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Nolimit News

Newsletters for WordPress and WooCommerce: write an issue in the block editor, keep your lists, put a signup form anywhere, send it through your own mail setup, and show every issue as an archive on your own site. Written to replace Mailchimp for a shop that does not want a monthly bill per subscriber.

What it does

• Write an issue in the block editor, inside a template, with images, columns, buttons and products from your shop.
• Lists and subscribers, with double opt-in, a one-click unsubscribe in every mail, and a CSV export whenever you want your list back.
• Sign-up through a block or a shortcode, and from a Nolimit Forms form you connect to a list.
• Send now or at a time you choose, to one list or several, to each person once. A test send goes to one address and changes nobody.
• An archive of every sent issue on your own site, in your theme's own frame, and a block that lists the latest issues on any page.
• Templates that are plain HTML files: use the two that come with it, drop your own into your theme, or paste one in that an AI designed from the guide the plugin hands you.
• Import a Mailchimp export (subscribed, unsubscribed and cleaned files) and ask the imported people to confirm, so leaving Mailchimp is not a weekend.

What it refuses to do

• No click tracking. No link in a mail is rewritten, so no address is routed through anyone.
• No phone-home. Nothing about your site or your subscribers is sent to anyone. There is no account and no paid tier.
• No opening-counting unless you switch it on. It is an option, off by default. When it is on, it records who opened which issue in your own database and tells nobody else, and the suggested privacy text changes with it.
• Nothing is mailed to somebody who has not agreed. A signup is pending until the person follows the link in the confirmation mail, and a pending signup nobody confirms is deleted after 30 days.

Where to start

1. Install it and set up your mail: SETUP.md.
2. Make a list, put the signup block on a page, write an issue, send yourself a test, send it.
3. Developers building on it: CONTRACT.md lists every hook, option, table and constant, and what is deliberately not promised.

Documentation

File	For
SETUP.md	Installing it, the few settings that need a decision, and checking that it works.
CONTRACT.md	Developers: what it offers other plugins and themes, what it stores, and what it asks of them.

Requires WordPress 5.9+ and PHP 7.4+. WooCommerce is not required; with it active, an issue can carry live product cards.