Hi,

Simplenews really needs a "%firstname" or "%username" variable to personalize
the newsletter... having the firstname in emails is sooo much more effective.

Any hints on how to get that in?

thanks!

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Christoph C. Cemper’s picture

Christoph C. Cemper commented
Status: Active » Needs work

a good hack using token seems to be here

http://drupal.org/node/87071

that should go into the module

aron novak’s picture

aron novak
Primary language Hungarian
Location Hungary, Budapest
commented

If you apply the patch here: http://drupal.org/node/171418 , you can create personalized messages.
In that way:
- set the new settings checkbox to on at the newsletters' setting page
- set the newsletters input format to php
- add this: global $user; print $user->name;

You can gather whatever field from the user object.

callison’s picture

callison commented
Title: First/username variable » Custom variables in newsletter messages
Version: 5.x-1.1 » 7.x-1.x-dev
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Needs work » Closed (duplicate)

I think it would be good if this could be even more flexible to allow for non-registered subscribers to get personalized messages, too.

Marking as duplicate - See #87071 - Personalizing newsletters.

claudiu.cristea’s picture

claudiu.cristea
Primary language Romanian
Location Arad 🇷🇴
commented

Try Views Send. It allows personalization and full recipient list filtering based on Views.