TrustBeacon Email Delivery Auditor

TrustBeacon Email Delivery Auditor identifies publicly visible DNS, email-authentication, and domain-configuration problems that can interfere with WordPress email transmission and delivery.

If WordPress messages are failing, being rejected, or landing in spam, TrustBeacon provides a single plain-English audit of the public configuration affecting your domain and email. Every finding includes an explanation, a recommendation, and the potential business impact.

The plugin checks email-delivery and domain-trust signals such as:

Email transmission and receipt

• MX records
• Public mail-domain configuration

Email authentication and deliverability

• SPF records and enforcement strength
• Common DKIM selectors
• DMARC policies and enforcement strength

Supporting domain and website trust

• SSL certificate availability
• HTTP security headers
• CAA records
• DNSSEC indicators when supported by the server
• Cloudflare indicators in public response headers
• Public security plugin indicators visible in page HTML

The report includes:

• An overall Trust Score
• Separate category ratings
• Passing, warning, failing, and informational findings
• Plain-English explanations
• Recommended corrective actions
• Business-impact explanations

TrustBeacon is read-only. It reports findings and recommendations but does not automatically change DNS records, email settings, or website configuration.

Important: TrustBeacon evaluates publicly visible configuration and trust indicators. It does not send a test email, inspect private mail-server settings, guarantee inbox placement, or provide a security certification, penetration test, malware scan, or compliance audit.

Admin Dashboard

The Trust Auditor admin page presents results as a dashboard rather than a single wide table:

• An overall Trust Score is shown as a circular gauge alongside the trust grade and counts of passing, warning, failing, and informational findings, all derived directly from the current audit's findings.
• Email Authentication, Website Security, Visitor Protection, and DNS Security are shown as separate summary cards using the plugin's existing category ratings (Excellent, Good, Fair, Needs Attention, or Additional Review Recommended).
• Findings are grouped by category. Each finding keeps its category, check, status, score, message, recommendation, and business impact; recommendation and business impact are available in an expandable "Recommendation and business impact" section.
• Status is always shown as visible text (PASS, WARN, FAIL, INFO) in addition to color, and a small status dot is decorative only.
• Before an audit has been run, an introductory panel explains what will be checked. It does not display a score or findings, so nothing can be mistaken for real results.
• The dashboard styling loads only on the Trust Auditor admin page and does not affect the rest of the WordPress admin area.
• The dashboard works without JavaScript. Recommendation and business impact sections use the browser's native expand/collapse control.

External services

TrustBeacon Auditor performs remote HTTPS requests to websites selected by the site administrator in order to audit publicly available trust signals.

The plugin connects directly to the website being audited to inspect information such as:

• SSL certificate availability
• HTTP response headers
• Cloudflare detection
• Security plugin indicators

Data transmitted:

• The domain name entered by the administrator.
• Standard HTTP request headers, including a User-Agent string.

These requests occur only when an administrator initiates an audit.

No personal visitor information is collected, stored, or transmitted.

The plugin does not use any third-party commercial APIs.

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