Use Your Blog as an E-Newsletter
February 5, 2008 ·
When added to your WordPress website or blog, this plugin turns your blog posts into email newsletters.
These are automatically sent out to your subscriber list when you publish your post.
You can add subscribers yourself and include a signup box on your website so people can subscribe themselves to receive your blog posts via email.
You can write your posts under any number of different categories and subscribers can choose to receive all posts or only those written under the categories they are interested in.
You can customise the design and layout of your email newsletter with your logo and branding, as well as adding images, promotional text and website links.
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If you’re still sending out monthly email newsletters using your office computer or spending a lot of time organising customer emails, there is an easier way. A blog post contains the same type of information you would include in an e-newsletter plus it is published to your website for search engines and new customers to discover as well as being emailed to your subscribers.
Download Post Notification Plugin (for WordPress)
The great thing about these emails is you can completely customise layout of the email using html. Add your logo at the top, change the colours, add contact details, add buttons linking to your website.
Screenshots of E-Newsletters below:
Your posts can also be future dated so your client list gets an email once a week, once a fortnight or on a particular day each week. You can also choose for an entire blog post to appear in the emails or just the beginning by using the <!–more–> tag inside your post code.
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Categories: Email Newsletters, Website Ideas, Wordpress Tutorials
Tags: automatic e-newsletter, easy e-newsletter, email newsletter, html e-newsletter
About Jo Couchman
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The latest version of Post Notification includes a widget which you can drag into your sidebar from the admin panel. You choose a title and a name for the submit button. Click on the link at the top of this page to download.
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Nice blog. Thanks for the info was using Mailpress but it was killing me memory wise, when I tried to update to the latest version it was trying to gobble up 30+ Megs of Memory. So I’m happy I ran across your post thank you.
Be careful when upgrading to the latest version of the Post Notification Plugin as it replaces your email template file.
now if this had the ability of sending the email once a month with a summary of all the posts in a pre-determined template this would be a world beater…
Mike, you’re so right. I create templates using the Campaign monitor system for clients to do just that. The template can include snippets of a certain number of blog posts with read more links as well as whatever other images and text you want. Once the template’s setup, you can login and do it all yourself each month. You can add a subscribe box to your website and it has amazing stats on who’s clicking what.
If you’re having problems receiving emails from the later versions of this plugin, you may want to upload this plugin http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/ and ask your website host to confirm settings for it.
Hi Jo
I am completely new to WP – and need to find a newsletter thats close to my branding throughout my site (which is built in php – WP is only one section). I wonder if I could email you a basic designed template, so you could tell me whether this is possible to achieve with WP + Plug in + campaign monitor ?
Im not sure if I am expecting too much…
Thanks
Helen, UK
Helen,
It should be possible. Please email your template to me at jo@creativeideas.co.nz to have a look at. The Campaign Monitor subscribe form can go on any kind of website, not just WordPress.
It is possible to use the Post Notification plugin as a monthy (regular) email newsletter. Add a category called “Monthly Newsletter” then once a month write a new post with excerpts from all your blog posts that month and links to them. On your newsletter signup page advise people that to get newsletters monthly instead of per blog post, they just need to tick this category when they confirm their subscription.
NOTE: If you don’t add the Read more tag, the entire post will appear in the email. The other option is to change the PN settings to show entire post.
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You can exclude some of your blog categories from your email newsletter – Find out how here – http://tinyurl.com/yjsqq26
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Create reports in Google Analytics to show new subscribers and schedule them to be emailed to you once a week. – http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2009/12/website-stats-reports-by-email/
Hey Jo,thanks for a very useful article.I will definitely apply it to my young but upcoming blog!
Keep up the great work!
I am now using MailChimp to create a monthly email newsletter which contains excerpts of all my blog posts each month – once your rss feed is setup in the newsletter template, it is totally automatic – Details here – http://www.creative-web-ideas.com/index.php/2010/05/wordpress-posts-to-e-newsletter/