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Do you want to resend welcome emails to your WordPress users?

A welcome email helps build trust with new users and ensures that people remember your website and business.

However, your welcome emails can sometimes end up in the spam folder, or users don’t receive the messages. That’s why it’s important to resend welcome emails.

In this article, we will show you how to resend new user welcome emails in WordPress.

Why Resend Welcome Emails to New Users in WordPress?

Creating welcome emails is a great way to customize the emails that new users receive when they register on your website. This helps build your brand and makes your site memorable for customers, members, and subscribers.

However, the welcome emails that you send might not make it to your users’ inboxes. Plus, email providers like Gmail can also flag your emails as spam.

One of the reasons for this issue is that WordPress hosting services don’t configure the mail function properly. As a result, your welcome emails fail to reach your users or land in the spam folder.

To overcome this issue, you can use an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service. It allows you to use an SMTP server to send WordPress emails and ensure that they reach your users.

An SMTP service also allows you to log any emails that don’t get delivered so that you can easily resend them.

That said, let’s look at how you can log welcome emails that didn’t reach new users in WordPress.

How to Set Up Email Logs in WordPress

WP Mail SMTP is the best SMTP service for WordPress. It’s super easy to use and connects with popular email services like SendLayer, SMTP.com, Brevo (Previously Sendinblue), Gmail, Office 365, and more.

With WP Mail SMTP, you can track email deliverability in WordPress. The plugin keeps a record of every email sent from your website and lets you resend emails that haven’t been delivered.

First, you will need to install and activate the WP Mail SMTP plugin on your website. For more details, please see our guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, you can head over to WP Mail SMTP » Settings from your WordPress dashboard and then enter the license key.

You can find the key in your WP Mail SMTP account area.

After entering the license key, go ahead and click the ‘Verify Key’ button.

Next, you can scroll down to the Mailer section and choose how you would like to send your WordPress emails.

All you have to do is select your preferred mailer. The PHP mail will be selected by default, but we don’t recommend using this method as it’s unreliable.

For more information, you can follow our detailed guide on how to use a free SMTP server to send WordPress emails.

After that, you need to go to the Email Log tab in the WP Mail SMTP settings and check the box for the ‘Enable Log’ option.

This way, you will be able to track email deliverability in WordPress.

When you enable the option, you will see additional email tracking settings under the Email Log tab.

Go ahead and check the boxes for Log Email Content, Save Attachments, Open Email Tracking, and Click Link Tracking so that you will get more data about email deliverability.

Next, you can select the time period for keeping the email logs.

Simply choose an option from the dropdown menu for ‘Log Retention Period’ and then click the ‘Save Settings’ button.

How to Resend New User Welcome Emails

After setting up email logs, you can now see which welcome emails didn’t reach your users and which ones need to be resent.

To start, simply navigate to WP Mail SMTP » Email Log from your WordPress admin area.

The plugin will show all your emails in this section. You can see the email subject, who it’s been sent to, the source, and whether users opened and clicked the email.

If you see a red dot for any email, it means it wasn’t delivered. On the other hand, a green dot shows the email has reached the user’s inbox.

To resend a welcome email that didn’t get delivered, go ahead and click the ‘View Log’ option.

Now, you will see logs for the individual email.

After that, navigate to the ‘Actions’ tab and click the ‘Resend’ button.

A popup window will now appear.

Simply enter the recipient’s email address and click the ‘Yes’ button to resend the email.

Next, if you see multiple emails that failed to deliver, you can use the bulk resend feature from the email log screen.

Go ahead and check the box next to the emails you want to resend. After that, select the ‘Resend’ option from the Bulk Actions dropdown menu.

When a popup window appears, you can click the ‘Yes’ button to resend multiple emails.

That’s it! WP Mail SMTP will resend welcome emails and any other email that fails to reach your new users.

We hope this article helped you learn how to resend new user welcome emails in WordPress. You may also want to check out our guide on how to choose the best website builder and our expert picks for the best WooCommerce plugins.

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Do you want to stop receiving new user email notifications in WordPress?

If you have enabled user registration on your site, then WordPress sends a notification email to the admin email address every time a new user registers. As your site grows, you will get many new users joining every day, which can make these emails annoying to deal with.

In this article, we will show you how to disable new user notifications in WordPress.

Why Disable User Notification Emails in WordPress?

Allowing user registration in WordPress has a lot of benefits. If you have a multi-author blog, online store, or membership website, then user registrations are necessary.

However, there is also a downside. WordPress will send an email by default to the admin email address, notifying you whenever a new user registers.

While these emails are good for keeping an eye on who is registering on your website and keeping out spam registrations, they can be annoying to deal with if you have several people joining each day.

Having a lot of new user notifications can clutter your email inbox, making it difficult to spot important emails from your clients and customers.

This is where disabling emails about new users can come in handy. We will look at two beginner-friendly ways to help you turn off email notifications. The best part is that you won’t have to know how to write code.

Let’s look at how to disable new user notifications in WordPress using WP Mail SMTP and WPCode:

Method 1: Disable New User Notifications Using WP Mail SMTP

If you are take better control of your WordPress emails, including new user notifications, then this method is for you.

WP Mail SMTP is the best WordPress SMTP plugin on the market that can dramatically improve your email deliverability.

The plugin fixes the problem of emails not being delivered to your customers. That means that all your emails will reach your users instead of ending up in their spam folders or being blocked completely.

WP Mail SMTP also offers different settings to take control of your WordPress emails, such as disabling automatic update notifications. Among these settings is the option to disable new user notification emails sent to the admin’s email.

First, you will need to install and activate the WP Mail SMTP plugin on your WordPress site. If you need help, then follow our step-by-step guide on how to install a plugin.

Upon activation, go to WP Mail SMTP » Settings from your WordPress admin panel and then enter your license key. You can find the license key in your WP Mail SMTP account area.

After entering the key, go ahead and click the ‘Verify Key’ button.

You will now see a popup showing that you have successfully verified the key, and your WordPress website will receive automatic updates.

Next, you can head over to the ‘Email Controls’ tab from the menu on the top in WP Mail SMTP.

This is where you can customize your new user registration email notifications.

After that, simply scroll down to the New User section.

Then, you need to click on the toggle to disable the ‘Create (Admin)’ option. And don’t forget to hit ‘Save Settings’ when you are done.

Once this setting is toggled off, the admin won’t receive the default WordPress email from new users. However, the new user who registered will still get an email confirmation.

That’s it! You’ve successfully disabled new user notification emails for admins using the WP Mail SMTP plugin.

Method 2: Disable New User Emails in WordPress Using WPCode

If you don’t want to use an SMTP plugin, then you can add a code snippet to your theme’s functions.php file or use a code snippet plugin to disable email notifications:

<?php
function wpcode_send_new_user_notifications( $user_id, $notify = 'user' ) {
	if ( empty( $notify ) || 'admin' === $notify ) {
		return;
	} elseif ( 'both' === $notify ) {
		// Send new users the email but not the admin.
		$notify = 'user';
	}
	wp_send_new_user_notifications( $user_id, $notify );
}

add_action(
	'init',
	function () {
		// Disable default email notifications.
		remove_action( 'register_new_user', 'wp_send_new_user_notifications' );
		remove_action( 'edit_user_created_user', 'wp_send_new_user_notifications' );

		// Replace with custom function that only sends to user.
		add_action( 'register_new_user', 'wpcode_send_new_user_notifications' );
		add_action( 'edit_user_created_user', 'wpcode_send_new_user_notifications', 10, 2 );
	}
);

We don’t recommend editing your functions.php file directly. That’s because even the tiniest of mistakes in the code snippet can make your site inaccessible.

The easiest way to add custom code in WordPress without breaking your site is with the free WPCode plugin. It is the most popular code snippets plugin, used by 2 million+ WordPress websites.

The first thing you will need to do is install and activate the WPCode plugin in WordPress. For more detailed instructions, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Head over to Code Snippets » + Add Snippet in the WordPress site admin area. There, you will see a library of code snippets to choose from.

The good news is that WPCode has a pre-made template for disabling new user notification emails. Just type in ‘user’ in the search bar and click ‘Use snippet’ under the ‘Disable New User Notifications’ snippet.

Since the template already has the code inside, you don’t have to write your own.

You will see the code already in place with the ‘Code Type’ set as a PHP snippet.

If you want to adjust where this code runs, you can scroll down. The Insertion method should be set to ‘Auto Insert’.

You can open the dropdown menu to decide where you want the code to be executed or even set a schedule for when you want the code to be active.

For example, you can set the code snippet to disable user registrations from certain pages. This could be handy if you have custom user registration pages for different membership programs.

You can even choose to have the code only disable user registrations from WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads, or MemberPress.

But for most website owners, leaving the default setting to ‘Run Everywhere’ is the way to go.

Once you are done configuring where to execute the code snippet, you can scroll to the top right corner and toggle the ‘Inactive’ button to ‘Active’ to activate the code.

You have now successfully disabled the new user notification emails.

Don’t forget to click the ‘Update’ button to save your changes.

Bonus: Turn Off Comments Notifications in WordPress

WordPress notifications can be super annoying. If your website receives a high volume of traffic, particularly on older posts, then you may also be flooded by comment notification emails.

The good news is that there’s a quick fix for this.

All you have to do is go to Settings » Discussion. The comment notification emails are automatically enabled by default in WordPress.

You can disable comment notifications by unchecking the boxes next to ‘Anyone posts a comment’ and ‘A comment is held for moderation’. That way, you won’t receive emails when someone posts a comment or when a comment is held for moderation.

For more details, check out our post on how to turn off comments notifications in WordPress.

We hope this article helped you disable new user notification emails in WordPress. You may also want to see our guide on how to disable WordPress admin email verification notices or our expert comparison of the best email marketing services to grow your audience.

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