Ever need to send your home page as a newsletter? This baby takes your home page’s HTML/CSS and cleans it up to work with different email clients.
The main way of doing this is by removing the embedded styles and making them inline styles.
This plugin generates the html to use in your newsletter application.
Check it out on Wordpress.
#1 by Rachelle on July 24, 2009 - 4:14 pm
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Hey, when I convert the webpage http://www.sspilates.ca into a newsletter, this symbol appears a lot throughout the text:
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How can I get rid of it without manually going through and deleting?
Thanks!
#2 by Eric Juden on July 26, 2009 - 1:33 pm
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Rachelle,
I’ve seen this fixed before by changing the encoding-type of your web page.
Eric
#3 by Gareth on August 5, 2009 - 1:27 pm
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Hi Eric, Really interested in trying this out, but am getting the following, going to scrounge around the files shortly but just to keep you posted:
WP:2.8.3
Theme: Bliss (customized)
Warning: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in *****/wp-content/plugins/newsletter-converter/newsletter-converter.php on line 73
Warning: file_get_contents(http://www.mydom.here) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in *****/wp-content/plugins/newsletter-converter/newsletter-converter.php on line 73
Warning: DOMDocument::loadHTML() [function.DOMDocument-loadHTML]: Empty string supplied as input in *****/wp-content/plugins/newsletter-converter/newsletter-converter.php on line 148
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in *****/wp-content/plugins/newsletter-converter/newsletter-converter.php on line 153
All the best
Gareth
#4 by Eric Juden on August 5, 2009 - 4:29 pm
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Hey Gareth, I did a quick google search for your warning, and it sounds like your web server is blocking external file access. Here’s the original article I found: http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/file_get_contents-file-access-is-disabled-in-server-configuration
#5 by nxooxn on August 6, 2009 - 6:29 am
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Hi Eric,
is it possible to tell newsletter-converter to use another page instead of the homepage for conversion? Idea is to set up a dedicated page that displays postes of the category “newsletter” and use this page as base for the conversion.
Thx!
#6 by Eric Juden on August 6, 2009 - 9:19 am
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Hey nxooxn,
I’ll see what I can do. It’ll probably just end up being under the settings page to change the URL.
Eric
#7 by noel on August 6, 2009 - 6:15 pm
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Any ideas…?
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /home/smracdi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/newsletter-converter/newsletter-converter.php on line 276
#8 by nxooxn on August 7, 2009 - 8:59 am
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Hi Eric,
sound great to bring that option to the settings page. Makes it much more flexible.
Thx and Greez!
#9 by Eric Juden on August 7, 2009 - 11:04 am
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Noel,
Are you running this on the home page of your site, or choosing a different URL to convert?
Thanks,
Eric
#10 by Rachelle on August 26, 2009 - 5:20 pm
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Hey Guys,
Thanks for the help, I upgraded and it fixed itself.
#11 by Rachelle on September 6, 2009 - 6:05 pm
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My newsletter converter is not working…
http://www.straydogmarketing.com/blog
No idea why – there is no error, it just goes to a white screen when I click to convert it
#12 by Eric Juden on September 7, 2009 - 1:21 pm
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Rachelle,
When I put in the url you sent, it sends back a 301 Moved Permanently. Try putting a slash at the end of the url…that worked for me. Also, if it still doesn’t work, go into the settings for newsletter converter and enable cURL.
Eric
#13 by Eric on September 8, 2009 - 1:24 pm
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Hi Eric – Thanks for making this plugin!
When I use your converter somehow its finding content that has some text about an Actiontec router and some ISP settings. Very strange. Any thoughts?
http://wordpress.centraliowabusiness.com/
Thanks
-E
#14 by Eric Juden on September 8, 2009 - 1:35 pm
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Eric, I’ve got no idea where that text is coming from. My guess would be some ads on your page or something. Sorry I don’t have a better answer for you. This plugin doesn’t append anything to the code. It just grabs the text for your homepage or the URL specified in the settings.
#15 by DJ on October 8, 2009 - 5:46 pm
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Hi Eric,
I’m getting a weird message after I installed and activated the plugin. Ever seen this before?
http://blog.gohealthvmo.com/wp-content/uploads/error.jpg
#16 by Eric Juden on October 9, 2009 - 2:25 pm
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Hey DJ,
Unfortunately your image doesn’t come up. Looks to be a permissions error.
Thanks,
Eric
#17 by DJ on October 14, 2009 - 4:14 pm
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Hi Eric, got the issue resolved. Yep, it was permissions.
Now I have a new issue
I’m using another plug called “registered only” which basically redirects anyone who’s not registered to a login/register page when they try to access the blog. This results in your plugin only converting the login page into a “newsletter”.
Is there a simple way to correct this, that comes to mind? Thanks in advance!
#18 by Eric Juden on October 15, 2009 - 7:48 am
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DJ,
Currently I don’t think there is a way around this. I’ll think about it and see if I can come up with a way to do this.
Eric
#19 by Kent on November 8, 2009 - 2:38 pm
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Hi Eric or someone – do you know how to use converted result into outlook so that I can send out as a nice looking newsletter as an email? I just pasted result and only HTML code appeared in the mail… thx.
#20 by JeanPhi on November 29, 2009 - 12:54 pm
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Hi Eric,
I installed Newsletter converter today. I don’t know if it’s due to Safari or WP 2.8.6-fr and the latest release of Newsletter converter. Went to settings, clicked on remove links/scripts/style tags, save the settings, went to Tools>Newsletter converter and then… nothing, white page… Is there anything I forgot while installing?
Thanx for your help.
#21 by Eric Juden on November 29, 2009 - 4:14 pm
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JeanPhi,
Try checking the option to Use cURL.
Thanks,
Eric
#22 by JeanPhi on December 1, 2009 - 7:22 am
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Hi Eric,
Thanx for your reply. Still no difference. Is there no “online” version of the plugin ?
Regards.
#23 by Eric Juden on December 1, 2009 - 9:03 am
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JeanPhi,
I’m not sure what you mean by “online” version. The only other option you have is to enable debugging on wordpress and see what errors the page gives when running the script.
Thanks,
Eric
#24 by Raffe Bergwall on January 13, 2010 - 10:01 am
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DJ,
I get the same error as you on http://blog.gohealthvmo.com/wp-content/uploads/error.jpg and you solved it with permissions. How exact?
/Raffe Bergwall
#25 by Eric Juden on January 13, 2010 - 10:06 am
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Raffe,
Your problem isn’t permissions. You need to go to your Newsletter Converter settings page and check the option to Use cURL.
file_get_contents() is not always turned on, especially with hosted sites.
Thanks,
Eric