WP-EMail

August 09, 2023

WP-EMail Plugin

Allows people to recommend/send your WordPress blog's post/page to a friend.

General Usage

  1. Under E-Mail Settings, modify the setting Method Used To Send E-Mail accordingly. If the method is wrong, no email will get sent.
  2. You Need To Re-Generate The Permalink (WP-Admin -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Save Changes)
  3. Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php (You may place it in single.php, post.php, page.php, etc also)
    • Find: <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    • Simply add this code inside the loop where you want the email link to display: if(function_exists('email_link')) { email_link(); }

If you DO NOT want the email link to appear in every post/page, DO NOT use the code above. Just use the shortcode by typing [email_link] into the selected post/page content and it will embed the email link into that post/page only.

Build Status

Development

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Credits

Donations

I spent most of my free time creating, updating, maintaining and supporting these plugins, if you really love my plugins and could spare me a couple of bucks as my school allowance, I will really appreciate it. If not feel free to use it without any obligations.

Screenshots

  1. Admin - E-Mail Logs

    Admin - E-Mail Logs

  2. Admin - Options Page

    Admin - Options Page

  3. Admin - Templates Page

    Admin - Templates Page

  4. Sample E-Mail Post link

    Sample E-Mail Post link

  5. Sample E-Mail Post screen

    Sample E-Mail Post screen

FAQ

Does it support SMTP authentication with servers utilizing SSL encryption?

  1. Yes. Go to WP-Admin -> E-Mail -> Email Options, under SMTP Server, use ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 if you are using Gmail SMTP.

How do I add this to my theme?

  1. Open wp-content/themes/<YOUR THEME NAME>/index.php (You may place it in single.php, post.php, page.php, etc also)
  2. Find: <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
  3. Simply add this code inside the loop where you want the email link to display: if(function_exists('email_link')) { email_link(); }

How can I customize my E-Mail link?

Many customizations can be made from the options page (WP Admin->E-Mail->E-Mail Options).

Additionally, you can override the “E-Mail Text Link for Post” and “E-Mail Text Link for Page” options with the first two parameters of the email_link function like this:

if(function_exists('email_link')) email_link( 'E-Mail Text Link for Post', 'E-Mail Text Link for Page'); 

You can also force email_link() to return the link rather than echo it by setting the third parameter to false:

if(function_exists('email_link')) { $email_link email_link( 'E-Mail Text Link for Post', 'E-Mail Text Link for Page', false); } else { $email_link ''; } echo $email_link; 

How can I show my E-Mail stats?

There are two options for this:
1. You can use the included widget by going to Wp-Admin -> Appearance -> Widgets” and using the widget named “Email”
1. You can use a number of included theme functions for displaying various stats. Please continue to read these FAQs for more information.

How can I display the Most E-Mailed Posts?

Simply insert this code into your theme:

if (function_exists('get_mostemailed')) get_mostemailed('both', 10); 

The first parameter is what you want to get, ‘post’, ‘page’, or ‘both’ and defaults to ‘both’.
The second parameter is the maximum number of posts/pages you want to get.

How can I display the Total E-Mails Sent?

Simply insert this code into your theme:

if (function_exists('get_emails')) get_emails(); 

How can I display the Total E-Mails Sent Successfully?

Simply insert this code into your theme:

if (function_exists('get_emails_success')) get_emails_success(); 

How can I display the Total E-Mails Sent Unsuccessfully?

Simply insert this code into your theme:

if (function_exists('get_emails_failed')) get_emails_failed(); 

How do I hide remarks when viewing E-Mail logs in WP-Admin?

  1. Open wp-email.php
  2. Find define('EMAIL_SHOW_REMARKS', true);
  3. Replace with define('EMAIL_SHOW_REMARKS', false);

How can I keep some post text from being sent in the E-Mail?

If you do not want to email a portion of your post’s content, do the following:

[donotemail]Text within this tag will not be displayed when emailed[/donotemail] 

The text within [donotemail][/donotemail] will not be displayed when you are emailing a post or page.
However, it will still be displayed as normal on a normal post or page view.
Do note that if you are using WP-Print, any text within [donotemail][/donotemail] will not be printed as well.

I made changes to the CSS, how can I keep them from being overridden on the next upgrade?

WP-Email will load email-css.css from your theme’s directory if it exists. If it doesn’t exist then it will load the default email-css.css that comes with WP-Email. Just move your custom CSS to the appropriate file in your theme directory and it will be “upgrade-proof”

How can I make the E-Mail title different from the post title?

If you add a custom field with the key “wp-email-title” it will be used as the E-Mail title.

How can I set a default or suggested remark for the user?

If you add a custom field with the key “wp-email-remark” it will be placed in the remarks field in the E-Mail form.

Changelog

2.69.1

  • FIXED: XSS for text links

2.69.0

  • NEW: Supports specifying which header to read the user’s IP from. Props Marc Montpas.
  • FIXED: Added more nonce check to email-manager.php

2.68.2

  • FIXED: PHP8 deprecated notices

2.68.1

  • FIXED: Fatal Error on activation as it suppose to be delete_option() and not remove_option

2.68.0

  • NEW: Uses wp_mail() instead of PHPMailer
  • NEW: Removed SMTP & Mailer Settings

2.67.6

FIXED: Notices

2.67.5

  • FIXED: Email form not appearing if user is not using nice permalink

2.67.4

  • FIXED: Use wp_email instead of email as query var.
  • FIXED: Use wp_email_popup instead of emailpopup as query var.

2.67.3

  • FIXED: esc_attr() on form fields to prevent XSS. Props Edward Woodfall.

2.67.2

  • FIXED: Fixed SQL Injection in inserting email logs. Props Jxs.nl.

2.67.1

  • FIXED: Fixed vulnerability in get_email_ipaddress()

2.67

  • FIXED: Notices in Widget Constructor for WordPress 4.3
  • FIXED: Remove clean_pre() because it is deprecated.

2.66

  • NEW: Add viewport meta tag. Props @Luanramos
  • FIXED: Proper loading of templates. Props @ocean90
  • FIXED: Apply custom filters only to the main query. Props @ocean90

2.65

  • FIXED: Integration with WP-Stats
  • FIXED: Added in wp_nonce_field to email-options page

2.64

  • NEW: Added in wp_email_template_redirect filter to allow other plugins disable template redirect when query var contains ’email’

2.63

  • NEW: Finally there is custom post type support. Props nimmolo.
  • NEW: Allow Multisite Network Activate
  • NEW: Uses WordPress uninstall.php file to uninstall the plugin
  • NEW: Added noindex, nofollow to meta tag to email-standalone.php
  • FIXED: Use get_the_author() instead of the_author(”, false)

Details

  • Version: 2.69.1
  • Active installations: 3,000
  • WordPress Version: 4.0
  • Tested up to: 6.3.5

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