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# Nolimit News
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<!-- nlnws:version 0.2.2 -->
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Newsletters for WordPress and WooCommerce: write an issue in the block editor,
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keep your lists, put a signup form anywhere, send it through your own mail
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setup, and show every issue as an archive on your own site. Written to replace
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Mailchimp for a shop that does not want a monthly bill per subscriber.
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## What it does
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* **Write** an issue in the block editor, inside a template, with images,
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columns, buttons and products from your shop.
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* **Lists and subscribers**, with double opt-in, a one-click unsubscribe in every
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mail, and a CSV export whenever you want your list back.
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* **Sign-up** through a block or a shortcode, and from a Nolimit Forms form you
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connect to a list.
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* **Send** now or at a time you choose, to one list or several, to each person
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once. A test send goes to one address and changes nobody.
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* **An archive** of every sent issue on your own site, in your theme's own
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frame, and a block that lists the latest issues on any page.
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* **Templates** that are plain HTML files: use the two that come with it, drop
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your own into your theme, or paste one in that an AI designed from the guide
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the plugin hands you.
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* **Import** a Mailchimp export (subscribed, unsubscribed and cleaned files) and
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ask the imported people to confirm, so leaving Mailchimp is not a weekend.
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## What it refuses to do
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* **No click tracking.** No link in a mail is rewritten, so no address is
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routed through anyone.
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* **No phone-home.** Nothing about your site or your subscribers is sent to
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anyone. There is no account and no paid tier.
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* **No opening-counting unless you switch it on.** It is an option, off by
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default. When it is on, it records who opened which issue in your own
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database and tells nobody else, and the suggested privacy text changes with
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it.
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* **Nothing is mailed to somebody who has not agreed.** A signup is pending until
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the person follows the link in the confirmation mail, and a pending signup
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nobody confirms is deleted after 30 days.
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## Where to start
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1. Install it and set up your mail: [SETUP.md](SETUP.md).
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2. Make a list, put the signup block on a page, write an issue, send yourself a
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test, send it.
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3. Developers building on it: [CONTRACT.md](CONTRACT.md) lists every hook,
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option, table and constant, and what is deliberately not promised.
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## Documentation
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| File | For |
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| [SETUP.md](SETUP.md) | Installing it, the few settings that need a decision, and checking that it works. |
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| [CONTRACT.md](CONTRACT.md) | Developers: what it offers other plugins and themes, what it stores, and what it asks of them. |
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Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+. WooCommerce is not required; with it
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active, an issue can carry live product cards.
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