@jeffro:

I enjoyed this post a great deal. Love the blog and have RSS'ed it.

Here's the problem I'm having.

I tried Simple Email Subscriber as you suggested and it just won't work on my site. I've taken off all my Jetpack functions except Subscriber and yet Jetpack still takes up 25 per cent of my upload time for my two sites, bulldogottawa.com and bulldogcanadian.com.

I need a lightweight plugin in which I can insert my subscriptions from Jetpack and that just sends out emails when I publish a post. I can't say I find Subscribe2 very helpful.

I'd really like to get my sites as efficient as possible and have spent many, many hours trying to find a good replacement for Jetpack subscriptions. I like the plugin but I don't like the amount of capacity it uses. It's the last Jetpack function I use.

I really need some simple plugin alternatives.

Thanks for your help and any suggestions from your readers as well.

cheers

kgray