Grade B

Manage Notification E-mails

Name: Manage Notification E-mails
Rating: 4.8 (53 reviews)
Author: 3D Virge

⤓ Download v1.8.6 on WordPress.org ↗

by 3D Virgeupdated 2025-12-09🌿The Dependable Sort

Tame the WordPress email noise with a side of password reset anxiety.

HealthyDeclining

69/100

It cleans up your inbox but carries a risk of breaking essential password reset flows.

Loved24/40

Trustworthy13/15

Fair & Honest15/15

Maintained15/18

Momentum2/12

✂️

You might not need this plugin. Its core job is small enough to live in your theme's functions.php.

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// New user notification to admin
add_filter( 'wp_send_new_user_notification_to_admin', '__return_false' );

// New user notification to user
add_filter( 'wp_send_new_user_notification_to_user', '__return_false' );

// Password change notification to user
add_filter( 'send_password_change_email', '__return_false' );

// Password change notification to admin
add_filter( 'wp_password_change_notification_email', '__return_false' );

// Email address change notification to user
add_filter( 'send_email_change_email', '__return_false' );

// Forgotten password email to user/admin
add_filter( 'retrieve_password_notification_email', '__return_false' );

// Auto core update emails (suppress success-only; failures still send)
add_filter( 'auto_core_update_send_email', function( $send, $type ) {
    return ( $type === 'success' ) ? false : $send;
}, 10, 2 );

// Auto plugin update emails
add_filter( 'auto_plugin_update_send_email', '__return_false' );

// Auto theme update emails
add_filter( 'auto_theme_update_send_email', '__return_false' );

// Comment moderation / post author notifications
add_filter( 'notify_post_author', '__return_false' );
add_filter( 'notify_moderator',   '__return_false' );

Keep in mind:Comment out or remove any line for notifications you still want to send. The plugin's UI lets you toggle each one individually; this snippet disables all of them.

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Active installs

~150,000

our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+

Rating

4.8★

53 ratings

Trend · vs a year ago

-26%

Declining fast

136 → 100 installs/day

What to watch out for

MINORdownloads down 26% vs a year ago

Downloads over time

real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend

2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03

organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median

Declining fast · -26% in the last year

136/day a year ago→100/day today

Reviews

what people actually say

Manage Notification E-mails is a well-liked utility plugin for suppressing unwanted WordPress system emails, but it carries real concerns around reliability, a reported conflict with password reset emails, and insufficient granularity in its notification controls.

What people like

+Effectively suppresses unwanted WordPress automated emails, such as auto-update notifications×5
+Described as easy to use and working without issues for most users×4
+Keeps inboxes clean from WordPress system email noise×3

Common complaints

−Plugin reportedly blocks password reset emails when the 'lost password' option is disabled, with no way to separate 'lost password' and 'password changed' notifications into distinct controls×2
−At least one report of the plugin being abandoned and no longer working correctly, with users not receiving emails they should be getting
−Occasional unexplained failures where suppression stops working and users get flooded with emails
−Hard to find in the WordPress plugin directory due to the 'e-mail' spelling not matching common search terms like 'email notifications'

Review trustReviews look organic

4.76★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members

Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower

2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04

5★ reviews1–4★ reviews

All-time ratings · 53 total

5★

4★

3★

2★

1★

Latest reviews · 53 analyzed

2024-10-24★★★★★Perfect thomasobrien1-shot
2024-10-02★★★★★Really useful plugin TomCobbley
2024-03-12★★★★★功能很完整 richard0508
2023-08-01★★★★★Good plugin snoringdragon
2023-07-03★★★★★Prevents password changes lookwhoo
2023-05-23★★★★★Works without any problem samtr
2023-05-17★★★★★Stopped working this week jreitter
2023-04-27★★★★★Diesn't work, still getting notifications AlexPTY
2023-03-29★★★★★Funciona muito bem Alpha Vale Tec
2023-03-22★★★★★Works great!mlipenk

Releases

recent versions from WordPress.org SVN

2025-12-09v1.8.6
2023-06-01v1.8.5
2023-03-15v1.8.4
2022-09-28v1.8.3
2022-05-25v1.8.2
2021-06-27v1.8.1
2021-05-25v1.8.0
2021-04-16v1.6.1

For developers & the curious

the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary above

Download signals

Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.

137

Baseline · median of last 7 organic days

Prior 7-day baseline

Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days

286

Mean release-day peak (30d)

137

Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)

+82.7%

Week-over-week organic trend

Review signals

Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.

20%

Max month share · biggest single 30-day window

2.49

Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty

94%

5★ share in analyzed sample

Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity

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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo

4.77 → 4.76★

Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered