Blog Newsletter

https://www.skippy.net/blog/2005/02/17/subscribe2/

seems to work ok in my semi-limited experience (i haven’t tried the newest version).

It’s a good start..

Anyone else know one that allows me to send out messages, rather than just allowing people to subscribe to a blog?

I’m also looking for it to have functionality where I can just place a field for people to put in their e-mail and hit a button on my front page.

Any ideas?

You could try the mailing list plugin 4.0b

• https://gerard.ly.free.fr/index.php?page=wordpress

There’s v. little documentation, but it has a feature that allows admin to send out manual emails to users who subscribe (and another function to send out an automatic digest message for 1 – 10 posts of new posts, which users can subscribe to separately).

I managed to hack it so visitors can just subscribe to receiving manually sent messages (as I didn’t want the auto feature)

The subscription is done by calling a separate subscribe.php page – I guess you could adapt that, or just put a link to it in your sidebar

It’s not a plugin, but fully ‘integratable’: Zookoda

I’ve also tried zookada and it works very well and can be customized.

Presently it’s beta, and after contacting them, I was informed that it is likely that context sensitive ads will be placed in your outgoing messages (which puts me off). Otherwise a very robust solution and certainly takes the headache of updating plugins/fixing things.

skippy’s plugin does allow you to send out emails to subscribers. I have set it up to not send out blog updates and to allow me to send out emails to subscribers with no problems. there is a subscribe script that you can link to or embed on your front page. it is all there.