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Bryan Phelan
Bryan Phelan
18,191 Points
Posted by Bryan Phelan
Bryan Phelan
18,191 Points

WordPress Sandbox

Hi all,

I am working with a WordPress site and want to set-up a sandbox version for testing. I am using Duplicator which seems to work great for creating a sandbox site on my local host or in a subdirectory. My concern is I have lots of users who are set-up to receive various email notices, obviously I don't want members to receive these notices from a test environment. How can I safely avoid notices going to my members? Is it easiest to just drop all the users from the database?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

If your on localhost chances are you can't send email. If you are using a staging environment that can send email then you can overwrite the wp_mail function. Place this in your wp-config.php

// stop emails
function wp_mail() {}
Bryan Phelan
Bryan Phelan
18,191 Points
Bryan Phelan
Bryan Phelan
18,191 Points

Thanks. Why should this go in the wp-config.php file and not the functions.php file? Or does it make a difference?

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

This is what I found from researching. I assume because its more of a configuration for a different setup then an actual function of your application. You can try out the functions file and see if it works there as well.