{"id":142119,"date":"2015-06-20T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premium.wpmudev.org\/blog\/?p=142119"},"modified":"2015-06-19T08:21:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T12:21:29","slug":"turn-off-notifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/turn-off-notifications\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Switch Off WordPress Email Updates and Eliminate Inbox Overload"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone from seasoned developers to complete newcomers will have encountered WordPress core update email notifications. But\u00a0if\u00a0you\u2019ve been living under a rock for the past couple of years,\u00a0core update email notifications\u00a0are sent out when\u00a0WordPress automatically upgrades to a minor new version.<\/p>\n

Automatic core updates (introduced in WordPress 3.7<\/a>) are of course a huge positive, and while the notifications aren\u2019t a particularly big deal if you only run one or two WordPress sites, those of us who manage multiple websites can find their email inboxes awful crowded come update time.<\/p>\n

With the above in mind, in today’s Weekend WordPress Project we\u2019re going to look at three simple ways you can employ to stop those pesky notifications from clogging up your inbox.<\/p>\n

1. The Easy (But Inelegant) Solution: Using Email Filters<\/h2>\n

Just about every email provider out there (online and offline) offers a means\u00a0to filter emails. While this doesn\u2019t prevent emails from being sent, you can make sure that they don’t appear in your inbox;\u00a0so, from your perspective, the emails never existed.<\/p>\n

We’d be here all day if I gave instructions for every email platform, but I’ll run through the process for Gmail and Google Apps users.<\/p>\n

Open Gmail and click the down arrow in your search box. A window that allows you to specify search criteria will appear:<\/p>\n

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Enter your search criteria, which, in this case, is the subject of the WordPress update email: “Your site has updated to WordPress”.<\/p>\n

If you want to check that your search worked correctly, click the search button.<\/p>\n

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Click Create filter with this search<\/strong> at the bottom of the search window.<\/p>\n

Choose the action(s) you want the filter to take. Among other options, you\u00a0can automatically archive them, delete them outright, or filter them into a different folder:<\/p>\n

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I’ve set the emails to be marked as read and archived.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Click the Create filter\u00a0<\/strong>button.<\/p>\n

Once set up, you should no longer receive the updates in your inbox. You can edit or delete filters from within the Settings<\/i> panel of Gmail if you should ever need to.<\/p>\n

2. The Easy (But Plugin-Reliant) Solution: Installing Easy Updates Manager<\/h2>\n
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The Easy Updates Manager plugin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Easy Updates Manager<\/a> is a useful plugin that enables you to manage all aspects of WordPress updates. The below video gives a good overview of all the features, ranging from theme and plugin updates to selecting which users can access configuration options:<\/p>\n