Filtered blocks

Show a section of your email to just one type of audience (email, web, subscribers, or paid)

Sawyer Pollard
July 31, 2026
Filtered blocks

Buttondown already allowed you to gate the tail end of an email behind a wall based on subscriber type or reading location (email versus web archive).

Now, we've added a more granular tool for making portions of your email visible to just one type of audience: filtered blocks.

Today, Filtered blocks come in four varieties which determine the visibility of their content:

  • Email only: visible in emails (hidden from the web archive)
  • Web only: visible on the web archive
  • Subscribers only: visible to subscribers of your newsletter (free, paid, or gifted) across both email and web
  • Paid only: visible to premium subscribers

Filtered blocks are perfect for thanking paid subscribers, nudging unpaid ones to upgrade, or fine-tuning your content across email and the web.

Demo

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Try them out in the editor today by typing / and scrolling down to the new filtered blocks section.

As always, let us know if you have any feedback or encounter any snags.

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