MailerHive gives every MailerPress issue its own page on your site, an archive readers can browse, and a draft campaign the moment you publish.
Free license · Unlimited sites · Automatic updates
Runs the From the Workbench newsletter on this site: 16 issues so far.
Three things readers and you get the day you install it.
Signup card, recent issues and your own content, in the same design as every issue.
Grouped by year, linked, searchable and indexable on your domain.
Publish in WordPress, review the email in MailerPress, send when you are ready.
Issue pages are standalone documents. Your theme’s styles and scripts stay off them, so an issue looks like the email it was, on any theme.
Nine core features, three optional modules you switch on when you need them.
Every issue at /newsletter/issue/{slug}/, with a sender card, reading time and previous/next links.
CoreAll issues on one page, grouped by year, plus a feed readers and apps can follow.
CoreYour theme’s CSS and scripts stay off issue pages. Fonts, SEO and form plugins keep working.
CoreFollows the reader’s system setting, with a toggle that remembers their choice.
CorePublish an issue and MailerPress gets a draft campaign with Unsubscribe and Manage links.
CoreNewsletters written in MailerPress publish as issue pages once they are sent.
CoreMailerPress web-version links redirect to the issue page instead of a bare email.
CoreBring past issues across, images copied into your media library, links rewritten.
CoreLogo, dark logo, avatar, byline, accent colors, header and footer links, extra CSS.
CoreSignups only add contacts when the consent wording matches what is on record.
OptionalPurchase, refund, abandoned-checkout and category interest tags on contacts.
OptionalPaste Google Docs or block content into MailerPress as native email blocks.
OptionalActivate the plugin, then set your newsletter name, sender, signup form and lists in Newsletter → Settings.
Write the issue in the block editor. Publishing puts it on its own page and drafts the email in MailerPress.
Open the draft in MailerPress, check it, and send. Unsubscribe and Manage links are already in place.
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Checkout takes a minute and asks for no card. Your download and license arrive by email.
Yes. The license costs nothing, covers unlimited sites and includes automatic updates for life. The code is GPL and public on GitHub.
WordPress 6.6 or newer and PHP 8.1. The archive and reading pages work on their own; email drafts and mirroring need MailerPress.
No, and that is deliberate. It prepares drafts. MailerPress sends them, handles unsubscribes and adds the List-Unsubscribe header.
Issue pages use MailerHive’s own templates, so your theme’s design stays off them. You can switch theme isolation off in the settings.
Yes. Paste post slugs into Tools or run the WP-CLI importer. Images land in your media library and links between issues are rewritten.
Ask in the community on this site or open an issue on GitHub. I read both.
My newsletter lived on Substack until October 2026. Moving it to MailerPress meant owning the list, but I lost the archive and the clean issue pages. MailerHive is what I built to get both back, and it is what you are reading on this site’s newsletter today.
Every issue on your domain, a draft in MailerPress the moment you publish.
Installs like any WordPress plugin. Setup takes about five minutes.
Everything here is quick to set up, light on your pages and built to do one real job well. I only charge for the tools that can make you money. The rest are free.
I design, build and support every product on this site myself. When you email me, the person reading it is the one who wrote the code.
I’d rather ship one tool you’d miss if it vanished than ten that sit in your plugin list doing nothing.
18+years building websites, plugins and stores, since 2008
Switch a feature off and it loads nothing. What does load stays small. A tool that replaces a plugin shouldn’t make your pages slower.
Clear screens, sensible defaults and settings written in plain English. If you need a tutorial for the basics, that’s my design mistake, not yours.
Full keyboard support, visible focus, proper labels and text you can actually read. When more people can use your store, more people can buy from it.
My paid tools help you sell, renew, license or convert. If one just sits in your stack, I haven’t done my job.
I won’t charge for anything that can’t make you money. The free tools get the same care as the paid ones, down to the last setting.
