Subscribe2 – Form, Email Subscribers & Newsletters

Description

Summary

Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.

A full description of features is below.

Email

Email notifications can be sent on a per-post basis or periodically in a Digest email. Additionally, certain categories can be excluded from inclusion in the notification and posts can be excluded on an individual basis by setting a custom field.

Subscriptions

Subscription requests allows users to publicly subscribe (Public Subscribers) by submitting their email address in an easy to use form or to register with your blog (Registered Users) which enables greater flexibility over the email content for per-post notifications for the subscriber. Admins are given control over the presentation of the email notifications, can bulk manage subscriptions for users and manually send email notices to subscribers.

The format of the email can also be customised for per-post notifications, Subscribe2 can generate emails for each of the following formats:

  • plaintext excerpt.
  • plaintext full post (Registered Users only).
  • HTML excerpt (Registered Users only).
  • HTML full post (Registered Users only).

If you want to grow your subscriber lists, send automated campaigns to huge subscriber lists, you should upgrade to weMail.

Privacy Policy

Subscribe2 uses Appsero SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster & make product improvements. Learn more about how Appsero collects and uses this data.

Screenshots

Blocks

This plugin provides 1 block.

  • Subscribe2 HTML

Installation

AUTOMATIC INSTALLATION

  1. Log in to your WordPress blog and visit Plugins -> Add New.
  2. Search for Subscribe2, click “Install Now” and then Activate the Plugin
  3. Visit the “Subscribe2 -> Settings” menu.
  4. Configure the options to taste, including the email template and any categories which should be excluded from notification
  5. Visit the “Subscribe2 -> Subscribers” menu.
  6. Manually subscribe people as you see fit.
  7. Create a WordPress Page to display the subscription form. When creating the page, you may click the “S2” button on the QuickBar to automatically insert the Subscribe2 token. Or, if you prefer, you may manually insert the Subscribe2 shortcode or token: [subscribe2] or the HTML invisible <!--subscribe2--> Ensure the token is on a line by itself and that it has a blank line above and below.
    This token will automatically be replaced by dynamic subscription information and will display all forms and messages as necessary.
  8. In the WordPress “Settings” area for Subscribe2 select the page name in the “Appearance” section that of the WordPress page created in step 7.

MANUAL INSTALLATION

  1. Copy the entire /subscribe2/ directory into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin.
  3. Visit the “Subscribe2 -> Settings” menu.
  4. Configure the options to taste, including the email template and any categories which should be excluded from notification
  5. Visit the “Subscribe2 -> Subscribers” menu.
  6. Manually subscribe people as you see fit.
  7. Create a WordPress Page to display the subscription form. When creating the page, you may click the “S2” button on the QuickBar to automatically insert the Subscribe2 token. Or, if you prefer, you may manually insert the Subscribe2 shortcode or token: [subscribe2] or the HTML invisible <!--subscribe2--> Ensure the token is on a line by itself and that it has a blank line above and below.
    This token will automatically be replaced by dynamic subscription information and will display all forms and messages as necessary.
  8. In the WordPress “Settings” area for Subscribe2 select the page name in the “Appearance” section that of the WordPress page created in step 7.

Reviews

mayo 3, 2024
Does not update or respond to security issues WordPress Subscribe2 Plugin <= 10.42 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control regarding to Patchstack (PSID: 4de2aa554db5)
mayo 1, 2021
I’ve been using this for a while but it needs a big fix. The plugin should send mail singly and spread out over time rather than all at once. I’m getting complaints from my ISP that the plugin is overloading the server with huge dumps of email. I only have about 1,500 subscribers and if that is overloading then I can only imagine how bad it must be with more popular blogs. Please implement this. I just downgraded my review from five stars to one star. See… there’s a problem that this plugin creates: it overloads the servers with email as described above. I just discovered that the developer is offering a fix for that for $29.99 PER FREAKING YEAR!!!!! It was bad enough that the developer creates a problem and then offers to solve it for a fee. It was worse that the fee is kind of high – I finally decided to pay it untill I discovered… It is absurd that the fee is a reoccurring annual subscription. No thanks.
chunyo 24, 2020
This tool meets our expectations, I would like to recommend.
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Contributors & Developers

“Subscribe2 – Form, Email Subscribers & Newsletters” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

10.43 (06th June, 2024)

  • Update: Appsero client library.
  • Fix: Security related issues.

10.42 (12th October, 2023)

  • Fix: Subscribers searching filter can’t search by email address.
  • Fix: Post notification email is not sending to public subscribers.

10.41 (23rd June, 2023)

  • Fix: CSRF, Authorization issues when send an email.
  • Fix: Use built-in sanitize_email instead of manual.

10.40 (24th January, 2023)

  • Fix: {UNSUBLINK} tag not working properly when send an email.
  • Fix: subscribe2 emails no longer sending when publish a post.
  • Fix: template entities not working properly in settings page (line breaks, tabs were lost etc.).
  • Fix: subscribe2 notification overridden checkbox not working properly.
  • Fix: debug error when uninstall plugin & use error suppression.
  • Fix: email sending is always selected when multiple choose attachment.

  • Enhance: add email attachment removing option from send email.

10.39 (23st December, 2022)

  • Fix classic editor page meta field error.

10.38 (21st December, 2022)

  • Fix security related issues & also make compatible with wp v6.1.1

10.37 (23rd November, 2021)

  • Fix HTML widgets issue
  • Fix logged-in user can see subscription form

10.36 (30th September, 2021)

  • WordPress 5.8 compatibility
  • Fix form preview on widgets
  • Fix pop up form
  • Fix send schedule email options
  • Fix one click subscription
  • Fix some PHP warnings

10.35 (15th March, 2021)

  • Fix {UNSUBLINK} shortcode
  • WordPress 5.7 compatibility

10.34 (24th August, 2020)

  • Fix gutenberg script loading issue

10.33 (4th June, 2020)

  • Bump tested upto version 4.4
  • Minimum PHP version set to 5.4

See complete changelog.