How to Make a Newsletter Out of Your WordPress Blog Posts

Create a New Category
1. Log into your WordPress website using your administrator username and password. Click the arrow beside 'Posts' in the dashboard, then click 'Categories.'
2. Type a name for your newsletter, such as 'Newsletter' in the 'Name' text field under 'Add New Category.'

3. Type the name in lowercase in the 'Slug' text field. Click 'Add Category.' The new category will be added to the list on the right of the page.
4. Find the category ID for the new category by hovering your mouse over the category name in the list on the right side of the page. The status menu at the bottom of the window will show the category ID in a line beginning with your website name. The end of this line will read 'posttag_ID=123,' where '123' will be the category ID number. Make a note of this two or three digit number.
Removing the Category Widget
5. Navigate to your WordPress home page and right-click on each category in your Category widget. Select 'Open in New Tab.'
6. Click 'Widgets' in the dashboard. Then drag the 'Category' widget into the 'Inactive Widgets' section.
7. Drag a 'Text' widget into the sidebar where your Category widget used to be. Name the widget 'Categories.'
8. Click on each open tab and highlight the address in the address bar. Press 'Ctrl-C' to copy the address. Paste it in the Text widget. Then type HTML link code around the link, using the name of the category as the linked words, like this: '
Category
.'
9. Add all of your categories to the Text widget as above, except the new Newsletter category. Then click 'Save.'
Install the Category Excluder
10. Click 'Plugins' in the dashboard and type 'Add New.' Type 'Category Excluder' in the search field.
11. Select a plugin like 'Advanced Category Excluder,' 'Ultimate Category Excluder,' or 'ClixCorp Post Category Excluder.' Click 'Install Now,' then click 'Activate.'
12. Configure the plugin as directed by the developer to exclude the Newsletter category from archives, search, RSS Posts, RSS comments, search, robots, and all other options with the exception of 'Single Posts.' This will make any posts using this category invisible to viewers and search engines. It will only be found by you and people clicking on your newsletter.
Burn Your Newsletter Feed
13. Log into FeedBurner, or create an account to create a newsletter feed.
14. Type the name of your Newsletter in the 'Feed Title' text field. Type the RSS feed for your Newsletter category posts in the 'Feed Address' field. This should be in the following format, replacing '123' with the category ID number recorded earlier: 'http://www.sample.com/?feed=rss2cat=123.'
15. Click the 'Publicize' tab in FeedBurner, then click 'Email Subscriptions.' Click the 'Activate' button. Select the 'Full Text' option to post the entire post from wordpress into your email newsletter.
16. FeedBurner will provide you with the code needed to publicize your newsletter feed to any page or blog post on your website. Copy it as described.
17. Create a new page on your website describing your new newsletter, and explaining that the only way to get this content is to subscribe. Click the 'HTML' tab in the page editor, then paste the FeedBurner code into your page. Click 'Publish' to begin publicizing your new WordPress-based newsletter.