Plugin options for customized emails

  • I would like to create a website with a blog and forum on a managed WordPress instance (preferred) or a WordPress instance I manage myself. The most important feature would allow users to register for emails that are sent daily. The emails would contain the best 20 price deals for a particular product/industry for that particular day.

    I have a separate service which generates the list of best deals for that day. The deal information can be retrieve via REST API calls. The email content would be generated from information retrieved via REST call(s) to the aforementioned service.

    I would like to integrate with an email service such as mailchimp or sendgrid to track the emails. Are there any WordPress plugins that would help in generating such emails? I have such far and wide – and I cannot find a WordPress plugin that meets my above requirements. Or would I need to create my own WordPress plugin?

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  • The key requirement is the API call to retrieve the info into the WordPress database.

    And your search is coming up empty because you’re not going to find any plugin that can retrieve data from any and every API under the sun. Code will have to be written for the SPECIFIC API.

    So you’re going to need to write (or hire someone to write) a custom plugin to make the request to this custom API to you retrieve the info into the WordPress database.

    (If the service is a popular one, and you’re lucky, a plugin may exist already to do this. But as you didn’t mention the API in question, it’s impossible to say.)

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter zzzz8888

    (@zzzz8888)

    Thanks for the response!

    In regards to the API – it would be a custom API I’m building, not some well-known ones like Facebook or Twitter.

    I guess what I was hoping for is a plugin which has a lot of the functionality, but would allow me to copy in some PHP code which would parse the calls to my custom API into some static HTML that would be used for the emails.

    I’m assuming this means I will have to write a plugin myself or perhaps just create a cron job (or another process outside of WP that has access to the WordPress API) which runs some PHP code that runs some code to retrieve data from the WordPress database via the WP API and also make calls to my own API?

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