Comments on: A Trek Through Wordpress Mailing List Plugins – Email Mailing List Manager

By: israelrothman

israelrothman — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:08:54 +0000

Im would really recomend that you put a seperate branded installation of PHP list in a /lists/ directory, it runs it’s own database opt-in system. i have built a 15,000 person opt-in list this way here:

http://rothmanmarketing.com/lists/

By: Tyler

Tyler — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:14:29 +0000

The Wordpress Newsletter Plugin by ShiftThis seems to have disappeared. The link above doesn’t work. It’s been a few months since the last comment, so I’m wondering if there have been any updates to be aware of.

I checked out BigTie and it looks expensive. It also seems to require MailChimp, which also costs $. I just want to be able to send a mass email to all my forum members once or twice a month to update them on my Wordpress posts and forum activity (I’m using simplepress for my forum). I don’t need to export their emails to csv. However, I don’t want to install a plugin that slows my site or isn’t supported. I’m using WP 2.9.2, so it would need to be compatible with the newest WP version. Any advice? Thanks in advance.

Tyler
projectsinmetal.com

By: admin

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:18:37 +0000

Update: We are running PHPList very successfully, have been able to import all kinds of lists, and no problems: working demo here:

http://rothmanmarketing.com/lists/

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:37:57 +0000

Thanks for breaking down all of the different options out there. It was very helpful. I’m bookmarking this on StumbleUpon for future reference.

Cheers,
Edward

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:36:50 +0000

Tried using PHPList but there seems to be a problem with PHP 5 so it causes database problems

By: Neo Cambell

Neo Cambell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:34:12 +0000

Very valuable article. Thanks for sharing info.

Regards,

Neo

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:37:50 +0000

Blog notifications by newsletter are not dead. RSS etc. is not used by everyone Either in 2009. Regarding to a specif target group my client wishes a simple blog notification by mail. Thanks for the hints above.

By: ari salomon

ari salomon — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:42:02 +0000

i also found MeeNews at http://www.wp-newsletter.com/.
i have not tried it but it looks fully featured.

but i suspect it will be hard for any of these plugins to keep up with all the features that a paid service like mailchimp offers.

By: sabbry

sabbry — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 02:56:44 +0000

Hey there,

I’ve tried subscribe2 and I’m currently messing around with Shift This.

What I’m trying to accomplish is automatically create an e-mail for my subscribers at the end of the month which will recap the month’s posts by their title and category.

I’m having a helluva time getting this functionality… even by searching for it. No one is asking for it. My needs are either off the pulse of development or I’m a certifiable genius — ha!

If you had run across anything that could help me, please let me know.

Thanks

By: serenine

serenine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:36:28 +0000

FYI Re: Tribulant Mailing List Plugin

I made an inquiry based on @Jim’s comment (May 12th 5:59) above to Tribulant Software and received a reply on 7/13/09:

“The mailing list plugin no longer uses Prototype & Scriptaculous.
It was 100% ported over to jQuery several months ago.
Please see these release notes: http://docs.tribulant.com/wordpress-mailing-list-plugin/wp-newsletters-v368-release-notes/ .
(the 10th list item).”

By: Yorik

Yorik — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:29:13 +0000

Hi Solomon,
I’m going to follow your advice and go for phplist. Seems by far the best solution, it’s open source and the available plugins are easy to tweak and adapt to your theme. Thanks a lot for writing this article!
Cheers
Yorik

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:02:57 +0000

In addition, Just saw this on the Wordpress Newsletter Plugin website mentioned above “The WordPress Newsletter Plugin is no longer under active development. It is now freely available as is, with no support. You are welcome to edit, create and share this as you please.”

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:59:40 +0000

WRT Tribulants Mailing List plugin, In my opinion a great fully featured product with one failing. It uses prototype.js which is one of the biggest bloatware java scripts out there at 124kb. This had a knock on effect to the loading times of my site to the extent I had to remove it. Great product if you dont care about the knock on performance hit to your site.

By: Jerry Macabee

Jerry Macabee — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:39:16 +0000

Thank you for posting the information and links! Very helpful — by sharing the results of the time you spent researching, you saved me doing it again. I appreciate it!

By: Antonie Potgieter

Antonie Potgieter — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 05:43:03 +0000

@Sly

Thank you for your message. Unfortunately Tribulant Software (CC) doesn’t take responsibility for 3rd party factors such as other plugins since we cannot control the way they were written. If a plugin was written correctly according to WordPress conventions, you shouldn’t have any problems with it. Please see our refund policy which you agreed to upon purchase : http://tribulant.com/policies/refund/

All the best,
Antonie

By: Sly

Sly — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:14:02 +0000

I have purchased this plugin (WordPress Mailing List Plugin), unfortunately it doesn’t work with Content Gallery plugin, so some premium themes will not work. The bad thing is that Tribulant didn’t refund money. So please be careful before purchasing.

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:57:52 +0000

Great list of plugins, but since your article was posted, BigTie! was released has raised the bar for ease of use.

BigTie! is a completely integrated mailing list plugin for wordpress that allows users to seamlessly connect their wordpress blog with a mailchimp mailing list.

By: Solomon Rothman

Solomon Rothman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:02:41 +0000

I had mailing list needs again and I choose to use phplist. This time I used it in conjunction with a plugin that allows you to export your wordpress users and commenters to a csv file, which can then be imported into phplist to jump start your mailing list.

CSV Wordpress Plugin
http://yoast.com/wordpress/users-to-csv/

If you decide to use phplist (like I did – see blog post above) I’d definitely download the CSV Wordpress plugin and important all of your wordpress users. PHPlist automatically deletes duplicates, so you can do this every so often to make sure all your new users and commenters and included.

By: willotoons

willotoons — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:07:00 +0000

Hi Solomon,

I realize it’s been a few months now, but as I’m setting up a mailing list for a client on Wordpress, I too was looking for a good solution. Specifically I need one that’s easy for an older woman (not as tech savvy), and wanted to look into one where she wouldn’t have to pay a monthly fee, as she’s just growing it now.

Anyway – I found this one, that seems to be really good. Did you check it out at all? It has the export thing you were wanting.

http://tribulant.com/products/view/1/wordpress-mailing-list.html

I think I’m going to install it now & give it a shot. Just wanted to see if you had looked at that and/or if you wanted to add it to your list of resources. I honestly couldn’t find a very good list of comparisons on the subject, so your post is very helpful!

All the best
~ Willo

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