By soulsesa on
Hi everybody! since 3 month ago I am in need to implement a Newsletter in my Drupal 8 Web site.
All my search have been unsuccessful: Why it is so hard to get a simple Newsletter in Drupal ?
people are doing it easyly in wordpress!
Perhaps it is because I am beginner in Drupal!
but I have been able to implement a newsletter (for my first time) on a Wordpress web site in 2h !
I thing the community have to take a look on this subjet!
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Drupal 7
Maybe you are yet to climb the learning curve for D8. Try D7 should be more straight forward
Thank you for your answer:
Thank you for your answer: but my web site is done with D8!
I suggest that the Drupal Community to take a serious look on this topic: A functional Newsletter module for D8, easy to implement.
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You are part of the community. If it's so easy to implement do it! Don't wait for someone else to do it for you. Dictating the direction developers should go to solve your needs gets you nowhere. If you don't think that drupal caters to your needs, by all means use wordpress. This is open source, you need to temper your expectations about what others should do for you. What have you done for others?
You're absolutely right but
You're absolutely right but unfortunately I'm not a developer. I am a photoshop user who move to site building : specially using hTML et CSS for theming. I love Drupal !
and I wish that we get quickly way for non developer to implement a newsletter in Drupal 8.
That why I suggest to the community to take a look on it.
Just for this I started learning programming with php, last month !
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If you aren't a developer, how can you state that developing something is easy?
If the already existing newsletter modules don't suffice for you, and you can't write your own, then you hire someone to do it for you. You don't declare that the community should do it for you. Obviously those that need this feature either wrote it themselves or are using what is already in contrib. Thus there isn't a demand from anyone other than you at moment in these forums for D8. If there is demand and I missed it, take the torch and rally them to raise funds to pay a developer and contribute back to the community rather than take an entitled stance. It's open source, users aren't entitled to anything.
Perhaps because my English is
Perhaps because my English is not good that you did'nt understand what I want to say!
I did'nt say That I want the community to do the Job for me!
No !
I just say it seem that in Drupal particularly in D8 it not easy for non developper to implement a newsletter without coding!
So it is just an idea that I share! You seem be angry because I make comparasion with wordpress! It is just a tought .
and I don't thing that Drupal community is just for coder!
When you tell me that : If you aren't a developer, how can you state something is easy?
I think It's non coder people who can tell to developers if a module is esay to use or not! so even if I am not a coder I think I can share my point of view about a module!
And it's what I am doing.
I just want to launch a tought about newsletter implementaton in D8! and I was thinking this can bring some coders to decide to take a look on how to improve for example simplenew to be more easer to use for non coder!
but if you think that i am wrong, please excuse me!
best regard
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As far as whether or not I understand you based on your use of English, I understand perfectly well. Perhaps it is you that doesn't understand. For example, I'm not at all angry. Let alone angry because you use or mention/compared Drupal to Wordpress. I too use other CMS's when there is a need to do so. I am not dedicated to any singular tool.
If you want to improve simplenews you do so in the simplenews issue queue. But, I can tell you that you will need to bring more to the table than criticism from a non-developer perspective.
It would make far more sense for you to post relative questions related to how to theme simplenews, than declaring that the community take a look at it when in fact noone here knows what would make theming easier for you.
As far as 'easy' goes you are completely changing the context. Sure, you can tell someone whether a module is easy or not to use but not easy to develop. Suggest you reread your own comments.
Easy
Easy bro. I've been working with Drupal for some time but have never been able to get into the module coding part. It's a huge learning curve to overcome. So I'm eternally gratefully to the modules readily available.I"ve never used and still do not like Wordpress because I think it has a huge maintenance requirement, where you have to update it regularly to avoid been hacked. That's why I use MODx (for brochure sites) and Drupal (for semi web apps). I have drupal sites running for over 5years without any updates done. The only thing you may expereince is spam.
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There are newletters modules in contrib.
https://www.drupal.org
https://www.drupal.org/project/simplenews is simple and straightforward. I've used in D6.
Theming a newletter with
Theming a newletter with simplenew in D8 is very hard! especially for content selection
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then your issue isn't that you need a newsletter module. Nowhere in your post do you discuss anything about themeing being the barrier.
Suggest using https://www.drupal.org/project/mailchimp . If you don't want to use a 3rd party, then you will either need to learn to theme simplenews, or pay someone to theme it.
thank you!
thank you!