One of the bigger projects I am working on currently has 30k+ users. Having that many users means that many also will reset their password, and you will receive an e-mail every time.
So how do you disable it?
The function sending this e-mail is called wp_password_change_notification and is declared in pluggable.php. The great thing about the functions in pluggable.php is that if you declare a function with the same name as one of its functions, your function will overwrite it.
So if you want to disable it, simply create a plugin with these lines of code:
if ( !function_exists( 'wp_password_change_notification' ) ) {
function wp_password_change_notification() {}
}
Update: Earlier I said that you could write these lines in your functions.php but as Stefan pointed out, it does not seem to work
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This would be great!!
But does this really work? There is no change for me, I still get those annoying emails when users change/resets password.
(wordpress 3.1)
It does for me. I did it as a plugin though. I’m not sure if that makes a difference.
Yes.
It works as a plugin!
( maybe pluggable.php loads before functions.php but after all the plugins )
Yeah, I’ll edit my post and mention that!
Another option would be to insert the code in your wp-config before “require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);”
Great tip Benjamin! Thank you!
I have put together a plugin that puts implements the disabling the sending of password changed notification:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-password-change-email/
It’s based on the helpful info I found in your post 🙂
Nice one Andrej!
Is this working for you guys? I have installed and activated the plugin and we still receive the emails. Thanks in advance!
It looks like it’s not working any more Compatible up to: 3.3.2….
If you hook it into the ‘muplugins_loaded’ action it should work. Testing it out now.
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