Kelsey

Always Alert

Understand Always Alert, install it, and complete a safe first-time setup.

Learn what Always Alert protects, how it works with WordPress email, and where its responsibility ends.

Install the plugin ZIP, activate Always Alert, and resolve a new or inactive licence.

Configure a safe baseline for fallback copies, exclusions, logging, alerts, and testing.

Check whether WordPress accepts a test message and understand what the result does and does not prove.

Choose notification coverage and use the dashboard, alerts, and temporary oversight tools.

Read the assurance status, activity totals, monitoring cards, admin-bar indicator, and WordPress dashboard widget.

Decide which WordPress emails are eligible and whether the fallback address is added by BCC, CC, or To.

Choose a quiet-site threshold, notification recipients, and a practical review process for monitoring emails.

Run a temporary handover window with per-notification heartbeats, reminders, and an optional full submission copy.

Temporarily add a second oversight recipient while investigating missing enquiries or uncertain mailbox access.

Understand log statuses, sources, reasons, retention, CSV export, and log clearing.

Diagnose missing copies, quiet monitoring, scheduled tasks, and source detection.

See how Always Alert recognises common form plugins, page builders, custom mail, system messages, and unsupported paths.

Diagnose licence, configuration, detection, exclusion, duplicate, mail transport, and mailbox causes in order.

Troubleshoot WordPress cron, feature settings, effective recipients, licence state, and mail delivery for scheduled messages.

Interpret observed, injected, dispatched, and successful handoff states without mistaking them for final inbox delivery.

Understand data handling, retention, licensing, deactivation, and uninstall behaviour.

Understand metadata processing, default retention, personal-data tools, full-copy obligations, and local storage.

Understand what pauses on deactivation, what data remains, and what the uninstall process removes.

Practical setup, monitoring, privacy, and troubleshooting guides for Always Apps products.