Email to owner
The Email channel sends a notification to your WordPress admin email address whenever Structura publishes a post. No external account, no keys, no webhooks — it’s the simplest channel to connect.
Think of it as a “publish receipt” so you know each post went out even when you’re not watching the site.
What gets sent
A single email per publish:
- Subject: the post title.
- Body: the post’s excerpt or first paragraph, a “Read the full post” link to the article on your site, and an edit link so you can jump straight to the WordPress editor.
- From address: whatever WordPress is configured to send mail as
(usually
wordpress@yourdomain). - To address: the WordPress admin email as set under WordPress Settings → General.
Connect
- In wp-admin, go to Structura → Channels.
- Click the Email to owner card. The install panel opens.
- The panel confirms the destination email address — it should be your WordPress admin email. If that’s wrong, update it under WordPress Settings → General first.
- Click Connect. The channel is immediately active; no test email is sent.
Make sure WordPress can actually send email
This channel is only useful if your WordPress site can send email in the first place. If WordPress email is broken (no SMTP configured, shared hosting blocking outbound mail, mail landing in spam), the Email channel will fail silently.
To test:
- In WordPress, ask someone to do a password reset for your account. If the reset email arrives, outbound mail works.
- If it doesn’t, install a transactional-email plugin (WP Mail SMTP, FluentSMTP) and configure it against a provider like SendGrid, Postmark, Mailgun, or Amazon SES. Once that works, Structura’s emails will flow through the same transport.
Changing the destination
Structura’s Email channel always sends to the current WordPress admin email. To change it, update that setting in WordPress Settings → General — the Email channel picks up the new address on the next publish.
If you want a different address than your main admin email, the workaround is:
- Use a shared inbox or alias as your WordPress admin email.
- Or use Slack/Discord as the notification channel instead.
When Email stops working
- No emails arriving. Check WordPress email health first (see above). If outbound WP mail is broken, nothing Structura does will fix it.
- Emails landing in spam. Configure SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for your sending domain. This is generic WordPress-email advice; not something Structura can do for you.
- Check System Logs. Filter
CHANNELS.and look for Email- related entries — the plugin logs whether it handed the message to wp_mail successfully.