To comply with the CAN-SPAM act and other anti-spamming laws, Noptin allows you to add the [[unsubscribe_url]] merge tag to your emails to give your subscribers a way to unsubscribe from your newsletter.
This is added by default to your newsletter’s permission reminder.
You can, however, add it anywhere in the emails you send.
Customizing your Newsletter Unsubscribe Page
You can change the message shown to a subscriber or redirect them to a completely different page (or website).
To do this:-
- First, open the Noptin settings page by clicking on Noptin > Settings in your WordPress admin dashboard.
- Next, click on “Messages” to open the general settings tab.
You can either change the subscription message…
… or set a URL to redirect people who unsubscribe from the newsletter.
That way, you can display a survey asking those subscribers why they unsubscribed from your newsletter.
Deleting Subscribers after they Unsubscribe
Noptin allows you to delete subscribers after they unsubscribe from your newsletter.
To enable this:-
- First, open the Noptin settings page by clicking on Noptin > Settings in your WordPress admin dashboard.
- Next, click on “General” to open the general settings tab.
- Finally, locate the Delete on Unsubscribe checkbox and check it to enable the feature
Giving Customers an Option to Resubscribe
Someone might click on the newsletter unsubscription link by mistake. Luckily, Noptin offers a re-subscription link via the “[[resubscribe_url]]” tag. This tag can be used in your unsubscription success message as well as your emails.
This merge tag will not work if you have enabled the “Delete subscribers” option in the previous option.
How is the unsubcribe link generated? I want to send emails from external mailing and include unsubsciption link for each email? How can I generate unsubscription link ?
Thanks
get_noptin_action_url( ‘unsubscribe’, $subscriber->confirm_key );
Thanks for this response. I was ablo to track at some level but I couldnt figure out the decoding, is it appying rawurlencode() function to encode and rawurldecode() to decode? What is the encoding/decoding algorithm?
We use openssl_encrypt to stop anyone from guessing the URL. https://github.com/hizzle-co/noptin/blob/6b8c83d75a9cd0ddd645ace42ee0722ea482efbd/includes/functions.php#L1413
I would suggest you use the [[unsubscribe_url]] merge tag then copy-paste the email and send it through Noptin as a RAW HTML email. That way, no template will get applied and you’ll still be able to use your external system.
If that’s not possible, I would suggest you implement your own unsubscription mechanism. You can call
unsubscribe_noptin_subscriber( $email_address )to unsubscribe a contact.thanks Brian, thats great, thanks for the tip.