Can’t Turn Off Spam Emails!

We have very tightly controlled user registration processes in place across all our sites, but now we’re getting a ton of “[Site Name] New User Registration” or “Password Changed” spam emails that we can’t turn off because of this plugin.

We’re using the free version because we don’t have a need for any of the paid features, but now the plugin has included setting to notify the site admin email address whenever a new user is registered, a password is changed, etc., and there’s no way to turn these off!

All alerts should be off by default on the free version, and it’s absurd that these would be enabled by default. This plugin is taking control away from other plugins and denying site administrators the ability to manage very basic settings that must be configurable on any version since they’re core settings on WordPress that admins are able to toggle without this plugin. What’s worse is it’s overriding the behavior of premium plugins.

Even worse than that, if you believe it could still get worse, the plugin’s settings look like they’re set to send the end user an email confirming their account when we already have this in place via user registration plugins. There’s no way to confirm what this email says, or that it’s even being sent, which is catastrophic when it comes to controlling the content sent to users or ensuring branding is being applied.

This is all profoundly unprofessional, and as a software developer I cannot grasp how a change this detrimental would make it through to a production version of this plugin. To usurp absolute control over when emails are sent, to whom, and for what, is unjustifiable.

Please revert this change, or make all alert settings “off” by default. I would hate to have to leave a 1 star review because this plugin supports sending spam emails you can’t turn off, and takes away control from WordPress itself and other plugins that handle these features in a better fashion.