Build Your Email List with Simplenews in Drupal CMS

Join our free live stream to learn how to create and manage newsletters in Drupal CMS using the Simplenews module. We'll cover: Installing and configuring the Simplenews module. Creating your first newsletter and setting up basic templates. Capturing email subscribers and managing user assignments. Sending newsletters to your subscriber lists. Using Drupal AI and ECA to generate newsletter content from existing blog posts on your site. This livestream is perfect for Drupal site builders and content managers looking to build an effective email marketing system directly within Drupal CMS. Modules https://www.drupal.org/project/simple... https://www.drupal.org/project/eca Chapters 00:00 Preshow Introduction 05:20 Intro to Simplenews Simplenews Setup 08:29 Installing Simple News 09:00 Configuring permissions 10:01 Creating a newsletter list 11:31 Simplenews settings 13:33 Creating multiple newsletter lists Capturing Subscribers 15:49 Subscribing anonymous users with a block 16:00 Create newsletter page 16:30 Add Simplenews block to region 19:40 Testing emails with DDEV and Mailpit 21:29 Viewing subscribers in the backend 23:42 Subscribing logged-in users from their account page 26:25 Confirm permissions 26:35 Comment: Is Simplenews like MailChimp Sending Newsletters 27:20 Creating a newsletter content type 29:01 FYI: Using the default newsletter issue 30:01 Creating and sending a newsletter issue 30:54 Sending a test email 31:35 Sending the final newsletter via Cron 31:56 Viewing sent newsletter status Automating with AI and ECA 31:13 Automate the creation of newsletter 34:32 Installing the Drupal AI Assistant recipe 36:07 Intro to ECA (Event Condition Action) module 37:42 Installing the AI ECA integration 38:13 Building the ECA model 39:50 Adding a "Related" entity reference field 40:42 ECA Action: Load referenced entity 44:02 Comment: How to customize the email template 46:15 ECA Condition: Check if a field is empty 48:01 ECA Action: Generate summary with Drupal AI 50:34 ECA Action: Set field value with AI result 54:07 Final test of the ECA workflow 55:30 Send test email Summary 56:55 Rant: Tips for using Simplenews 59:22 Recap 1:00:07 Ending 01:00:48 Post-show #drupal #drupalcms