Can someone tell me how to remove site name from the email subject.

As of now my email subject looks like this:

[sitename] - Subject goes here

I want it to look like this:

Subject goes here

I checked the wp_mail() code. There is a wp_mail filter available.

Can someone tell me how to use that filter to alter my email subject?

Can someone tell me how to remove site name from the email subject.

As of now my email subject looks like this:

[sitename] - Subject goes here

I want it to look like this:

Subject goes here

I checked the wp_mail() code. There is a wp_mail filter available.

Can someone tell me how to use that filter to alter my email subject?

• filters
• hooks
• email
• wp-mail

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Finally, I wrote some code and it worked very well.

I hope it helps.

Put this in your functions.php file

//remove sitename from email subject
add_filter('wp_mail', 'email_subject_remove_sitename');
function email_subject_remove_sitename($email) {
  $blogname = wp_specialchars_decode(get_option('blogname'), ENT_QUOTES);
  $email['subject'] = str_replace("[".$blogname."] - ", "", $email['subject']);    
  $email['subject'] = str_replace("[".$blogname."]", "", $email['subject']);
  return $email;
}

That file didnt work for me I had to it in wp-includes/pluggable.php

if ( isset( $atts['message'] ) ) {
    //$message = $atts['message'];
    $blogname = wp_specialchars_decode(get_option('blogname'), ENT_QUOTES);
  $subject = str_replace("[".$blogname."] - ", "", $subject);    
  $subject = str_replace("[".$blogname."]", "", $subject);
}