You need to use wp_update_user() for the email, as it is not user-meta but core user data. The code should look something like this: $args = array( ‘ID’ => $current_user->id, ‘user_email’ => esc_attr( $_POST[‘user_email’] ) ); wp_update_user( $args ); Note: that’s untested, but it should work out of the box.
SB Welcome Email Editor works by replacing wp_new_user_notification() with an own version. The original version can be found in wp-includes/pluggable.php, the plugin uses an elaborate replacement with all kinds of options. You can do this to: create a new plugin (just a PHP file in wp-content/plugins/), and define wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $plaintext_pass=””) there. This will then be … Read more
Using the PHPMailer class with an action callback: I did some digging into the PHPMailer class and found that it supports a custom action. Here’s how the callback is activated with the doCallback() method in the class. There’s also a PHPMailer test on GitHub using this feature via the callbackAction() callback. We can set it … Read more
There’s a few plugins that handle email notifications, but they all seem to act like a subscription service for (all) WordPress users. To notify just you when a post or page is published: /** * Send an email notification to the administrator when a post is published. * * @param string $new_status * @param string … Read more
You can intercept this email before it is sent using the phpmailer_init hook. By default, this hook fires before any email is sent. In the function below, $phpmailer will be an instance of PHPMailer, and you can use its methods to remove the default recipient and manipulate the email before it is sent. add_action(‘phpmailer_init’, ‘wse199274_intercept_registration_email’); … Read more
I use a very similar approach like John P Bloch and Bainternet, just a little bit more flexible, so I don’t have to change the mail address for any client: <?php # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- /* * Plugin Name: Filter System From Mail * Description: Sets the WP from mail address to the first … 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
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
As you can see in RFC 6068, this is not possible at all: The special <hfname> “body” indicates that the associated <hfvalue> is the body of the message. The “body” field value is intended to contain the content for the first text/plain body part of the message. The “body” pseudo header field is primarily intended for the generation of short … Read more
You can implement an iframe into the email – but your mail will be recognized as spam by many providers. You should try to render your content dynamically into an image and implement that image into the email.