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.

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.

6.3 | December 01, 2025

• New: Mailjet integration

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.

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

Swift SMTP Settings