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Why won't wp_mail() let me set the From: header when plain old PHP mail() will?
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 ...
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How to change the default registration email ? (plugin and/or non-plugin)
After a new user registration, WP sends out an email with the login / password, and a link to the login page.
Is there a way to change this defaut email template? I'd also like to change the subject ...
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Alert Email when any Post or Page is Changed
Is there a way to have Wordpress email me whenever a Page or Post is Published?
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Confirmation required on email change
I'm just wondering why wordpress doesn't send confirmation mail every time user change his/her email address.
How do we know that email address is not fake or mistyped?
So can anyone give me some ...
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How do I customise the new user welcome email
How can I customise the the new user welcome email ?
I tried 'http://www.sean-barton.co.uk/wordpress-welcome-email-editor/' however it conflicts with some of the other plugins I need to use, Cimy ...
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changing notification emails from WordPress <wordpress>@mydomain.net to something else
How do I change notification emails address from WordPress @mydomain.net to something else.
I want to do this because WordPress @mydomain.net ends up getting flagged as junk mail.
Thanks
Daniel
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How can I send a welcome email to a user AFTER they login for the first time?
What I want to do is after a user creates an account... they log in for the first time it will kick off a welcome email to the user that will give them an overview of the site and suggestions of what ...
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Email stats at Ma.tt contact form
Curious to know if there is a handy solution for showing cool email stats like Ma.tt's contact page http://ma.tt/contact/
Inbox: 157. Low priority: 1,461.
Unknown: 155. I’ve sent out 920 emails
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Get user id from email?
I'm working on an email system, and I'm onto the unsubscribing stage. Since most of my users would not know their user ID, I'm asking them to put their email into a text box (definitely preferred, ...
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Customizing the Subject Field in WordPress' Notification Emails?
Can I customize and edit the subject field in the "Password Reset" notification mails sent from our multisite blogs? I have tried some plugins like My brand login and white label CMS etc. But I can't ...
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How to login with email only no username?
After searching for a couple of days and reading 2 year old threads I'm having difficulty finding a solution to the problem of having users login by email only.
At first I was delighted to see ...
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Allow users to create their own feed from selected categories?
I've been wandering around on the web for the last couple of hours wondering if there's a way to allow users to build their own RSS feed by selecting categories within WordPress, that could then be ...
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what are the differences between wp_users and wp_usermeta tables?
what are the differences between wp_users and wp_usermeta tables?
i use wp-email-login plugin and i just noticed that if a user change his email in the profile page it saved in the wp_usermeta table ...
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Email Notifications of new posts to users - suggestions
I currently am using the Subscriber2 plugin to send email notifications to subscribers of new blog posts, but that plugin has not been working properly for a while on my site.
Can someone suggest ...
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Send a confirmation of user role upgrade conditionally
I'm using this snippet of code to send a confirmation email to user's when their account is upgraded to a new user role.
function user_role_update( $user_id, $new_role ) {
$site_url = ...
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wp_mail and BCC headers
I'm using WP 3.3.1
I am trying to add BCC onto the headers of an email I'm sending out, but the BCC is not being added.
public $from = "sender@example.com";
public $replyTo = "sender@example.com";
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Notify commenters about new replies
Is there a plugin to notify commenters of one post to receive emails about new comments made on that post? Only commenters who entered emails will be notified.
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Buddypress send email notification only if user is not logged in
When a member send a message to another member, the recipient receive a message in buddypress and also an email.
I want to change that because if you receive many messages, you have too much mail in ...
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Custom post type without editor or revisions - Notify on update?
I've created a custom post type that makes use of custom fields over the default editor. I want to receive an email notification when an update to the post is made. The email does not have to show the ...
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Send automatic mail to Admin when user/member changes/adds profile
Is there a way to send the updated/added values from profile, when a member/user updates his/hers data, to the admin of the site or another emailadress?
Can this be the first step?
/* do something ...
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Overriding the default WP Multisite notification e-mail
Is it possible to hook in and override the default notification message for WP MS? I know the message being sent out is in /wp-admin/user-new.php
if ( is_multisite() ) {
function ...
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Sending form data via PHPMailer - How to action PHP script from a form
Some easy points on offer...
I wish to action a PHP script from a WordPress page but where is the best place to store the script? The script works perfectly fine using a non-WordPress environment in ...
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Sends out email to admin
Are there any plugin or code that sends out a email to me (admin) when a author or writer publish a post?
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Encrypt emails?
We need to maintain HIPPA compliance for forms on our website that are currently mailed to an internal email address. While the user/customers provides the info over HTTPS, we still want to make sure ...
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Post Via Email to a Custom Post Type
I have a scenario where we would like to post to our blog via email. However, it needs to be to a custom post type. I've done a bit of research but haven't found any examples or ideas on how to do ...
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prevent users from changing their email address
does anybody know how to hook or filter the user-edit.php file so that an user's email address is disabled from editing akin to how the username is disabled ..??..
i can edit the core file (gasp) and ...
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Server-side subscribe by email?
Is there a server-side email solution that will allow users to subscribe to updates via email and, specifically, also be able to do this by category?
I'm aware of Aweber and Feedburner being able to ...
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Notify multiple email addresses on comments
Can you recommend a plugin that enables notification on multiple email addresses on posted comments? Looking for a plugin that both notifies a global list of email addresses and the author of the ...
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Buddypress - Send New User Activation Link to Admin
How do I send the new user activation link to my own email address instead of the user? Is there a simple function I can use to switch things out?
function ...
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Joining confirmation email
When a super admin adds a network user to a blog via wp-admin/user-new.php where does that confirmation email come from? How do I change? It says incorrectly comes from
Wordpress@example.com
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Sanitising post content for use in an email
I'm sending the content of a custom post type in a plaintext email (it's to send competition entries to a panel of judges), so I need to make sure that $post->post_content is correctly sanitised ...
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Posting via email, where do I start troubleshooting?
I host a site for a person that does everything via blackberry and wants to email posts to the site. She has sent one post to the designated mailbox, but 24 hours later the post is still not showing. ...
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How do I allow users to follow a post and then allow admins to email all users who have followed that post?
I'm looking to build out the following functionality, but I'm having trouble finding any help on it:
user follows a post > user's email is pulled into an admin page and associated with said post > ...
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What's the easiest way to setup SMTP settings programmatically?
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?
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Create/Edit/Check cPanel Email Accounts from Wordpress [closed]
I need a plugin (or other) recommendation to allow users to create email accounts, as well as change their passwords and check their email using WordPress.
I have a multi-author baseball website and ...
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How do I override the Message-ID header of wp_mail function?
I have a custom notification function for our comments editor, who prefers to have all comments from one article threaded together in her email client. To achieve this, I'm creating a custom ...
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Check if post is being published for the first time, or is an already published post being updated
I am building an add-on to an events module that checks for availability, since there wasn't a function for that in that module. Now that I have built the logic, there are three emails I will need to ...
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WP Cron emails not working
Running wp 3.5.1.
I have 2 plugins that work in part. They do everything nice. If I click to send emails, they send the emails. However the scheduled emails are not being sent.
The plugins are:
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Obfuscating Email Addresses in Form Fields
I'm writing a WP Theme where registered users can email post authors sending them en email from the post's page itself.
So I created a contact form in which I get the user and author infos and emails ...
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User Without Email?
When creating a user in Wordpress an email address is required for that user. The website I'm working on requires that users remain anonymous (it's part of a research study) and I'd consider email to ...
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Send email to Admin when user/member updates specific user/member data
I have previously asked about How to automatically send email to Admin when a user/member changes his/hers profile data. And got some very good answers.
Send automatic mail to Admin when user/member ...
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How do you update user_email on the front end in WP 3.3?
I am using the following code and everything in the user profile is updating except the user's email.
In the template:
global $current_user, $wp_roles;
get_currentuserinfo();
/* Load the ...
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Locked out of my own blog and password reset not working
I have my own Wordpress installation for my infrequently updated blog.
I have a habit of forgetting my password so have to request a new one and reset it every two to three months.
I've done it ...
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wp_mail script with jquery post
need to send an email from a page when a form is submitted.
Thought i'd use jquery post but not really sure where to start. Would i use wp_mail? And if so how could it be called ?
Sorry if that ...
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Post-by-mail similar to WordPress.com or Posterous?
A standard WordPress installation has very basic support for posting via e-mail. Is there a plugin that gives the same functionality as WordPress.com (especially attachment handling)?
My client is in ...
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Plugin for Sending Email to Readers about New Posts? (besides “Subscribe2 ”)
I wish to have a "subscribe to new posts" widget for my blog.
I know I can use feedburner system, but I want a plugin based solution.
The best I could find was Subscribe2, the downside of it is that ...
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Should I use the standard wp_mail() function for a premium theme?
I am creating a premium theme that includes a Contact page template. Currently, I am using the wp_mail() function to send the contact email to the administrator-specified email address.
Basically, I ...
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email wordpress users using BCC
I am currently using the below code to email users when a new post is published, but I need it to BCC all users and not TO all users. Any ideas?
function email_members($post_ID) {
global $wpdb;
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Wordpress E-mail Config
For built-in Wordpress functions such as the "forgot password" option, where is the SMTP server configured? Does it just default to the local daemon? What e-mail does it send messages as?
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Adding second Email address for WP user notifications
The WP systems sends a lot of mails to authors. There also plugins who use email notifications for authors.
But, let say I have a user, who is managed by two persons (because it's a company, an ...
