Description
MailerPress is a free email marketing and newsletter plugin for WordPress. Build professional email campaigns with a drag-and-drop editor, manage unlimited subscribers and lists, schedule newsletters, and send automated emails — all from your WordPress dashboard.
Whether you’re a blogger sending a weekly newsletter, an online store owner looking to customize WooCommerce emails (paid plan required), or a marketer running large-scale email campaigns, MailerPress gives you everything you need — with no subscriber limits and no sending restrictions.
Drag-and-Drop Email Editor
Create beautiful email newsletters without writing a single line of code. The MailerPress email editor is inspired by the WordPress Block Editor (Gutenberg), so it feels instantly familiar:
- Drag-and-drop blocks to build your email layout
- Pre-built email templates to get started in seconds
- Save and reuse your own custom layouts
- Full theme.json support for consistent branding with Full Site Editing
- Google Fonts integration with local hosting for fast loading
- MJML template import for advanced email designs
- Responsive emails that look great on every device
Subscriber Management & List Building
Grow your email list with powerful subscriber management tools, completely free:
- Unlimited subscribers, lists, and tags — no restrictions
- Customizable opt-in forms with shortcode — works with any page builder (Elementor, Bricks, Divi, and more)
- Gutenberg opt-in form block for the Block Editor
- Embeddable opt-in forms for external websites
- Double opt-in with customizable confirmation emails
- CSV import and export for easy subscriber migration
- Advanced subscriber segmentation
- GDPR-compliant subscription management with built-in unsubscribe
Email Campaigns & Newsletter Scheduling
Send newsletters and email campaigns on your schedule:
- Create and send email campaigns to your subscriber lists
- Schedule newsletters for future delivery
- Merge tags for personalized email content (subscriber name, custom fields, and more)
- Content retrieval from posts and pages
- Flexible click and open tracking (track, anonymize, or disable)
- Detailed campaign analytics and performance reports
Email Automation
Automate your email marketing to save time and boost engagement:
- Automated post notification emails when you publish new content
- Scheduled email campaigns with precise timing
- Automated double opt-in confirmation follow-ups (paid plan required)
- Advanced automation workflows with triggers and conditions (paid plan required)
WooCommerce Email Marketing (paid plan required)
Turn your WooCommerce store into an email marketing machine:
- Design custom WooCommerce transactional emails with the drag-and-drop editor
- Override default WooCommerce order confirmation, shipping, and account emails
- Send promotional email campaigns to your customers
- Retrieve WooCommerce product content directly in your newsletters
- Segment subscribers based on purchase behavior
Incoming & Outgoing Webhooks
Connect MailerPress to any external system:
- Incoming webhooks to add subscribers from external platforms
- Outgoing webhooks to send real-time events to third-party services
- Build custom integrations with your existing tools
Email Sending Options
Send emails using your preferred method:
- PHP Mail (default — works out of the box)
- Custom SMTP configuration
- SendGrid integration (paid plan required)
- Brevo / Sendinblue integration (paid plan required)
- Mailjet integration (paid plan required)
- Amazon SES integration (paid plan required)
- Mailgun integration (paid plan required)
- Postmark integration (paid plan required)
- Bounce management via email provider APIs (paid plan required)
All Free Features
- Drag-and-drop email editor inspired by WordPress Block Editor
- Unlimited subscribers, lists, tags, and campaigns
- Email newsletter creation and scheduling
- Customizable opt-in forms (shortcode + Gutenberg block)
- Double opt-in with confirmation emails
- CSV import/export for subscriber migration
- Subscriber segmentation
- Email campaign analytics
- Post and page content retrieval for newsletters
- Incoming and outgoing webhooks
- Click and open tracking (with anonymous option)
- Merge tags for email personalization
- MJML template import
- Google Fonts with local hosting
- GDPR-compliant with built-in unsubscribe
- Self-hosted — your data stays on your server
- Full theme.json and FSE support
- Hundreds of developer hooks and filters
- REST API for custom integrations
Paid Plan Features
Upgrade to MailerPress for advanced email marketing capabilities:
- WooCommerce email customization — design and override transactional emails (order confirmation, shipping, account emails) with the drag-and-drop editor
- Professional email delivery — SendGrid, Brevo, Mailjet, Amazon SES, Mailgun, Postmark
- AI-powered email content — OpenAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, Google Gemini integration for content optimization and image generation
- Advanced form integrations — Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms
- Page builder integrations — Elementor, Bricks
- Advanced automation workflows — triggers, conditions, and behavioral targeting
- Custom fields and advanced segments — target subscribers based on behavior and data
- Premium email templates — professional designs ready to use
- Embed opt-in forms on external websites — grow your list beyond WordPress
- Bounce management — automatic handling via email provider APIs
- Automated double opt-in follow-ups — re-engage pending subscribers
- White-label options — customize MailerPress branding
- Priority support — dedicated customer assistance
Developer-Friendly
MailerPress is built for developers who need full control:
- Hundreds of hooks and filters — customize every aspect of the plugin
- REST API — build custom integrations and applications
- MJML support — use MJML templates for advanced email design workflows
- React-based architecture — modern, extensible, and performant
Privacy & GDPR
MailerPress is fully GDPR-compliant and privacy-first. No data is collected by us — everything stays on your server. Built-in unsubscribe links, double opt-in, and data export tools help you stay compliant. When using third-party email providers, please review their respective privacy policies.
Translations
MailerPress is available in English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and Arabic. Help translate MailerPress into your language.
Screenshots
MailerPress dashboard — overview of your email marketing performance 
Customizable dashboard with drag-and-drop widgets 
Campaign creation wizard — set up a new email campaign in seconds 
Drag-and-drop email editor inspired by the WordPress Block Editor 
Content blocks library — build emails with pre-built components 
Setup wizard — get started with MailerPress quickly 
Setup wizard — configure your email settings 
Setup wizard — import your subscribers 
Setup wizard — choose your sending method 
Setup wizard — customize your opt-in forms 
Setup wizard — launch your first campaign 
Email Service Provider integrations 
Third-party plugin integrations 
Incoming webhooks configuration 
Outgoing webhooks configuration
Blocks
This plugin provides 4 blocks.
- Form Input
- Form submit
- Subscription Form
- Campaign Archive Display a list of sent email campaigns
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to the
/wp-content/plugins/mailerpressdirectory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly. - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
- Navigate to the MailerPress screen in your WordPress admin to get started.
FAQ
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Is MailerPress really free?
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Yes! MailerPress is completely free with unlimited subscribers, lists, tags, and email campaigns. There are no hidden limits. A paid plan is available for premium integrations, AI features, and advanced automation.
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Go to MailerPress in your WordPress admin, click “Create Campaign”, choose a template or start from scratch, and use the drag-and-drop editor to build your newsletter. Add your subscriber list, and send or schedule it.
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Can I import my subscribers from another email marketing plugin?
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Yes. MailerPress supports CSV import, so you can export subscribers from any email marketing tool (Mailchimp, MailPoet, Brevo, ConvertKit, ActiveCampaign, etc.) and import them into MailerPress in seconds.
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Does MailerPress work with WooCommerce?
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Yes. With a paid plan, you can customize WooCommerce transactional emails (order confirmation, shipping notification, etc.) using the drag-and-drop editor, send promotional campaigns to customers, and include product content in your newsletters.
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How do I add a subscriber opt-in form to my website?
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MailerPress provides a shortcode and a Gutenberg block for opt-in forms. The shortcode works with any theme and page builder (Elementor, Bricks, Divi, etc.). You can also embed opt-in forms on external websites (paid plan required).
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What email sending services does MailerPress support?
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The free version supports PHP Mail and custom SMTP. A paid plan adds integrations with SendGrid, Brevo (Sendinblue), Mailjet, Amazon SES, Mailgun, and Postmark for professional email delivery.
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Can I automate emails with MailerPress?
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Yes. You can schedule email campaigns for future delivery and set up automated post notification emails. Advanced automation workflows with triggers and conditions are available with a paid plan.
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Is MailerPress GDPR compliant?
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Yes. MailerPress is self-hosted, collects no external data, and includes built-in unsubscribe links, double opt-in, and subscriber data management tools for full GDPR compliance.
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Can I send automated post notification emails?
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Yes. MailerPress can automatically send email notifications to your subscribers when you publish new blog posts or pages.
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Does MailerPress support email tracking?
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Yes. MailerPress includes click and open tracking for your email campaigns. You can choose to track normally, track anonymously, or disable tracking entirely.
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How do I get support?
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Free users: WordPress.org support forum.
Paid plan users: Priority support via the MailerPress customer portal.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“MailerPress – Email Marketing, Newsletter, Email Automation & WooCommerce Emails” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
“MailerPress – Email Marketing, Newsletter, Email Automation & WooCommerce Emails” has been translated into 7 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.
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Changelog
1.5.4
- IMPROVEMENT: Overall performance improvements across the plugin, including faster loading of certain data.
- FIX: Resolved an issue where scheduled campaigns were sometimes sent immediately instead of at the planned time.
- FIX: Fixed encoding issues with apostrophes in email subjects and campaign names.
- FIX: Resolved conflicts with certain server-side caching mechanisms.
1.5.3
- FIX: Resolved an issue where campaigns could fail and be marked as error when sending to segmented contacts.
- FIX: Bug in the pagination of the modal used to display contacts belonging to a created segment, where some contacts were not shown correctly.
1.5.2
- IMPROVEMENT: Reduced unnecessary database queries on page load.
- FIX: Segment search returning no results in the Review & Send modal.
- FIX: Resolved a fatal error that could occur when rendering opt-in forms in certain environments after the 1.5.1 update.
1.5.1
- FIX: Campaign scheduled date now uses WordPress locale formatting (correct date order and translation of “at”).
- FIX: Preserved spacing before punctuation (e.g. ” !”) in email button text.
- FIX: Bulk actions on contacts now correctly apply to all filtered records instead of only the current page.
- FIX: Default contact list can no longer trigger the edit action; a notice now explains that the default list is protected.
- FIX: Double opt-in confirmation was not triggered for subscriptions created via shortcode forms.
- FIX: Honeypot anti-spam check not working properly with Contact Form 7 integration.
- SECURITY: Hardened various plugin endpoints and improved overall input validation and sanitization.
1.5.0 Read the blog post update
- NEW: Webhooks: Support for both incoming and outgoing webhooks to integrate external systems and receive real-time events.
- NEW: Flexible click and open tracking: Choose between Yes, No, or Anonymously in the Review & Send modal.
- IMPROVEMENT: DataView Added support for ordering by columns.
- IMPROVEMENT: Embed form, you can now customize all texts that were previously rendered in English only.
- FIX: DataView fixed an issue where column display settings were not saved when navigating away.
- FIX: Editor issues where unsaved changes were not correctly detected in some cases.
- FIX: MailerPress option form (Gutenberg block): Fixed border radius settings so they now apply correctly to both the submit button and form fields.
- SECURITY: Strengthened security around internal network requests.