Quillrush Newsletter Studio for Sendy vs WP Offload SES Lite

📧 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).

Are your WordPress site emails not being delivered? That’s pretty common. Over 20,000 sites trust WP Offload SES Lite to send their site email. WordPress’ default email sending functions just don’t cut it these days. You absolutely need to set up something more. Some folks set up an SMTP plugin to use their existing email provider (e.g. Gmail, Outlook.com, Yahoo, etc) to send their WordPress emails but then find out the hard way (i.e. emails not getting delivered) that there’s a daily hard limit on the number of emails they can send. Sending WordPress emails through SMTP is simply not worth the risk. Other folks try sending services like Postmark, Mailgun, Sendgrid, etc but realize that they’re expensive and their WordPress plugins are subpar (check out our reviews for details). With WP Offload SES Lite, you get the high deliverability, powerful managed infrastructure, and low cost of Amazon SES but with the support of a quality WordPress plugin that’s easy to set up and lets you know when there are sending failures. With WP Offload SES Lite, you can: Effortlessly configure your site to send all email via Amazon SES with our step-by-step setup wizard Configure the default email address and name that WordPress uses for notifications Verify sending domains and email addresses Send a test email to make sure everything is working before enabling site-wide email sending View a list of all emails sent from your site View statistics on your Amazon SES send rate Set up a custom “Reply To” and “Return Path” address Weekly health report in your inbox gives you confidence your emails are sending Configure multisite subsites to use different email settings, or enforce the same settings for your whole network Integrate with your favorite form and newsletter plugins, including Ninja Forms, Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Email Subscribers & Newsletters, and more Upgrade to WP Offload SES Get email open and click reporting and more with an upgrade to WP Offload SES: Open & Click Reporting It’s important to be able to measure the engagement of your site emails. Are people actually opening certain emails? Are they clicking links? With that information, you can try to update an email’s subject line and see if the open rate improves. Or update the email copy and see if more people click on the links. With WP Offload SES, you can access all of this instantly, from your WordPress dashboard. Auto-Retry Email Sending Failures Every Amazon SES account has a max send rate. If you try to send more emails per second than your account rate, Amazon SES will return an error and refuse to send the email which could result in dropped emails if not handled properly. WP Offload SES is aware of your SES account’s send rate and will stay within the limit, but in the event of a failed send (e.g. a networking issue) the robust queue system will retry sending those emails and keep track of failures. Manually Retry Email Sending Failures Let’s say there was a networking issue that prevented your site from connecting to Amazon SES to send your email. WP Offload SES will automatically retry sending a few times before giving up and calling it a failure. If that happens, you can simply retry those failures once connectivity to Amazon SES is restored. With WP Offload SES none of your emails will get dropped into the ether because of a failure. Manually Resend Any Sent Emails Let’s say that one of your users accidentally deleted a message that was sent to them. You can find that email in WP Offload SES and resend it in just a few clicks. No more manually assembling the pieces of the email you think they need because you don’t have a copy of the original email. Search for Any Email Amazon SES doesn’t log emails sent on its own, let alone allow you to search for a sent email. WP Offload SES logs every email sent and allows you to filter by date and search by recipient and/or email subject. View a Specific Email WP Offload SES saves the full content of every email sent through your WordPress site, allowing you to view exactly what your customers were sent. Analyze Engagement for a Specific Email Would you like to know if a customer has viewed a specific email they’ve been sent? Or maybe you want to know if they’ve clicked the links in the email? Simply search for the email, click View Email and you can see how many times they opened that particular email and how many times they clicked on the links. No more time consuming back-and-forth with the customer, asking if they’ve received an email or not. PriorityExpert™ Email Support PriorityExpert™ email support guarantees that a developer will handle your support request. A developer will reply to your very first email and a developer who works on the software will see it through to conclusion. It also means that your request will be assigned the highest priority in our queue. Compare WP Offload SES Lite and WP Offload SES →