This week, Formulus learned to run a real newsletter. You publish an article, your subscribers receive it. And every Joomanji product now tells you itself when an update is waiting.
Formulus: the newsletter, with nothing more to install
The principle is simple: the email content is the article. No campaign editor, no layout to build. You publish an article in a watched category, and people subscribed to that topic receive an email with its title, introduction, image and a button to read it.
- A sign-up form made with Formulus, placed wherever you like: in a module, in an article.
- Topics: each subscriber chooses the categories they care about, and can change their mind later.
- Double opt-in: nobody is subscribed without clicking in the email they received. The date of the click proves their consent.
- One-click unsubscribe, in every email.
- A multilingual site: each subscriber receives the articles in their language, and their emails are in their language.
- Invite your existing accounts: your customers or members already have an account on the site? The "Invite a group" screen sends each of them their own invitation. Nothing to type again: one click on "Yes, subscribe me" and it is done. Without a click, they receive nothing.
Sending goes through the Joomla scheduler, in small batches, and a screen follows each article: sent, pending, failed. A button sends you a test, to you alone, before anyone else.
Formulus also gains form editing from the site, and a clear message when a required field is left empty.
Your updates, announced by each product
On the presentation page of Corpus, Astus, Opus, Iris, Formulus, Tikus and Markus Editor, a "Joomanji updates available" box lists the versions waiting for you, with the installed and the available version. The "Update all" button installs them in one go. Joomla does the update, with its own checks: nothing happens without you, and nothing happens at night with no one watching.
And in the other products
- Iris: a "Posters" layout for documents. The first page of a PDF is shown large, in portrait: you can read the poster before downloading it.
- Opus: an "Edit this block" pencil on Opus modules loaded in an article, to edit them from the site.
- Corpus: tables written in the editor take the Corpus design, the module edit pencil only appears on hover or with the keyboard, and the maintenance page messages show in a real dialog.
- Markus Editor: a welcome page in its settings, with useful links; the settings move to the "Settings" tab.
These versions come with the next update of your extensions. And to receive the next news by email, the "Joomanji newsletter" box is on this page.