Would you like to change the appearance of emails sent by WordPress? By default, all notification emails sent by WordPress are in plain text format with no layout.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add beautiful templates emails on WordPress for all outgoing emails.

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Why use templates emails on WordPress

By default, WordPress sends a variety of email notifications. If you're running a single-author blog, then you can pretty much do this without using any templates emails.

However, if you are the owner of a multi-author blog, with a member's area or a store eCommerce, then you will probably need to consider improving the layout of your emails.

Use templates rich in colors for your emails improves the user experience. But also when you use your brand and colors, it gives a more professional and aesthetic appearance to your emails.

Now let's discover together how to add beautiful templates to your WordPress blog.

How to set up email templates on WordPress

The first thing to do is to install and activate the plugin Email Templates. After activating the plugin, you simply need to access the location " Appearance> Email Templates To create and modify your templates emails.

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This plugin uses the WordPress customization interface, which will allow you to create email templates and see the preview directly.

The interface for customizing email templates has several different sections. First you have to click on the settings tab "Settings", where you can enter the name of your site and the email address to use in the " From Name "(Sender's name) And " From Email "(Expeditor's address).

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By default, the plugin uses email addresses defined in the WordPress settings. But you can obviously modify this information.

The next step is to modify the template (Return to main menu). In the tab " template“, You can select whether you want to use the full width of the document or put the content in a box with margins. You can also set the background color.

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Once it's done, click on the header section (Header) to configure the header of your template. You will be able to add a logo, modify the default text with a color and a size, modify the background color.

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In the email section, you can change the font size and color. One element that is missing is certainly the possibility of modifying the colors of the links.

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And in the end, don't ignore the footer section (Footer). By default, the plugin will display the name of your site, but you can customize this section as well.

You can change the font, colors, and background colors.

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Once you have finished with the template configuration of your emails, you can save your settings by clicking on the save button (Save).

Then click on the button email sending test To see a preview of your email. This plugin will send an email to the site administrator's address as specified in the settings.

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Troubleshooting

If you do not receive an email, then you can follow The instructions that I propose here.

Email templates do not modify those sent by third-party plugins that do not use WordPress' internal email sending features. Services like MailChimp  ou AWeber use their own email templates but also an internal tool to modify them.

That's all for this tutorial, I hope it will be of great use to you.