Swift SMTP (formerly Welcome Email Editor)

by David Vongries

Description

Swift SMTP is a free & simple SMTP Plugin for WordPress.

Struggeling with emails not being delivered from your WordPress website? Look no further.

📤 Custom SMTP Settings

Swift SMTP allows you to configure custom SMTP settings for your WordPress site, ensuring more reliable sending and delivery through your preferred service.

Set “From” email address
Set “From” name
Define email content type (HTML or plain text)
Set SMTP host
Set up SMTP encryption & port (SSL or TSL)
Set up SMTP authentification through username & password

💾 Email Logging (New!)

Log all outgoing emails

📨 Customize WordPress Welcome Emails

When a user is added to or signs up for a website, WordPress sends notifications to both the site administrator and the new user. This plugin allows you to customize & change those emails.

Change email subject
Change email content
Add an attachment
Change “Reply-To” email address & name
& more

🔐 Change WordPress Reset Password Email

Swift SMTP also lets you customize the default Forgot Password email in WordPress.

Change email subject
Change email content

What’s next?

If you like Swift SMTP, make sure to check out our other products:

Ultimate Dashboard – The #1 WordPress plugin to customize your WordPress dashboard and admin area.
Page Builder Framework – A fast & minimalistic WordPress theme designed for the new WordPress era.
Better Admin Bar – The plugin to make your clients enjoy WordPress. It replaces the default admin bar to provide the best possible user experience when editing & navigating a website.

Installation

Download the welcome-email-editor.zip file to your computer.
Unzip the file.
Upload the welcome-email-editor folder to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress.

Screenshots

Swift SMTP Settings

Faq

Why is the Password not included in the Welcome Email?

Since version 4.3, the password is no longer sent to the user via email, and instead, a reset password link is sent. This was a controversial decision, but it was made for a good reason.

Reviews

Great but very bad at the same time

By Tormy Van Cool (tormy) on December 10, 2024

The idea of this plugin is really great.
But unfortunately t goes to scr*w up the link/email/page of the lost password.
So that when a user forgets the password will be never ever able to get the change password form.

Only the login form is showing up.

This is a Great Plugin

By dwieyoko on November 4, 2024

Works great! Using it to replace the default WordPress Email.

Way better than using built-in / server email!

By MetalMusicMan (metalmusicman) on March 14, 2024

This plugin is super easy to use and connect to whatever email service you are already using. Much better than the built-in / server-side emails that WordPress defaults to. Thank you <3

Works great.

By Anonymous User 21136810 (anonymized_21136810) on January 22, 2024

Easy configuration.

Flawless

By andyux on September 25, 2023

Worked with no issues as described. WP 6.3.1. Nice work!

Very impressive

By kimmwood on April 14, 2022

This was just what is was looking for. I have a client portal system within a CRM. The registration process for user involved them getting the standard WP password reset email which is messy. I was easily able to change the wording to suite my requirements. Thanks so much for your work on this great plug in.

Does what it's ment to do easily!

By gtamborero on February 7, 2022

I have been trying to use the wordpress Filters a while... After I found this plugin and its just perfect! So easy to configure!

Perfect

By devongilchrist on November 18, 2021

After doing some research about how to customize the new user welcome email, I was going to dig in and setup my own plugin. I found this plugin before I started and saved myself a good chunk of time--and it's probably exactly what I would have created myself. Simple, perfect and allow me to do what I need to do (removed the login url and added some images and my own copy to the email). Thank you for publishing this so the rest of us can use it, too! FYI - if this isn't working for you, you probably have theme or plugin conflicts. This is a very simple plugin.

Works great, and easy coniguration!

By conradoflamini on July 3, 2021

Does exactly what is meant to do and works great. Thank you!

The new release is great!

By Bagus (contactjavas) on June 4, 2021

I like how this plugin is improved! Now it has smoother UI and it works nice 🙂

Changelog

6.2.2 | October 30, 2025

Fixed: Translation notice issue
Fixed: Added missing data sanitization

6.2.1 | January 04, 2025

New: Email logs are now filterable
Fixed: Broken reset password link

6.2 | September 03, 2024

New: Email Logging
Tested up to WordPress 6.6

6.1.2 | May 10, 2024

Tested up to WordPress 6.5

6.1.1 | January 08, 2024

New: Setting to force sender name & email
Tweak: Add additional check to test email to be able to skip authentification

6.1 | January 08, 2024

Tweak: We are now using Plain Text instead of HTML as the default content type for the welcome emails & smtp settings as this better aligns with WordPress’ core default emails.

6.0.1 | January 03, 2024

New: [logged_in] & [not_logged_in] tags for Welcome Email Editor
Tweak: Visual feedback when sending test emails in Welcome Email Editor
Tweak: Make sure the Welcome Emails mimick WordPress’ default emails
Tweak: Improved email template when triggering a test email from the SMTP settings tab
Fixed: Multiple recipients didn’t work in Welcome Email Editor

6.0 | December 30, 2023

Welcome Email Editor is now Swift SMTP! We’ve revamped Welcome Email Editor to bring you an easy-to-use & free SMTP plugin for WordPress!

5.0.7 | December 12, 2023

Fixed: Minor security issue

5.0.6 | December 01, 2023

Tested up to WordPress 6.4
Fixed: Security issue

5.0.5 | December 07, 2022

Tested up to WordPress 6.1

5.0.4 | May 11, 2022

Tweak: Replace [reset_url] with [reset_pass_url] to keep things uniform
Fixed: Some links were not rendered properly in some cases if Mail Content Type was set to HTML
Fixed: Wrong textdomains

5.0.3 | April 27, 2022

Fixed: Wrong link target in the recommended section

5.0.2 | March 02, 2022

Tested up to 5.9
Tweak: Updated plugin description

5.0.1 | June 16, 2021

Fixed: Textdomain issue causing is_readable() warning

5.0 | May 22, 2021

Hey there, David here 🙂 We have taken over the Welcome Email Editor project from our friend Sean Barton. This is our initial release – Apart from some minor improvements, no new features were added. With this release we have reviewed & rewritten the codebase from ground up and greatly improved the settings page design. Stay tuned for more.