Email Directory — Every Email Benecaster Sends

A single table of every email Benecaster’s own WordPress site can send — what triggers it, the template file that renders it, and where to read more. This is a directory, not a replacement for the pages it links to: Automated Emails explains each one for a podcaster audience, Email Types Reference covers the filter and action hook families that target them, and Billing Emails covers the five built-in membership templates in full, including default copy.

Scope: emails sent by your own site only. Every row below is dispatched by the plugin’s own EmailQueue, through your own SMTP connection. It does not include emails benecaster.com sends you directly about your account (threshold warnings, plan changes, payment-failure notices) — those never pass through your site and have no template file to override. See the “Emails Benecaster Sends You From benecaster.com” section of Automated Emails for that list. It also excludes add-on-only email types (broadcast, episode_notification, the analytics_digest_* family) — see Email Types Reference for those.

Subscriber Emails

Welcome, Token Reset and Tier Change can each be switched off per show, at Benecaster → Shows → [show] → Subscription → Welcome and Feed URL Emails (works under any bridge). A switched-off email is never built, so it never reaches the benecaster_email_should_send filter. ⚠ The Welcome switch is the one exception that never fully applies — it never stops a follower’s welcome email, since that’s a follower’s only route to their feed URL (operator ruling). Donation Thank-You has no per-show switch.

Built-in Membership Billing Emails

All five can be switched off per show, at the same Subscription tab’s Subscriber Billing Emails section. Same rule: a switched-off email is never built.

Buy-up price migrated has no admin control at all — it exists only as show meta (_benecaster_show_email_buyup_price_migrated_enabled), with no on/off UI anywhere.

Promote to Bridge Emails

Account Provisioning Emails

These are sent by the follower and guest signup flows. Unlike every other row on this page, they are not registered in EmailTypeRegistry — they don’t get a per-show on/off toggle at all (unlike Welcome, Token Reset and Tier Change above), and they don’t appear in the Email Editor add-on’s template manager. They can still be overridden with the standard PHP template override system.

Data Request Emails