You can use WordPress’s wp_mail() function to send emails from your WordPress site. However, the default content type is ‘text/plain’ which does not allow using HTML. If you want to send HTML emails then you will need to set the content type of the email to “text/html” by using the ‘wp_mail_content_type’ filter.This is how you can do that:

before you send your wp_mail call add a filter to wp_mail_content_type

add_filter('wp_mail_content_type','set_content_type');

Then in your set_content_type function have it return the appropriate content type, in this case ‘text/html’

function set_content_type($content_type){
return 'text/html';
}


A More Compressed Way to Set the Mail Content Type to HTML

add_filter('wp_mail_content_type',create_function('', 'return "text/html"; '));
wp_mail('whoever@whatever.com', 'Subject', 'Message');


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