How to change the default sender email (wordpress@domain.com) in Wordpress

Question

When I click on Lost your password link and provide my username/email address to send me the password, wordpress uses wordpress@domain.com as the default email address for sender. How can I change it to admin@domain.com or support@domain.com?

Answer 1

You need to make changes in one of the PHP codes of wordpress for this. The sender email address is defaulted to wordpress@domain.com in pluggable.php file.

Open the pluggable.php file present in wp-includes folder and make changes in 3 places...

    if ( !isset( $from_name ) )
        $from_name = 'Wordpress';            <- change it to your desired name

Below the above codes, you will find this line...

$from_email = 'wordpress@' . $sitename;   <- replace wordpress with admin/support or your desired email 

and around line number 1470, you will find this line...

$wp_email = 'wordpress@' . preg_replace('#^www\.#', '', strtolower($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']));

<- replace wordpress with admin/support or your desired email. Make it same as $from_email

These changes should fix the issue.