Unfortunately the WordPress cron jobs are only triggered when your site is visited This is true. The only way to reliably execute code (even if visitors don’t visit your site) is to use the unix cron functions. You can just setup a unix cron job that will do a wget on your homepage. Edit: You … Read more
The plugin, WP Mail SMTP, looks like a possible solution to use the wp_mail() properly on your localhost. According to the description: Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail() and creates an options page to manage the settings.
Sending an email from an address you don’t own will mean you run into problems with countermeasures again email spoofing (e.g SPF), as you’re effectively impersonating the user’s email address to send your email. You could put the user email address as the name, but send the email from an address you own For contact … Read more
As of version 4.9 there is a dubious “feature” that prevents you from changing the site email without a confirmation email going out, and the admin confirming his own change. Those filters, as you’ve discovered, won’t work. For instance, from now on, if you’re using WordPress for an IOT device or on localhost, it’s impossible … Read more
There’s no setting. You’ll need a plugin.
The default wp_mail() function is pluggable – meaning it can be entirely overridden by plugins. In the absence of any external influence, though, the “from” settings for the email address are hard-coded. Here’s a snippet from /wp-includes/pluggable.php: // From email and name // If we don’t have a name from the input headers if ( … Read more
You can solve it like this: use wp_schedule_event to check if any user needs to get the mail if yes, send the mail containing a link like yoursite.com/?user_id=99&myaction=yes&mytoken=sometokenforsecurity Save that token to the user´s user_meta add_user_meta( $user_id, ‘mytoken’, $token, true ) In your case you obviously need a second link with action=no or whatever you … Read more
I have found the line I need to edit I think <p><?php printf( __( ‘You have received an order from %s. The order is as follows:’, ‘woocommerce’ ), $order->get_formatted_billing_full_name() ); ?></p> would that change to <p><?php printf( __( ‘You have received an order from %s. The order is as follows:’, ‘woocommerce’ ), $order->get_user() ); ?></p>
Yes, you can add your own custom validation. More info here. Here’s a working and tested example for your situation: Use [text* your-website] inside your contact form 7 form. Add this snippet to your theme’s functions.php, use a child-theme! add_filter( ‘wpcf7_validate_text*’, ‘custom_website_validation_filter’, 20, 2 ); function custom_website_validation_filter( $result, $tag ) { if ( $tag->name == … Read more
You can change the email address with the wp_mail_from filter: add_filter( ‘wp_mail_from’, function() { return ‘[email protected]’; } );