parkvisitor

Yes, I agree it is difficult to get email compatible messages.

Something you may consider in the future for a nice feature that may push your plugin closer to JetPacks, and I don’t think would be too hard is:

Set up 2 or 3 form fields in the settings page that specify an inline style you would like to apply some basic element selectors in the email, for example:

1. p tags
2. p > img tags
3. h1

Or, perhaps instead of hardcoding the 3 above selectors, allow the user to create their own selector, and inline css for each selector (since every theme is going to have different html, it might not be a good idea to have hardcoded selectors).

How the plugin is right now, for example, a user can’t (compatibly) even make their images float left of a paragraph. A simple selector of ‘img’, and inline css of ‘float: left’ would make my email template already 100x better.

thanks again for the feedback and help troubleshooting the plugin. Keep up the great work!

Dave

@mattyrob,
The theme does not use inline style elements – it does use a stylesheet, but stylesheets embedded in the header of an email are commonly not supported by email clients.

For example – “As of 2012, Gmail is the most restrictive as it will ignore all external and embedded style sheets. (It will support inline styles.)”
http://groundwire.org/labs/email-publishing/using-css-and-html-in-email-newsletters

That’s why I was hoping that the plugin was taking the embedded stylesheet and writing inline css so that it would be more compatible.

It wouldn’t be a problem with this plugin if it was possible to write inline pseudo and child classes but as I described in the past post, If I’m only allowed to wrap a div around {POST} for example, the inline styling on that div is only going to get me so far (for example I can’t apply inline CSS to the children image of that div so that images float left)

Perhaps there is a solution you use with your plugin – otherwise I’ll see what I can do with inline styling.

thanks!
Dave

The theme only uses styles.css

I’m using the ‘send preview button’ as you guessed.

I have also checked the ‘include theme css stylesheet in HTML notifications’.

Knowing that I am on the right track – I’ll dig into it a bit more and see if there is something I’m overlooking.

Thanks for the fast response!
Dave