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SleekView Charts for WP Better Emails: outgoing email dashboard

WP Better Emails wraps wp_mail in an HTML template, forces UTF-8 content-type and optionally logs every outgoing message. SleekView Charts reads the log table and template options so daily volume, top recipients and template usage render as Number, Pie, Bar and Area cards.

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SleekView Charts dashboard for WP Better Emails

wp_mail is invisible until WP Better Emails logs it

WP Better Emails replaces the default WordPress plain-text wp_mail output with a custom HTML template, sets the content-type to text/html UTF-8 and (when logging is enabled) writes every outgoing message to a custom log table with columns for to_email, subject, message, headers and created_at. The template HTML and CSS live in the wpbe_options option, with placeholders for site name, logo URL and a footer block.

That means the WordPress install has a clear record of every email it sends out, from password resets and comment notifications to WooCommerce order confirmations and form submissions. The default admin shows the template editor and a recent-log table, but provides no aggregate analytics. Questions like "how many emails did the site send this week?", "which recipient domain receives the most messages?" or "is the password-reset notifier overused?" need to be answered by manually scrolling through the log rows.

SleekView Charts reads the WP Better Emails log table directly, extracts the recipient domain from to_email, groups subjects by a normalized prefix for type classification, and aggregates by date. A four-card dashboard gives the weekly send total, the recipient-domain mix, the top subject types and the daily send trend on one screen, refreshed as the plugin writes new outgoing-message rows.

Workflow

From wp_mail log to dashboard in four steps

1

Map the WPBE log table

Point SleekView at the WP Better Emails log table. Each row carries to_email, subject, headers and created_at, ready for groupBy aggregation. A virtual column extracts the recipient domain from the to_email value at dataset definition time.
2

Classify subjects into types

WordPress emails follow recognizable subject patterns: password reset, comment notification, order confirmation. A dataset-level expression groups subjects into named types so a Bar card ranks types instead of individual unique subjects across the trailing time window.
3

Compose the chart cards

Number card for weekly sends, Pie card for recipient-domain mix, Bar card for top subject types and Area card for the daily trend. Each card declares its groupBy column and aggregation against the indexed log schema directly.
4

Pin and share the view

Name the Charts view ("Outgoing email audit"), capability-gate it for admins and pin to the WP Admin sidebar. Ops checks weekly send volume on Monday, watches the recipient-domain mix for unusual patterns mid-week and reviews drops in volume.

Sample dashboard

Charts you can build from WP Better Emails data

A representative four-card dashboard combining a weekly send KPI, recipient-domain mix, top subject types and a daily send-volume trend across all wp_mail outgoing messages.
Number · Default

Emails sent this week

Count of WP Better Emails log rows with created_at inside the last seven days. The headline outgoing-mail KPI that ops teams watch to spot send spikes from spam, broken automation or runaway notification loops.
Count
Pie · Donut

Recipient domain mix

Log rows grouped by the recipient domain extracted from to_email. Shows the share of mail going to gmail.com, outlook.com, business domains and internal addresses, useful for spotting deliverability skew towards one provider.
Count group by recipient_domain
Bar · Horizontal

Top subject types

Log rows grouped by a normalized subject_type (password reset, order, comment, form notification). Ranks the dominant outgoing-mail types, surfacing systems generating the most volume on the install over the time window.
Count group by subject_type
Area · Gradient

Daily send volume

Log rows grouped by created_at day across the trailing 90 days. Send spikes from a comment storm, an order spike or a campaign each show up as a visible bump worth investigating in the post-mortem after.
Count group by created_at

Comparison

Default WP Better Emails admin vs SleekView Charts

Default WP Better Emails log

  • Log table is scrollable but does not aggregate by date, type or recipient
  • No headline weekly or monthly send-volume number on the admin screen
  • Recipient-domain breakdowns require a manual scan of the to_email column
  • Subject classification (reset, order, comment) lives only in the operator's head
  • Send-volume spikes during incidents need a log download to diagnose properly

SleekView Charts

  • Number cards for weekly and monthly outgoing-email totals at a glance
  • Pie cards for recipient-domain distribution across gmail, outlook and others
  • Bar cards ranking subject types (reset, order, comment, form notification)
  • Area cards for daily send velocity and incident spotting over 30 to 90 days
  • Extracts recipient_domain and subject_type as virtual columns on the log table

Features

What SleekView Charts gives you for WP Better Emails

Outgoing-mail KPI cards

Weekly sends, monthly sends and average daily volume surface as Number cards. The outgoing-mail figures admins currently rebuild from log scrolling each Monday surface automatically on the pinned dashboard view.

Recipient-domain mix

A Donut card splits sends across the major recipient domains, so deliverability skew, internal-address overuse and unusual patterns get spotted within the week, not the month, they actually started occurring quietly.

Daily trends

Area and Line cards over rolling 30, 60 and 90 day windows trace daily send volume. Comment storms, order spikes and broken-notification loops each show up clearly on the chart for incident review and resolution.

Audience

Who builds WPBE dashboards with SleekView

WordPress admins

Outgoing-mail audit: weekly volume, top subject types and the recipient-domain mix on one screen. Spot a runaway notification loop or a comment-spam storm before SMTP rate limits or a hosting provider warning fires off.

Security and compliance

Recipient-domain mix card flags unexpected external addresses receiving mail from the install, an early signal of plugin compromise or a mis-configured transactional sender that warrants immediate manual investigation.

Performance and ops

Daily send-volume area chart pinpoints incidents to the day they started. Combined with the subject-type breakdown, it tells ops which subsystem caused the spike, from comment notifications to form submissions or downloads.

The bigger picture

Why every WordPress site sending email needs this dashboard

WP Better Emails does one job well: it makes outgoing wp_mail look professional and optionally records every message in a log table. The trouble is that the log itself is a flat list with no analytics layer on top, so questions about send volume, recipient mix and subject classification get answered by scrolling, eyeballing patterns and guessing. SleekView Charts reads the same log table, extracts virtual columns for recipient domain and subject type, and turns the rows into a four-card pinned dashboard.

WordPress admins check the weekly send total on Monday. Security watches the recipient-domain mix for unexpected outbound addresses. Ops uses the daily send chart to time-box incidents.

The data has been in WordPress all along; the dashboard makes it operational for the team that actually answers when something goes wrong with email.

Questions

Common questions about SleekView Charts for WP Better Emails

No. The log viewer remains the right place to inspect individual outgoing messages and replay specific scenarios. SleekView Charts adds the aggregate dashboard the log does not assemble, focused on send volume, recipient distribution and subject-type classification at a glance.

 

Yes. The log table stores the From header on every send, and SleekView extracts the from_address into a virtual column. A Bar card grouped by from_address ranks which sender identity drives the most outgoing mail, useful on multi-site installs with several configured senders.

 

Yes. WP Better Emails logs the wp_mail return value alongside the message. A Pie card grouped by send_status shows the success vs failure mix, and a Line card by created_at day flags creeping SMTP issues before they cascade into a wider deliverability problem.

 

Yes. Dashboard-level date filters apply to every chart card. A single "last 30 days" or "last quarter" filter recasts the entire dashboard for incident review, post-mortem analysis or routine reporting, with no per-card configuration changes needed by the operator.

 

Yes. WP Better Emails handles the HTML template; SMTP plugins like WP Mail SMTP and Post SMTP handle delivery. SleekView reads the WPBE log regardless of which SMTP layer delivers the message, so the dashboard works on any installation regardless of mail provider.

 

Yes. Each chart card exposes its underlying log row set, which exports to CSV with the active filters applied. That gives admins a clean handoff for incident reports or compliance audits without running raw SELECTs against the WPBE log table directly.

 

Yes. The WP Better Emails log table is indexed on created_at and to_email. Sites sending tens of thousands of outgoing messages per month render the four-card dashboard in seconds without scanning meta or rebuilding any database indexes after the dataset is set up.

 

Yes. The WPBE log table is per subsite by default. SleekView Charts reads the current subsite, and network-wide dashboards can be configured explicitly when reporting must span multiple subsites, useful for hosting companies and agencies running consolidated mail audits.

 

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