{"id":690,"date":"2020-06-04T13:32:46","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wesbytes.com\/guide\/?post_type=kb&#038;p=690"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T01:38:19","slug":"how-to-configure-wordpress-smtp","status":"publish","type":"kb","link":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/kb\/how-to-configure-wordpress-smtp","title":{"rendered":"How to configure WordPress SMTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>How to configure WordPress SMTP?<\/h4>\n<p>1. Login in to your WordPress admin portal via domain.com\/wp-admin<\/p>\n<p>2. Navigate to Add New under Plugins<\/p>\n<p>3. Look for SMTP plugins such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/smtp-mailer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SMTP mailer<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-mail-smtp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WP Mail SMTP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14012542822\/original\/JO-BKkonV9rruW-rafq5BEt0QnfRpHIFnQ.png?1488256730\" alt=\"How to configure WordPress SMTP?\" width=\"1701\" height=\"481\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Once it has been install, may navigate to the plugin settings from Setting (In my case, I will be using SMTP mailer)<\/p>\n<p>5. You would need to ensure that the SMTP username is a legit\/valid email on your hosting.<\/p>\n<p>6. Basic settings will be as below:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.freshdesk.com\/data\/helpdesk\/attachments\/production\/14012542879\/original\/0RqlwS-PrsY9zFXF03twfEPX5RzjJicShA.png?1488256889\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to configure WordPress SMTP? 1. Login in to your WordPress admin portal via domain.com\/wp-admin 2. Navigate to Add New under Plugins 3. Look for SMTP plugins such as\u00a0SMTP mailer\u00a0or\u00a0WP Mail SMTP. 4. Once it has been install, may navigate to the plugin settings from Setting (In my case, I will be using SMTP mailer) 5. You would need to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kbtopic":[28],"kbtag":[1614],"class_list":["post-690","kb","type-kb","status-publish","hentry","kbtopic-wordpress","kbtag-wordpress-smtp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb\/690\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kbtopic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtopic?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"kbtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.servergigabit.com\/guide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kbtag?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}