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I will add more details to these providers in the future, but here’s a list of the common WordPress/WooCommerce-compatible SMTP providers. I referr to these as dedicated SMTP providers because that’s the common description, but many are just general Email Service Providers (ESP’s). Amazon SES is one of the most cost-effective ways to send large …

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It’s common for WooCommerce emails to end up in the recipients’ spam/junk folders, partly because of a common shortcut that web hosts take when providing you with email service. If you’re finding your store’s email is going straight to spam (or never arriving at all), the simplest answer is usually to switch to a dedicated …

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There’s some surprising gotchas when you want to alter the fonts, colors, and spacing of the WooCommerce order emails. Jump to the option that’s the most appealing to you, and I’ll attempt to save you some headaches: Option 1: changing CSS using a theme file Option 2: adding/replacing CSS programmatically Option 3: styling with plugins …

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Symptoms of the problem You’ll find you can’t change the email settings on an individual email (like the recipient email address) because hitting Save changes doesn’t actually save the changes. How to fix Do you only experience the symptoms on the New Order email? WooCommerce 3.7 introduced a new “Additional Content” area for its emails, …

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The WooCommerce email header image field allows you to provide an image URL that will appear at the top of most of store emails. What size should the header image be? Uploading a header image Troubleshooting broken or missing email header images What size should the header image be? Short answer If you’re using the …

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WooCommerce has the option to defer/background-send its emails instead of sending them while processing the action the visitor has taken. This can have a few benefits for customers visiting your store: If their actions on the store are crashing when sending emails (such as the “new account” email), deferring the emails can let the customer …

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WooCommerce has the option to send emails in three different formats for each type of notification: Name Content-type Description Plain text text/plain Plain text without formatting or images. WooCommerce automatically wraps the email content at 70 characters. The documentation mentions a 155 character length limitation on text fields, but I haven’t found anywhere that limitation …

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There’s a mind-boggling number of ways for the “lost your password” feature of WooCommerce to break, so I compiled a list of fixes.