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Newsletter Glue, is it for you?

29 September 2020 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

Sorry about the corny click-bait title, but it’s the mood for today, so I’m just going to roll with it.

Over the summer I saw Lesley Sim tweet about a new plugin she was introducing and it peaked my interest! It solves a very particular niche, but one that needed a better solution than what’s out there currently.

Publish new content and then …

When you regularly post new content you’d love for you audience to find that content, right? So, in order to make that happen, you’ve no doubt created a newsletter for people to subscribe to.

But here’s the problem with that. You have to go into Mailchimp to physically publish those newsletters or use the ugly RSS powered solution. Both are not ideal. And this is where Newsletter Glue comes into play.

Easy set up

The plugin, in a very simple way, connects your site with your Mailchimp (or a few other newsletter services) audience list and integrates inside your editor quite smartly. When you’re getting ready to post your new article, just click on the checkbox to send that post out to list and you’re golden. Couldn’t be easier.

Just check out this video where Lesley explains the flow of the plugin:

I’ve already implemented their plugin on a couple of sites now. You even get some styling control over how your post is going to look as email.

All in all, I’m a big fan of Newsletter Glue, almost as much as Lesley loves pizza I think. There are a few things I’d like to see added, though.

  1. I’d love for a custom text area below the post being sent. It allows for you to add a CTA or some explanation.
  2. Not being able to use this integration on Custom Post Types is a bit of a bummer. Allowing for all content to be pushed out would be wonderful feature.
  3. Scheduled posts should be sent out as an email at the time the post is scheduled. Not when you schedule the post. Or so it seems they’re being processed.

But that’s it. It does what it promises wonderfully. Go and test for yourself!

Update:
Lesley reached out to me and let me know that all items of my list will be added in the short future. Today, October the 7th, every single item on my list has been added and/or fixed in the plugin. I am impressed.

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

WordProof awards €1M grant by European Commission

3 July 2020 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

This week was an exciting week for Dutch startup WordProof as they were awarded a €1 Million prize by the European Commission.

With this contest, Europe aims to stimulate the use of blockchain technology to solve social problems. WordProof, founded one year ago, managed to leave 175 participants from all over Europe behind. Which is quite an impressive feat for this young startup.

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous

WP Engine moves forward with Genesis and more StudioPress news

24 October 2018 by Karin van den Berg 1 Comment

In June of this year, WP Engine took over StudioPress from Copyblogger. They’ve been quiet the first couple of months, but WP Engine is making their intentions with StudioPress, and specifically Genesis, very clear in the last couple of weeks.

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Filed Under: News

The plan and schedule for WordPres 5.0

4 October 2018 by Karin van den Berg Leave a Comment

Ever since WordCamp Europe 2018 in Belgrade, people have been anxiously waiting for the release schedule of WordPress 5.0. Specifically, when will Gutenberg finally been added to core.

Well, the wait is over. Matt Mullenweg published a plan for WordPress 5.0 over at the Make WordPress Core blog. This is what he had to say about it:

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Filed Under: Miscellaneous

WordCamp Europe releases second batch of tickets

3 October 2018 by Karin van den Berg Leave a Comment

This week’s Monday was the first opportunity to buy your WordCamp ticket for what’s going be a great WordCamp Europe again. This time in the beautiful city Berlin in Germany.

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Filed Under: Events, News

With Release 3.9, Gutenberg is getting all grown up

26 September 2018 by Karin van den Berg Leave a Comment

Over at the Make Core blog, Mattias Ventura introduced Gutenberg version 3.9 last week and with it came a few features that make the whole Gutenberg project quite mature.

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Filed Under: Releases Tagged With: Gutenberg

Give props in abundance, not in restraint

23 January 2018 by Remkus de Vries Leave a Comment

Giving props, for those who are unaware, is where someone who has contributed to open-source code is given acknowledgment. Typically you’ll find these props given within a specific ticket in which a person has contributed a fix for the open ticket. In the WordPress realm, you’ll also find these props at the bottom of a new release post as you can see here in the section called The Squad.

Those who contributed the actual fix are the ones receiving props. But … that’s not very inclusive.  [Read more…] about Give props in abundance, not in restraint

Filed Under: Editorial

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