elliekennard

Well I have to say that the plugin builder sorted this out for me perfectly. It seems to have been some weirdness created on a Windows server mail option that gets in some way changed when the plugin has the Set the return-path to match the From Email unchecked. Even when the option is checked again, it is as if the server will no longer accept that setting. Mail is actually being sent, but is not leaving the server.
With a new update to the plugin and the correct setting now enabled, my mail is going as expected and I am back to normal. I hope this might help someone else in the future.

Thanks to all who tried to help but most especially to Callum Macdonald, plugin developer who went over and beyond the call of duty to sort the issue with me.

Ellie

I found that I was still on the version prior to 3.1.1 so I installed the new version.

This has not fixed the problem, unfortunately.

I did the install by the automated one.

Is there any way in which this might be fixed?

Ellie

@mattyrob
Thanks for the info.
Presumably back all up first?

Cheers!

Ellie

I went into PhpMyAdmin and the values are already set to a:0:{}

So there is nothing I can do there.

By the way, I removed the values in wp_options that the plugin developer suggested (although I found only 9, not 10 as there are supposed to be). Nothing helped.

So failing that, do I have to reinstall WordPress to restore this function? What will I lose and how must I do this to try to keep some sort of history and settings as I have it now?

Many thanks

Ellie

I heard this from the plugin creator tonight:

“The plugin sets some values in wp_options which you could remove. Other than that, having deleted the files, there’s no way at all for WP Mail SMTP to affect how emails are sent out. A quick scan of the WordPress codebase suggests none of these options would interfere with WordPress and its sending of mails. I’ve had other people report similar issues, so if you find a solution, I’d be very interested to hear about it. I’m baffled as to what’s going on. I can send you some debugging suggestions by email if you like.”

A bit worrying, to be honest.

I’ll have a go with what was suggested here, but I have no idea of what to change in the wp_options or how…

Cheers!

Ellie

Thanks Esmi

Will try doing that first thing tomorrow morning.

Cheers!

Ellie

Thanks Esme,

I will give it a try. Would using ftp be just as good as PhpMyAdmin?

Ellie

Hello Callum,

I hope you might receive these replies. I have just posted a problem on the main Troubleshooting forum as I installed the WP Mail SMTP plugin to try to get it to work for a contact form for a Windows server installation.

The plugin did not work, but unfortunately has now messed up my WP mail sending. I did set the plugin back to mail() before disabling and uninstalling it. But the problem persists and my mail function is no longer functioning (I get no notifications of comments etc.) I depend on it also for Subscribe2 to send out notices to my subscribers of new postings.

Is there anything you can suggest that I do to correct this problem please?

Cheers!

I am going to move this to the main problem area as this has messed up the mail function of wordpress completely and I feel is not any longer to do with the plugins only.

I have just uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin for Subscribe2 but it still is not sending the emails.

Perhaps I should ask if anyone is using this theme successfully with widgets without having the sidebars thrown into confusion?

@mattyrob

Perfect, thanks for the help! Love the functionality!

Ellie

Okay, I found this here:

Display Home as a Page

The following example causes “Home” to be added to the beginning of the list of Pages displayed. In addition, the Pages wrapped in a div element, Page IDs 5, 9, and 23, are excluded from the list of Pages displayed, and the pages are listed in Page Order. The list is prefaced with the title, “Page Menu”,
<h2>Page Menu</h2>
<?php wp_page_menu(‘show_home=1&exclude=5,9,23&menu_class=page-navi&sort_column=menu_order’); ?>

I have now added the code adjusted the css and the menus are as I hoped.

Many thanks for working through this with me, Esmi. It took a little digging on my part once you pointed me in the right direction.

Cheers!

Ellie

My header.php file

My sidebar.php file