Always install and test the Bento plugin on a development or staging site before using it in production. This ensures compatibility and helps identify potential conflicts.
Install the plugin by uploading the downloaded zip file.
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Generate Bento Keys
Generate your Bento API Keys if you have not from your teams screen
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Plugin Keys
Enter the Bento keys into the plugin. Copy and paste as you go.
Once you have entered your keys, click the Connect To Bento button to save your settings.
If the connection is successful, you will see a green success message and the rest of the settings will be visible.
You are of course welcome to configure the connection settings later on, and browse some of the plugin features.
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User Tracking & Logging (optional)
If you would like to log user activity such as page views you can enable Site Tracking.
This will inject a simple js script into your wordpress site.
Some additional logging options are available, such as turning on debugging for the plugin
that will log a debug stream to the wordpress debug.log file. Plase be aware that this can be
quite verbose and you should consider purging the log after you are done. Not recommended to
leave on in production.
You can enable email logging, which is useful for debugging and testing when using Bento transactional emails.
This feature allows you to see what emails are being sent and provides insights if you have questions
about email interactions. However, it's not recommended to leave this feature on in production.
The emails will be visible under the mail logs menu item, and you can clear them anytime using the Clear Logs button.
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Transactional Emails (optional)
Transactional Emails are supported by Bento and is designed for low volume transactional emails.
It is not designed for high volume/frequent bulk sending.
Once you enable it you will need to configure
the Bento Author in the drop down menu after enabling it. After you have done this, you are ready to send.
The final option: sending transactional emails to unsubscribed users.
Proceed with caution—if recipients label your messages as spam, your sending reputation is impacted.
Integration Status
The Bento WordPress plugin now supports displaying the status of integrations on the plugin settings page.
When the WordPress plugin detects that a supported plugin is installed, a green tick will appear
next to the plugin name. If the plugin is not installed or not supported, the plugin name will be
displayed in gray.
Caching Configuration
Bento's script is personalized and dynamic, changing on every page load to power on-page personalization. When using caching plugins like WP Rocket or SuperCache, you must: