[nlp commenter]

I did read the article, missed the asterisk on my initial reading and built my integration under the assumption that the Ninja Form Integration was free. And, it bugs me, as you might infer. It is classic bait-and-switch through obfuscation and an intentionally misleading tactic. Why not be more transparent? If it’s not free, you could very clearly and easily indicate that it’s not free at the top of the article in a bold, perhaps colored font, with text that says something like:

“The Ninja Forms Integration plugin is no longer free. It is a premium plugin and part of the basic user subscription.” [link to the subscription]

Anyway – the obfuscation doesn’t matter at this point. I wrote my own integration plugin for it this morning. $65 is too much to support a single “subscribe” checkbox on a Ninja Form, as stated above. I might have been willing to spend $5 on it, but forcing users to pay a high price for a bunch of stuff they will probably never use to get a single, extremely basic function is not an appealing offer from the consumer side.

ps. I have noticed a couple of things in my initial use.
1. When you unsubscribe, the page shows a link to re-activate, but there is no unsubscribe link in the reactivation confirmation email and the previous unsubscribe links have been invalidated (since the user unsubscribed). So, if you resubscribe and don’t manually capture the link, the only way to unsubscribe again is at the next mailing. The reactivation email should include an updated unsubscribe link. It’s true that unsubscribe-resubscribe-unsubscribe is not very likely, but the correct link should always be present in the latest user action confirmation email so that the user can take action without intervention from the administrator.

2. “Send Now” for Newsletters still relies on cron. My expectation upon hitting “Send Now” was that the mail would be sent immediately directly via the php mailer. Instead, I had to unblock the auth on my site and manually run cron/refresh pages to get the Newsletter queue to empty. Send Now should immediately do the send via php without requiring cron.

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