Change email sender email without plugins or theme hacking
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How can we change the ‘wordpress’ part of sender emails of a from address without installing a plugin or hacking the functions.php of a theme?
It’s just one word. Changing this should be a wp-config.php line.
1> Adding plugins increases security risk. I try to minimize adding a plugin as much as possible, but this has been the knee jerk response in the other posts on this. It is ridiculous to need a plugin to change one word. For some of us, security is more critical than others.
2> Hacking themes makes no sense. What if the theme is updated? What if I re-install it? What if I change to a different theme?
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Read that. Not what I want. I’d really like to see this resolved in a future WP update.
In the meantime, struck a compromise. Found this plugin on Github:
https://github.com/GPLChimp/simple-from-email-change-for-wordpress
Reviewed the single PHP page. It looks good. Download as Zip. Installed as Plugin. Configured and it worked.
Had some Wordfence popups I had to whitelist. But since the PHP looked good, I whitelisted.
If anyone else wants to peer review that PHP and comment here yay or nay, please do.
By installing an open source plugin ourselves, we don’t have to worry about bad code coming in a future update.
I had my sites infected because a plugin I trusted and loved for years updated with malware in it, consuming days of my time diagnosing and cleaning it up. It was doing page redirecting, but only on mobile, so I didn’t see it for a long time.
I’ll leave this unresolved a bit so people can comment on the PHP code in that plugin to verify it is safe.
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