plug in does not sent HTML mail, only text

Hi crickw,

There’s no need to turn on “HTML” but your installation have to meet some requirements to get the plugin working fine:
– emails have to be plain/text
– third party plugins have to use “wp_mail” native function

The emails you pasted are not plain/text, they’re “multipart/alternative” meaning they contain both format (html & text plain) and thus can’t be wrapped with the HTML template I provide.

Regarding wpmandrill, have a look at this topic: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/integration-with-wpmandrill-1?replies=2
WpMandrill is not using the default WordPress function to send emails.

By the way, rating one star and saying that “it doesn’t work” wihtout reading the plugin page or support threads (both would have bring answers to your questions) is a little bit unfair in my opinion. The plugin can’t be compatible with the thousands of plugins out there, plus, you should blame wpmandrill as they’re not using the WordPress email native function.

Nicolas

Hi,

I just had a deeper look into the wpMandrill plugin. They’re saying you can use wp_mail() function because they overwrite it with their own code. But some hooks that are included in the native function are missing in the wpMandrill one.
It’s one of these hooks (phpmailer_init) that is used by WP Better Emails to set the template and make everything work. Bad luck.

Still, they provide a hook that can “replace” (not exactly but it does the job) the missing important one. I finally managed to get everything working with this hook.

Paste the code above in your functions.php file or a plugin file and that should do the trick (works for me):

add_filter('mandrill_payload', 'wpbe_wpmandrill_compatibility');
function wpbe_wpmandrill_compatibility( $message ) {
	global $wp_better_emails;
	$message['html'] = nl2br(make_clickable($message['html']));
	$message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->esc_textlinks($message['html']);
	$message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->set_email_template($message['html']);
	$message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->template_vars_replacement($message['html']);
	return $message;
}

Let me know if it works for you.

BTW, thanks for your revised review. My mistake for the support email, I forgot to update it in the last release. The correct one is: wpbetteremails [ at ] helloni.co. It will be updated in the next release.

Cheers,

Nicolas

Looks like you’re having a PHP error somewhere. Weird because I pasted your code in my functions.php and I’m having no errors.

Try to put some brackets around the register_sidebar function:

<?php 

function wpbootstrap_scripts_with_jquery()
{
	// Register the script like this for a theme:
	wp_register_script( 'custom-script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/bootstrap/js/bootstrap.js', array( 'jquery' ) );
	// For either a plugin or a theme, you can then enqueue the script:
	wp_enqueue_script( 'custom-script' );
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wpbootstrap_scripts_with_jquery' );

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget' => '',
		'before_title' => '<h3>',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
	));
}

add_filter('mandrill_payload', 'wpbe_wpmandrill_compatibility');
function wpbe_wpmandrill_compatibility( $message ) {
	global $wp_better_emails;
	$message['html'] = nl2br(make_clickable($message['html']));
	$message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->esc_textlinks($message['html']);
	$message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->set_email_template($message['html']);
	$message['html'] = $wp_better_emails->template_vars_replacement($message['html']);
	return $message;
}

?>

If you still have a blank page, paste this in your wp-config.php file:

define('WP_DEBUG', true);
define('WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY', true);

It will output PHP errors on your screen. Paste it so I can exactly know what’s going wrong.

You’re welcome.

Check the changelog of the next release. I might add a builtin support for wpMandrill.