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NoBS-Mail View – Email Fallback Viewer in Browser provides a reliable fallback solution for WordPress emails that fail to render properly in email clients. Similar to newsletter services like Mailchimp, this plugin automatically adds a “View in Browser” link to all outgoing WordPress emails, ensuring recipients can always read your content.
<h4>Key Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically adds browser view links to all WordPress emails</li>
<li>Stores email content securely for browser access</li>
<li>Works with any WordPress email (registration, password reset, WooCommerce orders, contact forms, etc.)</li>
<li>Lightweight and simple implementation</li>
<li>No external dependencies or services</li>
</ul>
<h4>Problem Solved</h4>
WordPress sends emails using <code>wp_mail()</code>, but recipients often face issues:
<ul>
<li>HTML Corruption: Email clients strip or modify HTML/CSS, making emails unreadable</li>
<li>Dark Mode Issues: Emails designed for light backgrounds become illegible in dark mode</li>
<li>Corporate Email Filters: Company email systems strip HTML for security</li>
<li>Mobile Rendering: Mobile email clients fail to render complex layouts</li>
<li>Email Client Limitations: Outlook, Gmail, and others have varying CSS support</li>
</ul>
This plugin ensures recipients always have a fallback option to view emails in their browser with proper rendering.
<h4>Common Use Cases</h4>
E-commerce Scenarios 
* WooCommerce order confirmations with complex product tables 
* Invoice emails with formatted billing information 
* Shipping notifications with tracking details
User Account Emails 
* Registration confirmation emails with styling 
* Password reset emails that need to look professional 
* Account notification emails with branding
Form Submissions 
* Contact form notifications with formatted data 
* Gravity Forms/Contact Form 7 submissions 
* Custom form emails with HTML layouts
Newsletter & Notifications 
* Site announcements with images and formatting 
* Digest emails with multiple sections 
* Event notifications with calendar details
Accessibility & Sharing 
* Users who prefer browser reading over email clients 
* Screen reader users needing better HTML structure 
* Sharing email content via URL link 
* Bookmarking important transactional emails
Development & Testing 
* Testing email appearance without sending multiple test emails 
* Debugging email rendering issues 
* Previewing emails across different browsers
<h3>Settings</h3>
The plugin adds a settings screen under Settings > NoBS-Mail View with these options:
<ul>
<li>Enable Email Fallback Viewer: Turn the browser-view link on/off without deactivating the plugin.</li>
<li>Link Position: Choose whether the link is prepended or appended to the email body.</li>
<li>Custom Message: Customize the link text using the <code>{email_link}</code> placeholder (HTML tags are not allowed). Default: <code>Not seeing the email correctly. Use this link to read: {email_link}</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Does this work with plain text emails?</h4>
Yes, the plugin handles both HTML and plain text emails appropriately.

NoBS-Mail View – Email Fallback Viewer in Browser

Adds a "View in Browser" link to WordPress emails, solving HTML rendering issues by providing a browser-based fallback for email viewing.

Mohammad Jangda

Converts the default plain-text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin’ HTML emails.
Multi-site support (for WordPress 3.0) will be added soon.
Notes:
<ul>
<li>Emails are sent with readable plain-text versions for email clients that don’t support HTML emails. Note: they’re somewhat crude because they’re auto-generated. I may decide to add decent-looking plain-text versions in the future, but that’s low priority.</li>
<li>Emails have only been tested on Gmail, Gmail on Android, and Outlook, but should work on most email clients (including clients without HTML support). If you’re using a client other than the 3 I’ve listed, I would appreciate <a href="mailto:batmoo@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc">an email</a> with info on whether the email looks like it should and works correctly.</li>
</ul>
Send your questions, comments, suggestions <a href="mailto:batmoo@gmail.com" rel="nofollow ugc">via email</a>.
<h3>Customizing Templates</h3>
You can fully customize the look of any of the emails by creating your own templates. Emails have two pieces:
<ul>
<li>Email Wrapper (content common across all emails)</li>
<li>Email Message (content unique to each email)</li>
</ul>
Custom templates can be created an placed in either your theme directory or your Content directory (/wp-content/ on most sites). See utils.php for a number of useful functions that you can use in your templates.
Email Wrapper
The Email Wrapper includes elements and markup that are common across all email notifications. It contains your html, head and body tags and any other elements that are shared across emails.
To customize the email template, create a file called <code>html_email.php</code> and add it to either your theme or content directory.
Note: you must include the following code in the template to work:
<pre><code><?php htmlize_message_body($email_templates, $email_data); ?>
</code></pre>
The Email Wrapper has access to the following variables:
<ul>
<li>$email_title: (string) title of the email</li>
<li>$email_subtitle: (string) subtitle of the email</li>
<li>$email_data: (array) Associative array of various data passed by the calling function</li>
</ul>
Email Message: New Comment
By default, new comment and comment moderation emails share the same template. You can create separate templates for both for each comment type by creating the following files:
<ul>
<li><code>notify_postauthor_comment.php</code></li>
<li><code>notify_postauthor_trackback.php</code></li>
<li><code>notify_postauthor_pingback.php</code></li>
<li><code>notify_moderator_comment.php</code></li>
<li><code>notify_moderator_trackback.php</code></li>
<li><code>notify_moderator_pingback.php</code></li>
</ul>
If you don’t want to customize the emails by comment type, just create the following two templates:
<ul>
<li><code>notify_postauthor.php</code></li>
<li><code>notify_moderator.php</code></li>
</ul>
If you just want a custom template shared between the two notification types, just create the following:
<ul>
<li><code>notify_comment.php</code></li>
</ul>
New Comment email messages have the following data variables available:
<ul>
<li>$comment – (obj) comment object</li>
<li>$post – (obj) post object </li>
<li>$comment_type – (string) slug for the comment_type</li>
<li>$comment_type_text – (string) friendly name for the comment_type</li>
<li>$comment_moderate – (bool) Whether the comment needs moderation or not</li>
</ul>
<h3>Using HTML Emails in your plugin</h3>
It’s pretty easy to use. The main call you need to make is htmlize_message() and pass the return into your wp_mail object. Details to come.
<h3>Credits</h3>
<ul>
<li>Blockquote image borrowed from the amazing <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/wu-wei" rel="ugc">Wu Wei theme by Jeff Ngan</a></li>
<li>Plain Text conversion script by <a href="http://www.chuggnutt.com/html2text.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Jon Abernathy aka Chuggnutt</a></li>
<li>Email styling inspired by <a href="http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscriptions/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress.com Blog Subscription Notifications</a></li>
</ul>

HTML Emails

Converts the default plain text email notifications into fully customizable, sweet-lookin' HTML emails.

NoBS-Mail View – Email Fallback Viewer in Browser vs HTML Emails