Your website can collate published posts into a single online newsletter which can be shared online.
You can collate and publish and share a newsletter at anytime. The only proviso is that the posts that it contains must have already been written and published to your website.
If you want to publish posts, but ONLY want them to show in the newsletter and not on any other page, use the ‘uncatorgorised’ category.
Newsletter Creation Process
- Add posts to the site
There is no category for newsletter posts, so posts are added to the site and put in categories depending on where you want them to show up, we’ll collect together the newsletter posts later regardless of category. - Add a new Newsletter
From the dashboard, go to Newsletters > Add New
Add a title. Best practice is to give term and issue number based name such as ‘Autumn #1‘ You shouldn’t give it a date based title as it will automatically be dated and will look unprofessional if dated twice. - Select posts
In the Newsletter Contents box, under ‘Article (post) Name‘ you can select any one of the last 50 published posts. The ‘Article Style‘ box allows you to select a different background for you post. Most will be ‘Standard’ but you may want to choose a different style to make a post stand out.
Now use the ‘Add Another‘ button to choose the next post in the newsletter. Repeat until you’ve added all the post that you want to. - Choose a banner image
Use the Featured image box to select an image as the banner for your newsletter. - Click publish
and the newsletter is done. - Share
You can collect together a newsletter of posts whenever you want and share it however you want once you’ve published it simply by distributing the link back to the newsletter.
Common sharing methods include:
– Mailing the link via your MIS
– SMS messaging the link
– Sharing the link on social media
-Emailing the link via an email client