Adding Newsletters or Embedding External Content

Prerequisites:

• At least one Category created by following this guide.

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To add a newsletter or similar external content to your members area follow these steps.

Navigate to the Pages section within the members administration area, as shown below, the screenshot shows a typical Pages section with articles.

Press the New Page button on the top right to create a new article, this will open a new blank article page, as shown below, which should be completed.

Various fields are required to be completed for a page to be published, these include:

• Page header image
• Page title
• Page options, such as category, thumbnail and published date

The Page Options section can be accessed by clicking on the Page Options button in the top right of the screen, this shows the following by default.

A page Thumbnail is required, this is used for display on the members area, such as Dashboard and Updates sections. Page Thumbnails should be in 3:2 ratio, however the image uploader will automatically crop and resize the image for you.

A page Category is required, this should be created before creating the page article. This allows for content to be grouped depending on the content type, such as news, company information or general updates. Follow this guide to create a Category.

Page Status allows you to set a page as Draft or Published, depending on the editing stage of the page.

Publish Date allows a date and time to be added to a page, this is useful as content is ordered chronologically in the members area, as well as allowing pages to be backdated if uploading historical data.

Featured Page provides the option to add the article to the Company Information section

Once all options are completed, press the Save button. An example completed Page Options is shown below.

Add a Title to the page as shown below, this should be a summary of the page content.

To add external content, hover over the main content area, various buttons will be shown giving options for adding various types of content to the page. The iframe option (shown below) allows for an external web page to be embedded within the page.

Enter the URL of the external content, as shown below.

Once the URL is added the page will update with the embedded content.

Once complete, press the Save button at the top right.

Within the members area you can view the newsletter.

Mailchimp Campaigns

The campaign page for a sent campaign includes an Archive Bar that helps people translate your email campaign, view recent email campaigns sent to the audience, and more, as shown below:

To turn this off please follow this carry out the following changes in your Mailchimp account:

To disable the Archive Bar, follow these steps.

• Click Audience

• Click Audience dashboard

• If you have more than one audience, click the Current audience drop-down and choose the one you want to work with
• Click the Manage Audience drop-down and choose Settings
• Click Publicity Settings
• Uncheck the Activate the "archive bar" for this list box
• Click Save Publicity Settings

Now subscribers won't see the Archive Bar when they view your campaign pages. You can re-enable it at any time.

For additional help please follow this guide by Mailchimp