How to Fix WordPress Not Sending Email Issue

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hey there welcome to WP beginner and thanks for tuning in in this video I'm going to show you how you can fix the WordPress not sending emails issue if you use a form on your site say like gravity forms or WP forms then you need to rely on your website for sending emails and a lot of times if your site isn't sending emails it's because you're hosting provider they don't have the PHP mail function turned on on the server and that's okay we actually recommend that you use SMTP for sending email that is the simple mail transfer protocol and it's the industry standard for sending emails to get that going on your site I'm going to walk you through in this video how to set up a mail gun account and how to connect that to your website so that you know that your emails are getting sent on your website so the first thing we want to do is we want to go ahead and go to mail gun and we want to sign up the service is quite affordable the first 10,000 emails a month are free so I'm going to go ahead and create account real quick and then we'll move on once you create an account you're going to see this area and you want to just scroll down because we're going to add your domain here I'm going to click add domain from here we need to add a subdomain we'll create the subdomain on our website host platform so I'm going to keep this open we're going to create the sub doain and that is going to be on our own hosting site so what we need to do is go ahead and keep this page open but we need to go to our Hosting account log into the C panel and we're going to scroll down and we're looking for the subdomains area from here I'm going to click on the subdomains because I want to create one and see this is the one I want to use if you have multiple domains you want to pick the one that you want to use this for and I'm going to type mail one so it's basically going to be mail one.i domain all right now that we created that I'm going to copy that information go back to mail gun I want to add that subdomain here and then click add domain okay now we need to go through and do some verification what it's saying here is you need to go to the DNS provider so again you need to go back to your Hosting account we'll go to the home area and this time we want to go on Advanced DNS zones area to set this up there are two records that we want to enter this text one and this text one so we want to enter this value and this information on our Advanced DNS area Okay so first thing I'm going to do is copy this info add it into the name area the time to live we're going to put the default 144 this is a text type and the address I'm going to come over back over here copy that value add it here and add record all right successfully added and we can see it down here we need to do the same thing for the other one going to copy this information add that to the name area I'm going to grab this whole piece add it to the address the time to live is the default the type is text and I going to paste that data there and I want to add that record as well all right that one was added successfully as well all right now that I have entered that I need to go back to my C panel homepage and I need to make an entry I'm looking for the MX record entry because I need to make an MX entry from here I need to choose the root domain and I want to add what I see here so it's a 10 priority and this value so do 10 the destination will be that add the new record all right now we've added everything that we need to to the hosting side so now we need to go to our actual WordPress website go ahead and log in under plugins we want to add new and we're searching for the plugin called Mel gun for WordPress so I'm hit enter and this is the one we want from mail gun so we'll install now and we want to activate it all right once it's activated we need to go into settings and we want to go ahead and set all of this up yeah we want to use the HTTP API setting that's the default and that's perfect for what we're doing the mail gun domain name you want to go over to your mail Gun Site and copy this domain up here put that there and then you also want to grab your API key from your mail Gun Site put that here here you can decide if you want to choose to track your clicks and the open rates of the emails you can also add a tag for further tracking in analytics and then here's the short code for later but we want to just save the settings and then we want to test configuration make sure everything looks okay and now what we have is success and with that we fixed the issue of not being able to send emails from our WordPress website if you like this video click on the like button and go ahead and leave us a comment there we'd love to hear from you and subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the latest videos