Settings Reference
Every option on the Super Speedy Emails → Settings screen, tab by tab. The screen has four tabs – General, Sending, WooCommerce (only shown when WooCommerce is active), and Advanced – each with its own Save Settings button.
General
Basic identity and the self-service page.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| From Name | The default sender name on outgoing email. Defaults to your site name. Can be overridden per email category on the Sending tab. |
| From Email | The default sender address. Defaults to your site admin email. Also overridable per category. Use an address on a domain you control and can authenticate (SPF/DKIM) for good deliverability. |
| Unsubscribe scope | Off by default, so an unsubscribe link stops what it says it stops. Ticked, any unsubscribe link ends all bulk email and drops the subscriber from every list – see Unsubscribes & the Preference Centre. Transactional and onboarding email is unaffected either way. |
| Subscription Management Page | The page where visitors manage their preferences (the Subscription Management Page with the [sse_manage_subscriptions] shortcode). If you don’t have one, the Create Page button makes one for you containing the shortcode. The unsubscribe-confirmation screens link here. |
Sending
Where email actually goes, who it’s from per category, and the safety switch for testing.
Send mode (test modes)
Controls whether email really leaves your server. Covered in full in Test Modes:
- Live – email is sent for real.
- Log-only – recorded in the email log but
wp_mail()is never called. Nothing leaves the server. - Redirect – every message goes to a test address you specify, regardless of the real recipient.
A coloured banner appears across the SSE admin whenever you’re not in Live mode, so you can’t forget you’re testing.
Sending provider
Choose how email is delivered – None (wp_mail) or a connected provider such as Mailgun. See Choosing & Configuring an Email Provider. When you pick a provider, its own fields (API key, webhook details) appear below the selector. Switching providers doesn’t lose another provider’s saved credentials.
Sender identity per category
Super Speedy Emails sends six categories of email – newsletter, list broadcast, product marketing, product support, onboarding, and transactional. Each can have its own:
- From Name
- From Email
- Reply-To
Leave a category’s fields blank to fall back to the General From Name/Email. This lets (say) your newsletter come from “Acme News” while support emails come from “Acme Updates” with replies routed to your support inbox. The categories and their rules are explained in Email Categories, Unsubscribes & Suppressions.
WooCommerce
Only shown when WooCommerce is active.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Add “Email Preferences” tab to My Account | When ticked, logged-in customers get a tab in WooCommerce My Account to manage their subscriptions. See WooCommerce Integration. |
| Endpoint Slug | The URL segment for that tab (default email-preferences, giving /my-account/email-preferences/). |
Toggling the tab on/off, or changing the slug, automatically refreshes WordPress’s URL rules – no need to manually re-save permalinks.
Advanced
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Ultra Ajax | Status display (Active / Not Installed) for the fast signup path. Not a toggle – see Native-Speed AJAX Signups for how to confirm and, if needed, disable it. |
| Cookie Lifetime (days) | How long the sse_subscriber_id cookie persists (default 365). This cookie recognises a returning subscriber so the preference centre and popup logic work without a login. See Cookie Handling. |
| Delete data on uninstall | When ticked, removing the plugin deletes its data. This cannot be undone. Leave it off unless you’re sure – uninstalling normally keeps your lists and subscribers so you can reinstall without loss. |
The Send mode banner is your friend. Set Send mode to Redirect or Log-only on the Sending tab while you build lists, forms and content, so no rehearsal email ever reaches a real subscriber. Only switch to Live once you have sent yourself a satisfactory test.
A sensible first-run setup
- General: set From Name and From Email to something on your own domain.
- Sending: choose a provider (or stay on wp_mail to start), and set Send mode to Redirect while you test.
- Sending: set at least the newsletter and product_support From identities if you’ll use those.
- Create your lists, forms, and content; rehearse in Redirect mode.
- Sending: switch Send mode to Live when you’re confident.
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