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Referrals in the Portal

Subscribers can change their email address

How email tracking works behind the scenes

We've published a new blog post: > A brief history of email tracking pixels, how they work, and how to turn them off. Read it here!

Announcing django-rq-cron

We've published a new blog post: > A Django app for running cron jobs with RQ Read it here!

Featured emails

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We've published a new blog post: > Sometimes, the only correct response to a feature request is to build an entirely different thing. Read it here!

It's [always] a great time to build an email course

We've published a new blog post: > Turn your unique insights into timely lessons that subscribers invite into their inboxes. Read it here!

Safer bulk actions

The legendary email client power users wouldn't let die

We've published a new blog post: > Anyone who sells anything on the internet could take a page out of Steve Dorner's Eudora playbook. Read it here!

Updates from May

Buttondown, but in your own language Cześć! Goedemorgen! Bom dia! Buttondown finally has localization! We have a lot of non-English-speaking users and, after...

The non-scientific, non-scammy way to grow your newsletter

We've published a new blog post: > There are no shortcuts to growth, but there are strategies to steadily grow Read it here!

You should have a can-do attitude about CAN-SPAM

We've published a new blog post: > Newsletter platforms take care of most of the law's requirements for you (and the ones they don't require barely any...

New API changes for Buttondown

TL;DR requests.post( "https://api.buttondown.email/v1/attachments", files={ "file": open("newsletter-guide.pdf", "rb") }, data={ "name": "Newsletter Guide" }...

Tracking clicks in archives, too

Customizable exports

A brief history of all the times email was supposed to die

We've published a new blog post: > Second only to the year of Linux on the desktop. Read it here!

SimpleAnalytics integration

Best practices on pre-launch emails

We've published a new blog post: > The trickiest thing is keeping people's interest in the interim between announcing and launching your product. Read it here!

Revamped email draft flow

New API changes for Buttondown

When we first launched Buttondown's API, we actually had three separate email endpoints: /v1/drafts, /v1/scheduled_emails, and /v1/emails, because we had...

New API changes for Buttondown

TL;DR requests.get( "https://api.buttondown.email/v1/subscribers", params={ "date": ["2025-01-01", "2025-03-31"], // [!code --] "date__start": "2025-01-01",...

New API changes for Buttondown

You can now request newsletter exports in JSON format by specifying the new format field when creating an export. The old CSV functionality remains...

Markdown is unformatted formatting

We've published a new blog post: > How early computer users created the longest lasting formatting style, out of spare characters. Read it here!

New API changes for Buttondown

We've expanded the Newsletter API to include the following new fields that allow for further programmatic customization of your newsletter: css - Custom CSS...

Analytics for sad stuff

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E-COM: The $40 million USPS project to send email on paper

We've published a new blog post: > The USPS offered to print your email for you. Only spammers said yes. Read it here!

Updates from April

(Are you proud of us for abstaining from the “It’s gonna be May” pun? We hope so.) Filter subscribers based on UTM parameters Who cares what UTM actually...

Attachments helped email go global

We've published a new blog post: > Sending files via email might be on the decline, but its history is more important than ever. Read it here!

This is not a newsletter accessibility checklist

We've published a new blog post: > It's a starting point with a few early guideposts. Read it here!

Configurable Firewall

Quickly spot suspicious domains or IPs

The community powered email newsletter

We've published a new blog post: > The best way to share community discussions is a newsletter. Read it here!

Easily filter a subscriber's activity

New API changes for Buttondown

We've expanded the EmailStatus enum to include the following new statuses: throttled - The email is being sent out slowly to ensure deliverability. resending...

Automatic periodic exports

Better tracking with expanded UTM filtering

New API changes for Buttondown

We've expanded the subscriber filtering capabilities by adding support for UTM parameters. You can now filter subscribers by: utm_campaign - Find subscribers...

AMP and why emails are not (and should never be) interactive.

We've published a new blog post: > Google tried to reinvent email. Everyone said no. Read it here!

Updates from March

Sign subscribers up to your other newsletters with automations Buttondown’s Automations builder now includes an “Add to [newsletters you manage]” action. It...

Email ideas to build hype for your first book launch

We've published a new blog post: > Get more reviews, pre-orders, and sales for an upcoming release with timely newsletters to your biggest fans. Read it here!

New API changes for Buttondown

You can now provide an IP address when creating a subscriber. This will be used to determine the subscriber's location and validate their legitimacy...

Our tracking infrastructure is now our own

On hacker wordplay and fossilized poetry

We've published a new blog post: > The neologisms of the early internet persist because of the camaraderie of coded communication. Read it here!

Better handling for undeliverable subscribers

New API changes for Buttondown

You can now filter subscribers by their undeliverability status and specific reasons for being marked undeliverable. This helps you better manage your list...