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Plaintext for the Newsletter plugin

Plain text generator for The Newsletter Plugin

By franciscus·Add On·Free
5(1 reviews)
·60 active installs·Updated 10 months ago
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As of April 2026, Plaintext for the Newsletter plugin is a WordPress add on plugin with 60 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.3K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Top alternative: OoohBoi Steroids for Elementor.

5/51 reviews
60active installs
2.3K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019

Overview

The Newsletter Plugin is great for generating HTML newsletters. Its sophisticated Drag & Drop Composer makes it very easy to create a newsletter that looks good and renders well in a variety of email readers.

But it is generally considered good practice to include “plain text” version of the newsletter as well. For that reason, an automatic plaintext generation capability was added to the Newsletter plugin. However, that built-in capability does not apply to Raw HTML newsletters nor does it apply to transactional emails.

The purpose of this add-on is to add a plaintext generation option to all newsletters and emails sent by the Newsletter plugin.

For Raw HTML newsletters, this add-on adds the same “Autogenerate” / “Hand edited” dropdown on the Advanced setting…

Read full description on WordPress.org

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Ratings & Reviews

51 reviews
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Compatibility

WordPress4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5
PHP7.3+ required

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Frequently Asked Questions

Changelog

Version 3.2

  • Replaced use of deprecated filter ‘newsletter_message_text’ with ‘newsletter_message’.
View full changelog on WordPress.org

Contributors

franciscusfranciscus
Plugin Info
Version
3.2
Last Updated
May 26, 2025
WP Requires
4.6+
Tested Up To
6.8.5
PHP Requires
7.3+
Active Installs
60
Downloads
2.3K+
Added
Jul 12, 2019
Business
Free

Tags

add onnewsletterplain text

Developer

F
franciscus
2 plugins0.0M+ total installs
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