How to change the default email address and sender name of WordPress blog

by Sujith on 04/25/2010

By default, WordPress blogs send the emails from wordpress@yoursite.com address as senders name “WordPress“.

email wordpress How to change the default email address and sender name of Wordpress blog
There is no options in the admin back end to change the default email address. Then how to change the default email and  from name to your Site name or anything as per your choice. Here a simple WordPress plugin Mail from to help you out. Install the plugin , activate it and configure from back end. See the screenshot of configuration page.

 How to change the default email address and sender name of Wordpress blogSet the sender name, user name and domain name. Update the options. Now the sender name and email for all the notifications from your blog will be changed accordingly.


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MostlyBlog April 30, 2010 at 8:20 AM

Good tips thanks for sharing even i am also searching for it and now got details here

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Jamal Mohamed June 28, 2010 at 8:24 PM

Nice information i think getting Page rank 6 for a site is great achievement.
I am having page rank 2 lets hope to improve soon.

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Mike Tucker July 24, 2010 at 1:27 AM

Another great plugin to add to my list, I been doing it the hard way by using an external email to mail users.

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phil September 20, 2010 at 7:41 PM

Very good – thanks.

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HELP WITH EMAIL ADDRESS January 31, 2011 at 4:33 PM

That was absolutely perfect, thank you so much for the tutorial…This article rally helped me a lot to understand how to change the default e-mail address and sender name of WordPress blog.Thanks a lot for sharing this stuff.

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SMS Marketing March 31, 2011 at 7:34 PM

Sending it out as WordPress is so generic and machine like but getting this bit changed through “Mail from” can certainly impart a personal touch.

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George Tiganus April 24, 2011 at 10:01 PM

That’s a cool Wordpress plugin, exactly what I was looking for! Little tricks like this make our lives so much easier :) thanks for sharing this!

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Michael June 1, 2011 at 6:28 PM

The plugin doesn’t seem to work with WP 3.1.3

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Good One June 28, 2011 at 1:56 PM

Great Plugin :)

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u-r-not-me December 2, 2011 at 1:56 PM

how about the changing of the default content of the mail ??

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