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Stop Spammers has been forked into a new project called Dam Spam.
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Preventing admin login notification. #9

Closed jasonbassford closed 7 years ago

jasonbassford commented 7 years ago

I feel silly asking this, as it seems somebody else would have already—but I wasn't able to locate the information, either on various support forums or in the interface itself.

How can I stop getting a notification email every time I login to my site's dashboard (as an administrator)? Actually, I know the code I would need to comment out but I'm more interested in the "correct" way of doing this rather than hacking the code...

bhadaway commented 7 years ago

From your WP admin main menu, go to:

Stop Spammers > Challenge & Deny > Notify Webmaster When a User Requests to be Added to the Allow List > Uncheck that box > Save

If that's not it, can you please share exactly what the wording of the email is and where in the code, in what file, you're seeing that you can comment it out?

Thanks

jasonbassford commented 7 years ago

This happens whenever I, as an administrator, login to the dashboard. The exact wording of the email I receive is:

Stop Spammers Message - An admin logged into your WordPress website [website] on [date] from IP: [IP].

I believe the file with the code responsible is _includes/kpg_ss_notifyadmin.php. The function, _kpg_ss_notify_admin_action($userlogin, $user), quite literally doesn't do anything other than send a notification email when an administrator logs in.

The notification seems to have nothing to do with whether or not my own computer's IP is on the allow list. The comment in the code is "// notify admin when the someone logs in.", and the only conditional it checks is (effectively—I'm reversing the logic) "if (current_user_can('manage_options'))".

To prevent it from executing that code, I could just comment out the wp_mail() function—or I could change the conditional so a return; is always generated, and the notification email is always skipped.

bhadaway commented 7 years ago

Ah, you're on an out-dated version of Stop Spammers, I'm guessing 6.15? Make sure you upgrade to the latest version.

jasonbassford commented 7 years ago

No, I'm on 7.0. I installed it only a couple of weeks ago. I will try removing it and reinstalling it...

bhadaway commented 7 years ago

Yes, try a fresh install. But, I'll also push a small update to make sure everyone updating is on the very latest version as well. I've been continually refining a stable 7.0, but it's time to push forward.

bhadaway commented 7 years ago

Fixed.