We set up authenticated sending for your WordPress site so password resets, receipts, and form notifications stop landing in spam. Fixed from $190, most done in 2 to 3 business days.
WordPress sends email through PHP’s mail() function by default, and that is why your email goes missing. The message leaves your server with no authentication, your host’s IP has a so-so reputation, and Gmail quietly drops it in spam or rejects it outright. The user never gets the password reset. The customer never gets the receipt. You never find out until someone complains.
The fix is well known: route mail through an authenticated provider over SMTP or an API, and set up SPF, DKIM, and DMARC on your domain so the big mailboxes trust it. The guides on page one of Google walk you through doing this yourself, and if you have the time, you can. We do it for a fixed fee and test that it actually reaches the inbox, which is the step most DIY setups skip.
We have fixed enough “WordPress not sending email” tickets to know the plugin is the easy part. The DNS records and the warm-up are where people get stuck.
Default WordPress mail is not signed, so receiving servers cannot tell it is really from you. SPF and DKIM fix this at the DNS level.
Shared hosting IPs are often on blocklists from other people's spam. Routing through a real provider such as SES, Postmark, or Mailgun puts you on a clean, monitored IP.
Without DMARC and bounce tracking, you cannot see what is failing. We turn on reporting so you know your delivery rate instead of guessing.
Most broken WordPress email is the first two. DMARC is the part almost everyone skips, and it is the one that turns 'I think email works' into 'I can see 98% of it is landing.' We set up all three, because fixing one without the others just moves the problem.
Scoped to one WordPress site and one sending domain. Here is everything we do.
A working setup and the knowledge of why it works, so the next person who touches your DNS does not undo it by accident.
Password resets, receipts, and notifications routed through a provider the major mailboxes trust.
Set in your DNS, verified, and written down so you know what each one does.
Screenshots of your mail landing in Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo inboxes, not just a send log.
Set up under your billing, not ours. You own it and pay the provider directly, usually a few dollars a month or nothing.
If delivery breaks on our setup within 14 days, we fix it free.
Most WordPress email setups are done in 2 to 3 business days. The slow part is DNS changes propagating, not the work itself.
We agree on a provider based on your volume and budget, then get WordPress admin and DNS access.
Same dayWe connect WordPress to the provider, publish SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and wait for DNS to settle.
1–2 business daysWe send real test mail to the major providers, confirm it lands, and hand you the records and notes.
1 business dayThe deliverability setup is $190. That covers provider selection, the WordPress side, all three DNS records, and inbox testing. One site, one sending domain.
Setup plus a month of monitoring is $390. We watch your DMARC reports for the first few weeks, move you from monitor mode to enforcement once it is safe, and catch anything the initial test missed. Worth it if email is how you take orders or bookings.
Send us the site and the symptoms. Sometimes it is a five-minute fix we can spot before quoting, like a host that blocks port 587 or an SPF record with a typo. If it is deeper, the setup above sorts it. We do not sell email as a monthly subscription you cannot escape: you pay the provider directly, usually a few dollars or nothing at your volume, and we charge once for the work.
This is the WordPress side of our email deliverability work, which fixes the same problem on other platforms and on the server itself. If your mail is sent by server software rather than WordPress, our server mail and Postfix setup covers that, and for Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 see hosted email setup. For the platform itself, start with our WordPress support overview. Authentication is also a security control, so it pairs naturally with a WordPress security audit.
We'll triage the same day. Send context, screenshots, error messages — whatever you have. No sales calls, no chatbots.
