Change the WordPress new user registration email to use the WP-Members email

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This topic has 18 replies, 7 voices, and was last updated 1 year ago by Chad Butler.

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- May 4, 2012 at 1:10 pm #530
  
  Chad Butler
  Keymaster
  
  This is a script that will allow you to change the native WordPress new user registration email (the one that comes from WordPress when a new user is
  [See the full post at: Change the WordPress new user registration email to use the WP-Members email]
- February 10, 2013 at 12:52 am #1996
  
  wamss
  Participant
  
  Sorry, but where do I implement this script?
  
  Thanks
- February 10, 2013 at 7:11 am #2002
  
  Chad Butler
  Keymaster
  
  Great question – it needs to be saved as a .php file, loaded to your plugins folder, then activated as a plugin.
- October 29, 2013 at 1:30 pm #3261
  
  ftanaka
  Participant
  
  Exactly what I need, but the custom wp_new_user_notification never gets called according to the error_log I threw in there, and according to the generic WordPress email I get when I create a member through the dashboard. It’s already defined in pluggable.php in WordPress, but I thought this was only for activation.
  
  I have it in a functions.php that’s a child theme of twentytwelve. I know the rest of that functions.php is called because it loads custom Javascripts that are getting loaded, and if I leave off the if ( ! function_exists( ‘wp_new_user_notification’ ) ), I get a function-already-declared error in the error_log.
- October 29, 2013 at 2:39 pm #3264
  
  ftanaka
  Participant
  
  I have it working now, but it seems to have to be in a plugin. Apparently the load order is plugins, then pluggable, then theme files. So in functions.php, it sees pluggable’s already defined the function, and it bails. But in a plugin, it goes in, and then pluggable’s version bails. Tested it, and now it works. I read about this load order here.
- October 29, 2013 at 4:55 pm #3266
  
  Chad Butler
  Keymaster
  
  Glad you got it working – hopefully the way you want it.
  
  Thanks for posting that – it’s quite helpful!
  - January 7, 2015 at 9:51 pm #6761
    
    ryoung
    Participant
    
    I have just tried implementing this code snippet in the same way as ftanaka with the same result, ie I inserted snippet into my child theme functions.php and it isn’t working.I infer from what ftanaka says the code snippet actually needs to be implemented as a plugin for it to work. But I am not a developer and dont know how to write my own plugins.
    So how do I proceed?
    Is it planned for this code to become a WP-members extension that I can install?
    Or is there another solution I haven’t been able to locate?
    I need this because ALL new members to my site are created by the WP “add new user” interface and it would be so good to be able to use the “Send this password to the new user by email.” option to welcome my new users with a site specific customized email.
    Thanks
    - January 7, 2015 at 10:41 pm #6769
      
      Chad Butler
      Keymaster
      
      I’ve modified the post instructions and the script to be more exact about what to do to load it as a plugin. Hope that helps.
      - January 8, 2015 at 12:08 am #6771
        
        ryoung
        Participant
        
        It helps a lot. All working now
        thank you
- October 18, 2014 at 1:04 pm #6154
  
  amca
  Participant
  
  Is it possible to send an email to a different mail depending on what the user fill out on the registration page? For example if user click a check box, the mail will be sent to a different mail address?
  
  Thanks
  - October 18, 2014 at 2:57 pm #6155
    Chad Butler
    Keymaster
    I would think that is possible. I assume you are talking about admin notification emails?
    
    The wpmem_notify_addr filter hook allows you to change the admin notification email address. While it only passes the address through the filter, when it fires, the form data is still available in the $_POST object, so you could build in some logic to your function based on whatever fields you wanted. Something like:
    
    add_filter( 'wpmem_notify_addr', 'my_notify_addr' ); function my_notify_addr( $email ){ if( $_POST['some-field'] == 'some-value' ) { $email = 'one@email.com'; } else { $email = 'two@email.com'; } return $email; }
- October 18, 2014 at 3:47 pm #6157
  
  amca
  Participant
  
  Great I will give it a shot. Thanks for the fast replay
- November 12, 2016 at 10:59 am #11709
  
  whitenoise
  Participant
  
  Hi Chad, can this still be used with the latest edition of wordpress? At the moment I am registering users myself direct through the admin interface, so this would be perfect.
  
  Thanks.
  - November 12, 2016 at 11:40 am #11711
    
    Chad Butler
    Keymaster
    
    Yes – it’s compatible. The one things that’s different from a lot of other code snippets is that this needs to be installed like a plugin. Save it as a php file then load it to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. It will override the new user registration email.
    
    I thought I had done a post since this that worked on it as a filter, and I thought I had added that to the Advanced Options extension, but it appears I may not have completed it as I can’t actually find anything on it in my notes or code snippet library. But that’s off the point really – the answer is yes, this is compatible with current WP.
    - November 12, 2016 at 12:32 pm #11712
      
      whitenoise
      Participant
      
      Thanks Chad, I’ve put this into a .php file and activated it as a plugin. Having it as an advanced option would be a good idea, as it keeps it nice and neat and avoids having too many plugins.
      
      I can’t seem to get it to work though. I’ve created a new user, and used the test email feature to send me a new user registration test email as well. So far nothing after a number of hours. I shall check later, but emails haven’t taken this long before.
      
      In my advanced options I have
      
      checked – Disable WP Password Changed Notification
      checked – Disable WP Email Changed Notification
      not checked – Disable WP New User Notification
      
      In options I have:
      
      not checked – Notify admin
      not checked – Moderate registration
      
      I did have another plugin controlling what emails were being sent out, but I removed this. Do you know why nothing is being sent?
      
      Thanks.
      - November 13, 2016 at 6:34 am #11716
        
        whitenoise
        Participant
        
        It looks like the emails have come through now ok, there was just a longer delay than normal. Sorry to bother you.
      - November 13, 2016 at 8:39 pm #11721
        
        Chad Butler
        Keymaster
        
        No bother at all!! Glad to hear things are working!
- February 17, 2020 at 7:15 pm #26085
  
  dgrinberg
  Participant
  
  Hey Chad,
  
  Just wondering if there has been an updated method to do this with the latest versions of WP-members.
  
  It seems that the function “wpmem_inc_regemail” is now in the “deprecated” file.
  
  Is there are updated code for this plugin, or a completely new method.
- February 17, 2020 at 10:40 pm #26096
  
  Chad Butler
  Keymaster
  
  Anything that is included in the deprecated file will still work – although you should be cautious about using it because it will eventually be removed. Usually, the inline docs for the deprecated function will indicate which function you should use instead of the deprecated version. In this case, it’s wpmem_email_to_user().
  
  I updated the script to note this. I also removed the “include” which is no longer necessary and removed unnecessary constants.
  
  https://rocketgeek.com/tips-and-tricks/change-the-wordpress-new-user-registration-email-to-use-the-wp-members-email/
  
  Just the code:
  https://rocketgeek.com/code-snippets/change-the-wordpress-new-user-registration-email-to-use-the-wp-members-email/
  
  Hope that helps.
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