WordPress Subscribe by Email Plugin

Finally, WPMU DEV brings you a fully supported powerful email subscription plugin that just works!

If you want to offer email updates of new posts on your site, or you want to provide that facility to dozens, hundreds or thousands of users on your Multisite install – this is the plugin for you.

email subscription for wordpress made easy

Following the simple install, you can manually or automatically add new users and email addresses and manage existing email addresses with ease.

To make your life even easier, the plugin also automatically imports any email subscriptions you had previously using the Subscribe2 plugin.

Alongside this you get a simple widget, allowing people to sign up via the sidebar of any site… and you can automatically add new registered users too.

Once a post is made, the subscriber will automatically either receive a link or an excerpt plus a link (you can choose).

And at the bottom of every email there’s a simple ‘unsubscribe’ link – which allows users to unsubscribe.

It’s simple, powerful, fully supported and will work with a single site or thousands upon thousands of them.

Enjoy!

And if you’d like to see any extra features added – please just drop by the forums, let us know, and we’ll more than likely be able to fit them in for you.

For help with installing plugins please refer to our Plugin installation guide.

Once installed you activate the plugin as follows:

On regular WordPress installs – visit Plugins and Activate the plugin.
For WordPress Multisite installs – Activate it site-by-site (say if you wanted to make it a Pro sites premium plugin), or visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate the plugin.

Configuring a site’s email subscription options

1. Go to Subscriptions > Settings in the site admin dashboard.

2. Select whether you want users to be auto-subscribe or not.

This automatically subscribes all existing and any new users listed on Users > All Users to your email subscription
If Auto-subscribe is enabled you won’t be able to remove them from the email subscription list and they won’t be able to un-subscribe themselves from email subscription

3. Select if you want Excerpt enabled or not.

Except means they will receive a small excerpt from the post in the email whereas not means they will only receive an email with the post title and a link to view the post

4. Click Save Changes

Adding the Subscription Widget

1. Go to Appearance > Widgets.

2. Add the Subscribe by Email widget to the desired sidebar.

3. Now all site visitor need to do is add their email address and click Create Subscription to Subscribe via email.

About the Subscriptions page

The Subscription page lists all the email subscribers, their method of subscription and allows you to cancel or add email subscribers manually.

Auto Subscriptions are those subscriber listed on Users > All Users who have been added when Auto-subscribe automatically is enabled
Visitor Subscriptions are readers who have subscribe using the Subscribe by Email widget in the site sidebar
Manual Subscriptions are subscribers that have been manually added using the Subscriptions page
S2 Import Subscriptions are those subscribers who are automatically imported from your email subscription list if you were previously using the Subscribe2 plugin.

Canceling a subscription

Email subscription are canceled by:

Clicking on the Cancel Subscription link at the bottom of their latest email notification of a post
Manually removing them from the Subscriptions page in the site admin dashboard

Please note:

If Auto-subscribe is enabled you won’t be able to remove them from the email subscription list and they won’t be able to un-subscribe themselves from email subscription