Customize emails in mailing list mode

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

I have a client that would like to customize (read: insert ads into) outgoing all-mail and daily-summary emails for people in mailing list mode and the since-your-last-visit email. “Go ahead” was my knee-jerk reaction, but it seems that those messages somehow are not in the list of templates in /admin/customize/email_templates.

This thread from a year ago asked a similar question.

Is the easiest/best way to customize those messages to write a plugin?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

It would appear that the easiest way is this:

Adding custom content to summary emails

Today I added a way to insert custom html and text to digest/summary emails. In the past, only the colour scheme could be customized. Now you can insert arbitrary html using the existing Admin > Customize > Text Content interface and searching for “digest.custom”. Narrow it down to the html emails with “digest.custom.html”. [image] Setting the header field will replace the default header, which is currently your site’s logo on the left side. The rest of the fields can be used to insert banne…

Edit: unless you’re on Stable.

It would be nice if when a feature post was added it included what version added the feature. Though lots of folks are on tests-passed, many are on stable for various reasons and it’s confusing when you go looking for something and it’s just not there.