Insert Dynamic Content in Your Newsletter

You can insert content in your newsletter using special tags or short codes. You can insert user information, date, Joomla articles, category, tag, site information, file or any data from the database.

Email Subject

You can insert user and date information in the title or subject of the email. For example,

  • {NAME} - To insert name of the user
  • {EMAIL} - To insert email of the user
  • {USER name} - To insert name of the user
  • {USER 12} - To insert user custom field
  • {PROFILE city} - To insert data from user profile field plugin
  • {DATE} - To insert date as per format in component options
  • {YEAR} - To insert current year
  • {MONTH} - To insert current month

Email Body

1. Dynamic Content

While editing the newsletter, from the Options tab, enable Dynamic Content. Select the types of content you wish to insert. Then, use the appropriate short code.

How to Insert Dynamic Content?

2. Multiple Source Content

From the Options tab, select the content source and configure its settings.

How to Insert Multiple Items Source Content?

Next, from the component configuration, under the Dynamic tab, add the format.

  • Reference: Add short reference like A or B. This will be used later while editing newsletter.
  • Format: Add the content format that will be multiplied and replaced with the data. For example: {DC title}

Then, edit the newsletter and add the short code - {MULTIPLE A}, where A is the reference.

3. Unsubscribe Link

{UNSUB} will insert the link to unsubscribe the user. First, you need to create a menu item for unsubscribe form.

You can change the link text, URL, and style from the component options.

4. Profile Link

{MODIFY} will insert the link to manage user profile. First, you need to create a menu item for subscribe or profile form. You can change the link text, URL, and style from the component options.

{USER} will add the verification key and user id query strings.

5. Table of Contents

{TOC} will insert unordered list of h2 and h3 items in the newsletter content.

6. Links

You can include links in your newsletter for marketing or other reasons. Same link can be reused in multiple newsletters.

{LINK <link_id>}