Adding subscribers to mailing list

[nithinr6]

Hi
I am working on a free online magazine with subscription system. I have setup a test site and installed s2member plugin to manage subscriptions. So what I want to do is automatically add the people who signup through the s2member to a mailing list so that when the magazine is released each month, we can send a notification email. I am thinking of using PHPlist as of now. Is there a way to do that ?
Thanks

Edit: Also is there any way to customize the registration email that S2Member sends to the users who have registered? The current email says "visit site.com/wp-login to login". I want to hide the wp-login and just use login or something like that...

[Jason Caldwell]

Hi there. I apologize for the delayed response.
~ Thanks for your patience.

So what I want to do is automatically add the people who signup through the s2member to a mailing list so that when the magazine is released each month, we can send a notification email. I am thinking of using PHPlist as of now. Is there a way to do that ?

I recommend using MailChimp for this.
You can signup for free @ MailChimp.com.
s2Member is already pre-integrated with both MailChimp & AWeber.
In your Dashboard, see: s2Member -> API List Servers -> MailChimp

Edit: Also is there any way to customize the registration email that S2Member sends to the users who have registered? The current email says "visit site.com/wp-login to login". I want to hide the wp-login and just use login or something like that...

s2Member does not handle this directly, because this particular feature is already built into WordPress®. However, you could try using this plugin. Please report back if you can. It would be great to hear your experience with it. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new ... il-set-up/

[GrahamW]

Jason

This is great - it's saved me a load of effort, but I have one little problem....

If someone subsequently unsubscribes, they are removed from the MailChimp list, but they remain on the Wordpress one. If they then try to re-subscribe, Wordpress rejects them on the basis that the username or email address provided are already in use.

How do I get MailChimp to remove them from the Wordpress database?

Many thanks, Graham.

[KirkWard]

Wordpress will not allow duplicate emails to be used, or let the same email address be reused if the user is ever deleted. If they are deleted, the membership cannot be recovered.

Your best bet is to have them stay as a Wordpress subscriber, and set up some button (or freemium) that will resubscribe them to your email series when they grab the freemium or upgrade their status.

[GrahamW]

Wordpress will not allow duplicate emails to be used, or let the same email address be reused if the user is ever deleted. If they are deleted, the membership cannot be recovered.

Your best bet is to have them stay as a Wordpress subscriber, and set up some button (or freemium) that will resubscribe them to your email series when they grab the freemium or upgrade their status.

Hmm...? Thanks very much for that, KirkWard. I realise it is a Wordpress issue but that seems extraordinary for Wordpress never to allow an email address to be reused if the user has been deleted.

I've no idea how I could go about setting up such a button. Can anyone point me to an explanation?

[KirkWard]

Check s2 API Notifications Panel >> Signup Notifications and configure an email signup method to resubscribe your user to your email list.