Title: Subby Subscribers Author: Web Guy Published: June 12, 2026 Last modified: June 12, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/subby-subscribers/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=3570023) ![](https://ps.w.org/subby-subscribers/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3570023) # Subby Subscribers By [Web Guy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webguyio/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/subby-subscribers.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/subby-subscribers/) ## Description [💬 Ask Question](https://github.com/webguyio/support/issues) | [📧 Email Me](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/webguywork@gmail.com?output_format=md) Let readers subscribe to get email updates whenever you publish new content. **This IS NOT a marketing plugin.** This is purely a utility plugin, allowing your readers to get simple email updates in a more privacy-respecting way. It does not create an email list that you can export in plain text or use for any purpose other than sending notifications from your site. If you’re looking for a more traditional email subscriber plugin, I recommend [Subscribe2](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/), and if you’re looking for a full-blown newsletter service, I recommend [Mailchimp](https://mailchimp.com/). #### How it Works 1. You install and activate the plugin. 2. You place the `[subby]` shortcode somewhere on your website and invite users to subscribe/unsubscribe for updates. You can optionally customize the button label:`[ subby submit="Get Updates"]`. 3. When someone subscribes or unsubscribes via the form, they receive a confirmation email with a link to complete the action. 4. When you publish new content, confirmed subscribers receive a notification email with a link to the new post. 5. Subscriber emails are encrypted at rest and only shown partially in the admin ( _Tools > Subscribers_). 6. The encryption key is derived from your existing `AUTH_KEY` found in your _wp-config. php_ file. 7. In your admin (_Tools > Subscribers_), you can manage subscribers and configure the from name and email, which post types trigger notifications, and which categories to exclude. ## Installation **Automatic** * From your WordPress Admin, navigate to: _Plugins > Add New_ * Search for: “Subby Subscribers” * Install it * Activate it **Manual** * Download * Unzip * Upload to /plugins/ folder * Activate ## FAQ ### Why aren’t emails being delivered to subscribers? First, test the deliverability of your email at [mail-tester.com](https://www.mail-tester.com/). Then adjust as needed. Depending on your server setup, you’ll probably need to set up SMTP as well, which can be done with a [plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search/smtp/). ### Why are emails hidden? Because any tool that collects emails almost universally abuses those emails. This plugin discourages using emails for anything other than their intended purpose. ### If I subscribe to a website using Subby, is my email private? Yes and no. It’s encrypted at rest (which protects it in the case of a data breach) and never shown to site admins in plain text (which discourages abuse). However, to keep your email address 100% hidden, you would have to use an email proxy service like [SimpleLogin](https://simplelogin.io/). ### Why don’t you just make the emails end-to-end encrypted so the server has zero-knowledge of them? I could make it zero-knowledge to the website/server itself by handing off the sending to a centralized service. I could split the keys between the site and that service, so that neither can trivially read the emails directly. However, at the point of being unencrypted for send time, the emails must become available, and they could then be logged at that point. Never say never and I hate giving up and passing the burden off to the user, but technically, the only sane way to truly make it zero-knowledge would be for the user to never give their actual email in the first place, by using something like [SimpleLogin](https://simplelogin.io/). ### Can I request a new feature? Sure, as long as it doesn’t undermine the privacy-focused nature of the plugin, [email me](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/webguywork@gmail.com?output_format=md). ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Subby Subscribers” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Web Guy ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/webguyio/) [Translate “Subby Subscribers” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/subby-subscribers) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/subby-subscribers/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/subby-subscribers/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/subby-subscribers/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/subby-subscribers/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1 * New ## Meta * Version **0.1** * Last updated **9 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.0** * PHP version ** 8.0 or higher ** * Tags * [email subscriptions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email-subscriptions/) [emails](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/emails/)[pings](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/pings/) [subscriptions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/subscriptions/)[updates](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/updates/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/subby-subscribers/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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