Sal Ferrarello

Thank you for your kind words. I’m glad this worked well for you.

Cheers.

Hi queeneve,

Once the Stop Emails plugin is deactivated, it will no longer affect outgoing emails. Nevertheless, I suggest deleting this plugin to be certain it is not impacting the site in any way.

I would also check the spam folder of the email account that is supposed to be receiving the email.

Then I would double-check the plugin is not active by confirming there is no “Email Disabled” message showing on the wp-admin pages. This plugin can be used as an mu-plugin, so checking for the “Email Disabled” message is important even after you delete the plugin.

At this point if you are still not receiving the emails, I suspect the issue is not related to this plugin. This plugin does not change any settings on your WordPress site, so once it is deleted it can not affect the site sending email.

If I were troubleshooting this problem, I would:

– double check the email address associated with my account
– disable all of the plugins on my site
– try sending an email through the website (e.g. a password reset email is often the email I trigger when testing)
– check the spam folder of the receiving email account

At this point, if the emails are still not being delivered I would reach out to the company hosting my website and email and see if they can shed any light on the problem.

Best of luck with this issue.

I’ve determined the problem. I’m using a fresh install and it had the default Permalinks setting Plain (https://wpcore.dev/?p=123) rather than the more common Post name (https://wpcore.dev/sample-post/). Changing to Post name resolved the problem.

Summary of my fix:

• Go to https://wpcore.dev/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
• Under Common Settings, click the radio button in front of Post name
• Click the Save Changes button at the bottom of the screen.

I apologize for leaving this issue open, I should have closed it after my last response.

As a side note, I did not receive an email on Mike’s comment. Andrew, your comment did trigger an email.

In any case, thanks for following up. All good here now. Thanks.

Since writing this an update for the plugin came out. This alone did not resolve the issue, however I followed this advice:

Can you first make sure the plugin is up to date, then go into the PayPal Powered by Braintree Settings and select Save Changes without making any changes to the settings.

from https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/paypal-isnt-working-credit-card-is-fine/

and it resolved the problem. I still see

Sandbox mode is enabled — Use a test account

but additionally there are credit card fields.

Hi David,

I hope this answered your question. Now that I know how BuddyPress sends email and have updated Stop Emails to accommodate it, I’m going to mark this topic resolved.

If you have further questions or follow up notes, feel free to re-open this topic or post a new one.

Have a great day.

– Sal

Hi tiomno,

This comment put a smile on my face. Thank you.

Thanks for the nice review, you made my day.

Just a heads up that this plugin will stop some other emails (example: password reset email) so this is something to keep in mind.

Hi David,

In another support thread, it was noted specifically that BuddyPress @mention emails were not being stopped. (see Mentions Getting Sent).

BuddyPress does use its own BP_PHPMailer class but includes a filter to use the default wp_mail() function.

I’ve just pushed Stop Emails 1.2.0, which now includes this filter and stops BuddyPress emails.

@antipole

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I’ve been able to reproduce the problem.

It looks like BuddyPress uses its own code for sending emails by default, which is why the emails are not being stopped.

This line, which tells BuddyPress to use the default wp_mail() function, corrects the problem.

add_filter( 'bp_email_use_wp_mail', '__return_true' );

and I’ll be adding it to an updated version of the Stop Emails plugin, which I will push out within the next 24 hours.

I’ve opened an issue for this on GitHub.

Thanks for using the plugin and for helping me make it better.

The outdated constructor throws this PHP Notice when WP_DEBUG is true.

PHP Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget in Gravatar_Widget is <strong>deprecated</strong> since version 4.3.0! Use <pre>__construct()</pre> instead.

Thanks xberg, you made my day with this review.

Hi David,

Generally, if a plugin is not using the built-in WordPress wp_mail() function to send email, they are using the PHP mail() function.

To check a plugin, I would download it and search all the files in the plugin for the string ‘mail(‘ and see if there are any instances of mail() instead of wp_mail().

I would be surprised if BuddyPress used anything other than wp_mail() when generating emails but I have not personally checked the code for this.

Hey zagriyen,

I hope I answered your question. Since there hasn’t been any further activity on this thread, I’m going to mark it as resolved.

If you have any further questions feel free to open a new thread.

Thanks.

– Sal

Hey Bardia,

I hope I answered your question. Since there hasn’t been any further activity on this thread, I’m going to mark it as resolved.

If you have any further questions feel free to open a new thread.

Thanks.

– Sal