Setting Up Admin Email

WordPress Questions
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How do I set up my multisite email. As an admin it is currently: dev-email@flywheel.com Do I keep it this way and on each new subsite or do I put my correct email? Not sure how this effects development mode for future transfer to flywheel?

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Hey Carol, how are you doing?

It depends if you will need something from it. In the development process, it doesnā€™t change anything, but on the live site you will need this e-mail for two important functionalities:

  • Receiving e-mail notifications from your site
  • Reseting your password if you lost it for some reason

Personally I recommend you to change it, you can do that on the ā€œUsersā€ tab on Wordpress, select your user and edit it with the correct e-mail.
Hope it helps!

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Hi Atempel, Thank you for getting back to me. I tried to edit it as you recommended but it wonā€™t let until it can send an email for verification. Doesnā€™t seem to work on this local site. I donā€™t receive an email. I was curious if this was intended to make it a smoother transition when I upload the site but from your comment I see I should have changed it right away. Again, I appreciate your help. Carol

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Ah! Youā€™re right, I forgot about that.

Local uses a mail catcher, so every e-mail sent by Wordpress inside Local falls into this service.
You can access it from the Local app, clicking on the ā€œUtilitiesā€ tab and opening Mailhog
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That way you can access the e-mail sent by Wordpress and verify your e-mail. :smiley:
If you need any further help, Iā€™ll be here!

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Hi Alexandre, Good to know this. Iā€™ll give it a try. HOWEVERā€¦Iā€™m having a much bigger issue. Iā€™ve had my ā€˜plea for helpā€™ up in the support section for a couple of days now but no one has responded. Iā€™m not sure if you have any advice. Iā€™m pretty stuck. Canā€™t and donā€™t want to do anything more until I can solve this. Would hate to put a lot more work into building a site to find out there is a major problem. This is whatā€™s happening:

  1. I created a multisite/subsite installation adding 7 sub domains. I have 4 plugins installed and one high quality paid for theme.
  2. Building one at a time. The first four seem to work perfectly. When I try to open number 5 the browser freezes then I get a white screen. I cannot access the front or backend.
  3. Iā€™ve deactivated the 4 plugins and theme, still nothing.
  4. I deleted the sites that wonā€™t open and created a new sub domain, still wonā€™t open.
  5. I created a new multisite installation and added 3 sub domains to see if the problem pops up again and it does. I can open site number 1 but not sub domains 2 & 3.

The crazy thing is on the first multisite, the primary and three subdomains work fine.

I need a multisite with 7 sub domains. Iā€™m not sure what to do. Iā€™ve read everything I could find online but still havenā€™t been able to find a solution. Do you have any thoughts? Carol

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Hey Carol!

Of course, I can answer you there! So we keep things wrapped up :wink:

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Hello Atempel, I follow your instruction to change an admin e-mail in WP on Local but it didnā€™t change. I opened Mailhog and open the e-mail there, click the link, changed the admin e-mail but the e-mail havenā€™t changed. What do I need to do next? PLEASE HELP!
Regards,
Anastasia Johnson

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@Anastasia108 This would need more information for people to be able to help. I suggest you open a new post, asking for help with more information about what happens when you try to change the e-mail.
Take care!