Substack vs WordPress + Newsletter Glue
Choosing between Substack and WordPress? It all comes down to renting vs owning.
Want to simultaneously publish online and to email subscribers? Learn how you can have this workflow in WordPress with Newsletter Glue.
After switching from Substack, we saw a 10x increase in our web audience and doubled conversion rates. Now, our entire team simply works out of WordPress.
Mushfiq S
Founder of The Website Flip
Your own domain. SEO-friendly newsletters.
Get visitors and subscribers to your very own site, not a platform you're renting that makes decisions without your consent.
Optimise each newsletter issue with your favourite WordPress SEO plugin to get more visitors to your website.
Hide content from your blog or newsletter.
Have a subscribers-only offer and want to keep it hidden from your blog? We can do that.
Want to add a subscriber form to your blog that's hidden from your email? We can do that too.
Customise your newsletter design.
Tables, images, author bylines, post embeds, you name it. We have everything you need to create a professional newsletter layout.
All in the WordPress block editor.
Connect seamlessly to an email platform for advanced automations and analytics.
We glue your favourite email platform to WordPress.
Get the best of both worlds: Advanced automations, analytics and segmentation + Own all your content and get an enjoyable writing experience in WordPress.
Works with Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Brevo, Campaign Monitor, Klaviyo, GetResponse, Mailjet, MailerLite, Moosend, Sendgrid and Sendy.
Quick summary
Header |   |  |
|---|---|---|
Best for | Serious online publishers | Online publishers |
Publishing experience | WordPress block editor Feels like writing a blog post. | Text editor |
Own your platform and content | Yes, everything on your site belongs to you. | No, your content is on a rented platform. |
SEO-FRIENDLY | Yes, searchable, shareable newsletters by default. | No |
hide content from blog/newsletter | Yes, easily hide content. | No |
customisations | Yes, create your own layouts. | Limited |
Automations, analytics, segmentation | Yes, managed by your email service provider Connect via API in seconds. | No |
"With Newsletter Glue, I can customize the look and feel of my newsletters in ways that Substack doesn’t allow, and I can build out my members-only website exactly how I want."
Jared Newman
Journalist, Cord Cutter Weekly and Advisorator
More Resources
How The Website Flip migrated from Substack to WordPress and 10x-ed web audience.
With Newsletter Glue, we doubled conversions and 10x-ed viewers to our site.
Mega guide: Set up a paid newsletter on WordPress.
Own or Rent? If you’re serious about your paid newsletter business, build your own publishing platform on WordPress.
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