Wordpress widget double opt-in newsletter subscription

Building an email marketing website ready for a free email marketing software bulk email delivery can be pretty easy using open source and free softwares like WordPress and SendBlaster Bulk Emailer Free edition.

Free tutorial download sources

here you can download latest WordPress CMS platform (5 minutes installation)
here you find the sidebar widget for WordPress newsletter subscription plugin
here you find the free bulk emailer for mass emailings

Warm up for an email marketing software ready website

First step will be building a WordPress website and publishing your contents. Before the first website public presentation you will configure the WordPress opt-in widget for newsletter subscription. While you write and publish your contents, as time goes by, new subscribers will join the mailing list. Please pay attention on the fact that these subscribers are people interested in your contents: they are waiting for your words and they trust your newsletters. You will soon build up a subscribed user-base mailing list of loyal and thirsty readers.

Email newsletter setup: using the email marketing program

After we install and configure SendBlaster Email Marketing Program, the next step will be:

Understanding the right timing for your emailings. Once a week, or once in a year?

We are constantly overloaded by information, you will be the more successful in your business if you send only interesting mailings. We believe in quality: speak only when you've got something good to say. This will give you a credibility aura among your readers. Email marketing: the building process. WordPress email marketing is a fast way to hot start your website… while building the mailing list user-base will take some time. You find online many email-addresses sellers, they give you hundred of thousands of generic emails addresses of strangers… Analyze the effect of a word spoken from a stranger… and the response to a word spoken from someone you trust since a long time, someone who speaks your business' language.

Always include a newsletter unsubscribe link in your mass emails

We should always give our readers the option to unsubscribe from our newsletter. Remember that Email marketing means keeping in contact with your customers… you will never get in contact with someone who dislikes or doesn't care about your words.

Mailing List size

While your list is small you can send your emails for free using your actual internet provider SMTP service, and SendBlaster Free edition (up to 100 emails). When your mailing list will grow up, consider the

mass email program: sending license for SendBlaster PRO bulk emailer program.

WordPress double optin widget bulk email plugin for newsletter subscription

DOWNLOAD PLUGIN

Plugin page

File size: 7,7 kbytes (.zip file)

Format: WordPress sidebar widget plugin for newsletter

Release: 1.1.6 WordPress versions: from 2.0 to 2.6.x

WP mailing list management Plugin Features

user can subscribe and unsubscribe to your mailing list
closed loop double-opt-in feature for polite and legal bulk email senders
build a mailing list inside WordPress
manage the mailing list inside WordPress
bulk email WordPress newsletter subscribers using a free bulk email software
compatible with email sender softwares
compatible with SendBlaster
validates w3's xhtml strict

WP Widget Description

This simple WordPress mailing list management widget (plugin) sends emails with "Subscribe" and "Unsubscribe" subject for newsletter opt-in and double opt-in email list management. New mailing list subscriptions are written in WordPress sidebar and new subscribers details are gathered into your bulk email software or mailing list management software. The email list widget works with common bulk emailers and with SendBlaster's newsletter software subscription management with custom field integration, for email merge purposes. The widget adds an options tab to customize settings:

Mailbox for managing subscriptions
Message to subscriber – subject
Message to subscriber – content
Double Opt-in
Link Love (disable or enable)
Sidebar Front side messages
Sidebar Front side appearance and custom fields
subscribe and unsubscribe label modify
Temporary database storing for newly mailing list subscribed members

This e-mail widget is compatible with K2 and Unsleepable sidebar management

WP Plugin installation

download plugin: free wordpress widget for mailing list subscription
unzip the file wpsb-opt-in.php
upload via FTP to your WordPress wp-content/plugins directory
enable plugin from WordPress Plug-ins Admin control panel
drag into your sidebar the new widget in Presentation/widgets control panel
configure Sendblaster mass email software for automatic new subscriptions download

Mass Email Marketing Workflow

_{New user subscriptions > mailing list > bulk email cycle}

Go to wp-admin -> options -> WP sendblaster opt-in

Put your email address into > Mailbox for managing subscriptions.
Open your installed SendBlaster, click on > Manage subscriptions
Now write inside managing email address the same email address you used in the plugin configuration
Now, when a user subscribes through the wordpress plugin, an email will be sent to your managing email address, with a particular subject ("subscribe")
When inside SendBlaster you hit "Download" (in manage subscriptions section) the new subscriptions will be downloaded and added to you local list
Ready for mass email! (free download bulk email software)