spark36

I mainly want to move the main giveaway image above the meta info and make it more of a full width header. Since submitting this comment, I’ve mostly got it how I want by using the shortcode instead of one of the main templates. This allows me to have a more compact design and then add some additional elements around it.

@ibenic, nevermind. I checked my Sendgrid account activity and see that the activation email was in fact delivered by Sendgrid. So all good here. I still need to figure out why it was sent to junk though.

@ibenic, you would expect the settings in the WP Mail SMTP plugin to override the default wp_mail function, so that it uses SendGrid? I’m not sure why it’s not working then. I’ll keep looking into it. Please let me know if you can point me to any resources for getting this to work with the giveaway plugin.

Thanks again.

I’ve setup a SendGrid account and connected it to WordPress using the WP Mail SMTP plugin. I tested sending an email using the test feature in the WP Mail SMTP plugin and it worked. However, when I signed up for a test Giveaway I created, the activation email wasn’t sent by SendGrid. It also arrived in my Junk folder. How can I connect the Simple Giveaways plugin to use my SendGrid account for transactional emails?

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Thanks again @soobahkdo and @ibenic for the response.

I already use ActiveCampaign as my ESP for newsletter type emails. Do I need to get a separate service for transaction emails or could I use the same provider? How can I integrate Simple Giveaways with a transactional email provider, instead of using WordPress to send the Activation, winner, and non-winner emails?

Thank you for the quick response. I’ll be sure to ask premium related questions on the site in the future. I’ll test removing AC integration and let you know if that fixes the signup delay.

Nevermind, I figured out that if I use the regular shortcode it shows this information if I’ve signed up.

@ibenic and @soobahkdo,

Thank you for the quick responses.

@soobahkdo, how are you able to integrate pretty links with the Simple Giveaways plugin? I don’t see that integration.

Very cool! I think I’ll purchase soon. Just getting my site ready.

Thanks for pointing that out cartpauj. Good to know this is possible. I understand the concept of these hooks and can understand PHP at a very basic level but I’m not experienced enough to do this myself from scratch.

Any chance you could point me in the right direction for how to use this hook to pass my dynamic parameters to the URL? I’m happy to purchase the plugin if I can accomplish what I’m looking to do with it.

The dynamic parameters are currently added to prettylinks using shortcodes from my membership plugin. Is it possible to use the filter hook to dynamically append these parameters to the destination URL using these shortcodes?

Thanks.

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