mailbard

<p>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.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>MailBard is currently a work in progress!  Thank you for your patience.</p>
<p>More details will be added soon.  To contribute or ask questions, please visit us at http://www.mailbard.com/.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Drag & drop newsletter editor</li>
<li>Send your latest posts automatically</li>
<li>Autoresponders, i.e. “Send email 3 days after someone subscribes”</li>
<li>Get stats for your newsletter: opens, clicks, unsubscribes</li>
<li>Drag and drop subscription form designer</li>
<li>Your newsletters look the same in Gmail, iPhone, Android, Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.</li>
<li>Send emails to your WordPress users</li>
<li>Import subscribers in 2 steps</li>
<li>Single or double opt-in, your choice</li>
<li>Send with your web host, Gmail, any SMTP, like Amazon SES or Mandrill</li>
<li>Segment your lists based on opened, clicked & bounced</li>
<li>MailBard has removed the 2000 subscribers limitation of MailPoet… send to as many subscribers as you want!</li>
</ul>


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  …

Automattic

WooCommerce

MailPoet

<p>Use MailPoet to create, send, manage, and grow your email marketing campaigns – all without leaving your WordPress dashboard.</p>
<p>Our newsletter builder integrates perfectly with WordPress so any website owner can create beautiful emails from scratch, or by using our responsive templates that display flawlessly across all devices.</p>
<p>Schedule your newsletters, send them right away, or set up new blog post notifications to send automatically, in just a few clicks.</p>
<p>Trusted by 500,000 WordPress websites since 2011.</p>
<p><strong>With a free plan to get started, and scaling paid plans with enhanced functionality available, MailPoet is an email marketing solution suitable for both beginners and proficient email marketers.</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://www.mailpoet.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Visit our website for more information on plans and pricing</a></p>
<h4>All features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Create and add a newsletter subscription form to your website</li>
<li>Manage your subscribers and subscriber lists in WordPress</li>
<li>Build and send newsletters with WordPress</li>
<li>Create automatic emails to send new post notifications</li>
<li>Send automated welcome emails</li>
<li>Behavior and interest-based subscriber segmentation options</li>
<li>Pre-built and customizable email and subscription form templates</li>
<li>Multiple subscription form placements: below pages, fixed bar, popup, slide-in, shortcode, on exit intent</li>
<li>WooCommerce emails: abandoned cart, first purchase, specific product, product category, order status change, review added</li>
<li>Customize WooCommerce transactional emails</li>
<li>Automate subscriber management (add/remove from list, add/remove tags, update subscriber data) (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Create custom automation triggers and actions (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Branch your automations with if/else conditions to improve engagement (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Reliable email delivery with MailPoet Sending Service (available for free – plan required)</li>
<li>Basic engagement statistics (available for free) and detailed engagement statistics (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Multi-condition segmentation (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Google Analytics integration (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Support via our Knowledge Base and Community Forums (available for free), and Priority Customer Support (paid plan required).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why choose MailPoet</h4>
<ul>
<li>Easy to use WordPress newsletter builder</li>
<li>Beautiful templates that work perfectly across all devices</li>
<li>No configuration needed: works out of the box</li>
<li>Manage everything within your WordPress dashboard</li>
<li>Higher delivery rates with the MailPoet Sending Service</li>
<li>GDPR compliant</li>
<li>Free plan for small senders or those just starting out</li>
<li>Advanced functionality available to help achieve growth.</li>
</ul>
<h4>WooCommerce emails</h4>
<p>Promote your business, sell more products, and enhance your customer service with MailPoet’s WooCommerce features.</p>
<p>Use the automated email options to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Welcome your new customers when they make their first purchase</li>
<li>Upsell by sending emails to customers who purchased a specific product or from a specific product category</li>
<li>Convert more customers by sending a series of abandoned cart emails</li>
<li>Re-engage customers who haven’t made a purchase in a while with personalized offers (paid plan required)</li>
<li>Follow up with customers who left a review to encourage more engagement (paid plan required).</li>
</ul>
<p>And with WooCommerce-specific segmentation options, you’ll be able to send targeted emails to your customers based on criteria such as their country, the number of orders they’ve placed, how much they’ve spent, and if they have an active product subscription (powered by <strong>WooCommerce Subscriptions</strong>) or membership (powered by <strong>WooCommerce Memberships</strong>).</p>
<p>In addition, you’ll also be able to increase brand recognition by customizing your WooCommerce transactional emails. Create a unified brand experience by changing the layout, colors, and fonts used in your emails, as well as adding any images or additional information to them.</p>
<h4>MailPoet Sending Service</h4>
<p><strong>The MailPoet Sending Service is free if you only have a few subscribers, with scaling plans available thereafter. <a href="https://www.mailpoet.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more.</a></strong></p>
<p>Sending emails and newsletters with your host is not a good idea. You might face sending speed limitations and see your emails ending up in the spam box.</p>
<p>To help your sending go without a hitch, we’ve created an advanced email delivery infrastructure built for WordPress. Our technology allows you to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Reach inboxes, not spam boxes</li>
<li>Send your emails super fast (up to 50,000 emails per hour)</li>
<li>Maintain your sender reputation and improve engagement levels with automated bounce and complaint handling. Stop sending to non-deliverable and complaining addresses, automatically</li>
<li>Authenticate your emails (with SPF and DKIM) to improve deliverability and avoid spam boxes.</li>
</ul>
<p>The MailPoet Sending Service is very easy to set up, you just have to enter a key in your WordPress dashboard and you’re all set!</p>
<h4>MailPoet plans and pricing</h4>
<p>MailPoet is available to download for free. Our free download includes all of the features listed above (with the exception of those indicating a plan requirement) under the following criteria:</p>
<ul>
<li>Up to 1,000 subscribers</li>
<li>MailPoet branding in emails</li>
<li>Send emails with your own sending method (host, SendGrid, Amazon SES, etc).</li>
</ul>
<p>Or if you opt for a MailPoet plan, you’ll get access to the MailPoet Sending Service.</p>
<p>A free plan is available for those who want to get started with a few subscribers and would like to use the MailPoet Sending Service. And our paid plans offer features and functionality for those with larger lists who are looking to grow their business using email marketing.</p>
<p>Take a look at <a href="https://www.mailpoet.com/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">our pricing page</a> for full details on what’s included in each plan.</p>
<h4>Before you install</h4>
<p>Please note:</p>
<ul>
<li>Multisite support is limited</li>
<li>Review <a href="https://kb.mailpoet.com/article/152-minimum-requirements-for-mailpoet-3" rel="nofollow ugc">our minimum requirements</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<ul>
<li>Albanian</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Catalan</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Dutch</li>
<li>Dutch (Formal)</li>
<li>French (Canada)</li>
<li>French (France)</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>German (Switzerland)</li>
<li>German (Formal)</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Hindi</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
<li>Romanian</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Spanish (Mexico)</li>
<li>Spanish (Spain)</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>Ukrainian</li>
</ul>
<p>We welcome experienced translators to translate directly on <a href="https://www.transifex.com/wysija/mp3/" rel="nofollow ugc">our Transifex project</a>. Please note that any translations submitted via the “Translating WordPress” website will not work.</p>
<h4>Security</h4>
<p><a href="https://github.com/mailpoet/mailpoet/" rel="nofollow ugc">Our repository</a> is public on GitHub.</p>
<p>Have a question for us? Reach us at security@ our domain, or report security issues to our <a href="https://hackerone.com/automattic" rel="nofollow ugc">Bug Bounty program</a>.</p>
<h4>Use of 3rd Party Services</h4>
<p>MailPoet uses the following services that are necessary for its full functionality:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://translate.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Translate WordPress.com</a> – used to download translations for the plugin.</li>
</ul>
<p>To improve user experience, MailPoet may use the following 3rd party libraries if the <em>Load 3rd-party libraries</em> setting is enabled:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://fonts.google.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Fonts</a> – used in Form Editor which you can use to customize your forms, and in the Email Editor to style emails. This can be individually <a href="https://kb.mailpoet.com/article/332-how-to-disable-google-fonts" rel="nofollow ugc">disabled by a filter</a>. <a href="https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">TOS</a> and <a href="https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://public-api.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.com</a> – used for searching in Knowledge Base with the help of AI.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://mixpanel.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mixpanel</a> – used to send data about the usage of the MailPoet plugin when you <a href="https://kb.mailpoet.com/article/130-sharing-your-data-with-us" rel="nofollow ugc">agree with sharing usage data with us</a>. <a href="https://mixpanel.com/legal/terms-of-use/" rel="nofollow ugc">TOS</a> and <a href="https://mixpanel.com/legal/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.satismeter.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Satismeter</a> – used to ask for feedback. <a href="https://www.satismeter.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">TOS</a> and <a href="https://www.satismeter.com/privacy-policy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://crowdsignal.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Crowdsignal</a> – used to load our deactivation poll to improve our plugin. <a href="https://crowdsignal.com/terms/" rel="nofollow ugc">TOS</a> and <a href="https://automattic.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Loading all these libraries is disabled by default. The option can be enabled in the <em>MailPoet’s Settings > Advanced > Load 3rd-party libraries</em>.</p>


MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation

Hi,

This plugin is really amazing and life changer :), It is complete solution.

Thanks for such a great Plugin.

Life changer


I was honestly a bit disappointed when I first installed it a few months ago, in 2022. There were annoying bugs, and a lot of features missing related to bulk-edit of the subscribers, etc. It always felt half-cooked to me, even though I heard about it for quite a while.



However, the plugin improved, and it's getting more and more usable. Most importantly, it works; and it's much cheaper than Mailchimp (which I used before, and was ruining me every time).



I also think that they should focus on their plugin rather than on their emailing service. I would be happy to pay more for their plugin so that it is better developed. There are a lot of services out there to send emails, which are cheaper and excellent. Don't force us to use yours, or intimidate us against using other services. Because of this, the plugin actually deserve only 2 or 3 stars, but I really want you guys to improve it and get more users, so I'll keep it to 5. You're my choice.


Starting to love it


I could never get this plugin to work properly. I installed it due to the advanced integration with Woocommerce, but I could never trust it to wokr properly.



The signup emails are sent minutes after they are submitted. Why? The person wants the coupon in that very moment.



Also, the forms are very limited, you can't use a shortcode in case you want to put a form somewhere. The whole plugin is limited in functionality.


Difficult to use, not all emails sent

Works well if you know DNS


The best part of this plugin, compared to similar plugins, is the free 500 subscriptions that help you get used to it. It is user-friendly, straightforward, safe, and beautiful, and as its name suggests: "like a poet." Don't hesitate to give it a try. 


This plugin helped me to have email contacts with my customers

Send beautiful newsletters from WordPress. Collect subscribers with signup forms, automate your emails for WooCommerce, blog post notifications & more

MailBard Newsletters vs MailPoet – Newsletters, Email Marketing, and Automation