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.

0.1.10

• Fixed the dashboard version display by synchronizing the internal version constant with the plugin release.
• Updated the WordPress admin page title, menu label, dashboard heading, explanatory text, and limitation notice to reflect the email-delivery focus.
• The displayed plugin version is supplied through the shared version constant rather than a separate dashboard value.
• No changes to audit checks, scoring, category ratings, or stored data.

0.1.9

• Repositioned the plugin around its primary benefit: identifying public configuration problems that can affect WordPress email transmission and delivery.
• Improved the title, short description, tags, feature organization, and directory description.
• Clarified that every finding includes a recommendation and business-impact explanation.
• Clarified the distinction between public configuration auditing and sending an actual test email.
• No changes to audit checks, scoring, category ratings, or stored data.

0.1.8

• Redesigned the admin results page as a dashboard: a circular Trust Score gauge, finding-status counts, category summary cards, and findings grouped by category with expandable recommendation/business impact detail.
• Added a dedicated pre-audit introductory panel explaining what the audit checks, shown before any audit has been run.
• Added a scoped admin stylesheet that loads only on the Trust Auditor admin page.
• No changes to audit checks, scoring, or category-rating calculations. This is a presentation-only update.

0.1.3

• Revised scoring so INFO findings are excluded and WARN findings receive partial credit instead of harsh zero-point treatment.
• Adjusted grade labels to better reflect public trust signals rather than full security certification.

0.1.1

• Standardized plugin name, slug, text domain, prefix, contributor metadata, licensing, and WordPress.org readme format.
• Replaced mixed class prefixes with TBAUD-prefixed classes.
• Replaced raw HTTP header fetching with the WordPress HTTP API.
• Added safer DNS lookup wrapper and defensive handling for unavailable DNS constants.
• Added escaping, sanitization, nonce name, capability checks, and translatable admin strings.

0.1.0

• Initial development version.