{"id":1046,"date":"2024-05-07T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/how-to-send-transactional-emails-from-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:36:23","password":"","slug":"how-to-send-transactional-emails-from-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/how-to-send-transactional-emails-from-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"How to send transactional emails from WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Transactional emails are messages that are <strong>automatically <\/strong>sent after a user performs an action on your website or application. Examples of transactional emails are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Password reset emails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Welcome emails<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shipping confirmations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Payment invoices<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Order confirmation emails<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to use ShortPixel&#8217;s hosting service and send transactional emails, you will first need to sign up for a new account with a third-party transactional email provider such&nbsp;as<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mailgun.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mailgun<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sendinblue.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sendinblue<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sendgrid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SendGrid<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sparkpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SparkPost<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this tutorial, we will use <strong>Sendinblue<\/strong>&nbsp;as an example for the instructions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sign up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This step, of course, depends on the service provider you choose. Since we are using Sendinblue, here are the official instructions from their&nbsp;YouTube channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/yphvulPUFx8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><br \/><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Retrieve SMTP settings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Once the account is created, log in and proceed as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Click on your name in the top right menu.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose <strong>SMTP &amp; API<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click on <strong>SMTP<\/strong>, copy all the information (<strong>SMTP Server, Port, Login, Master password<\/strong>) and paste it in a safe place.<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-MhSAUbmF55.jpg\"><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">WordPress configuration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Now go to your WordPress dashboard and proceed as follows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Install the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/easy-wp-smtp\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Easy WP SMTP<\/a> plugin.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Go to <strong>Settings > Easy WP SMTP > SMTP Settings<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy the <strong>SMTP Server<\/strong> field from Sendinblue and paste it into the <strong>SMTP Host<\/strong> field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select\u00a0<strong>SSL\/TLS<\/strong> in the\u00a0<strong>Type of Encryption<\/strong> field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy the <strong>Port<\/strong> field from Sendinblue and paste it into the <strong>SMTP Port<\/strong> field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy the <strong>Login<\/strong> field\u00a0from Sendinblue and paste it into the <strong>SMTP Username<\/strong> field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Copy the <strong>Master password<\/strong> field from Sendinblue and paste it into the\u00a0<strong>SMTP Password<\/strong> field.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Customize the rest of the fields according to your needs<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/file-AVz0N5Hxgm.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transactional emails are messages that are automatically sent after a user performs an action on your website or application. Examples of transactional emails are: If you want to use ShortPixel&#8217;s hosting service and send transactional emails, you will first need to sign up for a new account with a third-party transactional email provider such&nbsp;asMailgun, Sendinblue, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[58],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1046","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-hosting"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":265,"total_views":"2394","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Hosting","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/hosting\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1046\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=1046"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}