[dk]

See https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/forums/topic/web-version-not-working

@Stefano: Please update 🙂

[dk]

Here’s a short story:

A Newsletter is scheduled for today 2am. Although being really tired I want to make sure everything works out just as expected. Now, just a few seconds past two – after sending to a really large number of recipients has started, I notice, that the {email_url} shortcode does not work! Fortunatelly, my emailaddress was the first on the list. By the way, it neither worked in the test-mail, but I thought, this is just due to being a test…

So I immediatelly hit STOP. Now, what would you do in my case at 2am?
Proceed, sending a couple thousand emails with non working web url promoted prominently in the preheader section?

Here’s what I just did:

– Google returns nothing.

– Checking this forum gives me two threads on the first page complaining, that {email_url} is apparently broken.

Since I am not really keen to justify myself in just a few hours, I started searching for the search-and-replace functions. This is what I found:

Starting at line 1062 in newsletter/includes/module.php
…
if (!empty($email_id)) {
$text = $this->replace_url($text, ‘EMAIL_URL’, $home_url . ‘?na=v&id=’ . $email_id . ‘&nk=’ . $nk);
}
…

For reasons unknown, $email_id is empty, so {email_url} does not get replaced.

However, few lines above, you can see, that {unsubscription_url} makes use of the same URL-parameter (nek). This is being parsed correct with an id set. So to keep it short, I just replaced the above lines of code as follows:

…
if (!empty($email)) {
$text = $this->replace_url($text, ‘EMAIL_URL’, $home_url . ‘?na=v&id=’ . $email->id . ‘&nk=’ . $nk);
}
…

Voila!

Perhaps you can imagine my joy after I fixed this code and gently pressed the ‘proceed’ button.
(Of course after receiving a test and confirmed the working web URL, that is 🙂

Time to go to bed 🙂 Good night!

Edit: Version is 5.1.9

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