Enhancement Request | Main Settings Table Behavior

Hi @generosus

Thanks for reaching out to us and we apologise for the delay.

This has actually been the default behaviour of our settings for quite some time now.

The “Email Test” tab belongs to our Tools section as you have mentioned. “Email Test” is included in the settings menu for convenience purposes. This way someone can quickly hop into email tests/debugging if need be.

Your request is still valid in that we can consider adjusting this behavior, so thank you for sharing your request. I will share this thread with out team.

Hi @generosus

Thanks for getting back to us.

I’d like to clarify that we haven’t confirmed that the adjustment will be made in our next release.

As mentioned in my previous reply, “Email Test” is included in the general settings for convenience. We’ll need to consider the benefits of both options as users have already gotten used to “Email Test” being in both locations.

Hi @generosus

Again, while your point is definitely valid, we have chosen to continue using the current locations for now. However, if you’re willing the “Email Test” link can be removed from the settings menu with a little custom code:

// Remove test tab link from the settings page menu in the WP Mail SMTP plugin.
add_filter( 'wp_mail_smtp_admin_get_pages', function ( $pages ) {

	unset( $pages['test'] );

	return $pages;
}, PHP_INT_MAX );

You would need to use a code snippet plugin like WPCode because it will not work from the functions.php file. The filter applies earlier than the theme loads.

Another benefit is that it will protect the snippet from updates.

In case it helps, you can find a tutorial for using WPCode here.

We would like to apologize that we have opted to go a different route for now, but we really do hope that the code snippet will suffice for now.

Hi @generosus

You’re welcome, glad we could help 🙂

Hi @generosus

Thank you for the suggestion, I have shared this thread with our documentation team for future use 😀