Notification Email Address not changing

I have a user that is receiving notification emails to their personal email address and we would like to have it be changed to more of public one that is used by the company. I have tried to change the Email Address field in the UI under Settings->General and when I do, the notifications are still being sent to the same email address with the Email Address field showing the new email address.

Do you have any ideas of how we can get this changed?

I have a user that is receiving notification emails to their personal email address and we would like to have it be changed to more of public one that is used by the company. I have tried to change the Email Address field in the UI under Settings->General and when I do, the notifications are still being sent to the same email address with the Email Address field showing the new email address.

Do you have any ideas of how we can get this changed?

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Share Improve this question asked Feb 27, 2019 at 19:47 M. FosterM. Foster 111 bronze badge 8

• What kind of notifications? – Krzysiek Dróżdż Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 19:48
• Anytime that that something is changed or a user logs into the UI with WP. – M. Foster Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 19:58
• And who/what is sending these notifications? WordPress doesn't have such notifications implemented... – Krzysiek Dróżdż Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 19:59
• In the Settings->General Is where you can put in an email address where notifications will be sent to. This is a security feature that WordPress has built into it. – M. Foster Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 20:02
• WordPress does not send any notifications when user logs in. There is no such feature in WP core. – Krzysiek Dróżdż Commented Feb 27, 2019 at 20:03

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Try changing directly on the database, line 8 of wp_option table (option_name=admin_email). Change its value to the e-mail that you want and try again.

WordPress has a plugin called WordFence. In WordFence->General Options, change the email address for alerts and this will update the notifications email. This is how I resolved my problem.