Change the default wordpress@ email address

Posted February 24th, 2014

Updated August 8th, 2017

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’