Tag: emails

  • Disable Specific WordPress Update Emails with the Control WP Core Emails Plugin

    Disable Specific WordPress Update Emails with the Control WP Core Emails Plugin

    If you manage a number of WordPress sites, you may find yourself inundated with emails each time a new version of WordPress is released. If you’d like to quickly disable these types of notifications, check out Control WP Core Emails, a brand new plugin developed by Andrew Norcross of Reaktiv Studios. Once activated, browse to…

  • Harvesting Emails From WordPress Comments Is A Bad Idea

    Harvesting Emails From WordPress Comments Is A Bad Idea

    A recently published article by WPBeginner explains how to export email address from the comments and import them into a mailing list. While the article advises getting the user’s permission, everything about this practice rubs me the wrong way. If you’re going to do this, please put a big banner near the comments that states…

  • WordPress Email System Primer

    Great tutorial on the WordPress email system that walks users through setting up a plugin, creating an email template, preparing WordPress to use that email template, and modifying existing system emails. If that tutorial has you thinking that it’s too much work, you can take a look at the WP Better Emails plugin.