Hi,
I would like to implement a plug-in or something that would allow readers to subscribe to a “news alert”. A solution that sends a nice looking e-mail when there is a new post on the page. Just a heads-up, the picture and the headline, not the complete post itself.
Anyone know anything about something like this?
Kind Regards
There are lots of plugins for this; some like Google’s Feedburner are popular (we use that here). RSS used to be the way to go, until stupid web browser folk thought they’d rather have an app for that (sigh). It can be tricky from your main site, as sometimes you need to setup SMTP email if php mail doesn’t actually send email properly, etc.
Good to take a look at the plugins in the WordPress.org repository but read the reviews/support threads for each to see which actually work and have the feature you want. If you do a lot of posts, most people might be annoyed by that — often a daily summary is more popular. Or, just put your news on your FB page and people can “follow” that — or twitter, etc.
