Sending Emails with wp_mail()

Sending Emails with wp_mail() — a practical guide to wp_mail WordPress with clear examples you can reuse in real projects.

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Short description

`wp_mail()` is the WP wrapper around PHPMailer. Set headers for HTML/from address carefully.

wp_mail example

wp_mail(
    'user@example.com',
    'Welcome',
    'Thanks for joining!',
    ['Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8']
);