How to Disable New User Notifications in WordPress

Do you want to stop receiving new user email notifications in WordPress?

If you have enabled user registration on your site, then WordPress sends a notification email to the admin email address every time a new user registers. On sites where many users join every day, these emails can become annoying.

In this article, we will show you how to disable new user notifications in WordPress.

Why Disable User Notification Emails in WordPress?

Allowing user registration in WordPress has a lot of benefits. If you have a multi-author blog, online store, or membership website, then user registrations are necessary.

However, there is also a downside. WordPress will send an email by default to the admin email address notifying you whenever a new user registers.

While these emails are good for keeping an eye on who is registering on your website and keeping out spam registrations, they can be annoying to deal with if you have several people joining each day.

Having a lot of new user notifications can clutter your email inbox, making it difficult to spot important emails from your clients and customers.

This is where disabling emails about new users can come in handy. Let’s take a look at how you can disable new user notifications in WordPress.

Disable New User Notifications using WP Mail SMTP

WP Mail SMTP is the best WordPress SMTP plugin on the market and it dramatically improves your email deliverability.

The plugin fixes the problem of emails not being delivered to your customers. That means that all your users will be sure to receive any emails from your site, instead of ending up in their spam folder or blocked completely.

WP Mail SMTP also offers different settings to take control of your WordPress emails, such as disabling automatic update notifications. Among these settings is the option to disable new user notification emails sent to the admin’s email.

For this tutorial, we’ll be using the WP Mail SMTP Pro version since it includes the Email Control options. There is also a free version of WP Mail SMTP that you can use to fix email deliverability issues on your site.

First, you’ll need to install and activate the WP Mail SMTP plugin on your WordPress site. If you need help, then follow our step-by-step guide on how to install a plugin.

Upon activation, you can go to WP Mail SMTP » Settings from your WordPress admin panel and then enter your license key. You can find the license key in your WP Mail SMTP account area.

After entering the key, go ahead and click the ‘Verify Key’ button. You’ll now see a popup showing that you’ve successfully verified the key, and the site will receive automatic updates.

Next, you can head over to the ‘Email Controls’ tab from the menu on the top in WP Mail SMTP.

After that, simply scroll down to the New User section and click on the toggle to disable the ‘Create (Admin)’ option.

Once this setting is toggled off, you as the admin won’t receive an email. However, the new user who registered will still get an email confirmation.

Now go ahead and click the ‘Save Settings’ button.

That’s it! You’ve successfully disabled new user notification emails for admins using the WP Mail SMTP plugin.

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