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 SMTP wp_mail() uses PHPMailer by default, a sophisticated PHP class which offers a lot of useful preprocessing and workarounds for cases … Read more
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 emails. Also we could notice that there is hard coded function call $phpmailer->IsMail();, which sets to use PHP’s mail() function. It means that we can’t use SMTP settings with it. We … Read more
Hi @helenyhou: You can set the header, just not with a parameter. WordPress uses “hooks” and the hooks you need are ‘wp_mail_from’ and ‘wp_mail_from_name’ hooks. Here are the hooks you might add to your theme’s functions.php file to modify the “From:” header when using wp_mail() to the email address Helen Hou-Sandi <[email protected]>: add_filter(‘wp_mail_from’,’yoursite_wp_mail_from’); function yoursite_wp_mail_from($content_type) … Read more
The following version of wp_mail() is with the patch applied of @rmccue/@MattyRob in the ticket https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15448, refreshed for 4.2.2, which allows $message to be an array containing content-type keyed alternates: /** * Send mail, similar to PHP’s mail * * A true return value does not automatically mean that the user received the * email … Read more
from wp_mail codex page: The default content type is ‘text/plain’ which does not allow using HTML. However, you can set the content type of the email by using the ‘wp_mail_content_type’ filter. // In theme’s functions.php or plug-in code: function wpse27856_set_content_type(){ return “text/html”; } add_filter( ‘wp_mail_content_type’,’wpse27856_set_content_type’ );
I want to send both HTML and Plain Text emails using wp_mail() function in wordpress I wasn’t able to find a way to do that. Does anyone know how to do that? In PhpMailer for example there was an option to set both HTML and text with this line: Does anybody know if there is … Read more