{"id":12991,"date":"2018-11-09T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/?p=12991"},"modified":"2021-05-10T20:07:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T00:07:58","slug":"introducing-the-sendgrid-add-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/blog\/introducing-the-sendgrid-add-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the SendGrid Add-On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12992\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SendGrid-Add-On-Release.png\" alt=\"SendGrid Add-On Release\" width=\"810\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SendGrid-Add-On-Release.png 810w, https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SendGrid-Add-On-Release-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SendGrid-Add-On-Release-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/SendGrid-Add-On-Release-108x60.png 108w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember when we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/introducing-mailgun\/\">released the Mailgun add-on<\/a> and said that we would be releasing more add-ons to send notifications through dedicated email services? Just as we promised, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/add-ons\/sendgrid\/\">SendGrid add-on<\/a> is here! Similar to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/add-ons\/mailgun\/\">Mailgun add-on<\/a>, the SendGrid add-on will allow you to easily configure your forms to use SendGrid when sending notification emails.<\/p>\n<h2>Why SendGrid?<\/h2>\n<p>As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, one of the biggest problems that WordPress users face is emails having trouble sending. Whether it&#8217;s their web host blocking the email from going out or the host&#8217;s shared IP being marked as spam, email issues impact a very high number of WordPress users.<\/p>\n<p>By introducing add-ons for email services like SendGrid or Mailgun, that problem is completely eliminated when it comes to Gravity Forms notifications. Instead of trying to send email from the web server or a remote SMTP server, messages are delivered directly from SendGrid using their API.<\/p>\n<h2>There&#8217;s Still More To Come!<\/h2>\n<p>Just like your favorite late-night infomercial: wait, there&#8217;s more! We have yet another email service add-on to release very soon! Of course, if you want to keep up with all of the best Gravity Forms news and releases, follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gravityforms\">Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GravityForms\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have an add-on you&#8217;d like to see? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when we released the Mailgun add-on and said that we would be releasing more add-ons to send notifications through dedicated email services? Just as we promised, the SendGrid add-on is here! Similar to the Mailgun add-on, the SendGrid add-on will allow you to easily configure your forms to use SendGrid when sending notification emails. Why SendGrid? As we&#8217;ve mentioned before, one of the biggest problems that WordPress users face is emails having trouble sending. Whether it&#8217;s their web host blocking the email from going out or the host&#8217;s shared IP being marked as spam, email issues impact a very high number of WordPress users. By introducing add-ons for email services like SendGrid or Mailgun, that problem is completely eliminated when it comes to Gravity Forms notifications. Instead of trying to send email from the web server or a remote SMTP server, messages are delivered directly from SendGrid using their API. There&#8217;s Still More To Come! Just like your favorite late-night infomercial: wait, there&#8217;s more! We have yet another email service add-on to release very soon! Of course, if you want to keep up with all of the best Gravity Forms news and releases, follow us on Twitter or Facebook.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/blog\/introducing-the-sendgrid-add-on\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204039,"featured_media":12992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[216],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.2 (Yoast SEO v17.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The SendGrid add-on will allow you to easily configure your forms to use SendGrid when sending notification emails.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gravityforms.com\/blog\/introducing-the-sendgrid-add-on\/\" \/>\n<meta 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