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Todd Jones

MainWP Roundup: TAB’s Security Weekly, missing files, migration guides, and new bulk email requirements

In this month’s MainWP Roundup, we explore the Admin Bar’s Security Weekly Series, function files in the Twenty Twenty Three Theme, migration to blocks from page builders, and new bulk email requirements by Google and Yahoo. Let’s go! The Admin Bar’s Security Weekly The Admin Bar Security Weekly The Admin Bar (TAB), a very popular WordPress community, has launched a new series that teaches the basics of website security. The new series is a collaboration with TAB and Patchstack Security. The articles are being written by Oliver Sid, the company’s CEO and Founder. So far, the series has one article,

Todd Jones January 5, 2024 No Comments
Remove WP Mail Logging Plugin Data
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to Remove WP Mail Logging Plugin Data on Your WordPress Website

The WP Mail Logging plugin is one of the most popular and easy-to-use plugins for logging emails sent from your WordPress website. WP Mail Logging Plugin for WordPress As keeping a log of emails sent can quickly increase the size of your database, it is recommended that you check and adjust the log retention settings according to your needs. Navigate to Log Rention in the WP Mail Logging plugin. If you want to change to an SMTP plugin that includes built-in email logging or use a different solution, you should make sure that the database table the plugin is using

Sebastian Moran March 30, 2023 No Comments
Remove FluentSMTP Email Logs
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Sebastian Moran

How to Remove Email Logs for FluentSMTP WordPress Plugin

If you are using the FluentSMTP plugin for sending site emails using a transactional email provider such as AWS SES, Postmark, Sendinblue, SendGrid, or SparkPost then the logs database table could cause a lot of bloat on your site. The below database table for FluentSMTP logs could increase to 5-12 GB in size: wp_fsmpt_email_logs You can use the WP-Optimize plugin or phpMyAdmin to check how large the email logs database table is. With the WP-Optimize plugin installed and activated, go to; WP-Optimize > Database > Tables Then search for fsmpt or fluent, and the plugin will find the table and

Sebastian Moran September 7, 2022 No Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using MailerSend for transactional emails on your WooCommerce Site

If you have a WooCommerce store then it is key to make sure you have working site emails and the best way at making sure that happens is using a transactional email provider. MailerSend is a service that just released a plugin for WooCommerce which has a number of solid features. After you have installed and activated the plugin it will add a new sub-menu item in wp-admin; WooCommerce > MailerSend The next step to get going to use MailerSend on your site is to create an account. The free plan on MailerSend includes up to 12,000 emails a month

Sebastian Moran July 30, 2021 No Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

How to use the WP Mail Pro Plugin on your site

Having your site send reliable site email can be a mess to deal with. There is now a new service with a plugin called WP Mail Pro. The pricing for WP Mail Pro is very reasonable the free plan includes up to 1,000 emails a month, the lite plan includes 10,000 emails a month, the basic plan is up to 50,000 emails a month and if you need to be able to send even more emails from your site then the premium plan includes up to 100,000 emails a month. You can easily change your plan in WP Mail Pro

Sebastian Moran July 5, 2021 No Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using Sender.net Marketing Service on your Site

Knowing what newer solid email marketing platforms are out there will help you pick different options than some of the more commonly known ones. Sender.net is one of the newer email marketing platforms which just got a WordPress plugin that also has integration for WooCommerce. Sender.net has a free forever plan which includes up to 2,500 subscribers and 15,000 emails per month. After you have installed and activated the Sender.net plugin you will need to have a Sender.net account. Enter the company name, email address, and then set the password for your new Sender.net account. You will need to check

Sebastian Moran March 29, 2021 No Comments
Tips & Tricks
Sebastian Moran

Using the FluentSMTP Plugin for Reliable Site Emails

Having reliable site emails is something that can be a major pain to deal with. Luckily there is a new plugin from the makers of FluentCRM and FluentForms. The new plugin is called FluentSMTP and using the plugin will fix the issue of having reliable site emails. After installing and activating the FluentSMTP plugin it will add a new sub-menu item; Settings > FluentSMTP FluentSMTP includes integrations with a wide range of transactional email providers such as SendGrid, Sendinblue, SparkPost, Mailgun, Amazon SES, or Pepipost. The FluentSMTP plugin includes a wide range of features such as email routing and email

Sebastian Moran January 21, 2021 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

Using the AcyMailing plugin for Sending Email Newsletters

Being able to send reliable newsletters from your site is a complex issue to deal with. There are a number of plugins out there for sending out email newsletters from your site. One of the best options for being able to send email newsletters is the AcyMailing plugin. The AcyMailing plugin adds a clean UI into wp-admin after the plugins have been installed and activated. Go through the configuration settings in AcyMailing to setup the mail settings first. You can use your own SMTP server or an external SMTP server such as Gmail or Elastic Mail. Next, you will need

Sebastian Moran October 8, 2020 No Comments

How to use the Newsletter Glue Plugin on your Child Site

Easily being able to send new posts to site users can be a pain to deal with depending on which service you are using to broadcast new posts to an email list or segment. But luckily there is a new plugin called Newsletter Glue which makes it very simple to publish and post and then have that post sent in a newsletter email to users in a list. Newsletter Glue supports a number of dedicated email newsletter services like Mailchimp, MailerLite, and Sendinblue. When EmailOctopus updates its API endpoints to support creating campaigns on the fly the Newsletter Glue plugin

Sebastian Moran September 21, 2020 No Comments
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Sebastian Moran

Using the TrueMail Email Validator Plugin and Service on your Child Sites

Dealing with form submissions from fake or misspelled email addresses can be a pain to have to deal with. If you are using a form plugin that has integrations setup on it then you have to deal with deleting the form entry as well a deleting the form submission which went into a 3rd party service. But there is an easy to use service which now has a WordPress plugin which is TrueMail. First, you will need to install and the plugin and then create an account in TrueMail. After you have created an account in TrueMail you will need

Sebastian Moran September 14, 2020 No Comments

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