Croms MailPress vs Newsletters

Croms MailPress is a comprehensive email delivery solution designed to provide flexible, reliable, and high-performance mailing capabilities directly from your WordPress dashboard. Whether you need to send personalized newsletters, transactional emails, or bulk announcements, this plugin ensures your emails reach their destination securely and efficiently. Key Features Scheduled Sending: Easily schedule your emails to be sent at a specific date and time, perfect for newsletters and timed announcements. Recipient Management & CSV Import: Send emails to manually entered addresses or upload a CSV file with up to 100,000 recipients. Detailed History & Resending: Track the status of every email sent. View success/error logs and easily retry failed deliveries with a single click. Flexible “FROM” Profiles: Register and manage multiple sender addresses and their corresponding SMTP server settings. Switch between them seamlessly when composing emails. Opt-out & Bounce Handling: Manage user subscriptions with a dedicated opt-out list. Manually or automatically classify emails as allowed, paused, hard bounce, soft bounce, or blacklisted. Safe Opt-out Page Customization: The [croms_mailpress_optout] shortcode uses a fixed plugin-controlled template. Administrators can change labels, messages, layout preset, color preset, width, and email visibility without saving arbitrary HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or PHP. Multiple Sending Methods: Choose between individual SMTP profiles (Account-based), external SMTP Relays, or high-speed API Integrations for massive scale delivery. Bulk Delivery via Cron: Easily schedule and dispatch large volumes of emails using external Cron jobs. The built-in setup guide helps you configure Cron for both rental servers (e.g., cPanel, XServer) and VPS/Cloud environments. Opt-out Page Design Customization The public opt-out form generated by [croms_mailpress_optout] does not provide custom code textareas. This is intentional for WordPress.org review compatibility and user safety. Use the structured settings in Mail Manager > General Settings to adjust the heading, explanatory text, button labels, success messages, design preset, color preset, width, and whether the recipient email address is displayed. For advanced visual customization, add CSS through WordPress core features such as Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS or the Site Editor’s CSS tools. The fixed template exposes stable classes such as .croms-mailpress-optout, .croms-mailpress-optout__card, .croms-mailpress-optout__title, .croms-mailpress-optout__notice, and .croms-mailpress-optout__button. External Services / Third-Party APIs This plugin supports optional delivery through the third-party service smtp-relay.jp (Croms SMTP Relay Service). What the service is used for: The service is used only when the site administrator selects either the SMTP Relay delivery method or the API Integration delivery method in this plugin. It is also used when the administrator runs the relay/API connection test from the plugin settings screen. What data is sent and when: SMTP Relay: When the SMTP Relay delivery method is selected and an email is sent, the plugin connects to the configured *.smtp-relay.jp SMTP server and sends the email for relay delivery. This includes the sender address, recipient address, subject, message body, and any attachments included in the email. When the administrator runs the SMTP relay connection test, the plugin connects to the configured *.smtp-relay.jp server to verify connectivity. API Integration: When the API delivery method is selected and an email is sent, the plugin sends a JSON request to the configured https://*.smtp-relay.jp/receive.php endpoint. This request includes the API key in the request header, the sender name and address, recipient address, subject, HTML message body, and any attachments included in the email. When the administrator runs the API connection test, the plugin sends a test request to the configured API endpoint that includes the API key and uses the site’s administrator email address as the sender and recipient for the test payload. Service provider links: Please review the service terms and privacy policy before using the external delivery methods: Terms of Service: https://wp.croms.jp/smtp-relay-terms/ Privacy Policy: https://wp.croms.jp/smtp-relay-privacypolicy/

A full-featured WordPress newsletter plugin created by Tribulant for WordPress which fulfills all subscribers, emails, marketing and newsletter related needs for both personal and business environments. It has robust, efficient and unique features! This is an all-in-one newsletter tool for your WordPress site can be configured to behave as desired and it will provide the best experience for your email subscribers at the same time. The software works the way you do so you can focus on creating newsletters and giving your website the necessary exposure! Features Some of the features in the WordPress Newsletter plugin include (see PRO Version section below to view the limitations of this LITE version): Mailing Lists Bounce Email Management Newsletter Queue & Scheduling Newsletter Templates Drag & Drop Newsletter & Template Builder Complete Email History Unlimited Sidebar Widgets Post/Page Opt-In Embedding Subscription Forms Builder Offsite Subscription Forms Publish Newsletter as a Post Send Post as a Newsletter Add Email Attachments SMTP Authentication Ajax Powered Features Import/Export Subscribers Paid Subscriptions (PayPal & 2Checkout) Integrates with our Banner Rotator plugin WordPress Multisite Compatible Email Tracking IP Logging of Subscribers Google reCAPTCHA v2 Google reCAPTCHA v3 hCaptcha Cloudflare Turnstile Really Simple CAPTCHA Newsletter Themes POP/IMAP Bounce Handling Latest Posts Subscriptions Single/Multiple Posts into Emails Bitly click tracking Autoresponders Newsletters by conditions Multilingual (qTranslate & WPML) Custom Post Types Custom Fields Link/click tracking DKIM Signature WordPress Dashboard Widget and much more… See the newsletter subscribe forms builder in action: Demo and Support See the online demonstration and view the online documentation for tips, tricks, guides, and more. Extensions There are many free and paid extension plugins for the WordPress Newsletter plugin. All extensions work with both Newsletters LITE and Newsletters PRO, no problem. Some extensions include: WooCommerce Subscribers Contact Form 7 Subscribers Google Analytics Tracking Embedded Images Total MS Control Gravity Forms Subscribers Formidable Subscribers Digital Access Pass Subscribers Total Control s2Member Subscribers WP eMember Subscribers Visit the Newsletters extensions page Email/Newsletter Templates Included with the newsletter plugin are several premade email/newsletter templates. Shop our newsletter templates for more variety and high quality, premium, responsive newsletter templates. Languages All language files and the instructions to use them are in POEditor. Anyone can join the project to add languages and contribute translations for strings. Thank you for these wonderful people who contributed in translating the plugin: Afrikaans (af_ZA) by Antonie Potgieter German (de_DE) by Peter Schonmann Greek (el_GR) by Harris Karanikolas | AiO Systems Information Spanish (es_ES) by Juan Llamosas French (fr_FR) by Kim Gjerstad Hungarian (hu_HU) by iD Sign | Gergely Almasi Italian (it_IT) by Matteo Galli | Playcode, Johnny Lithuanian (lt_LT) by Tomas Dutch (nl_NL) by Ronald de Caluwe | WebZenz Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR) by Vitor Argos Portuguese (pt_PT) by wordpress.mowster.net Romanian (ro_RO) by Richard Vencu Swedish (sv_SE) by Tomas Lindhoff Turkish (tr_TR) by Sersah Namoglu Offsite HTML Code var wpmlAjax = "' . $this -> url() . '/' . $this -> plugin_name . '-ajax.php"; url() . '/js/wp-mailinglist.js"> ' API Example 'subscriber_add', 'api_key' => '37C1D6053E817212348E507D29CCCE49', 'api_data' => array( 'email' => "[email protected]", 'list_id' => array(1,2,3), ) ); $data_string = wp_json_encode($data); $ch = curl_init($url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array( 'Content-Type: application/json', 'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string)) ); $result = json_decode(curl_exec($ch)); curl_close($ch); ?> PRO Version The Newsletters LITE version has nearly all of the features that the PRO version has but it has some limitations: One mailing list. 500 max subscribers. Send up to 1000 emails per month. Mail Type: Local Server and SMTP. No API integration with our mail service providers. The “Drag & Drop Newsletter & Template Builder” cannot be used. Limited to Really Simple CAPTCHA and Google reCAPTCHA v2. The rest (reCAPTCHA v3, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile) cannot be used. No new custom dynamic fields can be added but you can edit current ones. No Resend button for emails and for the Send Manage Subscription Email link. These limits should be sufficient for a personal blogger or a small business. To remove these limits, you can upgrade to the PRO version and submit your serial key inside the plugin. Or, download, install, and activate the PRO version from our website under Downloads, and then add your serial key. This is the preferred method. After installing the PRO version, you can safely deactivate and delete the LITE version without losing your data. In addition to the limits being removed, you will receive priority support from Tribulant. Visit the Newsletters PRO page 3rd-Party Services Our plugin makes use of some 3rd-party services or APIs to provide you with the latest technology and functionality. Here is a list of the services: Postmark Spam Check API (https://spamcheck.postmarkapp.com/) – Fetch the spam score of an email/newsletter IPEcho (https://ipecho.net/) – Get the current mail exchange IP address IPLocate (https://www.iplocate.io/) – To get the country of a user by IP address HostIP.info (https://www.hostip.info/) – To get the country of a user by IP address geoPlugin (https://www.geoplugin.com/) – To get the country of a user by IP address