The Church Admin plugin has some great tools for sending email. The best method is to use the integration with Mailersend…
Mailersend
IS the recommended method as they can handle bulk and transactional email from the plugin with ease – teh first 3,000 emails per month are free too!
There’s a full tutorial here
Second Method of Email is from Church Admin Plugin itself.
Here we will need to make sure your hosting company has set up email.
Send yourself a test email Church Admin>Communications>Send Test Email
If that works, then you will be able to send emails from your installation. If it doesn’t then you will need to add some SMTP settings – use this tutorial.
Many web hosting companies restrict how many emails can be sent per hour to protect themselves from spammers using websites to send millions of junk email.
If your church directory has more than 100 email addresses you will need to set up queueing. Depending on your server setup you have three options available. Go to Church Admin>Communications>Email Settings
The wp-cron option uses site visits to trigger sending a batch every 15mins. If your site is low traffic you will need to visit!
Cron is available on Linux servers and is a bit more advanced but trustworthy!
When you select that option and click save you will get a link to instructions.
To setup a cron you need to login into your hosting company and find Cron jobs.
The command is curl -silent DOMAINNAME/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=church_admin_cronemail
I set mine to go every 15 mins
