If you’re running a WordPress site and need to send emails to your users, you may have encountered issues with emails not being delivered or landing in spam folders. Fortunately, the WP Mail SMTP plugin can help solve these problems by configuring your email settings to work with an external mail service like Gmail. In this blog post, I’ll walk you through the steps to configure WP Mail SMTP with your Gmail account so you can start sending reliable and trustworthy emails from your WordPress site.
Step 1:
1) Login to WordPress admin portal ( Default link would be: < your_wp_site >/wp-admin )
2) Go to the “Plugins” section and select the “Activate” option for the “WP Mail SMTP” plugin.
Once activated, Select Settings under WP Mail SMTP on the left pane > Scroll to Mailer Section and Select Google/Gmail
Step 2:
Go to Google Cloud Platform and navigate to Enable API wizard to register your application for Gmail API ( Click here to directly go to Enable API wizard )
Click on Create Project
After few seconds, click on Next > then click on ENABLE to enable Gmail API
Go to APIs & Services > Credentials > Create Credentials > OAuth client ID
Click on ‘Configure OAuth consent screen’ > Give a App name > Enter your email and Developer contact information > Click on Save and Continue
In Scopes and Tests Sections > Click on Save and Continue ( No changes to be made )
Once the consent screen is created, Go to APIs & Services > Credentials > Create Credentials > OAuth client ID
Select Web application as the application type > Give a Name or Leave it as Default > Click on ADD URI
Enter your Site URL in the ADD URI section
Click on ADD URI under Authorized redirect URIs and enter https://connect.wpmailsmtp.com/google/ as the URI
Finally, Click on Create and Copy the Client ID and Client Secret to a Notepad
Step 3:
Navigate back to WordPress and Continue the Plugin Setup
Enter Client ID and Secret generated from the previous step
Navigate back to APIs & Services > OAuth consent screen in Google Cloud Console > Click on Publish App > Click on Confirm
Go back to the WordPress plugin settings and click on Save Settings
Authorize by Login into the Google Account
Thats it !!! Now you have configured mails to be sent using your gmail account.
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