One of the largest feature differences between Postmatic free and Postmatic Premium can be found in how new post and comment notifications are formatted.

Prior to today’s release all emails sent from your site using the free plan were sent as plain text. This included new posts, invitations, comment notifications, and all transactional emails like subscribe and unsubscribe notices.

Premium account emails were sent in full html mode with support for images, galleries, embeds, widgets, shortcodes, and gravatars.

Looking back at our 1.0 release it seems like the disparity between the two is too large. Today brings step one in shrinking that gap; something we feel makes for a better experience for everyone.

What the new rendering engine looks like

Sending new posts

Comment notifications

We haven’t retired our reverse-markdown text engine altogether, though. We’ve put it to good use to make sure our multipart messages look great even on text-only devices. And now in 1.1 you can edit the plain-text version of your post before it leaves the door. Win win for everyone. Enjoy.