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July 21st, 2009 #1
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Change the default WordPress "from" email address
Problem:
When a user registers, their password email is sent from "WordPress@yourdomain.com".
Not so professional looking is it?

WARNING: If you do this, keep in mind that you are messing with WP core files. Do so at your own risk. Also, because this is a WordPress core file, you will have to do this again every time you upgrade. You've been warned.

Solution:
Edit /wp-includes/pluggable.php
Look for line 369 (or there abouts)
Code:

$from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename;
Replace wordpress with admin, or whatever username you have as one of your domain accounts. Mine looks like this:
Code:

$from_email = 'admin@' . $sitename;
Then look for line 1018 (or there abouts)
Code:

$wp_email = 'wordpress@' . preg_replace('#^www\.#', '', strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']));
Once again, replace wordpress with admin, or whatever username you have as one of your domain accounts. Mine looks like this:
Code:

$wp_email = 'admin@' . preg_replace('#^www\.#', '', strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']));
Nothing to it.
This is tested and working on WordPress 2.8.2 with ClassiPress 2.9.2

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July 21st, 2009 #2

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Re: Change the default WordPress "from" email address
See my reply in your other post.

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July 21st, 2009 #3

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Re: Change the default WordPress "from" email address

Originally Posted by PointandStare

... or to play safe you could of simply installed this plugin.

Will save a lot of headaches when you upgrade.

hmmph! And I was so proud of myself too.

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Re: Change the default WordPress "from" email address

Originally Posted by dubya

Originally Posted by PointandStare

... or to play safe you could of simply installed this plugin.

Will save a lot of headaches when you upgrade.

hmmph! And I was so proud of myself too.

Will that interfere with the SB Welcome Email Editor plugin thats included with classipress?

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Re: Change the default WordPress "from" email address
Worked great. Thanks guys.
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Re: Change the default WordPress "from" email address

Originally Posted by dubya

Originally Posted by PointandStare

... or to play safe you could of simply installed this plugin.

Will save a lot of headaches when you upgrade.

hmmph! And I was so proud of myself too.

Plugins slow down your website.

If you can hard-code something, do it. Because in the end it's always worth it.

Here's a few other plugin free hacks for wordpress:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04 ... ess-hacks/
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Re: Change the default WordPress "from" email address

Originally Posted by Cyrus

Plugins slow down your website.

Hmmm, slight performance overhead or have to manually redo hacks after every upgrade.

Difficult choice... NOT!

This is something that WP should address within the core code but until they do this plugin works brilliantly.