Subscribe by Email

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 blog, or you want to provide that facility to dozens, hundreds or thousands of users on your WPMU install – this is the plugin for you.

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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.

Subscribe by Email settings page

Alongside this you get a simple widget, allowing people to sign up via the sidebar of any blog… 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).

Subcribe by email subscription page

And at the bottom of every email there’s a simple ‘unsubscribe’ link – which produces a very attractive JS powered unsubscribe message.

It’s simple, powerful, fully supported and will work with a single blog 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.

To install:

Download the plugin file
Unzip the file into a folder on your hard drive
Upload /subscribe-by-email/ folder to /wp-content/plugins/ folder on your site
Visit Network Admin -> Plugins and Network Activate it there.

Note: If you have an older version of the plugin installed in /mu-plugins/ please delete it.

That’s it! No configuration necessary!

To Use:

If you installed in plugins users will first need to activate Subscribe by Email in Plugins > Installed

Configuring a blog’s email subscription options

1. Go to Subscriptions > Settings

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

This automatically subscribes all existing and any new users listed on Users > Authors & 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

Example of an excerpt email

4. Click Save Changes

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Adding the Subscription Widget
1. Go to Appearance > Widgets
2. Add the Subscribe by Email widget to the desired sidebar
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3. Now all blog visitor need to do is add their email address and click Create Subscription to Subscribe via email.

Subscribing via subsciption widget

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 > Authors & 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 blog 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.

Subscription page in Subscribe by email

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 a blog dashboard

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