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A plugin for wagtail that allows you to create, send, preview, edit and test email campaigns from within Wagtail.
Campaign templates are created using `mjml <https://mjml.io/>`_.
Basic usage
===========
Install birdsong:
.. code-block:: shell
pip install wagtail-birdsong
Add the following to your installed apps:
.. code-block:: python
'mjml',
'birdsong',
'wagtail.contrib.modeladmin',
Make a new app e.g. ``email``, create a ``models.py`` with a model that extends the included ``Campaign`` model. Some compatible mjml streamfield blocks are included in birdsong for convenience.
.. code-block:: python
from birdsong.blocks import DefaultBlocks
from birdsong.models import Campaign
from django.db import models
from wagtail.admin.edit_handlers import StreamFieldPanel
from wagtail.core.fields import StreamField
class SaleEmail(Campaign):
body = StreamField(DefaultBlocks())
panels = Campaign.panels + [
StreamFieldPanel('body'),
]
Then in the same app, create a ``wagtail_hooks.py`` if it doesn't exist, this is where the admin is created
for content editors to create/edit/send campaigns.
The ``CampaignAdmin`` is just an extension of Wagtail's ``ModelAdmin`` class so most of the same options are available for overriding functionality.
.. code-block:: python
from wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.options import modeladmin_register
from birdsong.options import CampaignAdmin
from .models import SaleEmail
@modeladmin_register
class SaleEmailAdmin(CampaignAdmin):
campaign = SaleEmail
menu_label = 'Sale Email'
menu_icon = 'mail'
menu_order = 200
Create your campaign template in ``{app_folder}/templates/mail/{model_name}.html`` e.g. ``email/templates/mail/sale_email.html``,
alternatively override the ``get_template`` method on your campaign model.
Campaign templates use django-mjml for responsive, well designed emails. To read up how to setup django-mjml you can read the docs `here <https://github.com/liminspace/django-mjml>`_. There is a base template included in Birdsong that can be extended.
``sale_email.html``
.. code-block:: html
{% extends "birdsong/mail/base_email.html" %}
{% block email_body %}
<mj-section>
<mj-column>
<mj-text>Hello {{ contact.email }}!</mj-text>
{% for b in self.body %}
{{ b }}
{% endfor %}
</mj-column>
</mj-section>
{% endblock email_body %}
Custom Contact models
=====================
By default the included ``Contact`` model is used for every campaign, sometimes you may want to store extra data, like names and preferences.
You can override the default ``Contact`` model by setting an option on the admin for your campaign:
``models.py``
.. code-block:: python
from birdsong.models import Contact
from django.db import models
class ExtendedContact(Contact):
first_name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
last_name = models.CharField(max_length=255)
location = models.CharField(max_length=255)
``wagtail_hooks.py``
.. code-block:: python
from wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.options import ModelAdmin, modeladmin_register
from birdsong.options import CampaignAdmin
from .models import ExtendedContact, SaleEmail
@modeladmin_register
class SaleEmailAdmin(CampaignAdmin):
campaign = SaleEmail
menu_label = 'Sale Email'
menu_icon = 'mail'
menu_order = 200
contact_class = ExtendedContact
# You may want to add your own modeladmin here to list/edit/add contacts
@modeladmin_register
class ContactAdmin(ModelAdmin):
model = ExtendedContact
menu_label = 'Contacts'
menu_icon = 'user'
list_diplay = ('email', 'first_name', 'last_name', 'location')
Filtering on contact properties
===============================
You might want to only send a campaign to a subset of you ``Contact`` models. Creating a filter using `django-filter <https://django-filter.readthedocs.io/en/master/>`_ and adding it to the ``CampaignAdmin`` allows users to filter on any property.
``filters.py``
.. code-block:: python
from django_filters import FilterSet
from django_filters.filters import AllValuesFilter
from .models import ExtendedContact
class ContactFilter(FilterSet):
location = AllValuesFilter()
class Meta:
model = ExtendedContact
fields = ('location',)
``wagtail_hooks.py``
.. code-block:: python
from wagtail.contrib.modeladmin.options import modeladmin_register
from birdsong.options import CampaignAdmin
from .filters import ContactFilter
from .models import ExtendedContact, SaleEmail
@modeladmin_register
class SaleEmailAdmin(CampaignAdmin):
campaign = SaleEmail
menu_label = 'Sale Email'
menu_icon = 'mail'
menu_order = 200
contact_class = ExtendedContact
contact_filter_class = ContactFilter
Users will now be able to send campaigns to a subset of contacts base on location.
Unsubscribe url
===============
Included in birdsong is a basic way for contacts to unsubscribe, just include the url configuration and add the unsubscribe url to your email template.
``urls.py``
.. code-block:: python
from birdsong import urls as birdsong_urls
from django.urls import include, path
urlpatterns = [
...
path('mail/', include(birdsong_urls)),
...
]
``sale_email.html``
.. code-block:: html
{% extends "birdsong/mail/base_email.html" %}
{% block email_body %}
<mj-section>
<mj-column>
<mj-text>Hello {{ contact.email }}!</mj-text>
{% for b in self.body %}
{{ b }}
{% endfor %}
</mj-column>
</mj-section>
<mj-section>
Click <a href="{{ site.full_url }}{% url 'birdsong:unsubscribe' contact.id %}">here</a> to unsubscribe.
</mj-section>
{% endblock email_body %}
Future features:
----------------
- More tests!
- Backends other thans SMTP for sending emails so analytics can be gathered (email opened, bounced etc)
- Reloading the preview on edit
- Broader permissions for campaigns (send, preview, test send)
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