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[Resolved] How to disable new user welcome email for admins

  • Participant
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    Tosin on November 11, 2023 at 11:16 am #50853

    Hello Brajesh,

    My site has been having lots of user registrations lately and my inbox notification is now becoming a disturbance, how can I disable the new user registration email for only administrators. I have tried the code below but emails are still being sent.

     // Disable new user registration email in WordPress for admin users only
function disable_wp_new_user_notification_email($user_id) {
    $user = get_userdata($user_id);
    $user_roles = $user->roles;

    // Check if the user has the 'administrator' role
    if (in_array('administrator', $user_roles)) {
        return false; // Disable email notification for admin users
    }

    return true; // Enable email notification for non-admin users
}
add_filter('wp_new_user_notification_email', 'disable_wp_new_user_notification_email');

// Disable new user registration email in BuddyPress for admin users only
function disable_bp_new_user_notification_email($user_id) {
    $user = get_userdata($user_id);
    $user_roles = $user->roles;

    // Check if the user has the 'administrator' role
    if (in_array('administrator', $user_roles)) {
        remove_action('bp_core_activated_user', 'bp_send_activation_key');
        remove_action('bp_core_signup_send_validation_email', 'bp_core_signup_send_validation_email');
    }
}
add_action('bp_loaded', 'disable_bp_new_user_notification_email');

// Disable new user registration email in WooCommerce for admin users only
function disable_wc_new_user_notification_email($user_id) {
    $user = get_userdata($user_id);
    $user_roles = $user->roles;

    // Check if the user has the 'administrator' role
    if (in_array('administrator', $user_roles)) {
        if (get_user_meta($user_id, '_wc_new_customer_data', true)) {
            delete_user_meta($user_id, '_wc_new_customer_data');
        }
    }
}
add_action('woocommerce_created_customer', 'disable_wc_new_user_notification_email');
  • Participant
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    Posts: 900
    Tosin on November 11, 2023 at 9:12 pm #50854

    This code seemed to work

     // Disable new user registration email in WordPress for admin users only
function disable_send_new_user_notifications($user_id, $notify = 'user') {
    // Check if user role is administrator
    $user_role = get_user_meta($user_id, 'wp_capabilities', true);
    if (isset($user_role['administrator'])) {
        // User is an administrator, skip sending notification
        return;
    }

    if (empty($notify) || 'admin' === $notify) {
        return;
    } elseif ('both' === $notify) {
        // Send new users the email but not the admin.
        $notify = 'user';
    }
    wp_send_new_user_notifications($user_id, $notify);
}

// Disable default email notifications
add_action('init', function () {
    remove_action('register_new_user', 'wp_send_new_user_notifications');
    remove_action('edit_user_created_user', 'wp_send_new_user_notifications');

    // For BuddyPress
    remove_action('bp_core_activated_user', 'wp_send_new_user_notifications');

    // For WooCommerce
    remove_action('woocommerce_created_customer', 'wp_send_new_user_notifications');
});

// Replace default notifications with custom function
add_action('register_new_user', 'disable_send_new_user_notifications');
add_action('edit_user_created_user', 'disable_send_new_user_notifications', 10, 2);

// For BuddyPress
add_action('bp_core_activated_user', 'disable_send_new_user_notifications');

// For WooCommerce
add_action('woocommerce_created_customer', 'disable_send_new_user_notifications');
  • Participant
    Level: Guru
    Posts: 900
    Tosin on November 13, 2023 at 2:07 pm #50861

    After all the stress there is something so simple

     add_filter('wp_new_user_notification_email', '__return_false');
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    Posts: 24706
    Brajesh Singh on November 14, 2023 at 1:57 pm #50870

    Hi Tosin,
    Thank you for the topic/replies.

    This is something you will need to be watchful as some of the plugins do override the ‘wp_new_user_notification_email’. All you need to do is apply your filter at lower priority.

    Regards
    Brajesh

  • Participant
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    Posts: 900
    Tosin on November 14, 2023 at 8:51 pm #50877

    I found another solution below

     function disable_admin_new_user_registration_email( $wp_new_user_notification_email_admin, $user, $blogname )
{
	//Stop wp_mail() from working
	add_filter( 'pre_wp_mail', '__return_false' );

	//Return an unchanged value from this filter
	return $wp_new_user_notification_email_admin;
}
add_filter( 'wp_new_user_notification_email_admin', 'disable_admin_new_user_registration_email', 10, 3 );

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