Node reference

Send Email for Joomla and WordPress

Sends email from a Joomla or WordPress workflow. Use it as the receipt at the end of article, comment, or user automation instead of a mail plugin.

Overview

Sends email from a Joomla or WordPress workflow. Use it as the receipt at the end of article, comment, or user automation instead of a mail plugin.

Use this after a trigger or upstream step when you need to notify someone by email — for example order confirmations, alerts, or reports built from earlier payload fields.

When the flow reaches this step, JOrchestrator executes Send Email against your linked site or an external integration, using the field values you set on General and Design. Downstream steps can read the output payload fields defined for this node.

Why use this node

Send Email is a action step in the Messaging › Email group. Action steps run in the middle or end of a flow. They perform work on your CMS, call external services, or transform data for the next step.

Typical reasons teams add Send Email to a flow:

Email editors when a Joomla article is saved or published
Notify WordPress authors after comment_post or save_post
Keep notification copy on the canvas, not in a custom mailer plugin

Example workflows

Common patterns on the canvas:

Form Webhook → Set JSON → Send Email (confirmation to submitter)
Event Stripe → If (amount threshold) → Send Email (finance alert)
Select Row → Iterator → Send Email (digest per recipient)

How to set it up

Set To, Subject, and Body on Design. Choose bespoke HTML or assemble the body from upstream payload fields. Pick recipients manually, via placeholders, or from the Joomla user list.

Good to know

Delivery uses the site's configured mailer (SMTP/global config). SPF/DKIM and inbox placement depend on server DNS — test with Debug before going live.

Properties panel

The designer shows these tabs for this node:

Tab	Purpose
Info	Plain-language description and output payload fields for downstream steps
General	Canvas label and read-only node ID
AI	Optional assistant to help draft settings from plain language
Design	Node-specific configuration fields

System (automatic — not edited by the user)

These fields are managed by the designer or runtime — you do not type into them directly:

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`_nodeId`	Node ID	`node-id`	No	—	—
`_payloadFields`	Available Fields	`payload-panel`	No	—	—

User-configured — General tab

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`label`	Label	`text`	No	—	Node label

User-configured — Design tab

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`subject`	Subject	`payload-text`	Yes	—	Email subject or drag a payload field
`bodyType`	Body Type	`select` (`payload` \| `bespoke`; default: `bespoke`)	No	—	—
`body`	Body	`wysiwyg`	No	`bodyType === 'bespoke'`	Email body

CMS-backed or hybrid (loaded from the linked site at design time)

These fields can pull live options or values from the Joomla/WordPress site linked to the flow:

Property key	Label	Type	Required	Visible when	Notes
`to`	To	`email-recipient`	Yes	—	[email protected] or select user...

CMS site configuration (not on this node's properties panel)

Credentials, API keys, mailers, SMTP, and integration defaults are configured in the CMS plugin under Node Configuration, not per step on this node. Link the flow to a domain before testing CMS-backed fields.

Output payload fields

After this step runs, later nodes can reference these fields using placeholders such as {{send_email.sent}}.

Field key	Type	Description
`sent`	boolean	Whether the message was sent successfully.
`to`	string	Recipient address or user.
`subject`	string	Email subject line that was sent.
`messageId`	string	Provider message or email identifier.

Validation rules

Subject (subject) must be filled before the flow can be saved.