I Don’t Want to Use the Default WordPress Email<\/h2>\n
If my real email address is cliff@example.com or businessname@gmail.com, I want my WordPress emails “branded” with my real email address.<\/p>\n
If you don’t want to set up email hosting for your site<\/a>, the Change WP eMail From Details<\/a> plugin is quick and easy to set up and does exactly what we want.<\/p>\n See the end of this post for a simple functions.php alternative, which is my preferred method<\/strong><\/em> because the Change WP eMail plugin isn’t from the WP Plugin Directory, and there are more files in the plugin’s folder than I would have expected necessary to achieve this functionality, plus some warnings from the Plugin Check<\/a> plugin. I did verify both methods accomplish the stated goal – to customize the “from” email name and address.<\/p>\n The blank plugin settings screen, after initial installation:<\/p>\n The plugin settings screen with options filled out (courtesy of the plugin’s webpage):<\/p>\n To be clear, the General Settings email address is used for receiving<\/em>\u00a0administrator emails, not the setting for outgoing emails.<\/p>\n This is something you’d probably want out of your theme’s functions.php file and into a “functions plugin”. The code is the same, but use the plugin mentioned above (without these snippets), or use a functions<\/a> plugin<\/a> instead of your theme’s functions.php file.<\/p>\n Here are 2 functions.php snippets (use one or the other) to change the “from email address”:<\/p>\n I like this one because it’s easier to add to new websites. I don’t want to accidentally use “me@lmnop.com” and then copy\/paste to my client at xyz.com and have their emails look like they’re coming from lmnop.com’s site. If you put “wordpress@” in this code, it’s basically duplicating what WordPress already does by default. So maybe use “contact@” and make sure that’s an address that your users can reply to. Or use “noreply@” to discourage reply emails.<\/p>\n Here’s the snippet for changing the “from email name”:<\/p>\n Your email recipients (like new member registrations<\/a> and post edit notifications<\/a>) will now see your plugin’s settings in action.<\/p>\n So, we’ve looked at changing the From Name and Email Address and putting a template around the email content. But what about the content itself?<\/p>\n Like me, you might think that this is fairly fundamental to running a site and that it should be available in the admin interface. The bad news is that the new registration (‘welcome’) email, for example, is about as far removed from the admin interface as is possible, being deeply embedded in the pluggable.php file in the wp-includes folder. Definitely somewhere we don’t want to go editing.<\/p>\n One other annoying aspect is that whilst the comment, trackback and pingback notifications all have filters applied to their subject and content, allowing them to be easily changed, the new user registration does not. Why there isn’t consistency across the emails only the WordPress gods know.<\/p>\n The good news is that Sean Barton has done the heavy lifting for us and created his SB Welcome Email Editor<\/a> which enables the editing of the content for the following emails:<\/p>\nChange WP eMail From Details Screenshots<\/h2>\n
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WordPress Email Settings<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe\u00a0functions.php<\/em>\u00a0code<\/h2>\n
Change the email address<\/h3>\n
Option 1<\/h4>\n
\r\n\/* enter the full email address you want displayed *\/\r\n\/* from http:\/\/miloguide.com\/filter-hooks\/wp_mail_from\/ *\/\r\nfunction xyz_filter_wp_mail_from($email){\r\nreturn "daffy.duck@example.com";\r\n}\r\nadd_filter("wp_mail_from", "xyz_filter_wp_mail_from");\r\n<\/pre>\nOption 2 (functionality not available in the plugin)<\/h4>\n
\r\n\/* auto-detect the server so you only have to enter the front\/from half of the email address, including the @ sign *\/\r\nfunction xyz_filter_wp_mail_from($email){\r\n\/* start of code lifted from wordpress core, at http:\/\/svn.automattic.com\/wordpress\/tags\/3.4\/wp-includes\/pluggable.php *\/\r\n$sitename = strtolower( $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] );\r\nif ( substr( $sitename, 0, 4 ) == 'www.' ) {\r\n$sitename = substr( $sitename, 4 );\r\n}\r\n\/* end of code lifted from wordpress core *\/\r\n$myfront = "whateverIwant@";\r\n$myback = $sitename;\r\n$myfrom = $myfront . $myback;\r\nreturn $myfrom;\r\n}\r\nadd_filter("wp_mail_from", "xyz_filter_wp_mail_from");\r\n<\/pre>\nChange the Name<\/h3>\n
\r\n\/* enter the full name you want displayed alongside the email address *\/\r\n\/* from http:\/\/miloguide.com\/filter-hooks\/wp_mail_from_name\/ *\/\r\nfunction xyz_filter_wp_mail_from_name($from_name){\r\nreturn "Best Name Ever";\r\n}\r\nadd_filter("wp_mail_from_name", "xyz_filter_wp_mail_from_name");\r\n<\/pre>\n![\"Post](\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/WordPress-from-name-and-from-email-address-screenshot.png\")
<\/a>Customizing the Email Content<\/h2>\n
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