Users Birthday Email

Description

Users Birthday Email sends personalized birthday messages to WordPress users. Administrators can review users whose birthdays are today or tomorrow, send an email immediately to selected users celebrating today, and configure the automatic email schedule and message template.

The plugin includes a birthday date field on user profiles and can also integrate with membership plugins or custom user data through developer filters.

Features

• Automatically send birthday emails using a customizable HTML message and subject.
• Enable or disable birthday email sending from the settings page.
• Review today’s birthday users and send to one or multiple selected users immediately.
• Review tomorrow’s birthday users in a separate list.
• Preview the next scheduled WordPress cron run in UTC.
• Configure the UTC hour when automatic birthday emails are sent.
• Optionally send an administrator notification when a birthday email is delivered.
• Add or update birthdays on WordPress user profiles, or display the birthday form using the [birthdate_form] shortcode.
• Integrate with other plugins using the available developer filters.

Settings and Usage

Open Users > Birthday Emails Settings to manage birthday email delivery.

• Next Scheduled Run (UTC): Displays the next run of the plugin’s hourly WordPress cron event when it is scheduled. This is the next cron check, not necessarily the email delivery time.
• Enable Birthday Email Notification: Controls both automatic and administrator-triggered birthday emails. Existing installations remain enabled unless this option is turned off.
• When to Start Sending Emails: Select the UTC hour during which the hourly cron event sends birthday emails. WP-Cron depends on site traffic unless a server cron job is configured to run wp-cron.php.
• From Name and From Email: Set the sender shown on birthday emails.
• Send Notification Too: Optionally send a separate notification to the configured notification email address after a birthday message is sent successfully.
• Email Subject and Email Description: Configure the subject and HTML message. The template supports @username@, @fullname@, @firstname@, @lastname@, @nickname@, and @displayname@ placeholders.

The Birthdays Today table lists matching users and provides individual checkboxes plus a select-all checkbox. Choose one or more users and click Send Instant Birthday Emails to send immediately. The Birthdays Tomorrow table is a preview list and does not send emails.

Developer Hooks

`unity_users_birthday_meta_key`

Filter the user meta key used to store and retrieve birthday dates. Defaults to unity-birth-date.

`unity_users_birth_date_query_args`

Filter the WP_User_Query arguments used to find users with a birthday matching the target day and month.

`unity_users_birth_day_format`

Filter the birthday day value before it is compared with the target day.

`unity_users_birth_month_format`

Filter the birthday month value before it is compared with the target month.

`unity_users_birth_day_email_head_style`

Filter CSS added inside the birthday email’s <head> element.