Subscribe2 – Form, Email Subscribers & Newsletters
Sends a list of subscribers an email notification when you publish new posts.
3.5(115 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 3 months agoAs of April 2026, Subscribe2 is a WordPress email plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 3.5/5 rating from 115 reviews. It has been downloaded 2.5M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 5.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2005. Downloads are up 8% this week. Support resolution rate: 50%. Top alternative: WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most….
3.5/5115 reviews
10K+active installs
50%resolved
21 yearssince 2005
Overview
Summary
Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
A full description of features is below.
Email notifications can be sent on a per-post basis or periodically in a Digest email. Additionally, certain categories can be excluded from inclusion in the notification and posts can be excluded on an individual basis by setting a custom field.
Subscriptions
Subscription requests allows users to publicly subscribe (Public Subscribers) by submitting their email address in an easy to use form or to register with your blog (Registered Users) which enables greater flexibility over the email content for per-post notifications for th…
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Ratings & Reviews
3.5115 reviews
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Recent Reviews
Deleting this plugin solved a BIG problem
by ddbosk·3 months ago·1 reply
For years I used this with no problem. Then suddenly I started getting daily “mail suspended temporarily because daily limit exceeded” notices from my web host.
I deactivated Subscribe2 and the problem stopped. Draw your own conclusions.
Does not update security issues
by Peter Wollerup·1 year ago
Does not update or respond to security issues
WordPress Subscribe2 Plugin <= 10.42 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control
regarding to Patchstack (PSID: 4de2aa554db5)
Override button has disappeared
by webmistressofthedark·3 years ago
The override button has disappeared.
Also what’s with this ‘block’ garbage! OMG WP — PLEASE LOSE IT!!!!
Doesn’t work in latest WP version
by skymit·4 years ago
Doesn’t work in latest WP version
- This topic was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by skymit.
Good but needs a big fix
by pubwvj·4 years ago
I’ve been using this for a while but it needs a big fix. The plugin should send mail singly and spread out over time rather than all at once. I’m getting complaints from my ISP that the plugin is overloading the server with huge dumps of email. I only have about 1,500 subscribers and if that is overloading then I can only imagine how bad it must be with more popular blogs. Please implement this.
I just downgraded my review from five stars to one star. See… there’s a problem that this plugin creates: it overloads the servers with email as described above. I just discovered that the developer is offering a fix for that for $29.99 PER FREAKING YEAR!!!!! It was bad enough that the developer creates a problem and then offers to solve it for a fee. It was worse that the fee is kind of high – I finally decided to pay it untill I discovered… It is absurd that the fee is a reoccurring annual subscription. No thanks.
- This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by pubwvj. Reason: See comment
Download Trends
Today: 73Yesterday: 95This week: 395Period total: 30K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 5.4+ required |
Version Adoption
Other
42.9%
v10.45
38.0%
v10.44
13.3%
v10.21
5.9%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
10.45 (29th Dec, 2025)
- Enhance: Capability checks added for better security.
Contributors
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