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.

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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)

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Requirements

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

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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

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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

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About

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

• 🌐 webpenter.com
• 💼 LinkedIn
• 📸 Instagram
• 🐙 GitHub

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License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL-2.0 License.