📧 The Emails Login Guard Sends

Login Guard's emails are your safety net. They put your login address in your inbox so you can always find it again.

Who gets them:

Every administrator of your site: anyone who can manage the site's settings, which is the Administrator role, plus super admins on a multisite network. The one exception is the help page email, which goes only to the administrator who asked for it. The emails are sent by your own site through WordPress's normal email.

The Dashboard tab shows how many administrators get the address, in the What is protected section.

When they are sent, and their subjects:

• When your address first goes live: when you first save one on the Settings tab, when you switch Hide my login back on, or when Login Guard takes over an address from another hide-login plugin. Subject: Your login address for (your site name). It says ResultsAiX Login Guard is now protecting your site and this is the address you sign in at from now on.
• When you change your address. Subject: Your login address for (your site name) has changed. It says the old one no longer works.
• When you switch Hide my login off. Subject: Your login for (your site name) is back at the normal address. It gives the normal address and says your hidden address is kept.
• When you press Email it to every administrator again on the Dashboard tab. Subject: Your login address for (your site name). It says this is the login address again, sent from the Login Guard screen, and that it has not changed.
• When an administrator asks on the "forgot where to sign in?" page. Subject: The login address you asked for: (your site name). Sent to that one person only, with a note that if they did not ask for it, nothing needs doing.

If Login Guard is switched off and on again with the same address every administrator already has, no new email is sent. The notice on screen says it is the same address every administrator was already emailed.

What is inside every email:

• A Sign in button that opens your login page
• Your login address written out in full, under The address
• The address of the "forgot where to sign in?" page, with a reminder to keep the email
• The emergency line for wp-config.php, in case you are ever locked out completely

The Hide my login switched off email is shorter: a Sign in button and the normal address, plus a note that your hidden address is kept.

Keep one of these emails somewhere safe, such as a starred message or a folder.

Checking your site can send email:

1. Open AiX Login Guard, Dashboard tab.
2. Press Email it to every administrator again.
3. The screen says Sent to every administrator. Check that it arrived, including the spam folder.

Next to the button, Last sent shows how long ago the address was last emailed. The Email from this site row on the Diagnostics tab shows the same.

If the screen says the email could not be sent from this site, your site's email sending needs setting up. That is a WordPress and hosting matter rather than a Login Guard one; many hosts need an SMTP plugin or an email service connected before WordPress email arrives reliably. In the meantime, copy your address from the Dashboard tab and keep it somewhere safe.

A real example:

After setting up yoursite.com/kiln-room-42/, Sam presses Email it to every administrator again to be sure the site sends email. Sam's copy lands at owner@yoursite.com and Priya's at priya.shah@example.com. Sam stars the email and moves it into a folder called Website.

Tips:

• Make sure every administrator account has an email address its owner reads.
• Test the email once after setting up, and again after you change hosting or email settings.