 Hello everybody This is not my first word camp, but it is my first time speaking so bear with me Today I'm going to be discussing something. I think that everybody has gone through or will go through I know that when I first built my WordPress website a Long time ago. I never understood why I wouldn't get all the emails that was sent from my website So if you have that problem, then this is for you But first I want to introduce myself really quickly Again, my name is Sunoon. I know it's a spelled C noun, but Sunoon Chia I have I Started a shift web solutions about nine years ago and I've been building websites for a long time So and I love WordPress. This is what I live and breathe. I do web design I do SEO and WordPress tutoring So keep me in mind if you guys have any questions and any beginners out there that need some help I do one-on-one tutoring And and that's that's pretty much it. I don't want to talk too much about myself other than this is my little niece over here I'm obsessed with her She's she's six weeks and she's an angel and I'm obsessed with her. So I have to put her in here But anyway, so I didn't do a typical powerpoint because I like making websites So you know my presentation is gonna be on the World Wide Web and you can actually access it by just going to shift web.co So what I'm gonna be going over with you is gonna be pretty fast because there's a lot to cover So if I move too fast and you need to refer back to what I'm talking about Just go to this website and then you'll see Everything that I'm gonna go through with you today Okay, so I think that's It for introduction now first I want to discuss why why do you need this? Pretty much anybody that has a WordPress website is gonna need this every time I build a site It's the first thing I do is set up This what I'm about to show you and it's really overwhelming and confusing trying to figure it out yourself because there's a lot of Solutions out there that you can choose from like mandrill sin grid. I'm sure you guys have heard of those companies I've tried them all and they're all really confusing So today I'm gonna be discussing postmark, which is just Just like sin grid and mandrill what you've heard before but postmark is just not I think as well known But they're they're great So you need this if you have trouble sending receiving emails from your website I'm not talking about, you know sending emails from your Gmail or your Yahoo or whatever This is from your website. So if you use a contact form like contact form 7 ninja forms Gravity forms whatever it is if it's a plug-in on your website, you need to set up this I'm gonna show you also You know if you have you have WooCommerce on your website Sometimes, you know people who buy you know products or services on your website And then they don't get an email. Well, this is the reason why it's because Your your websites having trouble delivering the The email from your website to To whomever it needs to go to I'm not gonna talk too much about this. There's a lot of Confusing key terms and you don't really have to know it but DK. I am an SPF and SMTP these are just terms that explain what happens When you set up email deliverability for your website. So since we don't have a lot of time I don't want to go through this too much, but let's let's get right in Dig right in first thing you're gonna need. Just let you know obviously is your WordPress website the next thing is Access to your domain registrar for your domain name go daddy Uniregistry whatever it is that you use Okay, so the first thing I recommend is postmark The internet here is not very good. So I'm glad that I made this video So instead of showing you how to do it what I'm just I'm just show you this video. It's very easy. I've made very short videos That's not gonna work. It's gonna load forever But I did put step-by-step Text here for you if you can't watch the video right now But essentially what you're gonna do is set up a postmark account which looks like this this yellow very simple easy to look at Set up for us to sign up for an account The account is you get free 100 emails a month now I'm not talking about emails being sent from you know again like your your Gmail or your Yahoo or Google apps whatever it is. It's just from your your site and And you know if you need more credits then you would have to purchase some more and all of these sender Signatures like postmark You have to pay for credits you do get a limited amount every month But I like postmark as you get a hundred and it's good to start Especially you have a small site that doesn't get a lot of email sent out from your website So sign up for a postmark a second thing you will do is add a DK. I am text record I know this sounds You know crazy and overwhelming, but when you sign up for an account with With postmark you set up a center signature, which I have in the previous step And then you will get this right here Maybe I should have did screenshots Tried to be helpful and do gifs or videos And it's not playing So Does anybody know how to insert text records into your domain? Is that weird? Okay, there's just a couple of hands. Okay, so when you're giving a text record, it's like the string of Numbers and letters that that you have to put into your domain registrar So if you're really helpful if I could just show you manage DNS So I'm using GoDaddy just because GoDaddy a lot of people use it so It won't it won't do it. Okay. Here we go. So these are the text records DNS records that I have set for the domain and this is a text record right here that I set up for from postmark that that postmark gives you that you just literally just insert into Your DNS records here So there's a DK. I'm DK. I am text record that postmark gives you and then there's also a C name You see right here. I can't play it because it's not gonna play but it looks just like this when when you Sign up for postmark. These are the text records that you put in Very simple. Just do exactly what it says put it in your domain registrar and it's gonna do wonders Now here's another option is you can set up D mark. It's optional You can look at that when you have time but it would be good for For You know you getting reports on you know your emails and it helps, you know prevent spoofing Spoofing I had that happen to me not with my email, but my phone people will call Me saying thinking that I called them But I didn't because my phone number will pop up on their call ID. That's spoofing same thing with email hackers or spammers will use your email and It looks like the email has been sent being sent from you, but it's not and it's it's really bad for business So setting up these records will really help you, you know, and you know, it will avoid you getting spoofed Which is really important So the next thing you do is just install your postmark plugin For WordPress you just go into your you know find a plug-in postmark for WordPress Install it and that's easier. Everybody knows how to do that. I hope if you don't I can help After this talk Show you how to how to find it After you install the plug-in you have to connect it with your website postmark with your website So postmark will send you give you an API key that you insert into the plug-in and just insert it in there And then it connects your Website with with postmark And then when you do that just send a test email So I know I went through this really fast, but I do want to say that You have to use your domain email So a lot of you may not have a domain email set up for your domain for example Info at shift web.co. This is not my main website. This is just for this talk So I don't have an email set up for this. I didn't I didn't set it up So you're probably wondering how are you going to connect this postmark with your website when you have to use your domain email Well, it's simple Postmark works without emails actually being active your domain only needs to be active So if your domain is active, obviously you're building a site on it. It's active. So when you insert these DNS records on to for you know, you're these DNS records into your for your domain It's just telling You know your domain that hey, it's safe to send emails from your website Even though, you know, you don't You're not using the email and I know that's a little confusing, but And I wish I could just show you what it looks like. So this came up So this is what it looks like when you insert DNS records you click on it It's copied to the clipboard insert it into your domain manager And so I'm going to show you what it looks like Hopefully it'll pop up Anyway, it's the internet slow and it's killing me But this is everything if you just go to shift web co you will see Exactly step-by-step what you need to do and I know that you probably think you don't need this just you do 100% everybody needs it whether you're an advanced beginner or whatever it is If you have a website and you want people to send you an email through a contact form like contact form 7 You need to set this up and the reason why I suggest postmark is because they make it super easy to Do this is what happens when you sign up for account. This is what it looks like you try Send grid I tried that the other day just to make sure you know, I'm using the right app Recommending the right app for you guys Postmark is just easy. So if you follow these steps on on the site here You're gonna it's pretty much guarantee that you would get the emails from your website So and you want to do that because if you don't then it's bad for business And people are gonna wonder why you didn't respond to them. It's because you never got your email That's pretty much it. I know I went through this really fast, but if you guys have any questions, I'd be happy to answer him Yes Yep, pretty much. That's the first thing I do is so his question Yes was first thing you do is when you create a WordPress website You activate a kismet and other things and and this is the first thing I do every time because if you're using You know, unless you're using something like woofoo, that's a third-party plug-in the one that I use a lot You don't need to set this up because the email is being sent from woofoo servers But most of the time people are using contact form 7 because it's free, right? So contact you know contact form 7 a plug-in like that is relying on your hosting company to send the emails from your website Which you don't want to do that there, you know your hosting company is not a email client So you want to make sure that you get those emails. That's why it doesn't matter if you have email set up for that For that domain or not just as long as you have a website and you want to make sure you get emails set this up So is this something I should go back and retrofit my clients with yeah, probably yeah So do you kind do your clients have any problems receiving emails anytime? Yeah, exactly well if if yeah, that's that's the problem And the reason why I found out emails are not being sent was because I was using WooCommerce years ago And I was wondering why my clients didn't receive receipts or I didn't receive orders and it's like okay You know because WooCommerce is relying on your host to send emails So yes, you you have to have to set this up now You don't have to use this you can use whatever you want, but I recommend postmark Yes, so the instructions to set this up Will you share this presentation or how yeah, just go to shift web.co Shift web.co right here Shift web, which is my company name shift web solutions.co. This is not my main website I made it just for this for this talk And you will see step-by-step All the recommendations and links Very easy to look at Yes, yes, web mail. Is there access to web mail? Well, this is not this is not connected to your web mail at all. Yeah, it's completely separate and Yeah, that's pretty much it tomorrow. I have a oh, yes Sure shift don't forget the F shift Like you're making a shift and then web So Let me see if I have right here shift web solutions. If you click on this it goes to my main website You'll see my logo up here shift web solutions The way reason why I say don't forget the F is because every time I type in my business name I always forget the F and it just spells shit. So it looks really bad But yes, this is step-by-step and I also have another session tomorrow For for Divi theme users. It's a theme that I recommend to everybody. It's the best theme in the world in my opinion, but But yeah, any more questions? We're good. Thank you very much for listening