The “Save Recipe” block lets readers easily save the recipe by emailing them a link to it. It can also subscribe them to your email newsletter.
If you’d like to manually control where it appears, you can insert the “Save Recipe” block directly into a post while you’re writing or editing it.
If you’d like this block to appear in every post, you can add it to a Block Area like “Before Recipe Card” or “After First Image”.
Use your email marketing service for the Save Recipe email
By default, we use WPForms to send the “Here’s your saved recipe” email. We customize the form design using your brand colors, and you can customize the text of the email. With this solution you’ll need SMTP to ensure email deliverability.
Our form is saving the current Post Title and Post Permalink as a hidden field, so if your email marketing service supports custom fields (ex: ConvertKit, MailChimp), you could create custom fields for the title & permalink and build the “Save Recipe” form directly inside your email marketing service. We can then remove the WPForms email and SMTP will not need to be set up.
This gives you the most flexibility in designing the email your users receive, but requires you to set it up inside your email marketing service. Here’s a guide on setting up the Save Recipe block with ConvertKit.
The information below only applies if you are using the WPForms email. You can ignore the following information if your Save Recipe email comes your email marketing service.
Ensure deliverability with SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a way to send emails from your WordPress website without them being seen as spoof emails. This can improve the deliverability rate of your emails and ensure they don’t end up in spam folders.
If you’re hosted with BigScoots or Agathon, send them a support request asking them to set up SMTP on your site.
Most other hosts do not include SMTP email as part of their service offering, so we recommend:
- Sign up for an SMTP service. Here are a few options:
- Purchase WP Mail SMTP Pro for $49 which includes White Glove Setup
- Send a support request to WP Mail SMTP requesting a White Glove Setup, and provide them with your SendLayer login and the login for your domain registrar (ex: Godaddy or Namecheap). They’ll set up SMTP on your domain.
Customize the email users receive
We’ll set up the email for you, but if you’d like to customize the text in the email, go to WPForms, select the “Save Recipe” form, then go to Settings > Notifications. You can update the “Email Subject Line” and “Email Message”, but keep the smart tags in place. {page_title} is used in the Subject Line to show the recipe’s title, and {field_id="2"} is used in the Email Message to display the recipe URL.
