February 8th, 2009

Weekly Plugin Review, WordPress Plugins

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Chung Bey Luen (14 comments.) says:

2/8/2009 at 4:13 pm

Good review, good plugin. I think it would be nice if it can have autoresponder feature like Aweber.
Christopher Ross (9 comments.) says:

2/8/2009 at 4:39 pm

I’ve been using MailPress for a couple months on my test servers but have not installed it yet on my live site. The tool is wonderfully easy to use and has a lot of great features, my only concern would be how well MailPress handles bulk emails on a shared server environment.
Laura says:

2/8/2009 at 7:38 pm

I tried MailPress on a client site, and I found it fairly unreliable.

It had overly-frequent updates, which dramatically changed and overrode its own mail templates, meaning I had to often change to other templates, or try to constuct my own, as the structure was unusable, sometimes randomly in French.

The accompanying Google group was a lot of help, the plugin author is very friendly and helpful, but I just couldn’t spend the time trying to make the plugin work the way I wanted. (Just allowing users to subscribe, then sending them non-automated e-mails.)
Hikari (79 comments.) says:

2/8/2009 at 7:47 pm

hmm I don’t see much use to this plugin…

you yourself listed better solutions… I think it would turn WP “heavier” than it needs to be

most hosts that work with cPanel offer mailing lists in the package
ymy (1 comments.) says:

2/8/2009 at 8:15 pm

Subscribe2 is also a very nice plugin and a bit easier to handle.

http://subscribe2.wordpress.com/
- Dee (1 comments.) says:
  
  2/9/2009 at 10:14 pm
  
  I’ve just started using Subscribe2 and, as a writer who is not a programmer, I’ve found it easy to use and relatively quick to set up. Of course, I’m only sending out my links newsletter to about 200 subscribers right now. I have no idea how it might work with a larger list.
- Ben says:
  
  2/10/2009 at 10:35 am
  
  I also use Subscribe 2. It was wonderful a year ago and with recent enhancements, has become even better.
  
  And extremely easy to use. Two thumbs up!
Eris (3 comments.) says:

2/9/2009 at 1:43 am

I have been using this on my blog. It’s a nice plugin. The only problem is, sometimes mailing is delayed.
- Banago (84 comments.) says:
  
  2/9/2009 at 10:53 am
  
  How many email addresses do you send at once?
  - Eris (3 comments.) says:
    
    2/9/2009 at 11:23 am
    
    Usually less than 200.
    - Banago (84 comments.) says:
      
      2/9/2009 at 12:17 pm
      
      It is normal to be delayed for WordPress. I have been using Subscribe2 to notify my subscribers of a blog of mine (around 100) and when I posted the post, it used to delay a lot.
      
      Feedburner is better, but is have troubles lately.
mahesh (2 comments.) says:

2/9/2009 at 3:05 am

#service ldap restart
Stopping slapd: [FAILED]
Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb(dc=example,dc=com): file id2entry.bdb (meta pgno = 0) has LSN [108][3063349].
bdb(dc=example,dc=com): end of log is [1][156]
bdb(dc=example,dc=com): /var/lib/ldap/id2entry.bdb: unexpected file type or format
bdb_db_open: db_open(/var/lib/ldap/id2entry.bdb) failed: Invalid argument (22)
bdb(dc=example,dc=com): Unknown locker ID: 0
backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (22)
slap_startup failed (test would succeed using the -u switch)
mahesh (2 comments.) says:

2/9/2009 at 3:09 am

service ldap restart
Stopping slapd: [FAILED]
Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb_db_open: alock package is unstable
backend_startup_one: bi_db_open failed! (-1)
slap_startup failed (test would succeed using the -u switch)
[FAILED]
Microkid (1 comments.) says:

2/9/2009 at 7:44 am

I think bulk mailing is something that should be treated as an applications core feature. WordPress is a platform for publishing content, not for sending bulk mail. Just my 2 cents.
Christopher Ross (9 comments.) says:

2/9/2009 at 8:39 am

@Hikari, that’s the main reason I have not installed it on my live servers. WordPress (a wonderful program) already has a lot of slow queries. I was concerned that adding additional DB calls might take down the sites on a shared environment.
Candycgiz says:

2/9/2009 at 2:17 pm

I use this plugins myself, but when you have 14500+ members, it needs to have batch process and time gap
Harald Walker (1 comments.) says:

2/9/2009 at 7:03 pm

@Candycgiz: If you have 14500+ members you will need more than that. Getting your mails delivered (not being blacklisted/filtered) will be a problem on any shared host (if that host even allows you to send such bulk mailings). MailPress doesn’t seem to offer essential features like bounce handling and I don’t see anything about statistics (open rates, click rates).
Daniel Cameron (2 comments.) says:

2/10/2009 at 4:27 am

I’ve been trying for weeks to get this working it’s been a nightmare! Anyone that wants to help can! The maker doesn’t i even offered him money to sort his own thing out!
Websalto (1 comments.) says:

3/12/2009 at 7:32 pm

there´s a spanish translation of mailpress at http://www.websalto.com/2009/b.....press.html for those who are interested (traducción de mailpress al español en la url citada)
Bruce (1 comments.) says:

4/19/2009 at 6:37 pm

Any reviews about WordPress phplist-form integration by Jesse Heap?

http://wordpress.org/extend/pl.....tegration/
draguscn (1 comments.) says:

5/27/2009 at 4:03 am

I’m satisfied using mailpress, until I found that my server doesn’t allow me to send > 120 per day. I tried to change my email to gmail and hotmail, but not works, I think I had followed all instruction right .. would you help me?
jasper (1 comments.) says:

12/28/2009 at 1:17 am

I would like to have more statistics on the mail sent to customers. As far as I can see there are only stats how many mails are unopened (open rate) and on how many links have been clicked (click rate). I would love to see data on email user agent used, OS they are on, browser used if opened in a browser and so on. That and an user export function. Other then that I am happy with Mailpress. It does the job and allows you to create your own theme.
Brad (1 comments.) says:

9/9/2011 at 2:12 pm

I am not a progammer, but used to be. I am trying to set up mailpress on a wordpress site and am finding that the documentation is severly lacking. I have no idea what I need to do to acomplish my goal of allowing people to subscribe and look at who is subscribed and possibly do a mass subscribe. Needs more easy to follow documentation. I’m going to check out Subscribe2.