MailBard Newsletters
MailBard is a fork of the plugin MailPoet 2. The MailPoet team has decided to stop supporting MailPoet 2… so here comes MailBard, to pick up right where MailPoet 2 left off! We are striving for 100% backwards-compatibility with MailPoet 2. With MailBard, you can create newsletters, post notifications and autoresponders. Drop your posts, images, social icons in your newsletter. Change fonts and colors on the fly. Manage all your subscribers. A new and simple newsletter solution for WordPress. Finally! We built it with the idea that newsletters in WordPress should be easy. Not hard. Forget MailChimp, Aweber, etc. We’re the good guys inside your WordPress. MailBard is currently a work in progress! Thank you for your patience. More details will be added soon. To contribute or ask questions, please visit us at http://www.mailbard.com/. Features Drag & drop newsletter editor Send your latest posts automatically Autoresponders, i.e. “Send email 3 days after someone subscribes” Get stats for your newsletter: opens, clicks, unsubscribes Drag and drop subscription form designer Your newsletters look the same in Gmail, iPhone, Android, Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. Send emails to your WordPress users Import subscribers in 2 steps Single or double opt-in, your choice Send with your web host, Gmail, any SMTP, like Amazon SES or Mandrill Segment your lists based on opened, clicked & bounced MailBard has removed the 2000 subscribers limitation of MailPoet… send to as many subscribers as you want!
Mailer Dragon –
Mailer Dragon is an email marketing plugin with email newsletter & autoresponder for WordPress. Boost your email marketing! Create automated email newsletters and send email messages to your subscribers immediately, without a hassle. Easily capture subsciptions and build mailing list with a sign up form shortcode or widget. The subscription form is fully customizable with a template file. Simple Newsletter & Autoresponder Mailer Dragon is built with simplicity in mind. It is so simple that you can start sending automated mailing immediately. Your email marketing campaign setup was never easier! Newsletter Delivery Filters When creating a new email you can adjust the message delivery filters and send it only to: Subscribers that subscribed on certain page, post or any other post type Subscribers with selected roles Subscribers that subscibed to a form with your custom parameter – [subscribe_form custom=”my parameter”] Selected WordPress users Email delivery frequency rate The default delivery rate is 5 days. It means that your subscribers will get an email every 5 days (if there is one in the queue). You can add as many emails to the queue as you want without the risk that your subscribers will get a ton of emails at one time. Mailer Dragon with continuously send emails from your newsletter queue at a defined delivery rate. Adjust it to Your Needs The default settings guarantee high email delivery. However you can easily adjust all the newsletter delivery parameters to your specific needs. How to get started and test the newsletter feature Add the [subscribe_form] shortcode to any page or post or use the Subscription form widget Go to the page with the form and subscribe with a test email Check your inbox for subscription confirmation email Use the confirmation link to confirm the subscription Go to WordPress Admin > Newsletter > Add New and create the first welcome email Go to WordPress Admin > Newsletter. You will see your newsletter list there. In the Next Submission column you will see the time of next delivery. Wait for your welcome message! If something doesn’t work as you expected it, just go to WordPress Admin > Newsletter > Settings and adjust it to your needs. Translations English – default, always included Your translation? – Just send it in Note: All our plugins are localized/translatable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating we recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin.
