General Setting Allow Multiple Email Notification

Question

WordPress Version: WordPress 3.2.1

Settings -> General http://www.example.org/wp-admin/options-general.php

I would like to have multiple email address in the Email Address textbox.

I tried [email protected], [email protected], after I save it. It become [email protected]@xyz.com

How can I allow multiple email on that field?

We need this function because we have multiple admin in the website.

Answer 1

It's not really a WP-specific solution, but if you set up a Gmail address (and likely others), you could create a filter to automatically forward notifications generated by WordPress to other admins.

Short of WordPress adding multi-email notifications, that might be a workaround to temporarily solve the problem.

Answer 2

To add multiple admin emails in your wordpress site, it is possible by modifying wp_options table in database.

1. Go to phpmyadmin using cpanel credentials
2. Find wp_options table (if you set table prefix 'wp_' on the time of wordpress installation)
3. find admin_email entry in 'options' table
4. Edit the 'optiona_value' against 'admin_email'
5. type as much email you want using comma and space like [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
6. do not put comma at the end of last email
7. save it

Answer 3

I had an instance where I needed to send multiple emails any time a new user registered as there were a few different processes that needed to happen to onboard a new user. I accomplished this by adding a custom options page and custom fields to hold the email addresses so they could be easily changed, then hooking to the user_register event and gathering those emails to also send out the new user's information. This functionality could easily be extended or developed as a plugin to handle other email notifications as well. You could even pull email addresses directly from your Users info based on their account permissions or roles depending on how you need this functionality to work.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/user_register

If you don't want to write the PHP for it, you can easily create custom options pages with custom fields using plugin ACF with the Option Page addon. http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/

My first instinct was to just edit the PHP in /wp-includes/pluggable.php which is where the emails are actually fired, however I suggest against this as any upgrade to the WordPress core will overwrite your modifications.