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Disabling new user email notifications in Wordpress

Sometimes there is a need to disable the email that is automatically sent to newly registered users. One example might be if you are setting up new users in your blog and don't want these new users to be notified until the data-entry has been completed.

This can be done by modifying the file /wp-includes/pluggable.php. Locate the function wp_new_user_notification(). This starts on line 1144 in Wordpress version 2.8.5.

function wp_new_user_notification($user_id, $plaintext_pass = '') {
 $user = new WP_User($user_id);

 $user_login = stripslashes($user->user_login);
 $user_email = stripslashes($user->user_email);

 $message  = sprintf(__('New user registration on your blog %s:'), get_option('blogname')) . "\r\n\r\n";
 $message .= sprintf(__('Username: %s'), $user_login) . "\r\n\r\n";
 $message .= sprintf(__('E-mail: %s'), $user_email) . "\r\n";

 @wp_mail(get_option('admin_email'), sprintf(__('[%s] New User Registration'), get_option('blogname')), $message);

 if ( empty($plaintext_pass) )
 return;

 $message  = sprintf(__('Username: %s'), $user_login) . "\r\n";
 $message .= sprintf(__('Password: %s'), $plaintext_pass) . "\r\n";
 $message .= wp_login_url() . "\r\n";

wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), get_option('blogname')), $message);
}

Simply comment out the last line to disable the email..

// wp_mail($user_email, sprintf(__('[%s] Your username and password'), get_option('blogname')), $message);