Comments on: Customizing the new user email with a pluggable function

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 11:57:35 +0000

Mike, check this and look at line 32.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:45:36 +0000

This works great! Thank you! Is there a way to customize the subject line of the email? Currently the plugin uses the site name of the site as the subject line. It would be great if there was a way to customize this.

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:56:20 +0000

If two plugins redeclare the same pluggable function, naturally they’ll clash. Thinking about a situation where you’d enable two plugins to perform different operations on the same functionality—well, that’s getting into hooks territory. Not sure why WP has the new user email managed via a pluggable function rather than a filter or action, but there it is.

By: Shivanand Sharma

Shivanand Sharma — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:40:38 +0000

So let’s say we redeclare a pluggable function in our plugin and it works fine. Now another plugin too redeclares the same function. Won’t these two clash? Is there a way for two plugins to use pluggable functions and still respect the sanctity?

By: Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:30:34 +0000

Hi Joseph... Good question! For changing the the "From" address, it looks like wp_mail takes extra parameters, including an optional string or array of headers. I think you can specify the "From" address in here. I've not done this, but just follow the code trail. Check out the wp_mail function in /wp-includes/pluggable.php (notice that as it's in here you can override the whole function if you want to - overkill though, I think!). I imagine it's all a big wrapper for PHP's mail function... Hope that puts you in the right direction.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:56:11 +0000

Nice plugin!

Please, allow a couple of questions;

1 How do I change

@wp_mail(get_option('admin_email')

for a custom “noreply” email address? Instead of sending the email from admin@mydomain.com I’d like to send it from a non-existent noreply@whatever.com

2 In the new user email you add a custom subject field but how can I set a custom “from” field?

Thanks