As mentioned in the ticket #16470 this confirmation feature: prevents accidental or erroneous email address changes from potentially locking users out of their account. so it’s good to keep that in mind before removing this feature. Here’s a little proof of concept for (single site) test installs. We still want to run send_confirmation_on_profile_email() because it … Read more
Add SPF record to your DNS so emails from your server IP are classified as legitimate Edit. Do the above with what you said. “Would setting up a domain specific email address and changing the site owner email to ***@thedomain.com help keep these messages from going into spam folders?” This will be fine as it … Read more
As stated in the announcement post: A few account security enhancements have gone into WordPress 4.9. The intention is to make it more difficult for an attacker to take over a user account or a site by changing the email address associated with the user or the site, and also to reduce the chance of … Read more
We at LoginRadius also provide social login, but as far as I know only Twitter does not provider email address while every other social networks do. I can’t help you much here, but Try this plugin – it opens a pop-up asking users to enter their email address if its not supplied.
Resend user activation mail
Changing the body of mail sent to new user registration
I found that I was setting the default mime type for wp_mail_content_type to be text/html which according to the notes on the codex can cause this particular issue. I’ve removed the code from my functions file, and the registration email looks better, but (and I haven’t seen WordPress’s emails in a long time) still doesn’t … Read more
I found an answer here i will give this a try.. Confirmation required on email change
As many people would agree, editing WordPress’ core is not recommended because any updates that are made from the official developer (ex: 4.6 to 4.6.1) will override your changes. Plus, editing the core could potentially break your website or any other theme/plugin if it’s not properly edited. This is where plugins come in, they are … Read more
Your local server probably has problems sending mail. There are ways to fix that, but it is probably easiest to change the password in the database directly. Since you’ve made a copy of your site I am going to assume you have access to the database through something like PhpMyAdmin. Follow these instructions to change … Read more