Title: WP JV Custom Email Settings
Author: Janos Ver
Published: <strong>August 14, 2014</strong>
Last modified: February 16, 2020

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# WP JV Custom Email Settings

 By [Janos Ver](https://profiles.wordpress.org/janosver/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings.2.6.zip)

 * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/#installation)
 * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/)

## Description

By default when you send any notification from your blog (including many of the 
plugins as well) sender is “WordPress” and the sender e-mail address is [wordpress@yourdomain.com](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/wordpress@yourdomain.com?output_format=md).
I wanted to have personalized sender name and e-mail address that is why I created
this plugin. Then I added features to send out e-mail notifications about newly 
published posts to users who are interested either automatically (on publish) or
manually.

This plugin will enable you to

 * Replace default [wordpress@yourdomain.com](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/wordpress@yourdomain.com?output_format=md)
   to any e-mail address
 * Replace default e-mail from “WordPress” name to anything you want
 * Send e-mail notifications automatically/manually to all registered users about
   new public posts
 * Easily customize notification e-mail subject and content templates
 * Re-send e-mail notifications manually as well
 * Send notifications about password protected posts as well (password will NOT 
   be included in notification e-mail)
 * If you have [WP JV Post Reading Groups plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-post-reading-groups/)
   installed then entitled users can receive notifications about new private posts
   as well
 * Users can opt-out if they don’t want to receive e-mails (they can choose to get
   all/nothing)
 * Bulk subscribe/unsubscribe users to/from e-mail notifications (go to Users->All
   Users and see bulk actions)
 * Maintain e-mail log about sent e-mail notifications

Translations

 * Hungarian – Janos Ver (last updated for plugin v2.3.1)
 * Serbian – Andrijana Nikolic (last updated for plugin v2.2)
 * German – Matthias Siebler (last updated for plugin v2.3.1)

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Settings -> General -> “WP JV Custom Email Settings”
 * [[
 * Settings -> Writing -> “WP JV Custom Email Settings – Notifications”
 * [[
 * User profile
 * [[
 * Posts-> JV CES Email Log

## Installation

 1. Download wp-jv-custom-email-settings.zip
 2. Extract to `/wp-content/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings` directory
 3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## FAQ

  Where can I define new “Email From” name and from “Email Address”?

Go to Settings -> General -> “WP JV Custom Email Settings” section.

  How this works? What is the difference between Auto/Manual notification mode?

In Settings -> Writing -> “WP JV Custom Email Settings – Notifications” section 
you can select to send notifications automatically or manually. If it is set to 
Auto whenever you publish a post notification e-mails will be sent out automatically
for users with access to the post and opted to receive such notifications. In case
of Manual you will be provided a “Send/Re-send notification email(s)” button to 
notify your readers.

  I’m not getting any notification e-mails, what is wrong?

In order to receive notification e-mails users have to go to their profile and check“
Notify me by e-mail when a new post is published” checkbox in WP JV Custom Email
Settings section (or an admin has to do it for them). Further more user has to have
access to the post as well, but this applies to private posts only (see FAQ of [WP JV Post Reading Groups plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-post-reading-groups/faq/)
for more details).

  What kind of tags I can use and for what?

You can customize notification e-mail template (both subject and content) In the
content you can use any standard html tags as well on top of the following ones:
%
title% means title of the post %permalink% means URL of the post %title_with_permalink%
means URL with title of the post %author_name% means the name of the post author%
excerpt% means excerpt of the post %words_n% means the first n (must be an integer
number) number of word(s) extracted from the post %recipient_name% means display
name of the user who receives the e-mail

  Where are the logs?

Log of notifications is available at Posts -> JV CES Email Log, where you can view
which users were notified about which post and if e-mail sending was successful 
or not (please note that bounce messages are not processed).

  I’ve multisite. Does this plugin works for me as well?

Yes, it does, but in that case each site will have its own log in Posts -> JV CES
Email Log.

## Reviews

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[good but emails go to all reading groups](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/good-but-emails-go-to-all-reading-groups/)󠁿

 [kievmc](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kievmc/) May 10, 2019

Can’t segment the groups meaning you can’t just blast 1 group instead off all of
them. I guess it’s better than nothing but i wish it was updated or the creater 
would answer me

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-plugin-18268/)󠁿

 [Benhalsing](https://profiles.wordpress.org/benhalsing/) June 19, 2018

great idea hopefully continue to improve

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### 󠀁[Emails get sent on every update of the post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/emails-get-sent-on-every-update-of-the-post/)󠁿

 [Chris Stevens](https://profiles.wordpress.org/unihost/) September 3, 2016 7 replies

The author obviously thinks the issue mentioned by Sublines is not worth looking
into. Therefor I’ll have to give a 1 str so he can start noticing. Everytime you
update a post, the notification gets sent to all the subscribers AGAIN. If I decide
to make 100 changes that day, the subscribrs will get 100 emails. Its just rediculous.
Also, lately, the sending doesnt work, so I dont think its compatible with my current
WP installation 4.4.1

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Great work, thanks! Just one request](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/great-work-thanks-just-one-request/)󠁿

 [sublines](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sublines/) September 3, 2016 2 replies

Hey, first of all I want to thank you for making this Plugin, it works great and
is easy to use. I would just ask for one change: When an author makes a change to
an article that has already been published, the plugin still sends an Email that
a new article has been published. But when you work with several authors it happens
a lot hat they correct spelling mistakes and other minor changes after the have 
already published the post. It seems a bit unnessary that all users get notifies
about these changes as if it was a new post. Would be great if you had an idea how
to change that. Thanks again!

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Love it…](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/love-it-1006/)󠁿

 [matthias.s](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matthiass/) September 3, 2016

THAT is what i need! So cool integrated. Thank you for this PlugIn. I love it.

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s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Perfect](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/perfect-2345/)󠁿

 [docoptic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/docoptic/) September 3, 2016

Been searching far and wide for a solution to change the default wordpress@domain.
com and this one finally worked.

 [ Read all 6 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“WP JV Custom Email Settings” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Janos Ver ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/janosver/)

[Translate “WP JV Custom Email Settings” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 2.6

Release date: October 5, 2016

 * When deleting a post related e-mail log entries will be deleted as well

#### 2.5

Release date: December 14, 2015

 * Fix a compatibility issue with WP 4.4 when it was not possible to view log about
   sent e-mail notifications

#### 2.4

Release date: December 12, 2015

 * Improved spam score ( make it less likely these e-mails end up in spam folder)
   by fixing e-mail formatting issues – thanks to Neil James

#### 2.3.1

Release date: October 18, 2015

 * Performance improvement by loading javascript only on admin pages
 * German translation by Matthias Siebler added

#### 2.3

Release date: July 26, 2015

 * Performance improvement by using minified js code
 * Bulk subscribe/unsubscribe users to/from e-mail notifications (go to Users->All
   Users and see the new bulk actions)
 * Hungarian translation updated

#### 2.2

Release date: April 25, 2015

 * Serbian translation by Andrijana Nikolic added

#### 2.1

Release date: April 19, 2015

 * Other small fixes to improve compatibility with other plugins
 * Hungarian translation added

#### 2.0

Release date: January 30, 2015

New features added:

 * Send e-mail notifications automatically/manually to all registered users about
   new public posts
 * Easily customize notification e-mail subject and content templates
 * Re-send e-mail notifications manually as well
 * Send notifications about password protected posts as well (password will NOT 
   be included in notification e-mail)
 * If you have [WP JV Post Reading Groups plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-post-reading-groups/)
   installed then entitled users can receive notifications about new private posts
   as well
 * Users can opt-out if they don’t want to receive e-mails (they can choose to get
   all/nothing)
 * Maintain e-mail log about sent e-mail notifications

#### 1.4

Release date: August 19, 2014

 * Previous release caused another saving issue which is fixed now

#### 1.3

Release date: August 19, 2014

 * Fixed issue with saving options

#### 1.2

Release date: August 15, 2014

 * Code refactoring
 * Minor bugfixes

#### 1.1

Release date: August 14, 2014

 * Added Contact Form 7 compatibility

#### 1.0

Release date: August 14, 2014

 * Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **2.6**
 *  Last updated **6 years ago**
 *  Active installations **80+**
 *  WordPress version ** 4.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **5.3.21**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/)
 * Tags
 * [admin](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/admin/)[administration](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/administration/)
   [e-mail](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/e-mail/)[email](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/email/)
   [newsletter](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/newsletter/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/advanced/)

## Ratings

 3.8 out of 5 stars.

 *  [  3 5-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/reviews/?filter=5)
 *  [  1 4-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/reviews/?filter=4)
 *  [  1 3-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/reviews/?filter=3)
 *  [  0 2-star reviews     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/reviews/?filter=2)
 *  [  1 1-star review     ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-jv-custom-email-settings/reviews/?filter=1)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Janos Ver ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/janosver/)

## Support

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