notes from the bench.
Plugin internals, deploy stories, and the occasional rant about WordPress core. Written by Serhii & Dmytro, mostly between deploys.
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## 2026 — 2 posts
May 9, 2026
Sending WordPress email through Mailtrap's HTTP API (not SMTP) in 2026
Routing WordPress mail through Mailtrap's Send API instead of SMTP unlocks bulk/transactional streams, categories, and live suppression. Here's how it works.
May 8, 2026
Customizing Contact Form 7 validation messages in 2026 (with CF7 6.x SWV support)
Most CF7 validation plugins broke when 6.x shipped Schema-based Validation. Here's why — and three patterns that still work in 2026.