How to Change WordPress Default Email Sender Name

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How to Change WordPress Default Email Sender Name

March 14, 2016
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Being a WordPress site owner it’s daily routine to receive notifications/alerts for emails, remarks, comments, updates or new user additions – all of which require your WordPress Email.

This email by default utilizes a generic sender Name i.e. “WordPress” as part of the “from name” bar. You can change this from name with your desired name using wp_mail_from_name filter.

This filter will modify the “from name“, that appears in any email sent, using the wp_mail function by adding the following code:

<?php
add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'pt_wp_mail_from_name' );
function pt_wp_mail_from_name( $email_from ) {
    return ‘Your Name or Your Website Name’;
}
?>

<?php

add_filter( 'wp_mail_from_name', 'pt_wp_mail_from_name' );

function pt_wp_mail_from_name( $email_from ) {

return ‘Your Name or Your Website Name’;

}

To adjust the name you want (let’s say your site name), run the following command as well:

return get_option('blogname');

1	return get_option('blogname');