Disable user registration password email

You can intercept this email before it is sent using the phpmailer_init hook.

By default, this hook fires before any email is sent. In the function below, $phpmailer will be an instance of PHPMailer, and you can use its methods to remove the default recipient and manipulate the email before it is sent.

add_action('phpmailer_init', 'wse199274_intercept_registration_email');
function wse199274_intercept_registration_email($phpmailer){
    $admin_email = get_option( 'admin_email' );

    # Intercept username and password email by checking subject line
    if( strpos($phpmailer->Subject, 'Your username and password info') ){
        # clear the recipient list
        $phpmailer->ClearAllRecipients();
        # optionally, send the email to the WordPress admin email
        $phpmailer->AddAddress($admin_email);
    }else{
        #not intercepted
    }
}

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