Quillrush Newsletter Studio for Sendy vs Hustle –

📧 Quillrush Newsletter Studio for Sendy turns your WordPress dashboard into a full-blown newsletter creation studio for the Sendy + Amazon SES stack. Drag your latest posts into a beautiful responsive HTML email, pick the Sendy lists/segments to ship to, and send via your self-hosted Sendy installation, which forwards every message through Amazon SES. No HTML coding. No external SaaS. No paid tier. ⚠️ Requires a self-hosted Sendy install backed by Amazon SES. This plugin is the WordPress front-end — it does not replace Sendy or SES. If you don’t have Sendy + SES set up yet, see sendy.co and aws.amazon.com/ses. ✨ Headline features 🎨 Visual newsletter builder — drag posts in, see the rendered email update live. 📨 Two newsletter formats per campaign — The Roundup (subscriber-facing) and The Insider Brief (editorial pitch for media & partners). 📋 Auto-fetched Sendy lists & segments — pulled live via the Sendy API, shown as checkboxes with active subscriber counts. Cached 10 minutes; one-click refresh. 🧠 Remembers your last selection — the lists you sent to last time are pre-checked next time. 🔍 Infinite-scroll post search — AJAX-loads posts in batches of 10 as you scroll. 🖼️ Smart hero image — uses your uploaded banner if present, otherwise falls back to the first post’s featured image. 📱 Mobile-first responsive layout — 2 columns on desktop, single column on mobile ( /scheduled.php?i=BRAND_ID so queued campaigns process without a system cron. Show Article Excerpt — checkbox. Insert a 20-word excerpt between the post title and the “Read More” button. 🎨 Footer & Social Settings Footer Logo URL — logo shown in the dark footer band. Copyright Text — footer copyright line. {year} is replaced with the current year. Custom Footer Text — textarea, HTML allowed. Shown in a highlighted box above the footer in The Roundup. Newlines → automatically. “Read More Articles” Link — optional link below the post grid. Instagram URL / LinkedIn URL / X (Twitter) URL / YouTube URL — social icons in footer. ✉️ The Insider Brief — Template Texts (used only by The Insider Brief format) Greeting — e.g. Hi [First Name], Intro Paragraph — lead paragraph above the hero story (HTML allowed). Hero Section Label — small label above the hero (e.g. Hero Story). Grid Section Heading — e.g. 🔍 What Else We're Seeing “Why This Matters” Heading + Body Collaboration Heading + Body — e.g. 📩 For Media & Collaborations + CTA bullets and contact info (HTML allowed). About Us Heading + Body — centered About block above the footer. 📅 Send modes 💾 Save as Draft in Sendy — POSTs to create-campaign.php with send_campaign=0. Campaign appears in your Sendy dashboard as a draft. WP logs status: draft. 🚀 Send Immediately — POSTs to create-campaign.php with send_campaign=1. Sendy queues + dispatches via SES. WP logs status: sent. If Auto-Trigger Cron is on, also hits scheduled.php?i=BRAND_ID. ⏰ Schedule — stored as a qrnss_campaign post with status scheduled. WordPress registers a one-off wp_schedule_single_event for the chosen datetime. When the event fires, the plugin sends via Sendy. Datetime picker is timezone-aware and uses your WP timezone setting. 🛟 Failure handling Failed sends never silently disappear: ❌ Red admin notice at the top of the Campaigns screen. 📋 Exact Sendy error in the Error column. 🔁 One-click Retry Send button (CSRF-nonced). ♻️ Auto-recovery — overdue scheduled campaigns automatically send on next admin page-load. 🗄️ Campaign history (CPT) Every campaign is stored as a qrnss_campaign custom-post-type entry. Admin columns: Title — subject line. Status — draft (grey), scheduled (yellow), sent (green), failed (red). Scheduled For — datetime if scheduled. Error — Sendy error message if the send failed. 🔌 Sendy API endpoints used All requests go straight to your own self-hosted Sendy installation at the URL you set in Settings. The plugin never talks to any third-party SaaS — Sendy itself fans out to Amazon SES from your host. api/lists/get-lists.php — fetch lists for the Create Newsletter screen (cached 10 min). Sends: api_key, brand_id. api/subscribers/active-subscriber-count.php — per-list subscriber counts. Sends: api_key, list_id. api/campaigns/create.php — Save as Draft, Send Immediately, scheduled fire. Sends: api_key, from_name, from_email, reply_to, title, subject, html_text, plain_text, list_ids, brand_id, send_campaign. scheduled.php (your Sendy host) — only when Auto-Trigger Cron is ticked. Sends: i=BRAND_ID query param. 🔒 Requirements WordPress 5.8 or higher (tested up to 7.0). PHP 7.4 or higher. A reasonably recent self-hosted Sendy installation. Amazon SES configured inside Sendy (out of scope for this plugin).

Hustle is the ultimate marketing plugin for building a mailing list and converting site traffic. Lead generation just got easier with simple set up optin forms, targeted marketing popups, and designer-made templates. Build a social following while you’re at it with Hustle’s diverse social sharing capabilities. From the award winning developers of Smush image optimization and Forminator form builder at WPMU DEV. Hustle lets you easily grow your mailing list or display targeted ads across your site with popups, optins, slide-ins, widgets, and shortcodes. Access unlimited pop-ups, slide-ins, and social shares from the start with Hustle Pro. Level up immediately with unlimited campaign creation + access to the full suite of WPMU DEV performance and marketing plugins. Learn more about Pro. Instant Templates For Every Kind Of Offer Hustle makes the process of creating popups, slide-ins, and embeds easier with a range of pre-designed templates. The templates available represent a number of different use cases (e.g. Black Friday, giveaway, COVID notice, newsletter signup), meaning you can get started with a module that aligns with your campaign goals. See them in action below: Learn The Ropes With These Hands-On Hustle Tutorials How to Get the Most Email Subscribers Using Hustle How to Make the Perfect Popup with Hustle How To Get The Most Out Of Using Hustle Get Creative With Styling For Desktop and Mobile Hustle’s flexible appearance settings can help your marketing stand out. Choose colors, animations, layouts, drop shadows, and display conditions from the easy-to-use design settings for all your marketing modules. By default layouts and templates are fully mobile responsive. But you can also make granular adjustments (margins, padding, borders, container sizing) to ensure your modules are popping on all devices. Take Styling & Customization Even Further If you have an eye for detail you’ll love the additional customization options available with Hustle. As well as basic appearance elements like layout, images, typography, and color – Hustle allows for more advanced detailing like borders, spacing, shadow, module sizing, and more. There’s also custom CSS if you’d really like to make your modules your own. Highly Targeted Display Settings Hustle has all the behavior and condition settings you’ll need to target visitors with email opt-ins or ads. Set up intelligent conditions such as: specific pages and posts, visitor device/browser, country, source of arrival, post registration, browser cookie, and a whole lot more. Smart Triggers For Popups And Slide-ins As well as intelligent visibility conditions, Hustle also allows you to set up a range of behavior triggers for your popups and slide-ins. Including: time on page, scroll, exit-intent, and more. Set Specific Schedules For Best Results Hustle makes it easy to schedule exactly when you want your marketing modules to deploy. Set start and end dates, schedule modules to show on specific days of the week, at a certain time of day, and choose a custom timezone to adhere to. Reach Out To Visitors Via Email Once a user has engaged with one of your marketing modules it’s important to follow up with next steps or a simple welcome message. Hustle’s email settings allow you to easily whip up manual or automated email messages and establish that initial connection. Get Busy With Social Sharing Hustle includes top social icons for easily building your following on your favorite social networks. Quickly enable the most popular social networks and use floating social, widgets, and shortcodes to add followers. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Reddit LinkedIn VKontakte 500px Houzz Instagram Twitch YouTube Telegram WhatsApp Form Builder Integrations Hustle integrates with popular free form builders like Forminator, so you can embed your forms, polls, and quizzes into popups and slide-ins for interactive lead generation. Grow your following and capture more leads with Hustle. Grow Your Mailing List Hustle integrates with all the popular email services. Just connect your account and start collecting new subscribers. AWeber ActiveCampaign Campaign Monitor MailChimp & MailChimp groups Constant Contact ConvertKit GetResponse Mailster Hubspot Sendy Mad Mimi Mautic Infusionsoft Brevo MailPoet MailerLite iContact Zapier SendGrid Gutenberg WordPress Editor Block Hustle supports both the Classic Editor plugin and Gutenberg. When you’re ready to say goodbye to shortcodes, the Hustle block pulls your opt-ins and embedded content in for you. Smart Exit-Intent Hustle has exit-intent, a favorite of professional marketers, that detects when visitors are about to leave your site and – BOOM! A pop-up or slide-in to grab their attention. ReCAPTCHA Spam Warrior Keep bot subscribers from taking over your mailing lists. Hustle connects to Googles ReCAPTCHA to protect your signup forms from spam. Adblock is no Match for Hustle Hustle has the moves and displays pop-ups and slide-ins even when Adblockers try to block your content. Measure Performance and Results Whether you’ve created a popup, slide in, or embed, Hustle allows you to track the results of each individual module with intelligent tracking data, conversion stats, and insightful charts for a visual representation. You can also set up a custom widget and include stats on your WP dashboard. Features available in Hustle include: Pop-ups, slide-ins, widgets, embeds and after post opt-ins Ready-made marketing templates – Discount, sale, Black Friday, COVID-19 3 free popups upgrade to Hustle Pro for unlimited 3 free slide-ins upgrade to Hustle Pro for unlimited 3 free social share bars upgrade to Hustle Pro for unlimited 3 free embeds upgrade to Hustle Pro for unlimited Built-in designs editor for simple customization Color match your brand, like magic Smooth display animations Integrate with the best email services including: Aweber, MailChimp, MailChimp groups, Constant Contact, Sendy, Infusionsoft, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, and many more Super powerful conditions for targeting your audience Schedule your modules to display at a specific time or date Track how many times pop-ups, slide-ins and opt-ins are displayed See submissions straight through WordPress Conversion rates overview 4 default layouts Easy management dashboard New features, layouts and sass coming every month What Do People Say About Hustle? ★★★★★ “I don’t know how I’ve survived this long without Hustle and Forminator, but I’m now using them on every website I build.” – sherylryan ★★★★★ “Recovering 15%+ of sales due to this. Insanely good. Thanks!” – lmbpack ★★★★★ “We used this plugin to build a beautiful pop-up to attract more users and increase conversion rate. Thanks” – inblch98 ★★★★★ “Maybe the only plugin with free “exit intent” feature. Simple but powerful.” – tutoruniversitario ★★★★★ “Wow, we needed so many pop ups for client’s websites with this COVID thing going on. We used the Hustle on all of them. No problems and they look great!” – tammylfinch A Note From Hustle Hey! This is Hustle, your trusted popup, email opt-in, and marketing plugin for WordPress. I’m part of the WPMU DEV team, a superhero-suite of WordPress plugins, services, and support. Here are some of our other free plugins: Smush – Image Compression and Optimization Forminator – Form, Quiz, Poll and Survey Builder Hummingbird – Speed up, Cache, Optimize Your CSS and JS Branda – White Label WordPress, Maintenance Mode and Coming Soon Pages My superhero friends run the WPMU DEV Blog, your source for the very best WordPress tutorials. 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