In addition to selecting images from your own web site’s media library, you can now also select images from third-party web pages to include in templates. This has several advantages over obtaining image URLs manually, including working out useful alternative text for you and offering images at various sizes where available. Read More…
Checking template content
Cameo now checks more content in the template editor as you type. Read More…
Substitutions from captions
In addition to the Substitutions menu, you can now insert substitutions into templates by clicking on captions in member and contact records. Read More…
Content checks in template editor
The template editor checks your content in a slightly different way. Instead of popping up a box to tell you about each problem, it now highlights anything found in pink. Click on a highlighted item to see more details and what to do about it. Read More…
All caps in template editor
The template editor style menu has two new entries: all caps and all caps + bold. If you select either of these, Cameo changes the headline or paragraph being edited to upper case (and bold if chosen). Read More…
Image selector can include all image sizes
The image selector in the template editor, and elsewhere, now offers the option of including all sizes of the chosen image in the HTML for the document you’re editing, so the browser can choose the most appropriate. Read More…
Searching for media library images
You can now search for WordPress media library images in the image selector, for example when adding an image to a template. Read More…
PDF templates
Cameo now supports PDF templates.These are like existing letter templates, but they produce PDF files instead of paginated HTML.
The PDF file doesn’t need to just end up in pending letters: it can be saved to several different places, and used as an email attachment. Read More…
Selecting images in templates
For the recipient to see an image in an email sent from Cameo, it must be on a public web site. For WordPress sites, that means putting the images in the media library. When including an image in an email in Cameo, ideally you should be able to select the one you want from a set of thumbnail previews. This means Cameo has to be able to talk to your public website to find out what images are on offer. This article shows how to set that up. Read More…
Supplying credentials for image selection
Some WordPress (and other) sites disable their public API. Cameo uses that to display a set of images to choose from when inserting an image using the template editor. WordPress can still provide access to its image list using an “application password”.
Cameo now provides a box to enter this password so protected sites can still offer their images to Cameo. Read More…