The Developer’s Debugger: Why You Cannot Build Custom WordPress Sites Without WP Email Log
For a WordPress developer, working with email is the most frustrating part of the stack. You write a custom function to trigger a notification, you refresh the page, and then… you wait. You check your inbox. Nothing. Did the function fail? Did the variable not merge? Did the server block it? You have no idea. The standard wp_mail() function is a black box. It returns true or false, but it doesn’t tell you what it tried to send. WP Email Log breaks this black box open. It captures the raw output of every email generation attempt immediately. For developers, this transforms email from a guessing game into a visible, debuggable data stream. In this review, we will explore why this plugin is as essential to your workflow as WP_DEBUG.