Comments on: A Fresh New Look for MailPoet

By: hoja

hoja — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:25:54 +0000

I am a Designer myself and can understand the wish to improve the visual appearance of your fraction of the WordPress backend. I would also say that the result looks nice. Still, I wished you had resisted that urge – or at least would offer users to use vanilla WordPress tables instead – without any custom styling.

Why? Using fancy custom tables simply shuts the door for plugins which allow Site Admins to inject any sort of useful additional data into tables. Admin Columns is such a tool. If you used default WordPress tables it was at least thinkable to display any sort of custom (field) data along with your own data. The table gets broad and doesn’t fit the screen any more? Then scroll horizontally. The list gets huge? Just create any number of custom views, possibly filtered by all subscribers from Paris who have previously purchased product xyz and whose first name is Anna.

And if one is very lazy one could edit any sort of data directly from the table overview, instead of drilling down. Change Status, lists quickly with a dropdown. With your custom table design, however, your users are locked into just the options you give them.

By: Laura Nelson

Laura Nelson — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:28:32 +0000

In reply to Tasha.

Hi Tasha,

Thanks so much for your lovely comments! We’re really pleased to hear you’re enjoying MailPoet :)

And that’s some great feedback. Would you mind sharing this on our official feedback board (https://feedback.mailpoet.com/)? The team reviews this on a regular basis, and it ensures that good ideas don’t get forgotten about!

Thanks again,

Laura

By: Tasha

Tasha — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:20:13 +0000

I am new to mail poet and have been using it for less than a month or almost a month. I absolutely love everything about it.
I couldn’t be happier with the top features.
Two issues that I can live with but you should know.
1 in order to have a mailpoet page for a custom page, the shortcode [mailpoetpage] has to be it. Except the code is visible to the outside. I’ve tried everything to hide it.
2 the mobile pop ups were too big no matter what I did to change the px or %, the x close button could not be reached. I really don’t do much css so I couldn’t fix that either.
I downloaded the pop up maker boxilla. It works basically with my mailpoet forms but I would love it to be one and done. I don’t want extra plugins to slow down my site.
For this reason I left mailchimp which was overly confusing at times, and only gave 1 pop-up to its free customers.
I love the power yet simplicity MailPoet has. The colors are beautiful and totally my style. It excites me when I go to that plugin. For a guy..well…my husband enjoys it when he works. But I absolutely love it.
Thank you team!
P.s. the newsletters I get in my emails are also beautiful.

By: Drivingralle

Drivingralle — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:05:42 +0000

Hey!

I like that MailPoet is working on a more modern look. And in many ways it looks very good.

Would prefer to see a bit less use of white backgrounds specially on all the list views to make it easier on the eyes. I find it hard to separate the tools from the list itself. Making the view hard to navigate and focus on the main thing, the list items.
The great email editor does it well.
I think the accessibility of the interface would also benefit from it.

Greetings
derRALF