Recently one of our users asked us how they can stop receiving new user email notifications in WordPress. If you have enabled user registration on your site, then WordPress sends notification email to the admin email address every time a new user registers. On popular sites where several users join every day, these emails can become very annoying. If you have already taken care of spam registrations and do not wish to receive email notifications for each new user, then you might want to turn these notifications off. In this article, we will show you how to disable new user notifications in WordPress.
First thing you need to do is install and activate the Disable New User Notification Emails plugin. Upon activation, the plugin simply disables new user notification emails in WordPress. It works out of the box, and there are no settings for you to configure.
Note that this plugin does not affect any other emails sent by WordPress. For example, users registering on your site will still get their username and password in the email. They can also recover their accounts if they forget their usernames or passwords. The plugin only disables new user notification emails sent to the admin email address on your WordPress site. If for some reason your users are not getting emails from your website, then you should try setting up WordPress to use Gmail SMTP servers.
We hope this article helped you disable new user notification emails in WordPress. For feedback and questions you can leave us a comment below or join us on Twitter.
Thanks for your input and it worked as I was getting emails daily like 50 saying new registration to your site and finally today it got resolved.
Thanks for your Input.
You should not need to install a plugin for turn off a site feature. What was WP thinking when they designed new user notifications? The way currently it works doesn’t scale at all.
I have a sales site set up with wordpress but do not have ANY forms for “New User registration” Can any one tell me how I keep getting these notifications?
Even the blog comments are turned off so I can’t see how these users are signing up and I can’t tell where the traffic is coming from in my google analytics. I even started sending emails back to the new sign ups asking them to help me figure this out and offering a valuable backlink software for their time and trouble… This really has me baffled, Please Help!
Hey Tom,
Go to Settings > General page and make sure the membership option is unchecked.
This plugin does not work with GravityForms User Registration. I still receive the default WordPress new user registration email
I had started to get hit by waves of ‘New User Registration’ around 20 per minute. All are generated requests and hugely irritating as the notification was triggered even though the registration was blocked as spam. Our plug-in stopped the constant ‘bing’ as new notifications came through, huge thanks!
Thanks a lot for the tip ! New user registration notifications were on the verge of killing me, but you saved my life with this !
That’s so strange.. I’ve been searching for the past 30 minutes how to activate email notifications to site’s admin about each new subscriber (or, as in my case, new contributor). Now I see people actually try to turn it off. Any tips from someone on where could I activate these notifications? Thanks!
Great post – can’t wait to see how this plugin works :o) I love growing my blog, but the user notifications are driving me MAD. Thank you!!
Thanks for this.
Not your fault of course – but a minor rant: You shouldn’t need to install another plugin to do this! It should be a feature in the WordPress dashboard, under “Settings”.
I try to keep my active plugins to a minimum of 12-13 on my site. I heard too many plugins can bog down your site, use too much bandwidth, be buggy and interfere with each other.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Not only for your specific instructions and easing my mind that I’m not missing something important for building my community but also for your speedy quick responsiveness to your own community. Impressed with you guys! Keep it up!