Inbox This is a WordPress plugin that helps you increase newsletter sign-ups without changing how you write or publish. Once installed, it automatically turns any article on your site into an email version.
Readers can type in their email and get that exact article delivered straight to their inbox. We originally built it for our own website, and after implementing it, our sign-up rate went up noticeably.
It also requires almost zero maintenance. You install it once, and it runs on its own. You don't need to create extra lead-ins or new content.
Inbox This also sorts new subscribers into categories so you can run targeted email campaigns later without extra work.
Clicking Settings → Inbox This takes you to the settings page for Inbox This and shows the Forms Overview tab where there is an inactive Example Form available for you to edit.
Click the Edit Form button at the bottom of the Example Form card to start editing the example form and customize it to your liking. If you prefer to leave the example form as is, you can also click the Duplicate Form button on the Example Form card to create a copy of it that you can edit, or click the Create New Form button at the top right to create a new form from scratch.
After clicking the Edit Form button on an existing form or the Create New Form button from the Forms Overview tab, you will be taken to the Form Builder tab to edit the form info, text, style, and placement.
The Form Info area at the top of the Form Builder tab allows you to change the following items:
If you've set up a Marketing Provider on the Service Provider Settings tab, there will be one more item depending on the provider:
As you make changes to the Form Info (CAPTCHA toggle), Form Text, and Form Style sections, the Live Preview will update to show an example of what the form will look like on the front-end.
You can completely change all of the text shown on the form:
{reading_time} to show an estimated reading time. Surround text with asterisks * to make it bold.Error messages shown when something goes wrong with a form submission. Changes here do not appear in the Live Preview – they only appear on the front-end.
There are six preset themes: three light themes and three dark themes. Click on a theme thumbnail to preview it.
If the preset styles aren't what you need, click the Custom button to create your own style by changing colors, borders, and padding of the form, email input box, and submit button. You can also change the color of success text, failure text, and link text.
Choose where the form appears on the front-end:
Adds the form to all posts. Placement Precedence is useful when multiple forms could apply to a single post – the one with the highest precedence wins. You can also choose where inside each post the form appears (e.g., before the 1st paragraph, after the 3rd img tag).
The Place before 1st paragraph if above tag not found? toggle provides a fallback placement option.
Manually choose which posts display the form by inserting a shortcode. The form must be saved first to generate its shortcode.
Show the form only on posts in selected categories.
Show the form only on posts with selected tags.
For multilingual sites, show a separate form for each language.
For sending articles to users. Options:
You can change the From Name and From Address used to send emails.
Automatically import email addresses into a marketing provider:
Protect forms against bots:
The Stats tab shows three reports:
Click the plus (+) icon to expand results by category. Use the Export CSV file of email addresses button to export the email list for manual import.
A log of every article sent to a user: date, category, article title, email address, and success status. Use the time period filter to narrow results. Add &per_page=20 to the URL to change the number of rows per page.
A log of every email address imported into your marketing provider: date, provider, email address, success status, and detailed import steps. Filterable by time period.
The bottom of the page shows the next scheduled marketing import. Imports run every 30 minutes via WordPress cron.