Descripció
Since WordPress 5.2 there is a built-in feature that detects when a plugin or theme causes a fatal error on your site, and notifies you with an automated email. Sometimes the message lands in the wrong inbox, or with a sender name that does not match your brand.
With Custom Recovery Mode Email you can:
- Set the recipient address for the Recovery Mode email when a Fatal Error occurs.
- Customize the From name and email address used by WordPress system emails.
- Adjust the rate limit between Recovery Mode emails (in days, hours or minutes).
- Toggle individual administrative notifications: password changes, new user registrations, and plugin/theme auto-update results (success and failure separately).
- Configure everything network-wide on Multisite, with optional per-site overrides for the recipient and the sender.
The plugin ships with a redesigned settings page that organises every option into clear, focused cards, making it easy to find what you need at a glance.
Translations
- English
- Español (España)
- Euskara (thanks to @garridinsi)
- Galego
- Svenska (thanks to @tobifjellner)
Note: Please contact us if you would like to help translating the plugin into your language.
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Instal·lació
- Upload the entire plugin folder to the
/wp-content/plugins/directory. - Activate the plugin through the «Plugins» menu in WordPress (or «Network Activate» in Multisite).
- Go to Settings Recovery Mode Email to access the settings page (or Network Admin Settings Recovery Mode Email in Multisite).
Minimum Requirements
- PHP 7.4 or greater. Tested with PHP 8.2.
- WordPress 5.2 or greater.
PMF
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Does it work with WordPress Multisite?
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Yes. Network-wide defaults are configured from Network Admin Settings Recovery Mode Email. Each individual site can override only the Recovery recipient and the mail sender from its own Settings page.
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Where do I configure the rate limit and notification toggles in Multisite?
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In Multisite, the rate limit and the notification toggles (password change, auto-updates, new users) are network-wide and live in the Network Admin page only. Individual sites cannot override these.
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What happens if I leave a field empty?
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Empty fields fall back to sensible defaults: the site administration email for the recipient, the WordPress default sender for the From address, and the network-level value when overriding from a single site in Multisite.
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Will my existing settings be preserved when upgrading from 1.x?
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Yes. The 2.0.0 release is a visual and internal overhaul, but the data schema and option names are unchanged. Your saved configuration carries over automatically.
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2.0.3
- Fix: the sender email example no longer includes the «www.» prefix (other subdomains, e.g. erp.example.com, are kept as-is).
- Improvement: in Multisite, the per-site sender name/email fields now show the actual network-level value as a placeholder when left empty, instead of a generic example.
2.0.2
- Fix: disabled administrative notification toggles now cancel the corresponding wp_mail call through pre_wp_mail instead of returning invalid or empty email data.
- Fix: successful plugin/theme update emails are reliably suppressed when their toggle is disabled.
- Fix: mixed plugin/theme update results now follow the failed-update notification setting.
- Compatibility: removed the remaining PHP 8-only syntax so the declared PHP 7.4 minimum is genuinely supported.
- Hardening: notification and recipient filters run last so later plugin callbacks cannot accidentally undo the configured policy.
- Hardening: sender overrides no longer leak to a later email when another plugin short-circuits wp_mail.
2.0.1
- Fix: replaced PHP 8.0+/8.1+ syntax (constructor property promotion, readonly properties) with PHP 7.4-compatible code, fixing a fatal parse error on servers running PHP 7.4.
- Minor: small admin CSS adjustments.
2.0.0
- Feature: new «WPVulnerability Email» field below the Mail Sender Email, shown only when the WPVulnerability plugin is active. The plugin defines the WPVULNERABILITY_MAIL constant (only if not already defined elsewhere) using the configured value, or a fallback of wpvulnerability@ if the field is empty.
- Feature: new sidebar banner promoting the Dixitalmedia plugins on WordPress.org, dismissible independently from the FactuPress banner.
- Multisite: the new WPVulnerability email can be set network-wide and overridden per site, following the same pattern as the recovery email and the sender override.
- Major: full visual redesign of the admin settings page. Each section is now grouped into a card with its own icon, title and description, replacing the previous flat layout.
- Major: complete internal rewrite. The plugin now follows an OOP architecture with namespaces, autoloading via Composer, a service container, and dedicated classes for hooks, services, settings and lifecycle. The public behavior is unchanged; existing settings are preserved.
- New: hero header on top of the settings page summarising the plugin scope at a glance.
- New: dedicated card for the Notifications section, with refined toggle switches.
- New: callout component for Multisite-context notices (replaces the previous generic admin notice on per-site pages).
- New: action bar at the bottom of the form with a loading state and spinner when saving, plus
aria-busyfor assistive technologies. - Improvement: admin assets reorganised into
assets/css/andassets/js/for clarity. Inline<h2>styles removed and replaced with proper CSS classes. - Improvement: focus states on inputs and switches now use
:focus-visibleto avoid showing outlines on mouse clicks. - Improvement:
prefers-reduced-motionis honoured for the save spinner animation. - Compatibility: tested up to WordPress 6.9.4.
1.5.5
- Hardening: added direct file access protection (ABSPATH guard) to all PHP source files.
- Hardening: form action URL is now explicitly escaped on output in the Network Settings page.
- Hardening: $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_METHOD’] is now properly unslashed and sanitized before use.
- Hardening: exception messages in the service container are escaped before being passed to the runtime.
- Cleanup: removed legacy load_plugin_textdomain() call (WordPress loads translations automatically since 4.6).
- Cleanup: removed leftover error_log() debug call from the service container.
- Compatibility: tested up to WordPress 6.9.
1.5.3
- Fix: fatal error on boot caused by argument count mismatch in UserNotificationsHooks.
- Fix: cancelling auto-update emails no longer disables password change notifications as a side effect.
- Fix: WPVulnerability sender override is now scoped to emails actually sent by that plugin (no longer reformats every email site-wide).
- Fix: notification toggles are now evaluated at runtime instead of at plugin boot, which broke decisions in Multisite when the active site changed.
- Fix: From name was missing on overridden emails because the From filter reset the override flag before the From-name filter ran.
- Fix: Network Admin form now submits via admin-post.php (canonical pattern) and shows the success notice via redirect.
- Fix: settings page no longer bypasses the repository to read the network option directly.
- Fix: rate limit is clamped to a minimum of 60 seconds to prevent accidental disabling.
- Fix: ServiceContainer no longer calls a non-existent write_log() function.
- Cleanup: removed dead code (unused Notices class, unused repository implementations, no-op TextDomainLoader).
- Improvement: admin CSS moved to assets/admin.css and properly enqueued.
- Improvement: TextDomainLoader actually loads the textdomain on init for self-hosted installs.
1.5.2
- Refactor to OOP with vendor and autoload.
- Added compatibility with WordPress Multisite.
1.5.1
- Minor fixes.
1.5
- Security updates.
- Now the plugin also changes the recipient for password change and plugins and themes autoupdates emails.
- Updated last WordPress version tested.
- Added update email settings.
- Added password change email setting.
- Change sender for WPVulnerability plugin.
1.1
- Security updates.
- Now the plugin also changes the recipient for password change and plugins and themes autoupdates emails.
- Updated last WordPress version tested.
1.0.4
- Updated last WordPress version tested.
1.0.3
- Updated last WordPress version tested.
1.0.2
- Added class «regular-text» to input fields.
1.0.1
- Fix to prevent activation in WordPress Multisite to avoid site to crash.
- Fix wrong text domain.
1.0
- Initial Release.
