subscribe to posts email plugin? We had one, but it was abandoned by the developer :-(

hello reddit!

So we have a volunteer noncommercial podcast site called Madness Radio running for 15+ years on a wordpress site. Love wordpress!

We were using a plugin called Subscribe By Email developed by WPMU DEV. It's discontinued now (we found out bc the plugin started sending out spam, ouch).

So we are looking for an alternative – something that does basic things:

puts a subscribe box where people can enter their email address

sends a confirm subscription email to them so they confirm it

then is set to Send automatically so that when there are New Posts – type – Shows – published it automatically sends to all the emails signed up.

Ideally, free!

Since we've been doing this for 15 years we have a few hundred subscribers already that we need to import to the new plugin, so it needs to have that functionality ideally.

I know how to install new wprdpress plugins but have super limited back end skills beyond that.

Any help appreciated!

• Will