Create a free email newsletter service using wordpress

Create a Free Email Newsletter Service using WordPress
By Editorial Staff in Tutorials

As you see now, more and more bloggers are adding weekly email newsletter service on their blog. A lot of their audience subscribe to the weekly newsletter because it summarizes the week worth of activities on the blog, and it has exclusive tips just for the subscribers. There are many email newsletter solutions like Aweber, one of the most recommended one, but they all charge money. The solution we are going to mention in here by no means can compare to the features provided by the premium service like Aweber, and it must not be considered as the better system. Our solution is rather to give bloggers an affordable and functional method to create newsletter by using the open source software that we all love, WordPress.
In this tutorial, we will be using WordPress and Feedburner with a few plugins to create a simple Email Newsletter Service for your WordPress blog. You can track the performance of your newsletter by checking how many subscribers you have, how many clicks each link gets and much more.
Note: The codes referenced in this article will vary across themes because each designer has their own style of coding. So look for something similar or along the line of that code. This is by no means an advanced tutorial, but HTML and CSS Knowledge is recommended.
Step 1 – Add a New Category
In the first step of this tutorial, you will need to create a new category for your posts in WordPress. You can create a new category by visiting Posts > Categories Tab in your WordPress admin panel. You can name the category anything you like. For the sake of example, we will call it Email Newsletter.

One of the things that you need to make sure that you do is to note the category ID of this new category that you created. It will be very crucial that you know this ID. Through out this tutorial, we will be using the parameter [Replace with your Category Id] and where ever you see