Email communication is one of the most important part of any website. There is just so much riding on effective email communication. Even though there is more spam emails than ever, more marketing emails but for transactional communication it is the best and easiest route to implement.
While a good Email communication adds to trust of a site, a missing email communication can lead to trust deficit.
“Imagine purchasing a product and not getting an order confirmation email”. While implementation is easiest, maintenance and monitoring is not. Luckily for WordPress sites, the WordPress has inbuilt email functionality called “wp_mail” which takes care of the implementation part. Other plugins like BuddyPress user their own version of Email implementation via a PHP library called PHPMailer. In case you want to send BuddyPress emails via WP_MAIL use this plugin
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