Update profile email address (email not received)

  • Hi there,

    I downloaded & installed wordpress, started to build a site. I decided I didn’t want my personal email attached to the site. I tried to change my gmail to protonmail.

    I can receive emails in my protonmail account but not from wordpress when I try to change my user profile email. Email spelling has been checked, tried numerous times.

    “There is a pending change of your email to …..”

    “Your email address has not been updated yet. Please check your inbox at ******@protonmail.com for a confirmation email.”

    What can I do?

    Over

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  • Most likely your localhost computer does not have a working SMTP service, hence your WordPress on localhost cannot send emails.
    Various solutions:
    – add one of the SMTP plugins, it will connect out to the internet and your email will get back to you.
    – install an SMTP service on your computer.
    – accept that not having your website send emails is ok during development, leave that bit of testing and functionality till you deploy the website.
    – Get into your database using phpmyadmin and change your email address manually in the users table, this is akin to fixing your problem with a spanner.

    Thread Starter essentialenglish

    (@essentialenglish)

    Correct!

    I just tried to email myself using my existing email and that didn’t go through either. I am learning something new each day. Tomorrow is SMPT.

    Thank you very much Mr. Mitchell. Your advice is on my to-do-list.

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