reset to default and your additions will bedeleted. Use this if you messed things really bad and don't want to repair but rather startover.

2. Delete All Tables - This is a total wipe out - use this ONLY if you want to remove WP Lis tMailer completely - either to move it on another site or just clean it for whatever reason. Thisoption will delete EVERYTHING, including the tables that WP List Mailer creates in the mainWP database.




Advertising Setttings




Create and set up advert blocks

In this section you will learn how to create and set up the advertising part of WP Lis t Mailer. WPList Mailer has provisions for 2 types of on-site advertising -text and banner ads. Both can be setup of any size you want so they can fit any des ign possible. The only requirement is to havesidebars enabled as the ad blocks are displayed through widgets

Do not delete created advert blocks. If an advert block is deleted, the place where youattached the block won't show it

Create a new advert block

Go to Advertising settings -> Create Advert Block . All is straightforward here, just remember toname each advert block with a suggestive name like "250x250 sidebar img" or "200 char textad "-this way it will be eas ier for you and for members when they will set up their ads. The sizeis relevant to either text or banner ads, the min character is only for text ads, set it to 0 for bannersEach widget will only display 1 ad at one time. The ads are rotated from the same ad group

when more banners are available. To display more ads at one time simply place more adblock widgets.

1. X size in pixels, e.g. 250 - You should know your theme sidebar usable width so that theads won't go over the limits or be displayed improperly

2. Y size in pixels e.g. 300 - Try to set up your ads so that members can use standard banner sizes like 250x250 or 125x125px for your s idebars. If you can create widgets in footer or other places you can consider other sizes for your ad blocks




3. Max Character - the maximum number of characters that members are allowed to use,including spaces. You can allow s mall 3 word text ads or 100 word ads, it's up to you !

4. Min CPM/CPC - WP List Mailer offers 2 type of payment for ads - CPM (cost per impression)

and CPC (cost per click), both settings should have a value in credits. These should befamiliar for anyone using PPC, for the res t, don't worry, it's not that complicated. Each isself-explanatory, for more information, follow the links - CPM/CPC . If you only want one tobe used you should s et up a very high credit price for the other. It will probably take time toget a perfect value s o you should experiment and test with these settings . If you happen toknow your average click through of your banners from other sources you can take those asa template for the CPM/CPC settings . MAny ad manager plugins have statistics so you cantake those into consideration. Let's assume a 10% CTR(Clickthrough rate) - then if 1000impress ions cost is 100 credits the CPC cost should be 1 credit to have the same value.

5. Chose the member... - Here you can select which membership type will have the Ad blockavailable in their member area menu. This way you can further differentiate between

member types and keep the best ad places for premium membership types

Once you're done, click subm it. Repeat the process for each ad block. Do NOT delete active adblocks if used as all ads will be lost.

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Import Contacts




Import Contacts from your lists

This is another very powerful feature and one that you should use with care. We cannot berespons ible if you choos e to add users to your s ite without their consent. If you are confident thatyour list members will not object go ahead.We suggest that you sent them an email before to inform them you will offer a free service andthey can unsubscribe at any time if they wish so. You should inform them that they will s tartreceiving emails from other members if they will choose to remain.

Prepa re File and impor t

Please check first if your WordPress registration is open - go to Settings - General in your WordPress admin area. You must disable any captcha for registration process in your site.This part uses wordpress’s default registration process.Before uploading you should prepare your csv file - it should contain the email, user name, firstname and last name ONLY1. Browse to your file location, select your desired file. Make sure is the correct one!2. Click on import




Contact setup

Select the correct value for each field and click submit once you're ready. If your lis t is notproperly formatted jus t avoid clicking on submit - the users will NOT be processed until you click

"submit"

Note - the import can take a long time if you are importing a large list so please be patient !Do not import over 1000 users at one time for best results.




Credit Packs




Credit pack setting

Depending on how you set your credit settings for your membership types, some members coulduse more credits to display more ads or email more often. This is a perfect opportunity to makesome money. You can create credit packs that would be available for all members to purchase intheir member area menu. It's up to you to make them cheap (maybe set lower credit allowances -the read bonus in the membership creation tab - so that members will either need to read moreemails to send theirs or buy some) or even sell high for those not willing to bother to click onemail links. It's up to you and maybe some fine tuning will be required once you have a runningsite.

To create a credit pack, go to WP List Mailer - Credit packs and s tart creating. There are jus t a fewsimple settings, explained below.

Create a new cred it pack

1. Set the amount of credits for this pack2. The price in your set currency. You should choose carefully - having a plan is again a good

idea3. You can have certain credit packs that can be available only for a short while - promotions,gifts for all members and so on. Once the event is over, you can dis able the credit pack andactivate again when needed.

Repeat the s teps to create more credit packs, make sure those you want to be displayed inmembers area are Active




OTO settings




One Time Offers

One Time Offers are special offers that can be displayed for members and visitors at presetevents - before or after login, registration or for guests. These are full HTML pages that you canset up and edit as you wish. Their purpose would be to help in promoting other sites andproducts, sale your own products or s imply display ads. Members are credited for viewing theOTO's but these can be us ed as promo pop ups also.OTO's are very easy to setup and are very powerful if used properly. Offers are tracked two ways,browser cookies and member ids. Guest and registration offers are presented only once per browser/IP or user but if the IP changes and the user clears the cookies the offer will bepresented again. If you create an after login offer, it means it will be showed to every member once. If you create a registration offer, it will be shown only in registration page. If the sameperson accesses the registration page from another PC he will see it again. The before login

offers shows up in the login page, and the guest offers shows up in all other pages if they are nologged in as users.




Setup an OTO

1. As many other settings, OTO's have a campaign setting - you can choose a s tart and enddate so once you set it up you can forget about it ! Just make sure you plan it well.

2. Period - you can set a second timer - e.g. you can offer 500 extra credits to anyone that willregister in the 1 hour period after click ing on ‘Accept’ button in your offer . The plugin willremember and automatically add the credits to qualified members. With a little imaginationyou can use this in many ways

3. Credits - Offer credits as incentive to regis ter, vis it a certain offer or whatever reason you like4. Target Link - This is the link for a page you promote or whatever link you want to open when

the vis itor clicks on Accept Offer button (more about it in the next chapter). In the sampleabove we set the link to open the regis tration page. So when a visitor arrives, if he likes the




offer can join in 1 hour time and get 500 extra credits. The visitors can register immediatelyas the registration page will open if the Accept the offer.

5. Content - Add your text, images or other HTML content. It can display almost any kind of

content, make sure you don't go overboard as the size will grow to fit your content.6. Onevent - This determines WHEN the pop up will be displayed - above for the guest setting,will appear for every new vis itor ONCE. This should be us ed for offers catered tonon-members and regular visitors . Registration setting would be appropriate for goodincentives for registering while before login and after login settings are addressed toalready registered members.

7. Count - Another way to create the sense of urgency! Combining the 3 timing settings -campaign period - hour and count you can have for example an offer valid for 1 day, 1 hour and for the next 50 vis itors as we set it above. We're not ready yet ! See:

8. Max per User - A last setting to persuade those undecided. In order to give a secondchance to your members to take the offer you can set this to a higher number. e.g. an after

login offer that gives the member some credit incentive to see a 3'rd party sales page. If Maxper User is set to more than once members can accept the offer as m any times as the limitis to accumulate more credits, thus giving a better chance for a sale. Same would go for anad promoting other site, you got the idea...




OTO sample

Here is the OTO we had s et up before - live. As you can see, Once the visitor will click on Accept they will be taken to the registration page we set up so they can register and enjoy the offer rightaway !




Users




Your members list

In this tab you will find all your registered members. You can filter members so you can see only acertain membership type verified members. Default view is All - all members are displayed. Hereyou can als o give credits to certain member/s and change type - change the membership type. Soyou can manually reward and upgrade members - use this for your friends or at promotions or events.You can also search for a specific member using the search field.

Wp list use rs

There are several self-explicit fields so we will not insist on those - the name is simply the nameuser added at registration, the email is again the registration email, the paypal email is their paypal email you would use to pay them commis sions, there is then the member type and thestatus. You can suspend users from another menu if they break the rules, if the user issuspended the status will change here.The other fields:1. Check the member type/s you want to list and click search to have them all listed2. The paypal email is the member's paypal - every member can add it in their account so you

can pay them if needed.

3. Balance - The amount of credits each member has in their account4. Mails - the number of emails user had already sent5. Adverts - the number of text or banner ads member has setup6. Referrar - the member that referred7. Give credits - if you wish to reward a s pecific member or more you can give them credits

directly in their account. If you want to reward all members you should use the credit packmenu




8. Change Member Type - upgrade/downgrade manually specific users - reward activemembers, upgrade those curious to get a taste of upgraded memberships, plenty of waysto use this

Give credits

To give credits to a specific member, click on Give Credit link beside member's name. It willopen the dialog above. Just add the number of credits you want to give and click submit.

Change type upgrade/downgrade members

TO change the membership for a selected member, click on Change type link - the menu abovewill open. Select from the drop-down menu the new membership type and click submit.




User mails




View emails sent by your members

In the User Mails tab you can view all emails sent by your members. Also you can suspendmembers directly from here if you see that the users violated your rules. This can act as a warning- suspend for a few days or so. Once the user convinced you that will behave, you can make hisaccount active again.




Mail statistics

1. The order number 1 being the latest sent2. The user name3. Suspend link - use this link if you want to suspend a certain user for breaking the rules or

other reasons4. The subject line in the member's email5. The content of the member's email - you can see if certain members don't follow your rules6. The date when the email was created7. Sending status - No means the email is still in the queue and not all recipients have




received the email yet - this depends of your server capacity, cron settings and mail settingsin general settings tab

8. The number of recipients - some member types can have higher limits and is poss ible the

member does not have enough credits to send the email to the whole lis t - here you cansee the number member set in his email editor 9. Read - How many recipient opened the email till the time you checked the stats - this can

change as some will open the email much later




View setting and affiliate

landing page




View Settings

Now is a good time to let you know how you can change the view settings so that you will be ableto see more rows. This is useful especially for user and member email list. By default there areonly 5 rows displayed so it can become tedious to look for a member or see more at a glance.

Note - This setting will affect ALL menus so if your setting will make other menus look weirdgo back and adjust it.

View settings

Change the default value(5) to 50 to have 50 rows displayed in all menus. As we mentioned, themost affected are the User list and User emails tabs. Click Save and verify in the other tabs.




Affiliate landing page

The affiliate landing page is the default referral link for all your members. This will open each timemembers will us e their link to promote your site.

Default Affiliate landing page

The Affiliate landing page is a very important setting - this is the default page where all trafficsent by your members as affiliates (us ing their referral link) goes. So this is the default affiliatelink for all members - you would like this to be a squeeze or offer page.




Affiliate report




View affiliate activity

In this tab you can view your members activity as affiliates. All members can promote your s iteusing their unique affiliate link, and banners - that are available to them once you set them up. Weare working to make this part of WP List Mailer much more powerful and flexible.

For now there is only 1 level of affiliates and as a restriction the payments have to be paidmanually. You will do that by checking the affiliate report, compare with your paypal and pay themember in his/her Paypal account (this has to be set by the member in the member area menu)

Affiliate report main view

The first columns are self-explanatory - you have the member's name, registration email andpaypal email. The most important values here are the Earned Credits and Earned Money - youcan see in a glance if the member referred other free-non paid mem bers or some of them arepaying customers. If no earnings are reported in the money column then no paid member wasreferred yet.




Detailed a ffiliate re por t

Once you click on View link from main Affiliate report page you will see a similar page as above.You have the referred member names so you can check if they are fake - go in the member lis tand see if any referred member is active - send emails, post ads, added the paypal email - anyactivity that a normal human would do. If not the you can contact the referred member if you wantto verify deeper.Click on Credits or Money to view specific information.




Affiliate Banners




Add your affiliate banners

This is simple tab, only one option to note - Create New Affiliate Banner - click on this and s tartadding the banner you want to be used to promote your s ite. These banners are available to allmembers in the member area. By default some images are already present in the page asplaceholders, delete them before uploading yours.

Create New Affiliate Banner

Once you click on Create New Affiliate Banner the dialog above will appear. Simple steps toupload your banners:1. Click on Browse, navigate to your banner folder




2. Select desired banner - it is better if you upload them by size - smaller first - not a biggie, just the final page will look better

3. Click Open in your dialog

4. Submit - Congrats, you're done.

Repeat steps to upload all your banners

NOTE - Press Ctrl+f5 if newly added banners are not showing up.




Main affiliate-referral link

Although it's not shown in the main menu, you should know that each member has it's ownaffiliate link automatically generated and displayed in their Affiliate banners page. You can viewthis in the member menu - read more about it in the WP List Mailer member-side guide.pdf . Youdon't need to set it up in any way, the link will be generated auatomatically by the plugin. It'srecommended to point this to your members so tehy should know where to find their link.

Main Referr al Link

The main affiliate link is displayed in the top of the Affiliate Banners page. It will direct all thetraffic to the page set in Credit landing page menu. Once somebody joins the member will becredited automatically. If the person chooses to pay for an upgraded membership the member will receive the commission at the date you establish - remember commissions are paidmanually. If the member is actively promoting your s ite, they can check Credit His tory page tosee if any credits from referral activity were added.




Additional Plugins and

Settings




Plugins highly recommended

If you followed us until now you had completely set up WP List Mailer. Because we useWordPress functions some parts will not look as good or simply some functions could beimproved. There are a many things that can be improved, but we will focus mainly on theregistration and login page and more importantly the WordPress default email address. Surelyyou can combine and test many other plugins to add to WP List Mailer functions or looks . If youget some interesting results, send us an email :)

We could had integrated in WP List Mailer some or all the functions below but us ing other pluginswill give you the flexibili ty to choose the exact functions and s ettings you like and want. If youconsider wil l be better to have them integrated, post it on the forum and if others will cons ider thesame will update WP List Mailer withe the functions reques ted.

Change default email "from" name

This is a very important plugin as without it all your emails, including credit emails sent willbe sent with the default "WordPress" as sender name. This can lead to confusion and harmyour business.Since WP List Mailer uses WordPress functions where possible, the automated emailsgenerated when a new user subscribes will have the default "from" as WordPress . To change

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that, you wil l find many dedicated plugins in the WordPress plugin repository. In the screenabove we used a s imple plugin called MailFrom and you can see the straightforward options.Just add your name that will appear in the from field and fill the other details.

Registration enhancements

The default WP registration and login process and pages are a bit bland, even after 3.2 updatebut there are plenty of plugins that can enhance the visual appeal of those pages and/or addmore functions and capabilities.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mail-from/







What is more important for us would be a way to make the standard WP registration processdouble-optin as is the norm for a site like WPLM helps to create. The easies t and mos t capableplugin that will do that and also help you customize the registration and login pages is Register

Plus Redux . As you can see in the s creen shot above by checking the option "Verify..." wepractically made the registration a double opt-in. What's even more wonderful is that you have aton of other options that will help you customize this part in almost any way you like.

There are tons of other choices so if you think some other plugin will be better for you, go and tryit. For those really skilled there are ways to create new Registration and login pages, withcustom forms, or use widgets for both, even full skins for these pages . Also some other pluginsprovide other functions , like AWeber Registration Integration that will "seamlessly add users toyour AWeber account during registration on your s ite, either by request or silently"

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/register-plus-redux/



http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/aweber-registration-integration/








Optional Plugins

Obviously the list with all WP plugins you could use is huge so we will only add a few to helpthose that are maybe not so experienced in this matter. Keep in mind these are only a few picksfrom our favorite list and there is no rule to force you us ing these but we know these work wellwith WP List Mailer. If you have your own favorites feel free to use them. One of our goalsespecially on a s ite using WP List Mailer plugin s i to reduce the plugins number so that we willhave a s mooth operation and less chances of conflicts. Therefore we favor plugins that will domore jobs rather than one job plugins.

There are also tins of paid plugins that we will not mention here. We tested som e but we cannotguarantee WPLM will work with your setup. If you need help testing it email us . We will add morein the future revisions of this guide.

SEO plugins

1. SEO Ultimate - this is a new SEO plugin and we found ourselves using it more and more innew WP setups . It has a huge l ist of features and is currently our fave

2. AIO SEO - Of course this could not miss from this lis t. It is the most known WP SEO pluginand it can do the job. Do not use it at the mae time with SEO Ultimate!

3. SEO friendly images - will add a proper alt tag to your images4. cbnet Ping Optimizer - very useful ping lis t manager

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-ultimate/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cbnet-ping-optimizer/









5. AIO webmaster - will help you submit and verify your blog to all major players -big G, Bing,Yahoo, Fb, Alexa + a few more features. We us e it in all WP installs

6. Google XML Sitemaps- will create a sitemap for you. Also a permanent pick for us

7. Google Analyticator - will help you keep an eye on your stats. Also the norm if you decide tosell later on

Social plugins

1. SexyBookmarks - Our fave in this category, latest enhancements add really useful featureslike Google +, Twitter and Facebook share buttons with counters, lots more

2. Twitter Tools - our pick for twitter s tuff 3. Facebook Fan box - as the name implies, adds a fan box on your sidebar or anywhere else4. WP-FacebookConnect - more facebook integration

http://arpitshah.com/plugins/all-in-one-webmaster/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-analyticator/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sexybookmarks/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/twitter-tools/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-fan-box/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-facebookconnect/












Other plugins

1. GD press tools - is a collection of various administration, seo, maintenance, backup andsecurity related tools.

2. BlogGlue Related Posts Network Plugin - adds links at the bottom of every post to other similar posts on your blog and partner blogs you pick. Get noticed in a community. Easyway to syndicate your content and get some extra vis itors.

3. WP-ShortStat or WordPress.com Stats - tracks your vis itors for more data you can chew. Asa plus these can display real-time data. Do not install both !

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-press-tools/


http://www.blogglue.com/


http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-shortstat/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/



http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-shortstat/






News and updates tab

This is a page where you will find the latest news and updates about WP List Mailer. You can stayinformed and learn about the new additions and add-on plugins we will develop and launch.There is nothing to set or choose here, you will have the titles that you can read and go at sourceto get the whole articles.

WP List Mailer News and Updates

We will try to add more useful features, maybe forum updates also so you can benefit as muchas possible from this page.




Quick Guide tab

We will use this tab to create more helpful tutorials on the mos t troublesome topics that you andother owners will point out. For now it contains the Cron setup guide, which we cons idered themost probable cause for trouble for those less experienced.

Above you find a short guide about cron setup and most importantly we circled the croncommands you will need to add in your cPanel cron settings. Note that this is a script that will tryto automatically find the correct path to your plugin. As you can see above the server path is




already configured so all you will need to do is to copy/paste these commands in the croncommand field, as we explained in the cron setup step.




Testing WP List Mailer




How to test WP List Mailer

To fully test WP List Mailer once it is installed you should follow the steps below. We're assumingthat you created at least 1 test account and all the steps till here are completed successfully.

* NOTE/Hint - Testing involves lots of switching between accounts - the WordPress adminaccount, the WP List Mailer admin account and the test account you should have createdbefore. There can be only one active login at once per browser, so you won't be able to staylogged with 2 or more accounts unless you use 2 or more browsers. We recommend to useFirefox and Chrome to make things a bit easier. You can keep the WP admin open in one andswitch test accounts in the other browser.

Ver ify email send-rece ive function

• Log into your Admin account you should have created before and compose a test message.Content is not relevant but you can us e this opportunity to test also the editor. Use varioustext styles, sizes, colors and all elements you want to test in your message.




• Fill all the other fields - you could also save this message for further tests - and send it.

Verify email send-receive function part 2

• Log into your test account email and open the email that you should had received - note thatit will take at least the am ount of time you set in the cron; if your cron runs at every 5 or 10minutes this is the amount of time that it takes until the email is sent.




• Verify your content if all the elements you added are displayed properly

Now you can als o see maybe for the first time that the emails already contain the credit link and

the required disclaimer and unsubscribe link. The email automatically adds the subscribersname and email and a link that allow them to unsubscribe. We consider it's much better toprovide members an eas y to use unsubscribe link than if they would report emails as spam.1. This is the credit link. Once clicked the page you set should open as in the next step.

members clicking this link will automatically receive the credits in their account- can beverified in the Credit History tab

2. Disclaimer, Warning, member information and Unsubscribe link automatically generatedfor you. We will include an editor for this information in a future update

Verify email send-receive function step 3

All the information that appears here is the one you set in the Credit landing page - Generalsettings tab1. The site name




2. Credit countdown timer 3. Additional advertising line/link - you can add whatever you want, sell the ad space if you

want to

Verify email send-receive function additional step

You should also go to the User Mails in the WP List Mailer admin menu. Once the status in theFinished column is Yes the email was sent to all available recipients.

If everything is working as it's supposed to, you're good to go. If not, read the Troubleshooting part of this guide.




Verify ads ste p 1

Log into your WP List Mailer admin account and/or test account and create some text andbanner ads . Probably your test account does not have many ad capabilities so use both if needed.




Verify ads ste p 2

Log in again in your WP admin account. Add some Ad widgets from the widget menu to your sidebar/s. remember each widget will display only ONE Ad at a time. We set it this way becauseit will give you the opportunity to use every bit of space in your sidebars.




Ver ify ads

If the ads are dis played properly, you're good to go. If you set up more of the same type theyshould rotate when you refresh the page.

Test th e affiliate syst em

You will need help from some friends here to make this eas ier or another computer and t leastone fresh email account. To test the affiliate system,• set up a page anywhere with your affiliate link or banner from the WP List Mailer admin

account and• have your friend visit it. Or open it from another computer and click the banner/link.• Sign in with the new email and create a new account.




• Verify in the WP List Mailer menu - Affiliate report tab that the account was credited for thenew s ign-up. In the credit history of your WP List Mailer admin account you should also havethe bonus credits added in the Credit History tab.

Test the OTO's

Follow the s teps to create a new OTO if you did not set up one or more already. You wil l need tolog out and check it once it will be displayed - above is one OTO set up at guest event.

NOTE - Because of the tracking you can only see it once. To view it again on the samecomputer you will need to change your IP/reset your router or by other means and clean upyour cookies.




Final tests

If all the above tests were success ful then everything is working as it should and you can move

ahead and s tart promoting your site to get new members and earn money.The final test would be at the time your s ite is s tarting to grow - ask your hos t to check for any outof place memory or processor usage and be prepared to upgrade your host once it approachesthe limitations. Once again, check the offer of our friends at Big Scoots

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Troubleshooting

There are a few steps you should follow first when some parts or all of WP List Mailer are notworking properly. If you noticed errors or some of the steps in testing are not working properly youshould s tart looking for the cause.

First thing to verify is if you followed all the required s teps at installation and activation so that WPList Mailer would be properly installed. If you did everything properly the status bar will look likebelow.

Status bar errors

In the top of WordPress dashboard you will see the WP List Mailer s tatus bar. If there is ames sage indicating an error you will know where is the problem or at least have a clue to post inthe support forum.

Date pick po pup errors

One of the most prone to errors part are the date picker pop ups . These work using java so quitea few plugins using also java can interfere with this function. To test it, open either the OTOeditor or ad editor in any test account. If there is no pop up once you click on the date field there




is a more than likely a conflict with another plugin.

View your Error log

Log into your FTP account and navigate to your main folder (probably public_html). If you have afield called error_log in your s ite root folder, download it on your computer and open it withnotepad or other text editor.There are a ton of poss ibilities on what that log contains but most of the time you can extract




some useful information about the cause of the error and correct the situation. Just Googlesome of the error log content that seems relevant to you and see what others say about thecause of the error.

Steps to take

To make sure nothing else gets in the way of finding your iss ue, please follow these s teps :• Disable all plugins but WP List Mailer • Switch your theme to Either Twenty Ten or Twenty Eleven (the old and new WP default

themes)• Repeat tests

If these fail to fix your problems :1. Go again through the pdf's you received in case you missed a vital part of information2. Log into your account at WP List Mailer and read the members only pages. We are posting




there tutorials and videos covering the most troublesome parts3. Read the posts in the support forum in case somebody else had already the same problem

you have

4. In case you did not find the relevant information post a new thread in the forum describingthe problem as good as possible. Please provide any relevant information needed to solveyour issue.

5. In case anything else fails and you are still in trouble use the Contact Support page to sendan email detailing your issue.

http://wplistmailer.com/support/






Legal Stuff and Final Words




Legal Stuff

The information regarding WP List Mailer plugin functions, menus and settings is legal propertyof WP List Mailer owners - Clau Tripon and David Beard . You can NOT use it without permissionfrom their owners.

It is also your bes t interest to NOT dis tribute this guide as it can potentially give to badly intendedpersons the means to harm yours or other WP List Mailer s ites. So please keep it for yourself toprotect your investment.

If you get this ebook from other source than WP List Mailer then you have an illegal copy. Do NOTuse it and please report it at [email protected].

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this book may be sold, given, reproduced, stored in aretrieval system, or transmitted by any other means: electronic, mechanical, photocopying,recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission of the copyright holders.DISCLAIMER/LEGAL NOTICES: This book is supplied for information purposes only and, asexperienced in this s ubject matter as the contributors are, the material herein does notconstitute professional advice.The information presented herein represents the view of the contributors as of the date of publication. Because of the rate with which conditions change, the contributors reserve the rightto alter and update their opinion based on the new conditions.This book is designed to provide accurate and authoritative information with regard to thesubject matter covered. It is sold with the understanding that the publisher and the contributors

are not engaged in rendering legal, accounting, or other professional advice.If legal advice or other professional assistance is required, the services of a competentprofessional should be sought. The reader is advised to consult with an appropriately qualifiedprofess ional before making any business decision.The contributors do not accept any responsibility for any liabilities resulting from the businessdecisions made by purchasers of WP List Mailer. Any perceived s lights of specific people or organizations are unintentional.EARNINGS DISCLAIMER: Actual results will vary with the use of this product. No express or impl ied guarantees of income are made when purchasing WP List Mailer. This book is for informational purpose only.



Final Words

Thank you for purchasing our product !

We hope you have read all documentation we provided and you had success fully installed andactivated WP List Mailer plugin.In case you are getting into trouble please use the help materials in this order :1. Go again through the pdf's you received in case you missed a vital part of information2. Log into your account at WP List Mailer and read the members only pages. We are posting

there tutorials and videos covering the most troublesome parts3. Read the posts in the support forum in case somebody else had already the same problem

you have4. In case you did not find the relevant information post a new thread in the forum describing the

problem as good as possible. Please provide any relevant information needed to solve your issue.

5. In case anything else fails and you are still in trouble use the Contact Support page to sendan email detailing your issue.




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