Dropndot Email Subscriptions and Newsletters

Dropndot Email Subscriptions and Newsletters is a full-featured email subscription and newsletter plugin for WordPress. Collect subscribers with double or single opt-in, manage them from a dedicated admin dashboard, send newsletters, and integrate with headless frontends via REST API or GraphQL.

Core Features

• Double opt-in and single opt-in subscription modes
• Customizable confirmation, welcome, and unsubscribe email templates
• One-click unsubscribe with optional confirmation emails
• One-click re-subscribe from unsubscribe emails (token-based)
• Admin dashboard with statistics, search, filters, and bulk actions
• CSV export with geolocation data (country, region)
• Subscription form shortcode with customizable appearance

Advanced Features

• Google reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 spam protection (optional)
• IP-based rate limiting
• Automatic geolocation via ipinfo.io
• Custom confirmation and unsubscribe pages
• Admin email notifications for new subscriptions and unsubscribes
• REST API for full CRUD operations
• GraphQL support (requires the WPGraphQL plugin)
• Headless frontend integration for Next.js and React applications
• Trusted frontend proxy secret for accurate visitor geolocation behind server-side proxies
• AJAX-powered admin interface

Email Newsletter Features

• Email template management with TinyMCE editor
• Send newsletters immediately or schedule for future delivery
• Country-based subscriber filtering
• Batch processing for large subscriber lists (10,000+)
• Real-time progress tracking during sends
• Complete sending history with statistics
• HTML emails optimized for major email clients

Shortcodes

• [dropemsu_form] — Display a subscription form (optional title and button_text attributes).
• [dropemsu_confirmation_status] — Show confirmation status on a custom confirmation page.
• [dropemsu_unsubscribe_status] — Show unsubscribe status on a custom unsubscribe page.

REST API

All routes are registered under the dropemsu-manager/v1 namespace and include endpoints for listing, creating, updating, deleting, confirming, and unsubscribing.

External services

This plugin may connect to third-party services when the related features are enabled:

ipinfo.io (Geolocation)

• Used to detect subscriber country and region from IP address during subscription.
• Data sent: visitor IP address.
• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy

Google reCAPTCHA (Spam protection, optional)

• Used when reCAPTCHA is enabled in plugin settings.
• Data sent: information required by Google reCAPTCHA to verify submissions.
• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy