Simplenews Private Roles

Simplenews Private Roles restricts selected Simplenews newsletters to allow only certain roles to view/subscribe to them.

Attention: This module simply hides the newsletter checkboxes on the subscription page, and verifies that a private newsletter has not been selected when the subscription form is submitted.

This module does not do any further security controls to ensure that your newsletters actually stay private. So use with caution.

I would like to add further security checks to make sure that private newsletters stay private. This will depend on how well Simplenews implements hooks and allows this sort of interaction from an outside module, and will be something I'll look into in the immediate future.

Quick overview

Install and enable in the usual way.

Every newsletter will have a section on it's edit page where you can select which roles are allowed to subscribe to it.

Select NO roles to make the newsletter available to ALL users.

Once you select one role, unselected roles will not have access.

You may override the settings by giving a user the 'may subscribe to all newsletters' permission.

This project is sponsored by Evolving Design.

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