You can send a quick notification email to your members when editing their details from the admin dashboard. This is useful if you wanted to let the user know that you have made some changes to their account.
For example, if you are using the “manual member approval” setup then you can use this option to let the members know when their account is approved.
Table of Contents
- How to Send a Quick Notification Email
- The Email Content of the Last Notification is Saved
- Email Merge Tags
- Customize the From Email Address Value
- Sending Direct Emails to a Group (Multiple Members)
How to Send a Quick Notification Email
Step 1) Edit the member’s profile from the admin dashboard (you can click the edit link from the member’s menu to edit a profile).
Step 2) Click the “Notify User” checkbox.
Step 3) Fill in the email subject and body field with the message you want to send to the member
Step 4) When you save the user’s profile, it will send the email to this member.
The Email Content of the Last Notification is Saved
The email content (subject and body) of the last email notification is saved (when you use this feature). So next time you want to send the same notification email, you don’t have to manually enter the email content.
Email Merge Tags
Please note that the {password} email merge tag is not available for use in this email. The other email merge tags can be used.
The plugin lacks access to the plain text password of the user, making it impossible to generate this tag.
For security reasons, passwords are stored using a one-way hash. As a result, it is not possible to retrieve plain text passwords from the database directly. This practice adheres to the best security standards for password storage.
You can refer to the WordPress documentation linked below for a detailed explanation of how passwords are hashed within the WP system. Our Simple Membership plugin implements the same hashing functionality:
WordPress Documentation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_hash_password
Customize the From Email Address Value
This documentation explains how to customize the from email address value of the outgoing emails.
Sending Direct Emails to a Group (Multiple Members)
Sometimes you may want to send an email communication to multiple members. You can achieve this by using the Send Direct Email tool located within the WP Membership -> Members menu. You can read more about using this tool to send a group of members the email in this documentation.