After six months of beta testing, the plugin is now reliable and safe to use in production.

Hi Poets This month, we have some exciting news! After 6 months of beta trials (in which over 4,000 websites participated), the MailPoet 3 plugin is now reliable and safe to use on your live website. We couldn't be more excited. ☺️ Plus: very, very soon, we'll start rolling out the Premium version of MailPoet 3 for beta testing. Stay tuned. Enjoy the links! Kiefer and the MailPoet Team MailPoet News MailPoet 3 is now production-ready and safe to use on your live website. Want to test it out? Download the plugin from the WordPress repository, or, try the demo on our site. Next up: the beta version of the Premium plugin. We'll soon roll it out for our paying customers and everyone that signed up to one of our sending plans. In other words, if you send with MailPoet, you'll get the Premium features for free. You will be able to sign up and see the prices directly inside the plugin. Anxious to switch already? Our next weekly release of MailPoet 3 will import all your subscribers and lists in one click from the old version of MailPoet. Tada! Importing forms and settings will come at a later date. Need some newsletter inspiration? Browse our latest post, which features ten awesome newsletters from around the web, as well as a takeaway from each. Do you want to make money from your newsletters? Who wouldn't! Check out our guide to monetizing your newsletters. Just be careful: monetizing your newsletter the wrong way can be disastrous. Haven't tried our Welcome to MailPoet email course yet? Why not!?Sign up here and let us know what you think: we're all ears. WordPress and Technology Human Made, one of the largest WordPress consultancies in the world, has open-sourced their employee handbook. It's full of great tips and tricks for managing your own startup or consultancy. Think writing HTML for emails is easy? Think again. Check out this post on CSS-Tricks, which is all about using HTML to design and develop emails. What's in the bag of Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress? Once a year, Mr. Mullenweg writes a blog post obsessively listing everything he keeps in his daily bag. Our favorite? A passport, because "you never know when you’ll need to leave the country." WordPress 4.8, the first major release of 2017, will be officially released in early June. See what's new in 4.8 or download the beta version yourself. The best new feature? A widget for adding images directly (finally!) Writing and Productivity Stuck on a particularly tough problem? The New Yorker's solution? Take a walk. The connection between walking and thinking has been known for centuries, perhaps even milleniums. Why is it so effective? In short, because it allows our mind to wander. Does it take you a long time to reply to an email? You shouldn't feel bad about it, according to Melissa Dahl. By always responding to a (non-urgent) email immediately, she says, we're "reinforcing the increasingly accepted expectation of an immediate response." People don't buy products. They buy better versions of themselves. The old adage of sell benefits, not features continues to hold true (and probably always will). Check out Buffer's guide to writing copy that conveys benefits, not only technical features. How much time do you spend on your side projects? Do you wish you had more time? Try reading this Ask HN topic; it's full of comments on how various startup founders and programmers find the time to work on their side hustle. Randomly Interesting What gives the French Foreign Legion such an exotic and mysterious reputation? An obsession with death and the romantic idea of being reborn as someone new, says Robert Twigger. Einstein hated beets, Hemingway wouldn't eat eggs, and Prince (the purple one) didn't like mushrooms. What's the story behind famous phobias? Read this review of An Examination of Food Phobias, a nearly-800 page encyclopedia detailing famous people and their odd eating habits. Want to take better photos with your iPhone? Watch Apple's slickly-designed videos for taking the perfect shot. Don't own an iPhone? No problem; the page is worth visiting for its design alone. Speaking of Apple: check out this article on the original Macintosh icons. The icons and interface were designed to be as simple as possible, a lesson always worth remembering. Happy Emailing! - Kiefer and the MailPoet Team Unsubscribe | Manage subscription Send your snail mail to: 6 rue Dieudé, Marseille, 13006, France