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newsletter for a wordpress blog - what to use?
Hey guys
I got a wordpress blog and want to setup a newsletter on it.
It's for a family member and they dont have that many visitors so far. They want something to notify subscribers of a new post.
We think we gonna get maybe 500 - 5k emails out a week.
I use mxroute for other emails - but I know they really don't like marketing emails.
https://mxroutedocs.com/presales/marketing/
Do you allow marketing emails?
No and please go away.
What would you recommend for a such a newsletter for wordpress?
Comments
Have you considered using Ghost instead of Wordpress? May be better for your needs.
I can recommend the MailPoet plugin for this, as it is free for up to 2000 subscribers. Do the outbound through MXroute, as this is not what "marketing" is unless the blog is just sales pitches, which a blog usually is not.
MailPoet will handle the double opt-in as well as subscription list maintenance for you.
I've never found a plan at MailPoet that's free up to 2000 subscribers, but instead free up to 500 subscribers. Is there something I'm missing with that?
Sender.net offers one of the best free plans available, with a free tier that includes 2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails per month. It can also integrate with your WordPress site through a plugin, and email automation is available as well.
I'm using it. simple and straight!!
Either one of two things is happening here. Either I'm old and my memory is starting to fail, OR my client has an old plan that is no longer offered. I am not going to try to figure out which. Thanks for the current information.
MailPoet - free up to 1,000 subscribers
Mailchimp - free up to 500 subscribers
Sendinblue - free up to 300 emails per day
These services are ideal for smaller newsletters and provide automation features for new posts
Mailpoet, simple and powerful. Also with mxroute plan you can have a valid mail server and sent a lot of newsletters easily and cheap. If you want something better you can go Amazon SES or you can setup a self hosted mail server with any of free hosting control panels (hestiacp, fastpanel, etc..) on a vps with clean IP (not included on blacklists) and not have low reputation, with a valid rDNS.
@Jim88
I'm prretty sure mxroute guys hate marketing emails, they wont let you send such newsletters.
https://mxroutedocs.com/presales/marketing/
AWS SES is the cheapest, 10K emails for $1. They might also have a free plan for low usage
Sendgrid has a free plan, i think 2K emails per month, they are reliable as well
Mailgun is another good option, also cheap
Mandrill is created by mailchimp, I haven't used it in 8 years, no idea about the pricing, but last I checked it was cheap
All of them offer smtp, and there's many wordpress plugins that support all of these, it should be a straightforward setup
But how to get out of SES sandbox?