WordPress Newsletter Plugins: Collecting the email list is one of the best strategy to grow your business. A newsletter allows the visitors to subscribe, so that the users can receive the email updates from your sale promotions, blog, etc.
1. Constant Contact
Constant contact is an email marketing service for small businesses that help in building email lists.
This helps you easily build the email list from the WordPress site while depend on the powerful email platform of constant contact to send the emails.
Pros of constant contact:
- Constant contact is a fully featured email marketing service You can easily create the email newsletter by using the email templates.
- It also offers a free trial.
- Constant contact has excellent support including email, chat, and live phone support.
- You can also integrate the constant contact with your eCommerce website.
Cons of Constant contact:
Constant contact lacks advanced features.
Pricing
To integrate the Constant Contact plugin with the WordPress is 100% free but it is only for 60 days (no credit-card required). And the premium of Constant contact starts with 20$/month.
2. OptinMonster
OptinMonster is a popular email marketing and pop up plugin for WordPress. You could create the newsletter opt-in forms, so you can build your email lists and grow your subscribers. It works with all email marketing services and the very popular WordPress plugin.
Pros of OptinMonster:
- OptinMonster integrates with different email marketing services, including the most popular ones such as Constant Contact, Sendinblue and MailPoet.
- It’s very easy to test the signup forms to see what ofer, layouts, and headlines lead to the best conversion rate.
- You can create OptinMonster signature popups.
- You can also create rules to target pages of your website.
- You can also customize the newsletter forms on the basis of user’s geolocation, past behaviour, on website, etc.
- Money- Back Guarantee
Cons of OptinMonster:
- You will need to join the third party service like constant contact, and MilChimp for mailing.
- There is no free version or no trial version.
Pricing
OptinMonster premium plugin costs $9/month. You can also upgrade the OptinMonster to unlock the special features like the geolocation, and gamified opt-in forms.
3. Sendinblue
Sendinblue is one of the email marketing services that we highly recommend to you. It is free and easy to use. And a simple newsletter plugin that you can add to your WordPress. You can also send emails through the site and best highly recommended email service provider with high email deliverability.
Pros of Sendinblue:
- You can easily install the Sendinblue WordPress plugin in the WordPress. Once installed, you only have to activate the Sendinblue WordPress plugin using the API key from your Sendinblue account.
- It is free of cost in which you can send up to 300 emails per day.
- Support: You can use their support through emails and live chat.
- You can also use it for eCommerce websites such as WooCommerce.
- There are a lot of templates available to choose and are responsive means adjust with all types of devices such as mobile, tablet, and desktop.
- No need of any credit card details.
Cons of Sendinblue:
- Sendinblue doesn’t have powerful segmentation options.
- Sendinblue doesn’t have automation options.
Pricing:
Sendinblue has both the free and premium plan. In free plan, you can send up to 300 email/day. If you want to send more email then go for the paid one that starts from $25/month. And that will give you 40,000 emails per month and there are no per day sending limits.
4. MailPoet
- MailPoet is one of the newsletter plugins for WordPress that also works with the WooCommerce website.
- You also need an account with the third party email service provider such as Constant Contact.
- However you can also sign up for MailPoet’s “Premium + Sending” service, which takes care of sending the emails too. You can send upto 1000 subscribers for free of cost.
Pros of MailPoet:
- It is quick and easy to get started with MailPoet. You only need to install the plugin in WordPress and get started.
- You can manage the subscriber and newsletter email lists through the WordPress dashboard. It means you don’t need to login to anything else.
- There is a free plan available for up to 1000 subscribers, if you have a tight budget then you can use this as a great option.
- There are a lot of templates available to send the emails.
- You can add a signup form to your WooCommerce checkout page to collect emails and encourage repeat purchases.
- Money-Back Guarantee: If you don’t like this MailPoet, you can ask for money back.
- You can use MailPoet’s own sending service or sign up for the third party service such as Amazon SES or Sendgrid.
- You can easily connect the MailPoet to OptinMonster if you want to use both the plugins.
Cons of MailPoet:
- There are not a huge number of templates available, you can slsp customize it to get something that works for you.
- The analytics tools provided by MailPoet are more limited than those you will get with some other email marketing services.
Pricing of MailPoet:
MailPoet is free of cost. If you want to use their “Premium + Sending” service, it is free up to 1000 subscribers. After that, it costs from $13/month.
5. Bloom
Bloom is a plugin from Elegant Themes, the Divi theme creators. You can create signup forms to encourage people to join your email list. And also you can add them in any location.
Pros of Bloom:
- If you already have an account with the Elegant Themes then you don’t have to pay anything for Bloom. This can help you keep down the cost of building a WordPress site.
- Bloom has a lot of different options such as opt-in, and more.
- Bloom easily integrates with different email service providers including MailPoet, Sendinblue, and Constant Contact.
- You can design your opt-in to appear after a certain interval of time or after certain triggers take place.
Cons of Bloom:
- The range of templates is quite limited, though there are several color variations of each layout.
- It doesn’t offer fullscreen opt-ins and floating bars like OptinMonster.
Pricing
Bloom is part of the full Elegant Themes package including their drag and drop WordPress theme.
6. Newsletter
Newsletter is a free WordPress Newsletter plugin that is used to send as many emails as you want. The premium version of Newsletter integrates with other plugins like WPForms, WooCommerce and offers extra features.
Pros of Newsletter:
- Newsletter is free of cost, if you want more than you have to pay for the Premium version to get all the extensions.
- You can also add an external SMTP provider.
- You can control how fast emails go out, which is very useful if you’re sending them through your web host and they place limits on you.
- Free Addons available: You could use these addons to create an archive of your newsletter and lock content so that people can access it after subscribing.
Cons of Newsletter:
- The spam prevention is not good. You may get some spam subscriptions through the signup form.
- It has no sending option like MailPoet does. So, you need to connect it to an external SMTP provider.
Pricing
Newsletters are free of cost. But if you want some pro extensions then it costs $65/year.
