Changing profile email address

  • kybick

    (@kybick)


    7 years, 9 months ago

    Hi all! I had a wordpress site created by someone but I’ve been maintaining/updating it. For some reason, the email address in the admin profile page is twinkle@toes.com (not a real email address but my business is called Twinkle Toes) and I’m not able to change it to my email address. I clicked “change email address” and entered my email address and it says the change link was emailed and is pending. I’m assuming the link went to the fake email address since it never came to my email address.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Along with Password and Username, email address is also stored in the users table in the database.

    To change the email, click the edit button (the pencil icon) next to your user and change what is entered into the user_email field.

    Backup: If you haven’t already done, always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong. You can never have enough backups!

    Davood Denavi

    (@binarywc)

    7 years, 9 months ago

    Also, if your admin account OR the General settings page has a fake/invalid email address in there I would also suggest running a malware scan using Sucuri or WordFence just to be sure your site has not been hacked.

    Hope this helps.

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