I have been using FeedBlitz here at Her-Media to allow my readers to receive new posts by email each week and I am really happy with the service. However, I would like an option that isn’t a remote blog subscription service.

I am working on my children’s school parent advisory website (of course its going to be Word Press) and I found this great little plug in;

Post Notification by Moritz Strübe (if you are using WordPress’ plug in uploader search tags for ‘notification’).

As with any emailer, be sure to check with your hosting provider to be sure you are familiar with any limits the place on email sends before using the plug in. Or use the WordPress Mail SMPT plugin.  Our pac website shouldn’t have too many subscribers since the school has less then 300 students so with some adjustments in my settings it appears to be working ok.

If your template supports captcha, you can keep the bots away as well.

Users can then select notifications based on the categories that interest them.

You can also easily customize the email and template pages.

The one feature I hope to see in the future is the ability to create a daily or weekly digest as individual emails will likely become over whelming for subscribers. Keep this in mind. If you are a really active blogger you may want to hold off until they offer a digest option.

I will keep testing this plugin for a few weeks on this one blog and report any bugs I encounter.

If you need help managing this or any other Word Press plugin consider hiring me …