MailOptin: Best Mailgun WordPress Plugin

Create email newsletter sign-up forms in WordPress that integrate with Mailgun. Connect WooCommerce, Elementor, and various contact form, membership, and LMS plugins to your Mailgun account.

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Mailgun Signup Forms. Done Right

Your Mailgun WordPress plugin should do two things well: connect without hassle and give you enough control to build the form experience your audience actually deserves. MailOptin does both, letting you create lead capture forms on your WordPress site that feed directly into your Mailgun audience, contact, or email list.

MailOptin optin types

Multiple Optin Displays

  • Popups: Mailgun forms appear over your website content to grab your website visitors’ attention.
  • Notification Bar: Floating notification bar with a Mailgun form that attaches itself to the top or bottom of your website.
  • Slide-In: Mailgun form that slides into view from the bottom left or right of your website.
  • In-Post: Mailgun form that appears before, middle, or after post content.
  • Widget / Embedded: Mailgun form that appears on your website sidebar or anywhere as a widget or block.

Target Smarter with Mailgun and MailOptin

  • Scroll Trigger: Display Mailgun signup forms to users after scrolling down your website.
  • Time on Site: Show your WordPress form connected to Mailgun to users who have been on your site for a while.
  • Pageviews: Show your offer and the Mailgun lead form to users after they view a specific number of pages.
  • AdBlock Detection​: Detect AdBlock users on your WordPress site and convert them into Mailgun subscribers.
  • Many more: More display and targeting rules include referrer, query string, cookie, and device detection.
MailOptin optin types

The Best Mailgun WordPress Plugin

Scale Marketing With Our Mailgun Integration

MailOptin integrates WordPress with Mailgun, making it easy to add new subscribers from your created optin forms. It automatically sends leads, tags, contact information, and custom data directly to Mailgun.

Connect Optin Forms to Mailgun

Add a Mailgun integration to your WordPress optin form created with MailOptin and send subscriber data to your email list with every submission.

Custom Fields Mapping

Easily connect form fields to Mailgun custom fields to make sure data is sent correctly for better targeting.

Add Tags Automatically

If Mailgun supports it, assign one or more tags to new subscribers after they submit the form.

Select List to Join

Let your leads, contacts, or registering users select the Mailgun audience or email list they want to subscribe to.

Double Optin Support

If Mailgun supports it, enable confirmation emails for each subscriber to ensure they have actively opted in.

Content Locking

Restrict access to certain parts of your WordPress content for Mailgun subscribers only.

Email WordPress Posts to Mailgun

You can automatically email your Mailgun list subscribers every time you publish new posts on your WordPress website.

Want to send out daily, weekly, or even monthly email campaigns of your published content in WordPress to your Mailgun subscribers? MailOptin has you covered.

You can also directly email your contacts and subscribers in Mailgun directly from your WordPress website without having to log in to your Mailgun account dashboard.

Common Use Cases of Mailgun Integration in MailOptin

Grow Your Mailgun Email List: Display targeted popups, slide-ins, notification bars, sidebar forms, and inline opt-ins to convert website visitors into email subscribers and customers

E-commerce Customer Engagement: Utilize WooCommerce integration to target customers with specific offers and Mailgun signup form based on their cart contents, purchase history, or total spending, enhancing customer loyalty and driving sales

Sync Form Submissions to Your CRM: Connect Gravity Forms, Contact Form 7, WPForms, Ninja Forms, Elementor Forms, Fluent Forms, Formidable Forms, WS Form, and other form plugins to automatically send new leads to your Mailgun account.

Automate Customer & Member Onboarding: Instantly add new WooCommerce customers, MemberPress members, Paid Memberships Pro subscribers, Ultimate Member users, GiveWP donors, and Easy Digital Downloads customers to your Mailgun email lists for welcome emails and onboarding sequences.

Nurture Students from Your LMS: Subscribe students from LearnDash, LifterLMS, and Tutor LMS to Mailgun and segment them based on their enrolled courses.

Send Automated New Post Notifications: Email your content to your Mailgun contacts whenever you publish new blog posts, news articles, or custom post types in WordPress.

Create Scheduled Email Digests: Keep your email list subscribers in Mailgun engaged by automatically sending daily, weekly, or monthly email digests featuring your latest content, products, or updates, without having to create each campaign manually.

Deliver Email Newsletters: Design and send professional newsletters and broadcasts directly from WordPress to subscribers, leads, or your audience in Mailgun.

Mailgun & WordPress – Frequently Asked Questions

What is Mailgun?

Mailgun is a mail delivery service that specializes in transactional and bulk sending through robust SMTP and REST APIs. It includes a Mailing Lists feature that lets you store subscribers and leads on the platform itself, group them into addressable lists, and send to the entire list via a single alias address, useful for lightweight newsletter or lead-capture workflows.

How do I connect Mailgun to WordPress?

To connect Mailgun to WordPress, install and activate MailOptin, then connect your Mailgun account using an API key or OAuth. Next, create an email signup form or popup in MailOptin and select Mailgun as an integration. Once configured, new subscribers collected through your WordPress forms are automatically added to your chosen Mailgun list.

Do I need technical knowledge to use Mailgun in MailOptin?

No technical knowledge is required. The Mailgun integration in MailOptin is designed to be user-friendly, allowing you to set up and manage your data connections with ease.

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