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Mailer Dragon – Email Marketing Plugin for WordPress

Email newsletter plugin with autoresponder for effective email marketing in WordPress. Free plugin with unlimited email newsletters & subscribers.

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Tested up to WordPress 7.1
Current version1.1.3
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 7.1
Minimum stackWP 3.5 · PHP —
Directory statusactive
Last directory update21 Aug 20262mo ago
Active installations200Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating5.0 / 5 from 1 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records Mailer Dragon – Email Marketing Plugin for WordPress version 1.1.3 as active, updated 2mo ago and tested up to WordPress 7.1.

Overview

About this plugin

Mailer Dragon is an email marketing plugin with email newsletter & autoresponder for WordPress.

Boost your email marketing! Create automated email newsletters and send email messages to your subscribers immediately, without a hassle.

Easily capture subsciptions and build mailing list with a sign up form shortcode or widget. The subscription form is fully customizable with a template file.

Simple Newsletter & Autoresponder

Mailer Dragon is built with simplicity in mind. It is so simple that you can start sending automated mailing immediately.

Your email marketing campaign setup was never easier!

Newsletter Delivery Filters

When creating a new email you can adjust the message delivery filters and send it only to:

  • Subscribers that subscribed on certain page, post or any other post type
  • Subscribers with selected roles
  • Subscribers that subscibed to a form with your custom parameter – [subscribe_form custom=”my parameter”]
  • Selected WordPress users

Email delivery frequency rate

The default delivery rate is 5 days. It means that your subscribers will get an email every 5 days (if there is one in the queue).

You can add as many emails to the queue as you want without the risk that your subscribers will get a ton of emails at one time.

Mailer Dragon with continuously send emails from your newsletter queue at a defined delivery rate.

Adjust it to Your Needs

The default settings guarantee high email delivery. However you can easily adjust all the newsletter delivery parameters to your specific needs.

How to get started and test the newsletter feature

  • Add the [subscribe_form] shortcode to any page or post or use the Subscription form widget
  • Go to the page with the form and subscribe with a test email
  • Check your inbox for subscription confirmation email
  • Use the confirmation link to confirm the subscription
  • Go to WordPress Admin > Newsletter > Add New and create the first welcome email
  • Go to WordPress Admin > Newsletter. You will see your newsletter list there. In the Next Submission column you will see the time of next delivery. Wait for your welcome message!

If something doesn’t work as you expected it, just go to WordPress Admin > Newsletter > Settings and adjust it to your needs.

Translations

  • English – default, always included
  • Your translation? – Just send it in

Note: All our plugins are localized/translatable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful.

For translating we recommend the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin.

WordPress.org metadata

Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • email marketing
  • email newsletter
  • autoresponder
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested with WP 7.1

Marked as tested with the current WordPress 7.1 release.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to7.1
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.5 · PHP not listed
Update activity21 Aug 20262mo ago

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