Enabling Blog Subscriptions
With blog subscriptions, users can enter an email address and sign up to receive an email notification whenever a new blog post is added. Blog subscriptions are handled on a per-blog basis. Follow these steps to make blog subscriptions available.
Step 1 - Configure the blog subscription confirmation and blog post notification email templates.
In Fakoli Admin,go to Site Configuration > Application Settings > Blogs and check the box "allow Blog Subscriptions.
Then, navigate to Email Management > Email Templates and create two email templates using the following samples as a starting point. Feel free to edit subject line and message as needed, but make sure the template names are exactly as shown below.
| Field | Value |
| Class | BlogSubscriber |
| Name | blog_subscription |
| Purpose | This is the email sent to subscribers confirming their subscription. |
| Sender Email | The sender email address. This should be an email address that is configured on your domain, such as no-reply@yourwebsite.org. |
| Recipients | [subscriber_email] |
| Subject | The subject of the notification email, such as Confirming Your Subscription to [blog_title] |
| Message | The body of the email. Use the following as an example. This is an automated message from yourwebsite.org. You have successfully subscribed to the [blog_title] blog. You will receive an email whenever there is a new post published. To unsubscribe, follow this link: http://www.yourwebsite.org/action/ blog/unsubscribe?blog_subscriber_id=[blog_subscriber_id]. |
| Field | Value |
| Class | BlogSubscriber |
| Name | blog_published |
| Purpose | This is the email sent to blog subscribers whenever a new blog post is published. |
| Sender Email | The sender email address. This should be an email address that is configured on your domain, such as no-reply@yourwebsite.org. |
| Recipients | [subscriber_email] |
| Subject | The subject of the notification email, such as New Post in the Yourwebsitename.org [blog_title] blog |
| Message | The body of the email. Use the following as an example. This is an automated message from the yourwebsitename.org website. A new post has been published on the [blog_title] blog. Follow this link to read it. http://www.yourwebsitename.org/[blog_identifier]?article_id= [article_id] You are receiving this message because you subscribed to the International Tax Policy News blog. To unsubscribe, please follow this link: http://www.itpf.org/action/blog/ unsubscribe?blog_id=[blog_id]&blog_subscriber_id= [blog_subscriber_id] |
Step 2 - Configure the blog_identifier and blog_title merge codes used in the email templates.
In Fakoli Admin, navigate to Email Management > Merge Codes and configure the following merge codes.
| Field | Value |
| Class Name | BlogSubscriber |
| Name | blog_identifier |
| Description | Blog identifier, needed to provide a URL to the blog post |
| Map | Blog.identifier |
| Field | Value |
| Class Name | BlogSubscriber |
| Name | blog_title |
| Description | Blog title, used to provide the title of the blog in subscription confirmation and new post notification emails. |
| Map | Blog.title |
Step 3 - Enable the blog subscriber form.
Make sure the blog_subscriber_form component page is enabled and added to the necessary section(s).
Step 4 - Make the subscription link available to your users.
Make the blog subscription option available to your users through the URL www.yoursitename.org/action/blog/subscribe?blog_id=x (replace x with the blog's primary key from the database).
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