Hi guys today we are going to see
how you can receive WordPress emails to your inbox
instead of spam
Now let's say you have a WordPress website
and you have a contact form like this
now if a visitor tries to contact you
WordPress will send you an email
Now if we go to our inbox you can see that we have not received that mail in our inbox
instead it has gone to our spam folder
so this means you can miss important
emails from your visitors and also if WordPress sends emails to your visitors
that can also go to their spam folder
which looks very unprofessional and can make your visitors not trust your website
so after watching this video
you'll be able to receive all the WordPress emails in your inbox like this
Let's get started
we're going to fix this WordPress email issue 2 parts
the first part is to create a business email
now in order to fix the WordPress email issue you need a business email like
contact@yoursite.com instead of a regular gmail address
So if you already have a business email
you can skip to the part two of this video
but if you don't have a business email
keep watching
next we are going to see
how we can create a business email
to create a business email we are going to do four steps
the first step is to create an account in Mailgun
so mailgun is the website which is going to help us
create our business email for free
so to create the mailgun account let's go to mailgun.com
and then click try mailgun
now to create the account let's fill up these details
now to prevent spammers from creating fake accounts
Mailgun will ask you to enter your card details
now as you can see these details are
required just for creating the account and you will not be charged any amount here
so I'm going to enter my card details
and click create account
now it'll take you to this page
now here you can see that Mailgun gives us a free plan
which has 10,000 free emails per month
so this means you can send up to 10,000 free emails every month from your business email
so just make sure this plan is selected and then click go to dashboard
so now we have successfully created our Mailgun account
now in order to use mailgun you need to first activate it
so to activate your mailgun account
just go to the email inbox which you used for creating this account
now as you can see we have received a mail from Mailgun so let's open it
and then click this link
and now your mail can account will be activated
so once you have activated your account
you can now go to the next step which is to add your domain to this account
so to add your domain just click add custom domain
now enter your domain name in this box
so I'm gonna enter tryshirts.com
and then click Add domain
so now our domain has been added to Mailgun
so once you have added your domain you can now go to step 3
which is to connect mailgun with your domain
now in order to create a business email
you need to give access to mailgun to use your domain
so to give access you need to add these four records to your DNS settings page
so usually the DNS settings page will be with your hosting provider
so since I have my hosting with GoDaddy
I'm going to add these DNS records there
so to add these records let's go to godaddy.com
and then signin to our account
Now next to your domain name click DNS
so this is our DNS page
now we're going to add these records into this page
so let's click Add
now select the type as txt as it's shown here
and then type '@' here
now click here to copy this value
and paste it here
then click Save
okay so now we have added our first record
so in the same way we'll add all the remaining records
okay so now we have added all the records into our DNS page
so once you added these records let's go back to this page
and then click verify DNS settings
and now it'll take you to this page
which means Mailgun is now successfully connected to your domain
so once you're connected mailgun with your domain we can now go to step four
which is to create a route in mailgun
So once you create a route you will be able to receive emails to your business email
so to create a route let's click receiving
an then click create route
now click here and select match recipient
now in this box you need to enter the business email id which you want to create
so it can be an email like anything@yoursite.com
so I'm goinna create my email id as contact@tryshirts.com
So now we have entered the business email id which we want to create
now here enter any gmail address where you want to receive your business emails
so I'm gonna enter my gmail address
and now mailgun will forward all the mails sent to this address to this gmail inbox
okay so let's click create route
and root will be created
which means we have successfully created our business email
so let's send a test email to our business email and see if we are able to receive it
so to send the email let's go to a random gmail account
and click Compose
now let's send a test email to contact@tryshirts.com
now if we go to the Gmail inbox where we forwarded our mail
and click refresh
you can see that we have received the email let's open it
now if you click here
you can see that it was sent to our business email
and we have successfully received it on our Gmail inbox
so now we have successfully created our business email
so once you've created your business email
we can go to the next part of this tutorial
which is to connect your business email to your WordPress website
so once you connect your business email to WordPress
you'll be able to receive all the WordPress emails in your inbox
so too connected we are going to do three steps
the first step is to add your business email in WordPress
so to add your business email let's go to our WordPress dashboard
and then go to settings
and click general'
and as you can see
we have an email address field here
so to add our new business email in WordPress
first let's delete this gmail address
and then enter our business email in this field
now click Save Changes
and now WordPress will send a confirmation email to this address
now to add your business email in WordPress
you need to confirm your email address
so to confirm our email let's go to this inbox
and then open the mail
and click this link
so now we have successfully added our business email in WordPress
so once you have added your business email you can now go to step two
which is to install a plugin in WordPress
now this plugin will help us connect our business email with WordPress
so to install the plugin, let's go to plugins
and click add new
now search for WB mail SMTP
and you will get this plugin so this is the plugin which is going to help us
connect our business email with our WordPress website
install the plugin let's click install you
and click 'activate'
so now we have successfully installed the plugin
so once you've installed the plugin you can see that we have a new button called WP mail SMTP
so now we can go to the final step of connecting your business email with WordPress
which is to set up the SMTP plugin
so once you set up the SMTP plugin
you can receive emails to your inbox instead of the spam folder
so to set up the SMTP plugin let's go here
and click 'settings'
and enter your business email in this field
now in this field you can type any name which you want as your from name
so this name will appear when someone receives an email from you
so I'm going to type tryshirts which is the name of my site
now let's scroll down now since we created our business email in mailgun
let's select mailgun from here
and once you select mailgun
it'll ask you to enter the API key
so to get the API key let's go to Mailgun
and click here
and select API keys
and as you can see we have got our API key here
so let's copy this
and then paste it in WordPress
so now we have entered our API key
which means all the wordpress emails will be sent through mailgun
now if your business email is from a different provider
you need to select other smtp here
then enter the details given by your provider
now since we are using mailgun
once you've entered the Mailgun's API key
you need to enter your domain name here
and then click Save Settings
okay
so now we have successfully connected our business email to our WordPress website
which means all our email issues should now be fixed
and all the wordpress emails will now directly go to your inbox
instead of spam
so to check that let's go to our website
now let's say a visitor is trying to contact you
and they are sending you message through your website
now if you go to your inbox
and click refresh
you can see that we have received the mail in our inbox
and it did not go to spam
okay guys so this is how you can receive WordPress emails in your inbox instead of spam
so next let's go to the bonus part of this tutorial where we see
how we can reply to your emails using your business email
so now if we try to reply to this mail
you can see that it still goes from our gmail address which we don't want
we want our email to be sent from our business email
which is contact@tryshirts.com
so to do that
we need to add your business email to Gmail
so once you add your business email to gmail
you can start sending emails from your business email
so the add your business email to Gmail
just click here
and then click settings
now click accounts and import
now since we want to send emails from our business email
let's click add another email address
and you'll get this window
now enter your from name in this box
so I'm going to type tryshirts
now in this field enter the business email which you have created
so I'm going to enter contact@tryshirts.com
then click next
now to connect your business email to Gmail
you need to get these details from mailgun
so let's go to our mailgun account
now click here
and click domain settings
so to get these details just select smtp credentials
and you'll find your SMTP details here
now all you need to do is just copy these details and paste it here
so first let's copy this and paste it here
next let's copy this one and paste it here
now to get this password just click reset password
and as you can see your password has been created
so let's click here to copy the password
and then paste it here
so once you added these details just click Add Account
now Gmail will send a confirmation code to your business email
so to get the code let's go to our Gmail inbox
and here you can see the confirmation email so let's open it
now copy this code
and paste it here
then click verify
now as soon as you click verify your business email will be successfully connected to Gmail
so now if we click compose
and click here
you can see that our business email is now added
now if you were to make this business email as you default from address
just click here
and then click settings
now again go to accounts and input
and click make default
so now we have made our business email as a default from address
so now let's go to our inbox
and an open the mail which we received from our WordPress website
now if you click reply
you can see that our business email is now selected by default
so now let's send a reply mail to this visitor
and now if you go to the visitors inbox
and click refresh
you can see that we have received the mail
and now if we click here
you can see that it was sent from our business email
so this is how we can reply to your emails using your business email
so that's it guys this is how we can receive WordPress emails in your inbox
instead of spam
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