Dropndot Email Subscriptions and Newsletters

Dropndot Email Subscriptions and Newsletters is a full-featured email subscription and newsletter plugin for WordPress. Collect subscribers with double or single opt-in, manage them from a dedicated admin dashboard, send newsletters, and integrate with headless frontends via REST API or GraphQL.

Core Features

• Double opt-in and single opt-in subscription modes

• Branded confirmation, welcome, and unsubscribe emails with shared logo, banner, and footer

• Customizable headlines, icon badges, feature grid, disclaimer, and social footer links

• In-browser email preview before saving or sending

• One-click unsubscribe with optional confirmation emails

• One-click re-subscribe from unsubscribe emails (token-based)

• Admin dashboard with statistics, search, filters, and bulk actions

• CSV export with geolocation data (country, region, city, timezone)

• Subscription form shortcode with customizable appearance

Advanced Features

• Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 spam protection (optional)

• IP-based rate limiting

• Automatic geolocation via ipinfo.io (country, region, city, and timezone)

• Custom confirmation and unsubscribe pages

• Admin email notifications for new subscriptions and unsubscribes

• REST API for full CRUD operations

• GraphQL support (requires the WPGraphQL plugin)

• Headless frontend integration for Next.js and React applications

• Trusted frontend proxy secret for accurate visitor geolocation behind server-side proxies

• AJAX-powered admin interface

Email Newsletter Features

• Email template management with TinyMCE editor

• Send newsletters immediately or schedule for future delivery

• Country-based subscriber filtering

• Subscriber placeholders including {city} and {timezone}

• Batch processing for large subscriber lists (10,000+)

• Real-time progress tracking during sends

• Complete sending history with statistics

• HTML emails optimized for major email clients

Shortcodes

• [dropemsu_form] — Display a subscription form (optional title and button_text attributes).

• [dropemsu_confirmation_status] — Show confirmation status on a custom confirmation page.

• [dropemsu_unsubscribe_status] — Show unsubscribe status on a custom unsubscribe page.

REST API

All routes are registered under the dropemsu-manager/v1 namespace and include endpoints for listing, creating, updating, deleting, confirming, and unsubscribing.

Documentation

js Newsletter Integration with Headless WordPress.

External services

This plugin may connect to third-party services when the related features are enabled:

io (Geolocation)

• Used to detect subscriber country, region, city, and timezone from IP address during subscription.

• Data sent: visitor IP address.

• Terms of Service

• Privacy Policy

Google reCAPTCHA (Spam protection, optional)

• Used when reCAPTCHA is enabled in plugin settings.

• Data sent: information required by Google reCAPTCHA to verify submissions.

• Terms of Service

• Privacy Policy