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How to send an email using wp_mail and using more than one BCC in the header

April 30, 2022 by IT Nursery

I have this code part that’s responsible for getting the variables from the contact form – and and sending an email to me, and my friends from work. add_action(‘wp_ajax_nopriv_submit_contact_form’, ‘submit_contact_form’); // Send information from the contact form function submit_contact_form(){ // If there is a $_POST[’email’]… if( isset($_POST[’email’]) && ($_POST[‘validation’] == true ) ) { $email … Read more

How to add headers to outgoing email?

April 20, 2022 by IT Nursery

I want to add an additional header to outgoing emails on my sites, so I can easily determine which site sent a given email. (I put a standard functionality plugin on all of my sites, so this is easy enough to do, and configuring my email client to filter and otherwise act on this header … Read more

Using wp_schedule_single_event with arguments to send email

April 20, 2022 by IT Nursery

I’m trying to schedule a pseudo cron job to send an email after a set amount of time utilizing a WordPress plugin. So far, I’ve been able to make this code run when I hard code the email address and message into the email_about_coupon() function. However, when I try to send the arguments to the … Read more

Do something after sending email

April 14, 2022 by IT Nursery

I want to do something after WordPress sent an email. For example, after sending “Reset Password” email using wp_mail() function. 1 1 Using the PHPMailer class with an action callback: I did some digging into the PHPMailer class and found that it supports a custom action. Here’s how the callback is activated with the doCallback() … Read more

WordPress refuses to send mail, “…your host may have disabled the mail() function”

April 14, 2022 by IT Nursery

I recently implemented a comment area on my website and tried to get the email notification to work. It doesn’t seem to want to send email notifications when new comments are made. Just to see if PHP can send emails, I tried to reset the password (because you’ll get a new password via mail), and … Read more

Using wp_mail with attachments but no attachments received

April 10, 2022 by IT Nursery

I have been looking at multiple examples including this one. I get the email no problem but there are no attachments. Am I missing the content/type of file type? All the examples I’ve seen uses only text/html as the content type. Here’s what I have (added upon Stephen’s request) if( isset( $_POST[‘to’] ) && isset( … Read more

What is the advantage of using wp_mail?

April 9, 2022 by IT Nursery

What is the advantage of using wp_mail() over mail(). Codex says they’re similar, but they seem to be very similar. 1 wp_mail() is a pluggable function: It can be replaced by plugins. That’s useful in cases where the regular mail() doesn’t work (good enough), for example when you need extra authentication details. Example: WP Mail … Read more

How to set SMTP programmatically

April 9, 2022 by IT Nursery

Assume we have blank WP site and we want to setup SMTP settings programmatically in our plugin or theme. What’s the easiest way to do it without changing core files? 3 First of all, if we take a look at implementation of wp_mail function, we will see that this function uses PHPMailer class to send … Read more

Why won’t wp_mail() let me set the From: header when plain old PHP mail() will?

April 7, 2022 by IT Nursery

When I use wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) (with values in place, of course), the email gets sent with a from name and email that isn’t set anywhere I can find (not even in PHP or Apache settings). However, using mail( $to, $subject, $message, $headers ) instead works just fine. What could be happening … Read more

Sending multipart (text/html) emails via wp_mail() will likely get your domain banned

April 7, 2022 by IT Nursery

Summary Because of a bug in WP Core, sending multipart emails (html/text) with wp_mail() (to reduce chance of emails ending up in spam folders) will ironically result with your domain being blocked by Hotmail (and other Microsoft emails). This is a complex problem that I’ll aim to break down in great detail in an attempt … Read more