Mail Control – vs Send Images to RSS

Design and customize your emails using WordPress native customizer (compatible with WooCommerce), control your SMTP email deliverability, track your emails clicks and openings (reads), and allow defering the emails as a background process to speed up your pages. With Mail Control, you will have a better control over how your emails are handled by wordpress (and WooCommerce) from email design and customization to smtp delivery and click tracking. Email Designer using WordPress native customizer Design beautiful emails using the WooCommerce compatible Email Customizer. The UI provided by WordPress Native Customizer makes it easy to customize the look and feel of your emails. Tracking and logging emails opening and clicks This will allow you to optimize how you craft your emails content and get the better of your email marketing. Sending Emails via an SMTP server For a better deliverability for your emails, Mail Control lets you setup easily you favorite SMTP server. Testing Email Deliverability of your SMTP server Help you make sure your smtp servers checks all the requierements for the perfect deliverability by testing your SFP, DKIM and DMARC setup (and more on this to come). Sending the emails by a background process to speed up your pages No more page timeout because the smtp server take too much time to respond, defer your emails and let a cronjob take care of sending your emails in a separate process. Having a log of all the emails sent (or failed) by wordpress You can find all the emails handled by wordpress (or still in the queue), and resend them if needed. More features and documentation coming Mail Control Online Documentation writing is in progress.

Send Images to RSS bridges the gap between large websites and small emails, by replacing images in your feed with smaller, email friendly images, and attempting to add markup which email clients can handle. Between larger monitors, retina screens, and better image optimization, the images we serve up on our websites are larger than they’ve ever been. RSS to email services such as MailChimp, however, are constrained to what email clients can display, which is small, small, small. And although it’s possible to try to style images with a max-width in your emails, not all clients will honor it (I’m looking at you, Outlook). Send Images to RSS makes it easy to create beautiful, email friendly RSS campaigns, with minimal setup required, regardless of your feed setup. Full Text RSS Feeds If your site’s RSS feed is set to Full Text, this plugin makes sure your emails look more like your website: Replace overly large images with email friendly size images. Convert galleries from thumbnails to full width images. Add email friendly styling/alignment to your images. Summary Text Feeds If you’ve used Summaries as your RSS feed settings, this plugin has not been for you. Until now. As of 3.0.0, Send Images to RSS brings the awesome to you, too. Here’s the magic for your Summary feed: Add the post’s featured image to your excerpt. Choose the size and alignment. If no featured image is set, the plugin will use the first image uploaded to the post. Set a custom length for your RSS summary/excerpt. Pick the number of words you want your summary to have, and the plugin will aim for that, but with the added bonus of making sure the final sentence is complete. If you add a manual excerpt to your post, because you like to have full control, the plugin will properly use that instead. Automatically add a custom “read more” link to the end of every post summary, to keep your feed pointed back to your site. Known (non)Issues This plugin should work with any theme. Some themes and plugins do modify the feed for their own purposes. Where possible, I’ve tried to account for them: For summary feeds, the Yoast SEO RSS link is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed). For summary feeds, the excerpt filter added by the Woo Canvas theme is removed (the full text feed and front end output are not changed). For summary feeds, this plugin will replace the image settings for Display Featured Image for Genesis for versions 2.3.0 and later (because this plugin is smarter). If you’re using Display Featured Image for Genesis 2.2.2 or lower, this plugin will concede graciously. But you should update, please. For full text feeds, this plugin will not duplicate featured images if they are being added by Display Featured Image for Genesis–you will want to disable that feature in Display Featured Image for Genesis. NOTE: it is up to you to check that your feed output is still working, especially in your email system of choice, once it’s installed. I’ve attempted to set it up to handle XHTML or HTML5, and function even if your feed is wonky, but please double check, and let me know if you have issues, and if so, what specifically they are. Props Special thanks to Gretchen Louise for her summary feed contributions. Spanish translation offered by Web Hosting Hub