By Xheni Lala, Booth Volunteer, and Web Developer in Tirana, Albania This year’s Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAL) took place on the sunny weekend of 19th May, and phpList was well represented. As well as a vibrant booth, phpList was the Diversity Sponsor, supporting talks and workshops supporting inclusivity. phpList representatives had two talks and… [+]
The next generation of phpList, version 4, has been under development for some time. It’s still in the early stages (Alpha 1), but already provides useful API functionality. Here’s an update on what it is, what you can do with it, and short-term goals. What is it? A ground-up rewrite of phpList 3 using best… [+]
This post by Xheni Myrtaj describes her experiences extending her PHP skills using online training materials from Treehouse and contributing code to phpList. Xheni is studying for a Masters Degree in Information Security and recently began an Internship with phpList. The transition from being a student to the world of real work can be quite… [+]
Last week the phpList.com Knowledgebase was launched for users of the phpList Hosted service. It includes articles specific to those users about account management and sending policies, as well as guides for engaging, reviving, and delighting subscribers that are relevant to all email marketers. The platform we used to build the site was wp-knowledgebase; an… [+]
The Open Source Conference Albania (OSCAl) again took place in Tirana last month, and students and Open Source-lovers took the opportunity to try out the new phpList user interface and learn how to manage mailing lists and send them campaigns with help from phpList Pros. The event had multiple tracks of talks, workshops and of booths… [+]
I’m a partner in Freeform Games, a small UK-based publisher of downloadable murder mystery party games. We use the phplist.com service to send our email marketing campaigns. We recently became aware that Gmail and other large providers had started to spam-filter our mailouts: consultation with phpList staff revealed that we had a high bounce rate which… [+]
Last summer we started trialling some new ways for people to get involved in phpList development. We tested a few things, and found that the release candidate method had a great response. Our next release candidate is due very soon. You can sign up to receive it by using the subscribe form immediately below, or… [+]
Help us give FREE phpList hosting to your favourite Open Sources projects. We have noticed some super-cool Open Source projects are using closed source (proprietary) newsletter software. We would like to change that by giving away unlimited free phpList hosting, on phpList.com, to any Open Source project that wants it. As part of phpList’s 15th… [+]
At the end of May, we will be launching phplist.org, a brand new website which will upgrade the current community site and all community resources including forums, documentation, download and blog. The new site will be focused (like a laser beam) on the phpList community, including all self-hosted and self-service resources. There will be room… [+]
It’s time for the last big push The new phpList manual is nearly finished: together we have written 85% of the chapters. However, we still have at least 7 chapters still to write before we publish in a few weeks time. The funnest and fastest way to finish the manual is for us to have… [+]