Disable Wordpress New User Email Notification
Posted in Wordpress on March 23, 2010 
Comments(6)
Comments(6) When a new user creates an account on a Wordpress.org blog, the administrator is sent a notification email. Websites that have a large number of signups each day can generate a lot of emails announcing each new user.
I wrote a simple Wordpress plugin to disable the new user notification email. Visit this plugin’s page in the official WP Plugins Directory.
Installation instructions
- Download disable-wp-new-user-notification.zip
- Decompress the file contents
- Upload the disable-wp-new-user-notification folder to a Wordpress plugins directory (/wp-content/plugins)
- Activate the plugin from the Administration Dashboard
What about also also putting in the option to send the mail to another email address instead of the admin address.
Think that would be a nice feature
That’s a good idea. I would have to create a separate plugin because this one has a specific name already. My situation was just annoying–I don’t want the emails at all and I was getting 3 or 4 each day. I will give it some thought.
k cool when you do please let me know. it’s not that I don’t like getting the emails. If they could be sent to an other email other than my personal email where they could be achieved that would be good. Thanks for taking the idea into consideration.
I was curious if I can setup new users with this plugin without having WordPress automatically email each new user with their username and password? (I’d prefer to do this outside WordPress after testing.)
Curtis:
That’s not what this plugin does. Are you capable of modifying the plugin, or is code not your thing? You could comment out line 37 or delete lines 14 through 37 to accomplish what you want in a quick and dirty sort of way.
Corey:
Thanks for the tip, PHP is normally not my thing, from an advanced point of view anyway, but I noticed the 2nd piece I was looking for in your plugin’s code and commented the piece you referenced. It worked great — thanks again!