Stop WordPress from sending any emails. ANY!

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Stop a WordPress website from sending any emails using the standard <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_mail" rel="nofollow ugc">wp_mail()</a> function. No emails will be sent, not even for password resets or administrator notifications.
WordPress websites can send emails for a variety of reasons — e.g user registration, password reset, enquiry form submission, e-commerce purchase — but sometimes you don’t want it to send anything at all. Some reasons for disabling all emails:
<ul>
<li>demonstration websites that allow users to do things that normally send emails</li>
<li>development / test websites with live data that might email real customers</li>
<li>bulk-loading data into websites which might trigger emails</li>
<li>adding new sites into multisite installations</li>
</ul>
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NB: if you need to run this plugin on WordPress 5.4 or earlier, and must install manually from a .zip file, please install version 1.6.3 which you can <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-emails/advanced/" rel="ugc">download from the Advanced page for the plugin</a>. Since version 1.7.0, WordPress 5.5 or later is required.
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<h3>Translations</h3>
Many thanks to the generous efforts of our translators:
<ul>
<li>Chinese (zh-CN) — <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cai_miao" rel="nofollow ugc">Cai_Miao</a> and <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/zh-cn/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Chinese translation team</a></li>
<li>Chinese (zh-TW) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/zh-tw/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Chinese (Taiwan) translation team</a></li>
<li>Czech (cs-CZ) — <a href="http://www.klusik.cz/" rel="nofollow ugc">Rudolf Klusal</a></li>
<li>Dutch (nl_NL) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/nl/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Dutch translation team</a></li>
<li>English (en_CA) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/en-ca/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the English (Canadian) translation team</a></li>
<li>English (en_GB) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/en-gb/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the English (UK) translation team</a></li>
<li>French (fr_FR) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/fr/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the French translation team</a></li>
<li>Korean (ko_KR) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/ko/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Korean translation team</a></li>
<li>Japanese (ja) — <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/cai_miao" rel="nofollow ugc">Cai_Miao</a> and <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/ja/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Japanese translation team</a></li>
<li>German (de-DE) — <a href="http://helvetian.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">Peter Harlacher</a></li>
<li>Norwegian: Bokmål (nb-NO) — <a href="http://www.neonnero.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">neonnero</a></li>
<li>Norwegian: Nynorsk (nn-NO) — <a href="http://www.neonnero.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">neonnero</a></li>
<li>Russian (ru_RU) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/ru/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Russian translation team</a></li>
<li>Swedish (sv_SE) — <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/locale/sv/default/wp-plugins/disable-emails/" rel="nofollow ugc">the Swedish translation team</a></li>
</ul>
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Disable Emails

Works great. Thanks!

I have used this plugin in a couple of situations.  

The first is when I have to spin up a development version of a live site for testing.  When this is done for testing something like data import on a version of the live site's data (such as verifying certain user data), we can't have emails going out to those users.  In the past, I had generally just blanked the user emails or put in a dummy email.  But that doesn't allow you to do certain testing such as updating data on the user profile screen because it would trigger an email error.  Using this plugin now allows me do full testing on a dev site with full user data without fear of emailing the users.

The other place I have found it useful is on demo sites.  As a plugin developer, there are times that I have to set up a demonstration site for a plugin.  Using Disable Emails makes it possible to do that without having the demo site sending out emails.

It has definitely earned a permanent place in my toolbox.

Does what it says - effectively

This is my go to plugin for all development sites. Very useful!

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