Changing WordPress Admin email address

  • Resolved Garrett

    (@garrettn)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    Somehow my site admin email address got set to an invalid email. Now I need to change to the admin email address to my own, however, when I do this I get a confirmation link via email that sends me to a 404 on my site.

    Is there a way to edit this in the MySQL database without confirmation? Why wouldn’t the confirmation email link work?

    Thank you!
    Garrett

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Is there a way to edit this in the MySQL database

    To check the users’s Email, look closer at the key/value pairs inside the wp_usermeta table.

    Thread Starter Garrett

    (@garrettn)

    I ended up solving it using the Better Search & Replace plugin for WordPress because I couldn’t get immediate access to MySQL. I know this feature is for security, but it’s quite annoying when you’re trying to help clients manage their sites.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad you got it sorted ??

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