Title: Free version is crippled
Last modified: September 1, 2026

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# Free version is crippled

 *  [JohnP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnp/)
 * (@johnp)
 * [5 days, 8 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/free-version-is-crippled/)
 * All I wanted was a simple plugin (to replace Subscribe2) that will email subscribers
   whenever a new post is made. Perhaps I did not read the documentation carefully
   enough, but I wasted almost an hour before discovering that this basic functionality
   is missing in the free version.

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