Comments on: How To Send Newsletters with MailPoet WordPress Plugin

By: Bakari

Bakari — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 05:40:44 +0000

SiteGround recently suspended my site for a day, and it was because of the high CPU usage in which MailPoet was the culprit. I seriously like MailPoet, but I’m reluctant to use it because I can’t afford the problems I recently experienced with getting my site back up online.

MailPoet does say (after you purchase it!) that service has conflicts with SiteGround and Amazon EC2, and they suggest a few work arounds. Read this article for more info: https://kb.mailpoet.com/article/131-hosts-which-mailpoet-task-scheduler-wont-work

I have not yet tried the third option, but I just thought I’d let readers know that if you use MailPoet and SiteGround that you will definitely need to monitor your CPU to see if it becomes a problem.

By: WAN MOHD AFENDI BIN WN ISMAIL

WAN MOHD AFENDI BIN WN ISMAIL — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 07:44:03 +0000

MailPoet comes with features to customize content for desktop and mobile??

By: neucarol

neucarol — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 02:22:00 +0000

Review is everything I was looking for and had great success for a year. Then in Feb 2017, MailPoet stopped saving edits. See there are others who have the same issue but MailPoet has not resolved.
Have tried all the MailPoet suggested fixes with no luck.
Since I do not have the premium version, there is no response from MailPoet.
Would really like it fixed as it is so easy to use.
Suggestions appreciated.

By: Xavi Rodà

Xavi Rodà — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 07:46:28 +0000

Are you sure that Mailpoet newsletters are responsive?

By: Zee

Zee — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 02:33:40 +0000

In reply to Dennis Partridge.

Oh I see. I’m sure this is giving you a hard time Dennis. And I hope they do something about it. Having to remove entries manually is definitely not the best way to go about it. Thanks for sharing.

By: Dennis Partridge

Dennis Partridge — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:15:25 +0000

In reply to Zee.

Zee, no. Selecting the double opt in doesn’t work to reduce the total registrations, as it only works on those actually signing up for the newsletter. I have this option set. I also require registration in order to comment on my site, and make it easy for people to do using their social media account. So I tend to get a lot of legitimate registrations of people who have no interest and have not given me permission to send them a newsletter. It would be more appropriate for MailPoet to state they provide a free version for up to 2,000 registered users of a WP install, instead of 2,000 subscribers. Subscribers implies that they’re actually signing up for a newsletter.

By: Zee

Zee — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:41:16 +0000

In reply to Dennis Partridge.

Hey Dennis,
Point noted. Thanks. I was wondering if choosing the double opt-in feature would help with this?

By: Zee

Zee — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 01:35:55 +0000

In reply to Kim.

Hey Kim,

Thanks for the shoutout. I totally missed this.

By: Dennis Partridge

Dennis Partridge — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:22:56 +0000

The “subscriber” count as intentionally designed by Mail Poet is deceptive at best. A “subscriber” is any user who registers with your blog, irregardless of whether they’ve signed up for an active list and have agreed to receive an email newsletter. The plugin creates a default list of “WordPress Users” and adds everybody who registers with your blog to that list, and you are unable to remove it, though you can manually remove each user from that list. This inflates the true “subscriber” count to extreme levels, especially with the user spamming that goes on with WP.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:32:43 +0000

Nice review, we appreciate your effort.

Note that you can always test your spam score with MailPoet’s own tool:

http://www.mail-tester.com

This will give you a good idea of the reputation of your host as a sender. 🙂