Lists are groups of contacts who subscribed to receive a type of email, such as your newsletter or product news. When you send a campaign, you pick lists as recipients. A contact can belong to several lists. Lists are included in the free MailerPress plugin.
Create a list
- Go to MailerPress > Audience > Contact Lists and click Add a list.
- Enter a Name (it must be unique) and, if you like, a Description (optional).
- Click Save.
You can also create a list wherever you see Select or create list, for example when adding a contact or importing a CSV file.
Understand the list table
- Shortcode: a code in square brackets, such as
[mailerpress_optin list="3"], that displays a subscription form for this list. Click Copy shortcode and paste it into a page. All options are in Adding a MailerPress Form with Your Page Builder. - Contact Count: the number of contacts in the list.
- Default: marks the default list.
You can search lists and sort them by ID, name, contact count or creation date.
Choose the default list
New contacts go to the default list when no list is given, for example a CSV import with no list selected, or a subscription that doesn’t specify one. To change it, click Set as default on the list you want. Only one list can be the default.
Edit a list
In the list’s actions menu, choose Edit list, change the name or description, then click Save.
Delete a list
In the list’s actions menu, choose Delete list and confirm. To delete several lists, select them and use the Delete bulk action. The contacts themselves are kept. The default list cannot be deleted: set another list as default first.
Add contacts to a list
- One contact: open the contact, go to Audience, and click Edit next to Lists.
- Several contacts: on All Contacts, select them and choose Edit contacts > Assign list(s).
- Many contacts from a file: see Import and export contacts with a CSV file.
Users need the permission to manage lists (see MailerPress capabilities).