Boldermail –
UPDATE JULY 2020: Now integrated with the new Block Editor (for drag-and-drop functionality). Boldermail is a powerful and reliable email marketing and automation platform for WordPress. At Boldermail, everything is managed from within your WordPress dashboard. You can manage your subscribers, design your email templates, and even create automated email workflows all without leaving your WordPress site. The cherry on top? We will deliver your emails at the incredible rate of $0.0001 per email. Getting Started To use Boldermail, you will need to create an account with us here. After you create your account, we’ll provide you with login credentials to connect your plugin to our servers. We offer a free trial period of 30 days after signup regardless of your number of subscribers. During your trial period, you can send up to 100,000 emails for free. No credit card required! You can learn more about our pricing and plans here. All Features Our Boldermail plugin includes all of the advanced tools you need to create email marketing and automate your workflow your way. Unlimited emails per account (seriously — one of our clients sends over 15 million emails a year to readers) NEW GUTENBERG-POWERED DRAG-AND-DROP EDITOR — design and send newsletters from your WordPress dashboard Visual editor — uses the Classic WordPress Editor HTML code editor Free newsletter templates & template migration Multiple users/authors Subscriber management Automated “Welcome” emails Signup forms Blog posts to newsletters Email automation — education campaigns, onboarding series, and more Personalization Campaign Reports Opens + clicks tracking Opens by country No Boldermail logo in the footer of your emails Same day email support Coming in 2020 (currently in beta testing) WooCommerce integration Welcome new customers after their first purchase Upsell specific product or product category Abandoned cart conversion How are We Different? Our first difference lies in the fact that we were our own first client. My wife, Lindsey, started The Postman’s Knock in 2013, and it has since grown to be the #1 online resource for learning calligraphy. Fast forward a few years to 2018, and we were stuck paying Mailchimp around $500 a month ($6,000 a year) to mail our list of 100,000 subscribers 3x per week. I projected our costs would rise to $8,500 by 2019, and $10,000 by 2020. In response to the rising costs, we developed Boldermail to meet our email marketing and automation needs, without sacrificing quality nor reliability. And we loved it so much that we knew we had to make it available to others. You can read more of our story here. Our second difference is that we do not use your WordPress server to deliver emails. Unlike other WordPress plugins, and similar to Mailchimp and MailerLite, a separate server does all of the heavy lifting for you! This ensures that your website does not get sluggish as it struggles to send emails to subscribers.
Simple SMTP
Adds a simple, no-fuss SMTP settings to your WordPress installation that lets you define custom settings, which is especially useful for hosts with no control over the php mail functionality. If logging is enabled, a new segment in the settings panel will show up with a 30-day overview of recent emails, and will automatically prune older logs. Please see the FAQ if you want a more permanent solution. For more information, please see the project wiki on GitHub. Environment and constant overriding (optional) This plugin will prefer environmental and constant-stored values over the plugin-saved equivalent settings, making it easier to use this plugin via deployment. These can be either stored in your systems env setup, or in wp-config.php as define( 'SEE_BELOW', 'your_value_here' );. Accepted Parameters SMTP_HOST (string) Mail server hostname. SMTP_PORT (integer) Port address (usually 25, 465 or 587). SMTP_AUTH (integer, 1 or 0) Pass below credentials to your mail server. SMTP_USER (string) The mail username for this account. SMTP_PASS (string) The password for the mailer account. SMTP_FROM (string) Enforce all emails come from this email address. SMTP_FROMNAME (string) Enforce all emails to have a certain email name. SMTP_SEC (string) Use a particular email security method (accepts ‘def’ (default), ‘ssl’, ‘tls’ and ‘off’). SMTP_NOVERIFYSSL (boolean) Disable validation of the SMTP server certificate (not recommended). SMTP_LOG (boolean) Controls the logging capability and visibility. SMTP_DISABLE (boolean) Disables the mailer. They will still be logged if enabled, but won’t send out. It is recommended to store at least SMTP_PASS in your wp-config.php file (with the correct file permissions set). If the openssl extension is available, the plugin will attempt to encrypt the password in the database.
