I have a newsletter — Venetian Stories about the history of Venice — with a couple of hundred recipients.
For some time, I have managed that with a free WordPress plugin. One of those with a PRO version, and every update shifted some functionality over to the paid version.
When I wanted to move the newsletter from my History Walks Venice site to a dedicated domain, there was no way of migrating the plugin data without moving to the PRO version. Several functions I had used for a long time, were no only available for payment.
Confronted with these futile complications, I decided to return to basics.
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