Cory and Phil interview Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue, a WordPress plugin that lets you write your newsletter in WordPress and connects to several different email services.

We talk about the journey from digital agency to WordPress plugin company and whether it’s feasible to be both, Newsletter Glue’s Gutenberg-based features, different plugin business models and how contributing factors in, and a new YouTube series called Glam That Plugin.

If you’re an agency interested in partnering with Newsletter Glue to help your clients make the best newsletter possible, visit https://newsletterglue.com/implementation-services/.

If you have questions about WordPress website development, contributing, or anything else web-related that you’d like to hear us discuss, send an email to podcast@blackbird.digital. You can also find us on Twitter as @InTheLoop_WP.

## Links

Follow Lesley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/lesley_pizza

Newsletter Glue website: https://newsletterglue.com

(16:34 ) Clients abandoning WordPress: https://twitter.com/lesley_pizza/status/1531484172623450112

(20:46 ) 7-10 year plan: https://twitter.com/lesley_pizza/status/1531490814316396544

(25:16 ) WordPress Product Managers: https://twitter.com/lesley_pizza/status/1531531655428853760

(32:53 ) Newsletter Glue consulting: https://newsletterglue.com/implementation-services/

(55:27 ) GoDaddy on blast: https://wptavern.com/matt-mullenweg-identifies-godaddy-as-a-parasitic-company-and-an-existential-threat-to-wordpress-future

(1:04:07 ) Glam That Plugin: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvI6qyQ9STRcHCrpHWJ2uMQ

## Upcoming WP Events

WordCamp US 2022, Sept 9–11: https://us.wordcamp.org/2022/