Change the default wordpress@ email address

February 24th, 2014

By default WordPress emails, such as comment notifications, are sent from

WordPress <wordpress@yourdomain.com>

Not entirely sure why WordPress doesn’t have a built-in option to change this but if you want to change it simply add this to your functions.php file…

// Change default WordPress email address
add_filter('wp_mail_from', 'new_mail_from');
add_filter('wp_mail_from_name', 'new_mail_from_name');

function new_mail_from($old) {
return 'yourname@yourdomain.com';
}
function new_mail_from_name($old) {
return 'Your Name';
}

// Change default WordPress email address

add_filter('wp_mail_from', 'new_mail_from');

add_filter('wp_mail_from_name', 'new_mail_from_name');

function new_mail_from($old) {

return 'yourname@yourdomain.com';

}

function new_mail_from_name($old) {

return 'Your Name';

}

Obviously substituting ‘yourname@yourdomain.com’ and ‘Your Name’

Mattia Zanella

This is really good.
But this is always the same mail , what if I have to get the user’s email that has compiled the form?
How should I do?
- Mattia Zanella
  
  The Problem is when I click the Gmail or Aruba’s reply button.
  This will mail me to wordpress@mysite.com and not to user’s mail.
  - daretothink
    
    Hi Mattia. I’m not really sure exactly what you are attempting to do? The above function is really only to change the official wordpress@ email address and nothing else.
    - David Welsman
      
      when someone makes an enquiry via my webform- that enquiry comes to me with the from email as the one I set in functions.php- so when I click reply I am replying to myself what is supposed to happen is when I receive an enquiry via the web form I can click reply and it is the customers email that I am sending to
Theticus

This works like a dream. Awesome! thank you so much..
John S.

You can use https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-change-default-from-email/ update from name and from email easily
- daretothink
  
  Yes, you certainly can use that but as this is a simple function, there’s no need to add another plugin to your site.
Josue

It works. Thanks!
jobs4adams

Many thanks man, you are the best.
It works very fine.
Cheers!
Penelope

I am going to use this on my website. I noticed this site has not been updated since 2014. Just double checking this still works smoothly before I place code in my functions.php — and I agree, I can’t stand using plugins. The less plugins the better! Also, where do I place this code in my functions.php ?

I don’t mind the wordpress@mydomain.com –> I just want to change the ‘Your Name’ so it doesn’t pop up as “WordPress” in my inbox.
- daretothink
  
  Hi. The site was updated last week but yes, you’re correct this article was written back in 2014. The code should still work fine, however. Just add the code to the bottom of your functions.php file. If the functions.php has a closing end tag then make sure you place it before that.
  - Penelope
    
    Wow thank you for the quick response! I will make those adjustments. I made an edit and didn’t see your response.
    
    I don’t mind the ‘wordpress@mydomain.com’ –> I just want to change the ‘Your Name’ so it doesn’t pop up as “WordPress” in my inbox. Will it be a problem if i leave the wordpress@mydomain.com but change the “your name?”
    - daretothink
      
      If you only want to change the name then remove lines 2 and 5-7 from the code above.
      - Penelope
        
        Worked like a charm. Thanks for all your help!!!
      - daretothink
        
        Great stuff. Glad I could help 🙂
Paul Nicholson

Yep worked like a dream! thanks!!
David Welsman

The problem with this is I have an enquiry form on the site that when the customer fills out it sends an email to the Helpdesk- and it changes the from email to the one I changed- that functions code changes incoming and outgoing- I need to change it from within the backend of wordpress
- daretothink
  
  Are you using a plugin or anything for the contact form on your site? I use Contact Form 7 for the form on this site where you can then change the from and reply-to fields to whatever you require.
  - David Welsman
    
    contact form 7 does not work on the site, I use a plugin called contact bank and the functions.php way or the plugin overides any settings in the plugin- when the functions code is removed (or the plugin turned off) emails come into the helpdesk and I can click reply and it replies to the customer email- but they recieve the email with wordpress@ when the plugin is on or the code inserted emails via the form become enquiries@mywebsite.com and then I have to screw around editing the email to send to the customer
    - daretothink
      
      Umm, the thing with the above method is it’s only really for the standard WP emails that get sent and not those from a third-party plugin. I’d be very surprised if there’s not an option in the plugin to change the “From” field?
      - David Welsman
        
        there is an option in the contact bank plugin to make the emails coming in the customers email- BUT the 2 methods mentioned above override this to enquiries@mywebsite.com it’s overiding all emails incoming and outgoing
      - David Welsman
        
        Do you know the page in the backend (that tells it to be “wordpress” I can change things via cpanel or FTP
      - daretothink
        
        I can’t remember where the wordpress@ email address is situated but it’s in the WP core files which you should not alter. The function does that without the need to change the core.
  - David Welsman
    
    I am currently editing pluggable.php however even here I change the word wordpress to enquiries and there is no change at all- it’s fricken annoying damed if I do damed if I don’t
Denie

Many thanks for this! I run a magazine site, and we automatically send notifications when an author’s article is published. Now, we can send it from a different address than “wordpress@”. Perfect.
Anton van Elburg

Works great for me! And fairly easy to do!