Customize WordPress vs WP Mail Logging

Better Notifications for WP is a simple but powerful plugin for that allows you to customise the email notifications that WordPress sends using a WYSIWYG editor and shortcodes. All of the default WordPress email notifications are available to customise as well as lots of new ones. You can choose to send notifications to individual users, multiple users, all users in a user role, multiple roles – you name it! You can also power-up your notifications with Premium Add-ons. Emails are sent out via your WordPress website (using wp_mail) but can be sent via SMTP using a 3rd party plugin should you wish. If you want to let users create their own email notifications/subscriptions/alerts, check out my other plugin: Content Notify. Here’s a quick walkthrough of the plugin in action: An Example: You want all the users in the Editor role to be notified via email when a new post is published and you’d like to customise it to include your logo along with the author’s name and date / time it was published – with this plugin, that’s easy. A handy list of shortcodes you can use is available here. Premium Add-ons Power-up your notifications using add-ons: Notification Add-on Bundles – Everything you need for your WordPress notifications. Save big when you buy an add-on bundle. Instant access. Subscriptions (GDPR) – Allow users to manage their subscriptions for BNFW notifications. If you want to let users create their own email notifications/subscriptions/alerts, check out my other plugin: Content Notify. Conditional Notifications – Limit certain notifications depending on which categories, tags, post formats, or terms you choose. Custom Fields – Provides a number of new shortcodes allowing you to include data from custom fields and custom user fields created using ACF. Send to Any Email – Send notifications to non-WordPress Users. Digest – Group multiple notifications into a single digest notification. Global Override – Override some of the settings of notifications directly when editing a post, page, or custom post type. Reminders – Send a reminder to your users and/or user roles when a post, page, or custom post type hasn’t been updated after a set amount of time. Also send a notification when a user hasn’t logged in for a set amount of time. Multisite – Adds new notifications and shortcodes for WordPress Multisite to Better Notifications for WP. Profile Builder – Adds compatibility and new notifications and shortcodes for Profile Builder Free, Hobbyist, and Pro plugins to Better Notifications for WP. …and more coming soon! Notifications The notifications that are currently available to use are: Admin New User Registration – For Admin User Lost Password – For Admin Password Changed – For Admin User Email Changed – For Admin User Role Changed – For Admin User Logged In – For Admin WordPress Core Automatic Background Updates Privacy – Confirm Action: Export Data Request – For Admin Privacy – Confirm Action: Erase Data Request – For Admin Transactional New User Registration – For User New User – Post-registration Email User Lost Password – For User Password Changed – For User User Email Changed Confirmation – For User User Email Changed – For User User Role Changed – For User User Logged In – For User Comment Reply Privacy – Confirm Action: Export Data Request – For User Privacy – Confirm Action: Erase Data Request – For User Privacy – Data Export – For User Privacy – Data Erased – For User Profile Builder – Approval Request for Admin (Profile Builder Add-on) Profile Builder – Email Confirmation (Profile Builder Add-on) Profile Builder – Account Approved (Profile Builder Add-on) Profile Builder – Account Unapproved (Profile Builder Add-on) User Login Reminder (Reminders Add-on) Posts / Custom Post Types New Post Published Post Updated Post Pending Review New Private Post Post Scheduled Published Post Moved to Trash New Comment New Comment Awaiting Moderation Post – Comment Approved Post – Custom Field Updated (Custom Fields Add-on) Post – Update Reminder (Reminders Add-on) New Trackback New Pingback Pages New Page Published Page Updated Page Pending Review New Private Page Page Scheduled Page – New Comment Page – New Comment Awaiting Moderation Page – Comment Approved Page – Comment Reply Page – Custom Field Updated (Custom Fields Add-on) Page – Update Reminder (Reminders Add-on) Media New Media Published Media Updated Media – New Comment Media – New Comment Awaiting Moderation Media – Comment Approved Media – Comment Reply Posts New Category New Tag Custom Post Types New Term Multisite (Multisite Add-on) New Site Activated or Created – For Network Admin New User Created – For Network Admin Network Admin Email Change Attempted – For New Network Admin Network Admin Email Changed – For Old Network Admin New Site Activated or Created – For Site Admin Site Deleted – For Site Admin Site Admin Email Change Attempted – For New Site Admin Site Admin Email Changed – For Old Site Admin New Site Activated – For User New User Created – For User New User Invited to Site – For User If you’d like to see a notification in the list above, please drop me a line in the forum and I’ll see what I can do to add it. If you want to let users create their own email notifications/subscriptions/alerts, check out my other plugin: Content Notify. Like this plugin? Please leave it a great review! Don’t think the plugin is worthy of 5 stars? Having problems? Let me know in the forum and I’ll do my best to help. DISCLAIMER This is an incredibly useful and highly rated plugin however, it’s possible that overuse or abuse of this plugin could upset your users by sending them too many notifications. By downloading / installing / using this plugin, you take full responsibility of the management / quantity / types of notifications that are sent out from it including abiding by any SPAM laws in your country / operating areas, dealing with / responding to subscription / unsubscription requests, complaints, and so on. I accept no liability or responsibility for SPAM or abuse of this plugin from the user(s) of or anyone that may receive notifications as a result of the use of this plugin. I’m trusting you, please don’t abuse your users.

WP Mail Logging is the most popular plugin for logging emails sent from your WordPress site. Simply activate it and it will work immediately, no extra configuration is needed. Are your WordPress emails not being sent or delivered? Use this plugin to log all outgoing emails from your WordPress site. If there are any errors when sending the email from your site, our email logs will catch that error and display it to you. This will allow you to debug and fix your email sending issue. Did a client not receive your email? Our email logs allow you to resend any email that was sent from your site. No more lost emails! Do you just want to keep a record of all emails sent from your site? By default, WordPress and your web host do not log, store or keep track of emails sent from your website. This plugin will allow you to do just that. Our email logs will store every email that is sent from your WordPress site. You can search and view a particular email log, inspect its content or attachments, and even resend that email. What email information is logged? All emails sent from your WordPress site are logged. And here is the information that is stored: Email Subject Email Content (HTML or text) Email Attachments Email Headers (to, from, reply-to, cc, bcc, …) Error Message (in case there was an error while attempting to send the email) IP Address of originating server (can be enabled in the settings) Date and Time of the email Receiver (the TO email address) Why are my logged emails still not delivered to the inbox? There are a lot of steps that emails have to make in order to be delivered to the recipient’s inbox. When your WordPress site sends an email, there’s no guarantee it will be delivered. This is what the email’s journey looks like: WordPress creates an email WordPress passes the email to your website host and that email gets logged by our plugin The host server takes the email and sends it (SMTP or Mail Transfer Agent) Recipient server receives or blocks the email If the email is accepted, the spam filter decides if it goes to the inbox or the spam folder Recipients see the email and might open it. This plugin does not track delivery after step 2. If you have deliverability issues, we suggest installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin. WP Mail SMTP fixes WordPress email deliverability problems, you can choose between 12 email providers (Gmail, Outlook, SendLayer, Mailgun, …) to resolve your email sending issue and it’s super easy to set up. WP Mail SMTP is trusted by more than 3 million websites. Credits The plugin was created and launched in 2014 by Christian Zöller.