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Ok cool thanks for the feedback!

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Thanks for submitting @billz - what are your thoughts around this being a drop down vs. just an input field. I'm thinking input field for the simple fact that we don't know how many templates a user might have and that list can get very long.

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@richleland an input field would do it, sure. Mandrill uses a drop down. We have a limited set of templates so it works well enough for us, although our case may not be typical.

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I, personally, am not sure about the use case. If you select a template, how regular wp emails will be sent? For example, the new user registration, forget password or any other emails that wordpress core and/or plugins send. Do you want all of these emails to use the same template?

It would be great if you enlighten us with your use cases. Thanks

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@rajumsys In our case, yes--a single template is used for all outgoing wp email. Our template is essentially just a logo header and footer links that wraps the dynamic content. Mandrill gives us the option of applying one template globally this way. This suffices for our needs and, I suspect, is typical for most wp sites.

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@billz That totally makes sense to me. Thanks for explaining :).

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@billz We do the same though I have several domains sharing the same Mandrill account and I choose the one for the appropriate domain.

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What is the status of this issue?

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At the risk of sounding whiney, I'll ask again. Is there a path or timeframe for this? A reply would be greatly appreciated as it will influence our decision on settling on this platform.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi @jpw94 not whiney at all. I'm going to take a look at what's required for the implementation of this. I don't have an exact time frame for you, but I'll post again as soon as I have an idea of what's involved.

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@jpw94 @billz I want to make sure I understand what your Mandrill templates look like. So you've got a header/footer - and then I assume you have an area in the template that has a variable like {{ content }} and basically the WP content gets substituted in there - is that correct? Is there a specific variable name you use that Mandrill enforced?

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I created a PR (#22) with a first crack at this. It's just an open template field, but it works. For now it requires that the template have a variable {{{content}}} in it.

Would love feedback if you're interested in checking out the code to your wp-content/plugins folder.

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@richleland thanks! would it help if i create a screen capture video which illustrated the functionality?

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Oh that would be awesome @jpw94. I'd appreciate you taking the time to do that! Alternatively if you just want to copy and paste some of your template in Mandrill that would help too.

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Here is a screenshot of the plugin interface : http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/1091848/720b1b04be395ee416a4d1c1f987416a

as noted, there is a dropdown box which exposes stored templates in the Mandrill account.

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OK perfect - thanks for posting that. That help text under the field is what I was looking for. Basically in your templates you have mc:edit="main". For the PR I submitted, you'd change that to {{{content}}}. How does that sound?

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Latest version with template support is released.

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