How to Connect WordPress With SendGrid to Deliver Emails

If you want to improve the reliability and deliverability of the emails that your WordPress site sends, connecting WordPress to SendGrid is a great decision. By default, WordPress tries to send its email using PHP Mail which, if your host doesn’t completely disable it by default, will almost certainly guarantee that your emails go straight […]

How to Run a Free WordPress Newsletter (and the Plugins to Help You Do It)

It seems like everyone and their dog has an email newsletter these days. If you go back and check the last 10 sites you visited, I bet at least half of them have a newsletter. Is that a bad thing? No way! While all the opt-in forms and pop-ups you come across online can be […]

How to Check If WordPress Sends Email

Do you have that eerie feeling your WordPress install isn’t sending emails, like new comment notifications, for example? All WordPress site owners have wondered at one point or another if there’s an issue with their site’s emails.  In this guide, I’ll teach you how to quickly check if your WordPress website is sending emails with […]

How to Email Your WordPress Users in Style with a Plugin

Whether you run a membership site, a local community site, or take care of the WordPress site for your local school, there are multiple reasons why you may want to bulk email your WordPress users. For example, you may want to start sending emails about: News and general announcements Site maintenance messages Information about updates […]

A Simple Guide to WordPress Email Logging

Unsure if WordPress is sending any emails? Set up WordPress email logging now so you have a trace of them since WordPress doesn’t do so by default. Logging WordPress emails is vital in both understanding the emails that your WordPress sends, and also assisting in debugging issues with WordPress not sending any emails.  In this […]

How to Monetize Email Newsletters with the Advanced Ads Plugin

Adding advertisements to your email newsletters can help generate extra revenue for your business every time you send one out. Sounds great, right? Yet, not many businesses do it. So in this post, I want to show you just how easy it is to monetize email newsletters by adding trackable advertisements to your emails with MailPoet […]