Disabling emails to the administrator in WordPress
We're in the land of Google here, but if you have a WordPress site, you know that you get notifications any time a user does anything. If you have any user base at all, or any spamming activity, the admin email box gets filled in minutes, and WordPress (I'm in the 4.7 updates) offers no way to shut them off.
Web research suggests that you install Disable New User Notification Emails plugins, but the two most downloaded versions haven't been updated past WordPress 4.5, and did not stop emails to the admin (they may have stopped emails to the new users, but that's not the problem I was trying to solve).
So, instead, I tried Manage Notification E-mails by Virgial Berveling. This plug-in allowed me to instantly turn off the new user spam I was receiving as admin--plus a number of other notifications to both the users and me. No need to try to change the user registration code, which is beyond my pay grade.
Installation took 15 seconds, and introduced an addition under "Settings" on my WP menu--"Notification E-Mails." It took another 15 seconds to check and uncheck the options as I wanted them.
Of course, you can just turn off the registration option all together. I think many marketers and self-promoters would benefit from this step because I'm never sure that "register for blog" is the best step for potential new customers or readers.
But--anyway...my admin email box is silent...ahhh. Thank you Virgial!
Web research suggests that you install Disable New User Notification Emails plugins, but the two most downloaded versions haven't been updated past WordPress 4.5, and did not stop emails to the admin (they may have stopped emails to the new users, but that's not the problem I was trying to solve).
So, instead, I tried Manage Notification E-mails by Virgial Berveling. This plug-in allowed me to instantly turn off the new user spam I was receiving as admin--plus a number of other notifications to both the users and me. No need to try to change the user registration code, which is beyond my pay grade.
Installation took 15 seconds, and introduced an addition under "Settings" on my WP menu--"Notification E-Mails." It took another 15 seconds to check and uncheck the options as I wanted them.
Of course, you can just turn off the registration option all together. I think many marketers and self-promoters would benefit from this step because I'm never sure that "register for blog" is the best step for potential new customers or readers.
But--anyway...my admin email box is silent...ahhh. Thank you Virgial!
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