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I have a handful of websites that list an admin email address that I'll be getting rid of in a few weeks. But I do not see a way to change this email address.
I've seen writeups that say I have to install some sort of SMTP plugin for this purpose, but I have not been able to make this work.
Would anyone be able to provide an assist in this endeavor?
In the dashboard. Go to
Settings and then I believe general. You will need to confirm the email verification for it to actually change.
You can use this plugin to change the address and it doesnt require you to verify an email [https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-email-address-changer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/admin-email-address-changer/)
I would still suggest troubleshooting your email sending issues though.
Worst case….
Create new admin, with correct email.
Login as that admin
Delete wrong admin
You’re welcome
The admin email & mail sending issues don’t have any connection.
It’s better to keep an active email as admin email.
But if your site have mail sending issues, I will also suggest to use an SMTP plugin & SMTP service.
In default, WordPress will try to send email from the server itself. But normally it fail or go to spam. The main reasons are shared hosting, no mail server configured & busy mail server in server etc. So to resolve this issue, we can use SMTP plugins.
In SMTP plugins settings, we have to enter some credentials from a SMTP service like gmail, Mailchimp, Mailgun etc. If we added proper credentials & properly configured SMTP plugin, now the SMTP plugin will override default WP mail & send same email using SMTP credentials we have entered.
The SMTP services are top players in Emails & deliverability. They already properly configured. So these emails will be reached to all inboxes.
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Any way, if you have SSH access & WP CLI tool is already installed, you can completely search replace admin email from entire database within seconds.
`wp search-replace ‘[email protected]’ ‘[email protected]’ –all-tables –dry-run`
I think the ops issue is doing this for a few sites at once. If they are on the same server your could rock a sql command to update them en mass – also would make you kind of a rockstar for doing it this way instead of manually.