Stop Emails

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1. ★★★★★ JRyven

   4.3y ago

   Excellent plugin! Easy, effective, bloatless.

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2. ★★★★★ darkpollo

   8.2y ago

   Not much more to say. It is great and it works!

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3. ★★★★★ nick5798

   8.8y ago

   Great plugin. nice and simple and works

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4. ★★★★★ NicheLabs

   9.1y ago

   I develop a lot of WordPress sites and normally this isn’t an issue. But I’ve been developing a membership site and normally when I do a site that includes users and their email addresses I just click on the box that asks to send the user notification of their password. But on this particular site the users need to be approved. I’m using BuddyPress and a plugin that allows user moderation, BP Registration. The problem came in when when I had to start approving members so they would show up in the list. These were existing members so they needed to be active. I started getting emails asking what the heck was going on. Each of my members were getting notices that they had been approved. I had to take the time to explain to each one of them what had happened. Very time consuming, very embarrassing. Glad I found this since I have several members that still need to be added. I added myself as a user and checked the box to notify me of my password. No email! I changed my password. No email! I approved my account. Still no email! Works perfectly. I can now develop in silence and not worry about alerting/confusing members. Thank you for your work! Allen This topic was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by NicheLabs.

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5. ★★★★★ LewisCowles

   9.7y ago

   Worked out of the box for me on a VPS; we were developing a system in parallel to an existing site and someone else installed this instead of using our existing process. I learned of a new plugin and a new way of doing things for WP. Very impressed.

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6. ★★★★★ Anita C

   9.9y ago

   This works great. I had used it months ago for something else. But I needed to migrate a Ning.com website with members into a new Buddypress site. I had to make sure the members were not emailed or pinged. This plugin stopped all outgoing emails to all the members.

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7. ★★★★★ Kevin Cristiano

   9.9y ago

   Nice plugin. Does exactly what it says

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8. ★★★★★ tiomno

   10.2y ago

   This a great plugin for testing and developing purpose. Thank you!

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.1 Conditionally modify how our fake PHPMailer extends the real PHPMailer class based on changes in PHPMailer introduced in WordPress core 5.5. This eliminates the message “PHP Deprecated: class-phpmailer.php is deprecated 1.2.1
2. — Version 1.2.0 Add filter to force BuddyPress to use wp_mail() rather than its own BP_PHPMailer class 1.2.0
3. — Version 1.1.0 Add Italian translation (it_IT), thanks to Andrea Gherardi https://twitter.com/ilghera_TP 1.1.0
4. — Version 1.0.1 No changes to code functionality “Tested Up To:” version bump to 4.2 Update to readme.txt to more clearly communicate plugin functionality Version bump to 1.0.1 1.0.1
5. — Version 0.8.0 Overhaul of plugin includes: fixing issue with plugin not stopping emails, moving to a class structure, changing email stopping behavior to use the same technique as WordPress core tests, improved inline documentation, a 0.8.0
6. — Version 0.7.1 Added check for supporting files before loading them. Since the primary functionality is in stop-emails.php, adding this check allows stop-emails.php to be used in the mu-plugins/ directory (previously, it would throw wa 0.7.1

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5

Translated into 126 languages, 6 at 90% or more

Plus 102 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2025-07-07 6K+ → 5K+ down after 110 days in tier
2. 2025-03-19 5K+ → 6K+ up after 109 days in tier
3. 2024-11-30 6K+ → 5K+ down after 3 days in tier
4. 2024-11-27 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2024-11-26 6K+ → 5K+ down after 6 days in tier
6. 2024-11-20 5K+ → 6K+ up after 12 days in tier
7. 2024-11-08 6K+ → 5K+ down after 2 days in tier
8. 2024-11-06 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• WP Mail SMTP by WPForms – The Most Popular SMTP and Email Log Plugin 4M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress 1M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A
• Easy WP SMTP – WordPress SMTP and Email Logs: Gmail SMTP, Office 365, Outlook, Custom SMTP, and more 500K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A
• Post SMTP – Complete Email Deliverability and SMTP Solution with Email Logs, Alerts, Backup SMTP & Mobile App 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• WP Mail Logging 300K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
• Mailchimp for WooCommerce 200K+ installs · 4.0★ · 1 shared tag B

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Stop Emails: 5K+ active installs, 5.0★ (12 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/stop-emails