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7 Free WordPress Plugins Every Email Marketer Needs (2026)

The right WordPress plugins turn a basic blog into a lean email marketing machine. From automating your RSS newsletter to growing your subscriber list, these seven free tools handle the parts most WordPress site owners do manually — or skip entirely.

RSS Feed

Is RSS Still Worth It in 2026?

RSS was written off when Google Reader shut down in 2013. Over a decade later, it powers email automation, podcast distribution, and news aggregation for millions of publishers. Here’s what the “RSS is dead” crowd got wrong.

How to Get the Most Out of RSS Chimp Pro

How to Get the Most Out of RSS Chimp Pro

RSS Chimp Pro unlocks nine features on top of the free version. Some of them you’ll set up once and never touch again. Others change how your entire newsletter workflow operates. Here’s where to start.

How to Track RSS Feed Traffic with UTM Parameters in WordPress

How to Track RSS Feed Traffic with UTM Parameters in WordPress

Adding UTM parameters to your WordPress RSS feed is one of those things that takes five minutes and pays off every week. Right now, every click from your RSS-to-email campaign shows up as direct traffic in Google Analytics. No source, no medium, no campaign. UTM parameters fix that. Set them once in your RSS feed settings and every link in every future email gets tagged automatically.