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<p>Create groups to organize your subscribed users and send them e-mails based on their groups or by user levels, capabilities or usernames. You can also send messages for anybody, directly by e-mail addresses. Besides that, you can use some information of the current user and of a selected publication (post or page), to personalize the message, that can take attached files, if you want.<br />WPMailing offers support if you are using Xinha4WP or Dean’s FCKEditor, to write e-mails in your favorite editor.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<p>Once the plugin is activated, your administration panels will offer:</p>
<ul>
<li>The ability to create groups and tag your users, by adding new features in Users section pages<br />
through Javascript (user.php, profile.php and user-edit.php).<br />
** This actions will <strong>not modify the WP original files</strong>.</li>
<li>An interface to modify names and descriptions of your groups (Manage > Groups)  </li>
<li>An interface to compose and send e-mails to subscribed users,<br />
with some interesting features (Write > Write e-mail):<br />
** The ‘To’ field supports multiple e-mails and inclusions by user level, capability, group or username.<br />
** You can attach multiple files to the message<br />
** You can use values of an specific post or page<br />
** The e-mail can be personalized with informations of the user that will receive the message</li>
<li>An interface to set or update some WPMailing configurations (Options > Mailing)  </li>
<li>Complete information about the sending process after you send any e-mail</li>
</ul>
<h3>Feedback</h3>
<p>Your feedback are welcome.<br />
  Send any bug detections, suggestions, critics, etc. to: wpmailing(at)jsbrasil(dot)com<br />
  Thank you, Cau Guanabara.</p>


WPMailing

Create groups to organize your subscribed users and send them e-mails based on their groups or by user levels, capabilities or usernames.

Slava Abakumov

<p>BuddyPress Groups doesn’t have much-predefined content inside. Forums and activities are created (or not) by users. But most of the time group creators (aka administrators) have much more to say or explain to other members of the community.</p>
<p>BuddyPress Groups Extras will give the ability to them to create extra content.</p>
<h4>General</h4>
<ul>
<li>Choose groups you want to allow custom fields and pages.</li>
<li>Define who will have access to managing fields or pages in groups (groups admins or site admins or both).</li>
<li>Create a predefined Set of Fields that can be imported to all groups on a site OR can be imported on a per-group basis.</li>
<li>Tweak various options, like enabling Rich Editor.</li>
<li>Drag-n-drop groups nav menu items as you wish (Fields and Pages can be your new group front page!).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom Group Fields</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create custom fields using various types (radios, checkboxes, dropdown select, textarea, and text).</li>
<li>Edit fields data on Edit Group Details page in Group Admin area.</li>
<li>Display/hide page, where all groups fields will be displayed (and rename it too).</li>
<li>Reorder fields.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Custom Group Pages</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create group pages (for group FAQ or wiki, or events, or descriptions or whatever you want).</li>
<li>Edit page data in the Group Admin area using WordPress RichEditor (with embedding content that WordPress supports!).</li>
<li>Display/hide page, where all group pages will be displayed (and rename it too).</li>
<li>Reorder pages.</li>
</ul>
<p>Make your groups full of possibilities!</p>


BuddyPress Groups Extras

I think this pligin just saved my life, it enabled me to create a much smarter homepage for my groups than comes with BuddyPress out of the box, I can well recommend it!

Great additional group feature!

Introduce custom fields and custom pages to your BuddyPress-powered groups.

WPMailing vs BuddyPress Groups Extras