We’ve got the newsletter plugin working – thanks to a tip from another user on the Shift This support forum!
If you’re getting this as an emailed newsletter, it’s via a brilliant plugin from Shift This. Imagine it: you’ve made a blog, people are visiting your site and you want to build a mailing list and design a newsletter. With this plugin you can do both.
Behind the scenes it’s pretty complicated, but out front visitors to your site are greeted with a neat ‘subscribe’ box that puts their email into a list and sends them a confirmation email as a double-check. The end result is an email list that’s very definitely ‘opt-in’.
The part of the plugin where you actually build your newsletters is a bit more complicated. Getting a newsletter out using the basic template is pretty easy. Developing a newsletter to reflect your brand and site is a lot harder. Realistically, unless you’re a bit confident in the graphics and the HTML / Php department you’re going to be stuck with the basic template until someone develops a range of alternatives to choose from.
That said, if you’re willing to experiment and you can ride out a few problems, this looks to be a great plugin for WordPress.
Whether or not it’s £15 well spent is up to you 
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