=== Saxon Email Marketing Center ===
Contributors: saxonblade
Tags: email marketing, email campaigns, marketing campaigns, email templates, self hosted email marketing
Requires at least: 6.2
Tested up to: 7.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.6.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Self hosted email marketing in WordPress | Marketing campaigns with contact lists, email templates, newsletter forms and scheduled email campaigns.

== Description ==

📌 Saxon Email Marketing Center is a self hosted email marketing plugin for WordPress, designed for businesses that want to run email marketing from their own website. Create and manage contacts, contact lists, newsletter signup forms, email templates and email campaigns directly from the WordPress dashboard. Build marketing campaigns without depending on a separate email marketing SaaS platform for the core workflow.

📌 Create reusable email templates with the visual block-based builder and template library, then use those email templates as the foundation for email campaigns. Choose the audience, preview the message, send a test email, and either send immediately or schedule email campaigns for later. This structured workflow makes it easier to prepare newsletters, promotions, announcements, product updates and other marketing campaigns from one place.

📌 Contacts can be added manually, imported from CSV, imported from your website, or collected through newsletter forms. Organise subscribers into contact lists, manage subscription status, record consent and contact activity, and suppress contacts who should not receive future mail. For organisations looking for self hosted email marketing, this keeps the core audience, template and campaign-management workflow inside WordPress while still allowing your site to use its configured email delivery method.

📌 Built-in sending safeguards help newer senders begin responsibly. Campaign and daily sending limits increase automatically as successful sending history grows, while email campaigns can pause when daily capacity is reached and resume when capacity becomes available again. Delivery progress, failures and campaign history remain visible so you can manage each marketing campaign with greater control.

📌 Saxon Email Marketing Center brings contact management, email templates, newsletter forms and campaign tools together as a practical self hosted email marketing system for WordPress. It gives website owners a central place to manage email marketing activity without moving the core workflow into a separate marketing platform.

=== Self hosted email marketing in WordPress ===

Saxon Email Marketing Center is designed for website owners who want self hosted email marketing tools integrated directly into WordPress. Contacts, email templates, newsletter forms and email campaigns are managed from the same WordPress installation, giving you one central workflow for creating, organising and sending marketing campaigns.

Instead of moving between WordPress and a separate email marketing dashboard, you can create an email template, organise contact lists, build an email campaign and review campaign activity from your own website. Your configured mail transport handles delivery, while Saxon Email Marketing Center manages the core campaign workflow.

=== Build, schedule and manage email campaigns ===

Create email templates once and reuse them across newsletters, promotions and other marketing campaigns. Campaigns can be prepared in advance, previewed, tested, sent immediately or scheduled for a later date and time. Recipient queues, retries, progress reporting and failure tracking help you follow each email campaign from preparation through delivery.

Self hosted email marketing also gives you direct control over how contacts are organised and selected for email campaigns. Contacts can belong to multiple lists, subscription status is retained, consent activity is recorded, and suppressed contacts are excluded from future campaign sends.

=== Email marketing for newsletters and promotions ===

Use Saxon Email Marketing Center for newsletters, promotions, announcements and product updates. Reusable email templates can support recurring email campaigns, while contact lists and scheduling tools help keep each marketing campaign organised from preparation through delivery.

For businesses comparing self hosted email marketing options, this provides a focused WordPress email marketing workflow: prepare an email template, build an email campaign, choose the audience, schedule delivery and review campaign activity. The same tools can support one-off marketing campaigns or regular communications without moving the core workflow to a separate email marketing platform.

=== Core features ===

**👍 Email Contact Management:** Contact database; Contact event history; Consent tracking; Import contacts from website; CSV bulk contact import; Contact suppression; Contact source tracking; Contact import support; Bulk contact actions

**👍 Email Lists & Segmentation:** Unlimited email contact lists; Email list memberships; Subscription status management; Email list filtering; Audience segmentation

**👍 Email Campaigns:** Draft campaigns; Scheduled email campaigns; Immediate send campaigns; Recipient queue generation; Retry handling; Email template preview; Test send to admin; Delivery tracking; Failure tracking

**👍 Email Template Builder:** Visual email builder; Block-based email templates; Email template library; Saved templates; Email template previews; Reusable content blocks

**👍 Newsletter Forms:** Newsletter signup forms; Shortcode support; Consent checkbox support; Honeypot protection; Timing protection; Optional Cloudflare Turnstile support

**👍 Compliance:** Unsubscribe links; Consent recording; Consent history; Contact audit; Suppression management; Subscription management

**👍 Tracking & Reporting:** Click tracking; Contact activity history

**👍 Branding Studio:** Company branding; Logo management; Email colour controls; Typography settings; Footer configuration; Compliance messaging

=== Pro features ===

**✅ Image Badges:** Add prices and short promotional messages directly to your email images using configurable corner triangles, starbursts, price tickets and ribbons. Use them to draw attention to featured products, special offers or key messages and encourage recipients to make that all-important click.

**✅ Email Preference Center:** Give subscribers more control over what they receive by letting them manage individual list subscriptions instead of relying only on a global unsubscribe. A contact who no longer wants one type of email may still choose to remain subscribed to other newsletters, offers or updates that interest them.

**✅ Footer Message Personalization:** Personalize the way you close your email by changing the final message and adding an optional link. Use the space for a short sign-off, a useful reminder or another call to action that gives each email campaign a more tailored finish.

**✅ Newsletter Math Captcha:** Discourage bots and nuisance sign-ups by adding a configurable math challenge to your newsletter forms. Choose from three difficulty levels and enable it with a simple option. It can be used on its own or alongside Cloudflare Turnstile to provide an additional anti-spam layer.

Learn more about the [Saxon Email Marketing Center Pro Add-On](https://saxonwebsites.co.uk/product/saxon-email-marketing-center-pro-add-on/).

=== Help, FAQs & Tutorials ===

For help using Saxon Email Marketing Center, visit our [Support page](https://saxonwebsites.co.uk/plugins/saxon-email-marketing-center/).

* [Frequently Asked Questions](https://saxonwebsites.co.uk/plugins/saxon-email-marketing-center/frequently-asked-questions/)
* [Video Tutorials](https://saxonwebsites.co.uk/plugins/saxon-email-marketing-center/video-tutorials/)

== Installation ==

1. Install Saxon Email Marketing Center through the WordPress Plugins screen, or upload it to `/wp-content/plugins/saxon-email-marketing-center`.
2. Activate the plugin, then open Saxon Email Marketing Center in WordPress to configure branding, sender settings, forms, contacts, lists, templates and campaigns.

== Third-party services ==

=== Cloudflare Turnstile ===

Cloudflare Turnstile is an optional anti-spam service for newsletter forms and is disabled by default. When enabled on a form, Cloudflare's JavaScript is loaded in the visitor's browser and the Turnstile response token and visitor's IP address are sent to Cloudflare for verification. A Cloudflare account and Turnstile keys are required.

Service: https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/
Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/application/terms/
Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

== Screenshots ==

1. Template Library.
2. Campaign preview.
3. Pro Badges.
4. Template Block Library.
5. Dashboard.
6. Pro Features.
7. Email Preference Center.
8. Newsletter Form.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.6.1 =
* Removed the accidentally bundled nested trunk directory from the WordPress.org
  release package.
* No functional plugin behaviour has changed.

= 1.0.6 =
* Added colour-coded contact sendability indicators and unified sendability checks.
* Added consistent SEMC branding across plugin admin pages.
* Improved admin notice handling to eliminate layout shifts and provide consistent placement.
* Added polished SEMC-styled action buttons across key admin screens.

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.0.6.1 =
Packaging hotfix correcting the WordPress.org release structure. No functional plugin changes.