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- Set Your WordPress Sender Email and Name
From the lesson
“Your website sends email all the time — password resets, contact form messages, order receipts. But a web server isn't a real mail service, so those messages often land in spam or vanish entirely. Think of the password reset email a visitor needs when they can't log in. Or the message a customer sends you, through your contact form. Or the order receipt a customer waits for.” Watch the full lesson →
- Choose an Email Service for WordPress Emails
From the lesson
“A mailer is simply the road your site's email travels to reach people's inboxes. Those nineteen logos on screen really come down to three choices, and today we'll turn that wall of logos into a simple decision. First, Default simply uses your web host's basic mail. It's the one we want to move away from. Second, a transactional service is a company whose whole job is delivering mail reliably.” Watch the full lesson →
- Test Your WordPress Email and Check the Email Log
From the lesson
“You've chosen a mailer. That's the service that hands your site's mail to a real mail system. Now, let's make sure messages actually arrive, and build the habits that keep it working. WordPress can send itself a message so you can confirm delivery. A green note means it worked; an error report tells you what to fix. In the free version, this screen previews what a full log would record.” Watch the full lesson →
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This WP Mail SMTP tutorial fixes one of WordPress's most common quiet failures: emails that never arrive. Password resets, contact form messages, and order receipts often vanish or land in spam because a web server isn't a real mail service. You'll give your site a proper email identity, connect it to a real mailer, and confirm delivery so you can trust that your messages get through.
What you'll learn
Missing WordPress email delivery is invisible until a locked-out user can't reset their password or a customer never gets a receipt — and by then the damage is done. The free WP Mail SMTP plugin routes your mail through a proper service so it actually lands in inboxes. After this course you'll be able to set a clean from-name and address, choose and connect a mailer that fits your site, send a test to confirm it works, and use the email log to prove what did and didn't go out. It's a small setup that prevents a whole category of silent problems.
Inside the course
- Orientation & From Settings: Your Email Identity
- Choosing a Mailer: The Options Tour
- Email Test, Email Log & Operating Habits
Who this course is for
This is for anyone whose WordPress site sends email — contact forms, memberships, WooCommerce receipts — and who has had messages go missing or land in spam. It's beginner-friendly, though picking a mailer means a little setup with an email provider. Our free written tutorials cover the same steps if you prefer to read along.
Frequently asked questions
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