How to setup SMTP on your wordpress site.
If you are sending emails in WordPress forms and they don’t or don’t send at all throwing an error, then you need to set SMTP to ensure deliverability and in this tutorial l will walk through the process of creating email, get credentials needed and setting up and SMTP plugin on WordPress.
Step one
First step you will need to log into your wordpress dashboard.
Navigate to Plugins > Add New.and in the search bar, type SMTP.
You should now see a list of many plugins for SMTP but for this tutorial we will be using the WP MAIL SMTP from WP MAIL SMTP
Install and activate this plugin and you will be prompted to any installation wizard like this, click Lets Get Started.
You will come to a screen which says Choose Your SMTP Mailer here make sure you choose the last option which says Other SMTP then click Save and continue.
Now we need to get SMTP details from your email provider / hosting server.
Log into your CPANEL AND go to the emails section and create a new email, save the email password safely.
If you already have the email click Connect Device to the email you just created or you have.
In the next page here you can have different view than mine but all are similar ,
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Back to our wordpress dashboard on our SMTP setup enter the SMTP HOST highlighted above and the port number.
Now enter your user name which will be your email and put the password of your email.
And there you have it the SMTP is set up now save and go to your form and test the email .
And thank you for reading.
