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Webpenter Email Log Guru

WP Email Log Guru is a powerful WordPress plugin that automatically logs all outgoing emails sent from your website. It helps website owners, developers, and administrators monitor email activity, troubleshoot delivery issues, and keep a complete record of sent emails. Features include: • Automatic logging of all outgoing emails.

by Webpenter · github.com/zaars59208/wp-email-log-guru · website

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Install

Download source zip No release zip yet

This is the repository archive. It installs, but the folder name will carry the branch suffix and updates will not flow.

Install straight from GitHub with WP-CLI:

wp plugin install https://github.com/zaars59208/wp-email-log-guru/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
No built-in updater. New versions won't appear under Dashboard → Updates. Install new releases yourself, or let Git Updater track the repository.
Readme github.com/zaars59208/wp-email-log-guru ↗

Email Log Guru — WordPress Email Logging & Tracking Plugin

Know every email your WordPress site sends. Or fails to send.

Email Log Guru captures, logs, and tracks every outgoing email from your WordPress site — delivery status, open rates, click tracking, failure alerts, and a complete analytics dashboard — all without touching your SMTP setup.

Email Log Guru

Overview

Most logging plugins record only the subject line. Email Log Guru captures the entire message — so you can debug delivery failures, replay lost emails, and maintain a full audit trail without any external service or SMTP changes.

  • ⚡ Zero-config setup — works out of the box
  • 🔒 No external APIs or SaaS dependencies — runs 100% on your server
  • 🛡 GPL-2.0 licensed
  • 🌍 Fully translatable (i18n ready)

Features

📧 Complete Email Logging

Intercepts every wp_mail() call and captures the full payload — HTML body, plain text, headers, CC, BCC, Reply-To, attachments, sender, and all recipients.

👁 Open & Click Tracking

Injects a secure HMAC-signed 1×1 pixel into HTML emails and wraps every link with a click tracker. See exactly who opened each message and which links they clicked.

📊 Analytics Dashboard

Today, 7-day, and 30-day stats for sent, failed, resent, opens, and clicks — with open rate, click rate, and failure rate computed automatically.

🔁 One-Click Resend

Resend any logged email directly from the admin panel without re-triggering the originating flow. Every resend is logged for a complete audit trail.

🚨 Instant Failure Alerts

Get notified by email the moment delivery fails. Configure a failure threshold and time window to prevent alert fatigue — the plugin de-duplicates intelligently.

🔗 Webhook on Failure

Fire an HMAC-SHA256-signed webhook to any endpoint when email delivery fails — integrate with Slack, PagerDuty, Zapier, or any monitoring pipeline you already use.

📤 Email Forwarding

Automatically forward every outgoing email to additional To, CC, or BCC addresses. Perfect for staging audits, compliance requirements, or team monitoring.

🕵️ Source Plugin Detection

Traces the exact WordPress plugin and hook that triggered each email using PHP backtrace. Immediately identify whether WooCommerce, CF7, or any other plugin is the sender.

📅 Daily Digest

An automated daily summary email lands in your inbox at 08:00 every morning — yesterday's sent, failed, opens, and clicks — so you stay informed without logging in.

🛡 Role-Based Access Control

Assign log viewing rights to specific WordPress roles via the custom welg_view_logs capability. Destructive actions like bulk delete remain gated behind manage_options.

🗂 Smart Retention & Auto-Purge

Configure a day-based retention period and a maximum entry count. A daily cron job keeps your database trim without manual intervention.

⛔ Granular Exclusion Filters

Skip logging specific recipients, subject keywords, or entire source plugins. Store only the emails that matter to your workflow.

What Gets Captured Per Email

Field Details
Body Full HTML body + plain text alternative
Headers From, CC, BCC, Reply-To (all raw headers)
Attachments Filenames and file sizes
Source Plugin name and WordPress hook identified via PHP backtrace
Context Trigger page URL, User ID, IP address (optional)
Metadata PHPMailer Message-ID, mailer type
Status Real-time update: sending → sent or failed

Analytics

The built-in dashboard surfaces these metrics — no third-party service required:

  • Today, 7-day, and 30-day breakdowns for sent & failed
  • Open rate and click rate across all tracked HTML emails
  • Failure rate to catch SMTP issues early
  • Top 10 recipients and most frequently sent subjects
  • Per-plugin email breakdown to identify heavy senders
  • Hourly distribution heatmap to reveal sending patterns
  • 7-day and 30-day chart data for trend analysis
  • All-time cumulative totals

Settings

30+ configurable options across 8 focused tabs:

Tab What you control
⚙ General Master on/off switch, items per page, date format, SMTP test tool
📝 Logging What to capture, which fields to store
👁 Tracking Open pixel & click tracker behaviour
🔔 Notifications Failure alerts, threshold, de-duplication window
📤 Forwarding Auto-forward To/CC/BCC addresses
⛔ Exclusions Skip recipients, subjects, or source plugins
🗂 Retention Retention period, max entries, auto-purge cron
🔧 Advanced Role capabilities, AJAX security, advanced options

Technical Architecture

Component Detail
Email interception wp_mail filter — zero-config
Tracking security HMAC-SHA256 signed links & pixels
Database 2 custom tables — logs + tracking events
Background jobs WP-Cron for purge & daily digest
Security Nonce + capability checks on all AJAX
Compatibility WordPress 5.6+, PHP 7.4+
i18n Fully translatable

Requirements

  • WordPress 5.6 or higher
  • PHP 7.4 or higher
  • No external services required

Installation

  1. Download the plugin .zip file
  2. Go to WordPress Admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin
  3. Upload the .zip and click Install Now
  4. Activate the plugin
  5. Navigate to Email Log Guru in your admin menu — no configuration needed to start logging

Pricing

Plan Price Details
Early Adopter Free First 100 customers only — all features, lifetime license
Standard $9.99 One-time payment, lifetime license, all future updates included

No tiers, no upsells, no monthly plans.

👉 Claim your license at webpenter.com

About

Built by Webpenter — a software & training company based in Rahim Yar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan.

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL-2.0 License.