WP Email Capture primarily provides a form, protected by a double opt-in mechanisms, for subscribing users to a site newsletter.
The plugin does not handle the newsletter in any way or form, but allows webmasters to export the list of emails and move it to a professional marketing service like Mailchimp, AWeber, or similar self-hosted solutions.
The plugin is available under two licenses. A free, WordPress GPL version and a commercially licensed version of the plugin, with some extra features.
Installation:
Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
Features:
- Free version features:
- Notifies users of their subscription via email
- Subscription form as a sidebar widget
- Can be added inside posts or pages via a shortcode
- Can be added to themes and plugins via a template tag
- Admin dashboard widget
- Export data as CSV
- Premium version features:
- Track which form users utilized to sign up
- Support for automated responder messages
- Subscribe users to different lists
- Mailchimp integration (bypass the WP database, send data directly to them)
- AWeber integration (bypass the WP database, send data directly to them)
- Custom error messages
- Custom subscribe button text
- More form fields to ask the user to fill in
- WordPress WYSIWYG editor button
- Form skins
What is new in this release:
- Italian translation.
- Serbian translation.
What is new in version 2.9:
- Fixed a small bug that produced warnings should security fields not be passed.
- Style buttons in a style for WordPress 3.8.
- Remove a rogue mysql_real_escape_string() call making it compatible with WordPress 3.9.
What is new in version 2.8:
- Introduced Spanish translation.
What is new in version 2.7.6:
- Can now translate error messages.
What is new in version 2.7.4:
- Added "title" attributes to the form fields, allowing WP Email Capture to play better with themes.
What is new in version 2.7.2:
- Fixed an admin page error so if the news feed wasn't pulling from my site, then he will get an empty box, rather than an ugly error.
What is new in version 2.6:
- Added a checkbox that allows site owners to specify if "Name" is a required field.
What is new in version 2.5.1:
- Recoded the RSS feed fetching code so it works on more servers and doesn't use a HTTP based referrer.
What is new in version 2.5:
- A nag (which you can hide) should you not have the plugin set up correctly with a subscription or confirmation page.
- More CSS classes on each individual elements of the form.
Requirements:
- WordPress 3 or higher
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