Description
Your form can say “Message Sent” while the notification email still has problems.
This plugin keeps an admin-only backup of supported form submissions on your own site, and shows WordPress mail-processing health in one dashboard — fully self-hosted, nothing sent off-site.
Highlights
- Local submission backup in your own WordPress database.
- Admin dashboard with total, sent, failed and unknown submission mail status.
- Full lead detail view without opening your email inbox.
- A test-lead tool that creates a local test lead and runs a real
wp_mail()test. - Weekly form health summary.
- WordPress mail failure log with recipient, subject, error and timestamp metadata.
- CSV export.
- Configurable local retention.
- WordPress personal data export and erasure integration.
- No cloud account, tracking service, or external API required.
Supported form sources
- Contact Form 7
- Elementor Pro Forms
- WPForms
- Gravity Forms
- Fluent Forms
WooCommerce email monitoring
WooCommerce transactional email uses the WordPress mail pipeline. This plugin therefore records WordPress wp_mail() success/failure events used by WooCommerce and other plugins when mail-event logging is enabled.
Important email status note
WordPress documents that the wp_mail_succeeded action only means PHPMailer processed the request without an error. It does not guarantee that the recipient received the message in their inbox. This plugin intentionally labels this state Sent, not Delivered.
Security and privacy
Lead data is kept in your own site’s database — it never leaves your server. Common password, payment-card, nonce, CAPTCHA and security-token fields are intentionally omitted. Email bodies are not stored in the mail log.
After activation, review Settings > Privacy if your site needs to disclose local form-submission storage.
Screenshots
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/sadathossain-form-backup-mail-health/, or install the ZIP through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. - Activate the plugin.
- Open Form Backup > Dashboard.
- Go to Form Backup > Tools and send a test lead.
- Review Form Backup > Settings for weekly health, retention and uninstall preferences.
FAQ
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Does this plugin guarantee email delivery?
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No. WordPress can report whether PHPMailer processed an email request without an error, but that does not prove inbox delivery. The dashboard reports Sent, Failed, or Unknown accordingly.
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Where are form submissions stored?
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In custom tables inside your own WordPress database. Nothing is sent to any cloud service — everything stays on your server.
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Does it store passwords or card details?
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No. Common password, card/CVV, payment-token, nonce, CAPTCHA and security-token fields are intentionally filtered out of local backups.
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Does it replace my form plugin?
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No. It works alongside supported form plugins as a backup and mail-health layer.
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Why can a submission show Unknown?
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The form submission was captured, but no definitive WordPress mail success or failure event was observed for that submission request. This can happen when notifications are disabled, delayed, queued or sent asynchronously.
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Does it work with SMTP plugins?
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It listens to WordPress mail success/failure hooks. Many SMTP plugins still use the WordPress mail pipeline, but behavior depends on how the mail plugin sends or queues messages.
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Does it track visitors?
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No analytics or remote tracking is included. Supported form-submission data is stored on your own site, for your site administrators only.
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Contributors & Developers
“Sadathossain Form Backup and Mail Health” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Added local submission backups for Contact Form 7, Elementor Pro Forms, WPForms, Gravity Forms and Fluent Forms.
- Added WordPress mail event monitoring, dashboard, test lead, weekly health, CSV export, retention settings and privacy tools.