The plugin allows you to have several content areas within a campaign message, each of which can be edited individually. The campaign must use a template that identifies the content areas by extra attributes added to HTML elements in the template.
The plugin adds a tab, "Edit Areas", to the Send a Campaign page, on which it displays the campaign's template merged with the current content of each area. Each content area is identified and can be edited, with the new content then being merged with the template.
This plugin is for phplist release 3.3.2 or later and requires php version 5.6.0 or later. Please check your php version before installing the plugin, otherwise phplist will fail (probably a white page).
Also requires Common Plugin version 3.13.1 or later to be installed. You must install, or upgrade to, the latest version. See https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-common
Requires version 2.4.0 or later of the View in Browser plugin if you want to use that plugin to create a link that displays the campaign in a browser. You should install, or upgrade to, the latest version. See https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-viewbrowser.
The default plugin directory is plugins within the admin directory.
You can use a directory outside of the web root by changing the definition of PLUGIN_ROOTDIR in config.php.
The benefit of this is that plugins will not be affected when you upgrade phplist.
Install on the Plugins page (menu Config > Plugins) using the package URL https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-contentareas/archive/master.zip
Then click the button to enable the plugin.
Download the plugin zip file from https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-contentareas/archive/master.zip
Expand the zip file, then copy the contents of the plugins directory to your phplist plugins directory. This should contain
- the file ContentAreas.php
- the directory ContentAreas
Then click the button to enable the plugin.
For guidance on usage see the plugin page within the phplist documentation site https://resources.phplist.com/plugin/contentareas
Please raise any questions or problems in the user forum https://discuss.phplist.org/.
This plugin is free but if you install and find it useful then a donation to support further development is greatly appreciated.
version Description
1.13.1+20240707 Hide the warning about ckeditor not being secure
1.13.0+20231004 Show warning when a URL uses http not https
1.12.3+20221231 Fix problems with setting preheader content area to an empty string
1.12.2+20211119 Decode matching %5B and %5D sequences occurring anywhere in a URL
1.12.1+20200606 Remove css inlining which is now done by Common Plugin
1.12.0+20200603 Make Emogrifier the default package to inline css
1.11.0+20200525 Perform the inlining of CSS on the final email content.
1.10.4+20191223 Improve handling of template that does not have head element.
1.10.3+20191218 Correct the logic to select the head and body elements when adding css and js
1.10.2+20191001 Improve display of preheader text by padding with non-breaking space.
1.10.1+20190719 Improve placement of the preview button
1.10.0+20181206 Several internal changes, now requires php 5.6 or later
1.9.0+20180905 Handle libxml parsing errors inline instead of as exceptions
1.8.5+20180709 Correct problem of error handler not always being restored
1.8.4+20180517 Avoid dependency on php 5.6
1.8.3+20180423 Reduce level of error reporting
1.8.2+20180228 Try to avoid whitespace text nodes
1.8.1+20180129 Improve display of repeatable area
1.8.0+20180122 Added linkimage content area
1.7.1+20180119 Minor internal changes
1.7.0+20180115 Use a select list for the css inline package
1.6.1+20171001 Use the alt attribute of an image also for the title attribute
1.6.0+20170409 Able to edit additional attributes of an image
1.5.5+20170320 Handle the template not having a head element
1.5.4+20170217 Add hook for copying a message
1.5.3+20160527 Regenerate autoloader
1.5.2+20160418 Internal changes
1.5.1+20160218 Position at start of content area after editing
1.5.0+20160110 Include CSS inline packages
1.4.2+20151214 Few minor bug fixes
1.4.1+20151211 Position the Edit Areas tab before Format tab
1.4.0+20151119 Changes to work with the latest View in Browser plugin
1.3.0+20151113 Improve display of repeat buttons
1.2.2+20151023 Internal changes
1.2.1+20151018 Internal change to work with the latest View in Browser plugin
1.2.0+20151008 Add support for table of contents
1.1.1+20151005 Fix problems with using fckeditor
1.1.0+20151002 Reposition at the original field after making change
1.0.4+20150930 Corrected iframe width and height settings
1.0.3+20150927 Minor improvements to presentation
1.0.2+20150916 Add modified file from core phplist release 3.2.0
1.0.1+20150916 Fix #2, incorrect plain text email
1.0.0+20150912 Release to GitHub