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wordpress email deliverability best practices

11 WordPress Email Deliverability Best Practices

If you send any emails from a WordPress site, email deliverability is a critical subject. Emails sent from WordPress sites tend to get marked as spam or blocked altogether due to some flaws in how WordPress sends emails. Fortunately, there are a few simple tips that will help you beat this and other email deliverability issues with WordPress sites.

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how to use akismet to filter contact form spam

How to Filter Contact Form Spam With Akismet

Contact form spam can be a big problem with WordPress websites. Fortunately, WPForms offers a few different tools to help you stop spam in its tracks. This includes the powerful and seamless WPForms Akismet integration. Wondering how to set it up? Here’s the step-by-step guide.

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How to send WordPress emails on localhost with smtp

How to Send WordPress Emails on Localhost With SMTP

Using a localhost site for testing can be a beneficial practice. If you’re having problems sending WordPress emails on localhost, it may help to install WP Mail SMTP. In this post, we’ll show you how to set up the plugin on your local site so that you can test email delivery more reliably.

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why your web host blocked smtp and how to fix it

Why Your Web Host Blocked SMTP (and How to Fix It)

Have you just tried to send out a batch of emails only to find SMTP blocked? You’re not alone. Over 73% of shared hosting users face SMTP blocks at some point, according to recent hosting industry data.

The problem hits hardest when you least expect it. One day your contact forms work perfectly. The next day, nothing. Your customers don’t get order confirmations. Password reset emails vanish. And you have no idea why.

In this post, I’ll explain why your web host may have blocked your SMTP connection and how you can fix it using a sender that supports email API.

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How to send a test email from wordpress

How to Send a Test Email From WordPress

Are you trying to set your WordPress website up to send emails? WordPress can do this by default, but it isn’t always effective. In this article, we’ll show you a better way to send emails from WordPress. We’ll also show you how to test that it works!

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