Title: HTML Email Format Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # HTML Email Format * Resolved [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/) * Hi * I want to keep using this plugin, but I need to also be able to apply the template to HTML emails. * Will this ever be integrated? * The reason is that I have about 200 different email notifications, and I want to centrally manage the header & footer of these HTML emails. (Otherwise it’s such a mission to update the header & footer in the future!) * What’s the best way to do this? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-better-emails/) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/page/2/?output_format=md) * Plugin Author [Nicolas Lemoine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlemoine/) * (@nlemoine) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407579) * Hi, * The plugin doesn’t do anything when emails are already `text/html` in order to avoid conflicts and/or code mess. For example, if another plugin adds a template, the email would be “templated” twice. * In your specific case, if you are sure that wrapping HTML emails won’t mess everything up, you can force emails content type to be set to `text/plain`, just before WP Better Emails checks for content type and decide to wrap it or not: * ``` add_filter( 'wp_mail_content_type', 'wpbe_force_plain_text', 99 ); function wpbe_force_plain_text( $content_type ) { return 'text/plain'; } ``` * Paste the code below in your theme’s functions.php file. * Let me know if it works for you. * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407589) * Alas that didn’t work. 🙁 * Is there a way to maybe only apply it to emails from one certain plugin? * Plugin Author [Nicolas Lemoine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlemoine/) * (@nlemoine) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407606) * The posted solution should actually work. If you fool the plugin saying the content type of the message is `text/plain`, then the template is applied. * What exactly didn’t work? * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407607) * Now it’s working! How strange! I guess it was a cache issue. * This is SUPERB news! * Thanks. * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407608) * The only issue is that it adds extra spaces between

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* It adds a blank line between each paragraph. * Plugin Author [Nicolas Lemoine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlemoine/) * (@nlemoine) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407620) * The plugin applies some formatting operations on content to make it more HTML friendly. It converts line break into `
` tags and make links out of URL. So your paragraphs probably get a `
` and consequently add an extra line break. * Two dirty solutions I didn’t test. * Remove all HTML tags from content before the email is processed by WP Better Emails: * ``` add_action( 'phpmailer_init', 'wpbe_strip_html_tags', 9); function wpbe_strip_html_tags( $phpmailer ) { $phpmailer->Body = strip_tags($phpmailer->Body); } ``` * Remove only line breaks on the HTML body: * ``` add_filter( 'wpbe_html_body', 'wpbe_remove_br'); function wpbe_remove_br( $message ) { return str_replace(array('
', '
'), '', $message); } ``` * You should probably try both. Choose the one (and only one) that fits better your situation. It depends on the content of your emails. * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407623) * The second one works like a charm! Many Thanks. * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407624) * It’s almost ALL working except I just hit a big bug. It’s now breaking my plain text emails by stripping out all the spaces! Is there a way to limit it ONLY to HTML emails? * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407627) * Sorry for the obvious question but do I just add this action below the functions? * Where do I add this? add_action( ‘phpmailer_init’, ‘wpbe_strip_html_tags’, 9); function wpbe_strip_html_tags( $phpmailer ) { $phpmailer->Body = strip_tags($ phpmailer->Body); } * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407629) * I’ve also encountered another pretty serious bug.(I think it’s a bug) This doesn’t get detected as a link: `Create Invoice.` –> This is the main reason I’m moving over to HTML so I can make neat links! –> It shows like this in the email * ``` href="http://lab41.co/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpclients_invoicing&tab=invoice_edit">Create Invoice. ``` * Whereas this link works perfectly: `Create Invoice.` * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407680) * I’ve realised that you can’t edit old posts so I want to sum up the two major issues I’m still having. * **Issue 1: Extra spaces between all paragraphs.** I tried * ``` add_filter( 'wpbe_html_body', 'wpbe_remove_br'); function wpbe_remove_br( $message ) { return str_replace(array('
', '
'), '', $message); } ``` * But it then broke all my other plain text emails, by removing all spaces there too! (I have a mix of HTML and plain text emails on my site) * 1)is there a way to only apply it to HTML emails and skip this function on plain text emails? * 2) I didn’t try this as wasn’t sure how to use it. Do I just insert it in my functions? * ``` add_action( 'phpmailer_init', 'wpbe_strip_html_tags', 9); function wpbe_strip_html_tags( $phpmailer ) { $phpmailer->Body = strip_tags($phpmailer->Body); } ``` * –> will it only apply to HTML emails? * **Issue 2: Not Converting Links Properly** I’ve used the following in an HTML email. `Create Invoice.` * BUT it’s not detecting it as a link. It shows it as * ``` href="http://lab41.co/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wpclients_invoicing&tab=invoice_edit">Create Invoice. ``` * –> This is the main reason to move over to HTML to make these links friendly. * I tested this link in the email and it works like a charm, so it’s only the longer ones that break. * ``` Whereas this link works perfectly: Create Invoice. ``` * I tested this in two different emails from different plugins and it didn’t work in the one but worked in the other. I will ask that plugin author why, but if you have any ideas please let me know! * Sorry for all the posts, but I was encountering issues as I tried different things! I really appreciate your help & support! * Plugin Author [Nicolas Lemoine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlemoine/) * (@nlemoine) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407691) * > It’s now breaking my plain text emails by stripping out all the spaces! * Can you be more accurate in your descriptions ? None of the solutions removes white spaces (the first one removes HTML tags, the other one removes HTML line break tag). BTW, who cares about plain/text emails? 99% of your users won’t even see it. * > Is there a way to limit it ONLY to HTML emails? * The actions/filters I posted should only be applied to the HTML part. * > Sorry for the obvious question but do I just add this action below the functions? * Your can paste the code blocks as they are in your functions.php file or in a plugin/plugin-mu file. * I can’t really understand what is the exact problem about links. This is for sure caused by the action that make links out of URLs. Try to remove the link tags. * I’m providing support for something that’s not a bug in my plugin, please try to post as much information as possible (paste source code with something like [http://codepad.org/](http://codepad.org/), etc.). * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407693) * Hi * 1) I’ve used the other in a functions now and it seems to all be working! Great news! 2) Regarding broken links, here is what I mean in more details: [http://codepad.org/7KccLp0E](http://codepad.org/7KccLp0E)( There’s a URL at the top with a demo) * Many Thanks! I’m super greatful for the support you’ve provided and I love the new Mandrill feature! * Plugin Author [Nicolas Lemoine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nlemoine/) * (@nlemoine) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407695) * Thanks for the testing page, makes my life easier. Knowing that you’re using WpMandrill should also have been mentionned before as the process in not exaclty the same with WpMandrill. * So let’s start over… Because you’re in a WpMandrill case, the email doesn’t even go through the `phpmailer_init` action. * ``` // remove native wpbe filter remove_filter( 'mandrill_payload', array($wp_better_emails, 'wpmandrill_compatibility') ); // do your own email processing add_filter( 'mandrill_payload', 'wpbe_wpmandrill_compatibility' ); function wpbe_wpmandrill_compatibility( $message ) { global $wp_better_emails; // make sure you have the %content% tag in the template if ( $wp_better_emails->check_template() ) { // clean < and > around text links in WP 3.1 $message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->esc_textlinks( $message['html'] ); // make links out of URLs $message['html'] = make_clickable( $message['html'] ); // set template $message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->set_email_template( $message['html'] ); // replace variables $message['html'] = apply_filters( 'wpbe_html_body', $wp_better_emails->template_vars_replacement( $message['html'] ) ); } return $message; } ``` * Remove the other pieces of code I gave you and paste this one. * If you have problems with links, try to remove or comment the `make_clickable` line. * Thread Starter [Lab41](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lab41/) * (@lab41) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-email-format/#post-5407696) * Hi * First up, thanks for taking the time to help out here! I’ve tried the new code and also commented out the clickable line. * Here is what it looks like with new code sample: [https://www.mediafire.com/?klcdj0p62t3d5f2](https://www.mediafire.com/?klcdj0p62t3d5f2) [http://www.mediafire.com/view/9w6mgcq983d48r0/Code1.jpg](http://www.mediafire.com/view/9w6mgcq983d48r0/Code1.jpg) * It worked mostly with the previous code, it was only the one plugin that caused the HTML links to break. Maybe it was an issue with that plugin? 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