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How to Remove Post Via Email Settings in WordPress

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Are you looking for a way to remove a WordPress post from from email settings? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to remove post via email settings from the writing section in WordPress settings menu.

Instructions:

All you have to do is add this code to your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin:

add_filter( 'enable_post_by_email_configuration', '__return_false' );

Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly copy / paste code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.

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Comments   Leave a Reply

  1. This piece of code is great, I was looking for exactly this possibility.
    thank you

  2. Doesn’t seem to work with 3.6

  3. Avinash D'Souza January 8, 2013 at 8:34 am

    Does this work in WordPress 3.5 too? Just dropped it into a site and I can still see the Post By Email prompt…

  4. Uhh so simple. Thanks for this.

    1. Cool glad to hear it was a useful snippet

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