{"id":764,"date":"2011-12-20T15:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T15:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/12\/20\/create-mailing-list-in-phplist\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:27:05","slug":"create-mailing-list-in-phplist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/phplist\/create-mailing-list-in-phplist\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a Mailing list within phpList"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our multi article on installing and using phpList to manage newsletters. If you have not already, please review our <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/phplist\/install-php-list\/\">How to install phpList<\/a> article first.<\/p>\n<p>After you have installed phpList, your next step is to create a mailing list that your users can subscribe to. For example, you may have a mailing list for \u201clatest news\u201d and you may have another mailing list for \u201cspecials \/ discounts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To create a mailing list:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Log into your phpList admin page. For our testing, we visited phplist.inmotiontesting.com\/phplist\/admin. If you\u2019re following our tutorial, the username and password you\u2019ll need to enter are the ones you set in Fantastico (we set admin as the username)<\/li>\n<li>Under \u201clist and user functions\u201d, click \u201clist\u201d<\/li>\n<li>You are now looking at a list of your current mailing lists. You should see a \u201ctest\u201d mailing list by default. That list is inactive, and you can ignore it. To create a new list, click \u201cadd a list\u201d at the bottom of the page.<\/li>\n<li>Fill in the details of your new list. We used the following:<br> <br>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"4\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>List name:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td> Mailing List 3\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Check this box to make this<\/strong><br><strong>list active:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Check the box!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Order for listing:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Owner:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Admin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>List Description:<\/strong><\/td>\n<td> This is our 3rd test Mailing list.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> <a href=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/whm-edu_bandwidth-and-disk_phplist_setting-up-our-testing-mailing-list-in-phplist.gif\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"644\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/whm-edu_bandwidth-and-disk_phplist_setting-up-our-testing-mailing-list-in-phplist.gif\" class=\"optimized-lcp-image\" alt=\"setting-up-our-testing-mailing-list-in-phplist\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click \u201cSave\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Congratulations, you have successfully created a mailing list within phpList! 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